Sony's Marketing Madness
Blog I'm finding the way Sony is marketing its Vaio laptops increasingly absurd. Now Sony is pushing the boat out on claims surrounding the display on its Vaio CR series. First it tells us that the design of some of its plainer looking Vaios is...
[June 15, 2007, 17:06]
Sony Reveals VAIO Makeover
News The Japanese electronics giant, whose overall business had been struggling in recent years, saw the decline of its VAIO PC line and decided to refocus it. By rebranding the VAIO business as "Do VAIO", the company hopes not only to compete with...
[May 10, 2004, 17:00]
Athlon 4 And Duron Ship In Laptops
News Sony announced a "Vaio note" laptop, also for the Japanese market, based on a 700MHz Duron chip. The new system complements the Vaio FX210, also based on Duron, which sells in the US. The new notebooks are all destined for the Japanese market.
[May 23, 2001, 16:49]
Microsoft Denies Sony's Vista Hardware Claims
News The spat between the companies arose after Sony revealed to ZDNet.co.uk that it would not include Turbo Memory — an embedded flash memory module formerly known by its code name Robson — in this summer's Vaio notebooks because Vista will not allow...
[June 7, 2007, 13:49]
Sony's Vaio Hit By Security Hole
News Sony has warned that some models in its Vaio laptop and PC range have a security hole that would allow a malicious hacker to edit or delete data from the machine's hard drive over the Internet. The vulnerability affects some models in the Vaio...
[January 24, 2002, 17:44]
Sony To Unveil All-in-one 'W'
News The Japanese company plans to unveil its popular Vaio W all-in-one desktop -- previously available only in Japan -- to consumers in other countries, beginning in the United States, according to sources.
[October 4, 2002, 8:05]
Sony Releases First Business Laptop
News The $3,500 (£2,450) Vaio PCG-GR290 features a 1.2GHz Pentium III-M mobile processor, a 40GB hard drive and a 15-inch screen. The $2,700 Vaio PCG-GR270 comes with a 1GHz Pentium III-M, a 30GB hard drive and a 15-inch screen.
[October 9, 2001, 10:23]
Crusoe Discovers The Desktop
News Crusoe has been shipping in products since October 2000 when Sony released a Crusoe-based Vaio laptop in Japan. Chipmaker Transmeta and Japanese PC giant NEC have announced the first desktop computer running on Transmeta's innovative Crusoe...
[May 9, 2002, 14:10]
Photos: Sony Vaios Inspired By 'Japanese Garden'
News Sony has launched two additions to its popular Vaio range of notebooks. A second family of Vaio notebooks, the TZ series, comprises minimalist, lightweight PCs. Based on the previous Vaio TX series, the TZ family allows users to play DVDs and audio...
[June 1, 2007, 12:13]
Sony's Blu-ray Notebook Arriving Next Week
News The Sony Vaio AR Premium will cost $3,500 (£1,900). Meanwhile, Vaio AR notebooks with a DVD burner instead of a Blu-ray player will start at $1,800. The Japanese electronics giant, which is in the middle of a fashioning a comeback, will also put a...
[June 13, 2006, 10:30]
Casio Puts Windows And Linux On A Laptop
News Although Sony brought a Crusoe-based Vaio notebook to the States in October, few other manufacturers have followed Sony's lead and instead have continued to concentrate on the Japanese market. Best of both worlds?
[May 9, 2001, 15:16]
Transmeta Explores Embedded Market
News Although the company unveiled the technological theory behind Crusoe in January 2000, products containing the chip didn't hit the market until Sony released a Vaio notebook in Japan in October 2000. Nearly every major Japanese notebook manufacturer...
[October 4, 2001, 9:39]
PC Makers Squeezed By Upscale Sales
News Then again, Sony has quietly canceled one of its more glamorous PCs, the Vaio Slimtop Pen Tablet, because of slow sales. The Japanese electronics giant re-entered the US desktop market two-and-a-half years ago after a fizzled entry in the mid-1990s.
[January 18, 2002, 9:22]
Games Push PC Boundaries
News It's a Sony Vaio, which was very expensive but has good specs. Other PC games pushing the hardware envelope include "Final Fantasy XI," the upcoming online instalment of the popular roleplaying game from Japanese developer Square.
[September 5, 2002, 14:33]
Sony Reveals VAIO Makeover
Talkback This kind of new stuff it bound to go wrong, you ask any Japanese person and they will tell you that sony equipment is unreliable - what about their customer service? Big deal, sony are trying to claw back sales.
[May 10, 2004, 18:47]
Sony Sneaking Up On PC Market
News Shipments of Sony Vaio PCs into the US retail market are up nearly threefold in the first six months of 2002 compared with the same period in 2000, the pinnacle year for PC shipments. Despite flopping in the PC market a few years ago, Japanese...
[September 23, 2002, 13:32]
Sony To Increase PC Prices
News Sony has already raised the cost of two models of its Vaio notebook line. The price of the Vaio PCG-GRX570 increased from $2,499 to US$2,699, and the price of the Vaio PCG-GRX590 increased from $2,999 to $3,099.
[April 8, 2002, 9:55]
