Sony’s Income Increased 25% in Quarter

Sony's games division finally turned a profit last quarter. Sony sold 4.9 million PS3s last quarter after slashing console prices, boosting game titles, and cutting production costs internally. Of course, we're sure Wii shortages aren't hurting Sony's bottom line either. Sony did lower its annual sales goal of PS3s from 11 million to 9.5 million (citing a slow start) while increasing PSP projections to 13 million from 10 million as originally expected. Sony's fiscal year ends in March. Overall, Sony's profits rose 25% for the quarter. Welcome back to black Sony, it's been a long time coming.

Sony also enjoyed robust holiday demand for its Cyber-shot digital cameras, Handycam camcorders and Vaio PCs, while cutting production costs of its loss-making PlayStation 3 game console and broadening its game software lineup.

Its game business swung to a profit after Sony cut production costs and retail prices of the PlayStation 3 game console and broadened its game software lineup in a bid to catch up with Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.

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Sigma's SD14 DSLR

Sigma has announced the imminent availability of the greatly anticipated DP1 digital camera. The DP1 has a sensor around the size of those found in most DLSRs - although it is greatly different in terms of design - and aims to offer equivalent image-quality and specification in a compact format. In common with Sigma's DSLR offerings it utilizes Foveon's direct-image-sensor technology which detects three colors at each of its 4.6 million pixels (collecting the same amount of color data as a conventional 14 megapixel sensor). Our contacts at Sigma say it will be available in "spring."

The 14 megapixel FOVEON X3 sensor found in Sigma's SD14 DSLR can do in a compact's body. That's about 7 to 12 times larger than the sensor found in ordinary compacts. The biggest compromise you'll be making though, is with the lens. A fixed, 16.6-mm F4 lens designed exclusively for the DP1 illuminates each 7.8μm pixel on that 20.7 x 13.8-mm sensor. If you're still game then rounding things out are Sigma's new "TRUE" image processing engine, a 2.5-inch LCD, pop-up manual flash, hot shoe, manual or 9-point autofocus modes, and QVGA movie recording to SDHC cards. All this in a 4.5 x 2.3 x 2-inch body weighing 8.5-ounces.

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Powered XPS M1330 Notebooks - Dell Ubuntu

Dell will be selling its Ubuntu-powered XPS M1330 notebooks for less than the $1,000 mark, targeting those who prefer to work with a penguin instead of in an environment filled with shards from broken windows. This new offering featuring Ubuntu 7.10 pre-installed will be available in Germany, UK, France, Spain and the US, with the option for users to include Corel LinDVD with each purchase by forking out additional dough (but of course). Word has it that Dell has also started to sell a fair bit of their Linux systems with proprietary NIVIDA graphics drivers installed and 3D effects enabled for superior portable performance.

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Sony's High End Slim Cam - Sony DSC-T300

The T300 is Sony's newest high-end slim camera features 10.1 effective-megapixels sensor, a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens with 5x optical zoom and large, a wide 6:9 3.5 inch Clear Photo LCD Plus touchscreen add the zing to the cam. The camera can dynamically switch between five scene modes, trigger the shutter when it detects a smile, face detect with priority for adults and children, search through photos by face, improved focusing at close distance, image stabilization and a high Sensitivity ISO or Intelligent Scene Recognition offers a chance at capturing the perfect shots. It can output 1080p slideshows to an HDTV. $400. Unfortunately, it does use a Memory StickDuo, and that 3200 ISO rating can't be anything but grainy.

Sony T300 has a variety of colors to choose from - couture silver, black and red finishes, the T300 stands apart from other cameras with its svelte lines and audacious vertical-format styling. The T300 makes it easy to keep track of your shots after shooting. New 'Date View' mode displays your shots as thumbnail images on an on-screen calendar, while 'Favorites' mode only displays shots that you've selected. The 'Filter by Faces' feature automatically sorts pictures containing children, babies and smiles. The Cyber-shot T300 will all be available throughout Europe from beginning March 2008 at $400

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Asus Eee PC 4G-X

It comprise an Intel Celeron M processor rated at 900MHz. Windows XP running on Western Eee PCs usually notes the CPU is actually clocked at 630MHz. It's not yet clear which of these two clock speeds the Japanese model's chip actually runs at.

Japanese buyers get a choice of white or black colours. However, Asus is bundling the Eee with a 4GB SDHC card, allowing Asus to claim the 4G-X comes with 8GB of storage. Buyers also get an optical mouse. It'll also be offered with free access to NTT's WiFine hotspot network.

The Asus Eee PC 4G-X goes on sale in Japan on Friday. Anyone who spots a duff pixel on the machine's display will get a free replacement - provided they notify Asus within 30 days of purchase.

The 4G-X will cost ¥50,000 ($468/£239/€320).

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Samsung L310 in black and gold

All set to woo their feminine customers, Samsung L310 will attract a lot of attention with its glamorous appearance. Stylishly designed in black and gold combination, this looks less of a cell and more of a fashion ornament. When flipped open, the ‘S’ shaped metal hinge in gold color adds extra oomph. The camera on the cover is decorated by glittering cubic for more splendor. Moreover, distinctive patterns and hidden message icon for incoming call and MMS are sure to charm all the divas. Its multimedia features include a 2.0 Megapixel camera, MP3 player, external memory slot and Bluetooth connectivity.

Right in time for the love season, so guys, Samsung has made it easier for you to settle on a gift for your gals for 14th Feb 2008, the Samsung L310 will be available in Russia and Hungary from February onwards for 240 euros and $350. Later it will be expanded into other European countries.

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Serving 8 Megapixels Handset - Lensas F2218

With all the hype behind the latest coveted camera phones, we have another 8 megapixel beauty before us. The Lensas F2218 phone is available in China. Why do we have to wait for next year till something of the similar genre comes is released in our markets. The Lensas F2218 comes with a 6 mp CCD sensor. This can be used to capture images of resolutions up to 3264 x 2448 pixels. Other features include a Xenon flash, Nightscape and video capture. The software was designed to make full use of the camera feature and the hardware itself has a solid design. No word from Lensas on the price of the F2218 yet or availability.

According to PCOnline.com.cn, Lensas F2218 got the looks and the specs but is pretty slow, unresponsive and buggy. Still, 8 megapixel CCD sensor camera in a mobile phone - that’s a really interesting piece of news.

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Apple MacBook Air - slimmest notebook

Apple announced the slimmest notebook around, the MacBook Air. It only measures .16-inches and is slim enough to slip into a manila envelope. MacBook Air features a full-size keyboard and LED-backlit 13.3-inch display with built-in iSight. It also sports a new larger trackpad that supports multi-touch gestures. Similar to the interface of the iPhone where you can pinch in or pan out, the MacBook Air’s trackpad allows you to do the same, it even allows you to rotate images with two fingers, and move windows with a flick. Apple was able to contain the size by using the same 1.8-inch 80GB drive that's in the iPod classic. However the64GB SSD is optional. So far so good, but on the flipside just like an iPod, you can't just crack it open to replace the hard drive, memory or even battery. On full charge the batter will last you five hours. Also the thing doesn’t sport an Ethernet port either.

Apple MacBook Air steers clear of optical media, but there's a separate external you can snap up for $99. The laptop also features something called the Remote Disk that'll let the Air get data off the optical drive in any PC or Mac running the Remote Disk software. Pricing starts at $1799 and the Air will be shipping in two weeks.

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Alienware Area-51 m15x

Announcing with quite a splash, Alienware's new Area-51 m15x and m17x laptops a couple of months back. Two of the m15x models are available to order immediately, with the third promised soon. Unfortunately for those looking for a bargain, the two available now are the higher end models, coming in at $2,099 and $2,699, with the "low-end" $1,499 model only listed as "coming soon." Of course, you can't expect everything to be let loose at once, and Alienware still seems to be dragging things out with the 17-inch model, although we wouldn't expect it to be too much longer before it makes itself known.

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Sony Mylo Communicator

Sony's new Mylo supports popular web entertainment applications for a PC, in a pocket able broadband device. Available in black or white, with a back-lit, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, this device connects to open Wi-Fi networks using 802.11b/g standards. With Adobe Flash Lite 3 software, the Mylo communicator gives you access to YouTube and other popular Flash-based web sites. The device can also upload and download content using the touch screen interface on its 3.5-inch display. The Mylo also comes with a 1.3-megapixel camera, instant messaging applications, Skype and a Facebook notifier keeps track of specific elements of your Facebook page.

It also have a 1GB of internal memory and can add up to 8GB of addition storage with Memory Stick Duo media. The device supports Windows Media DRM 10, and also plays MP3, AAC and WMA files. It offers up to 20 hours of music playback, 6 hours of Skype talk time and up to 7 hours of video playback. It comes furnished with a microphone, stereo headphones, USB cable, a stylus and a neoprene case. The latest Mylo communicator will be available in January for about $300.

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Dell's Crystal Transparent Monitor

According to Engadget, Dell releases it's slightly overdue Glass Crystal Monitor having a 4mm thick glass and having a severely overpriced, $1,200, 22-inch reality.

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