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  Sony's 10 greatest tech flops
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• BBC iPlayer offers shows from ITV and other broadcasters

  By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 19 February, 2011 05:18

  The BBC iPlayer is now offering web users the chance to watch TV shows broadcast on rival channels including ITV and Five.

• DNLA software push for home networks

  By Lexton Snol | 25 January, 2011 05:07

  The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has been busy certifying hardware, with more than 9,000 consumer electronics products receiving its stamp of approval. Now its software certification is the spur to new growth in home media networks.

• Microsoft makes a bid for your living room

  By Matt Egan | 19 January, 2011 02:35

  In an otherwise underwhelming keynote speech at this year's CES tradeshow, Microsoft made a play to control the biggest screen in the house.

• Mitsubishi unfurls a 92-inch 3D TV

  By Jared Newman | 08 January, 2011 13:21

  Mitsubishi expects its 92-inch 3D TV to be the largest consumer television on the market when it launches mid-year -- even if very few consumers can afford it.

• Blu-ray continues to thrive, in spite of streaming threat

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 08 January, 2011 02:03

  Hard to believe that just five years ago at CES, the Blu-ray Disc specification first announced. And five years on, with one format war under our belt, and another scuffle brewing, Blu-ray is in fact doing very well.

• Green gadget chargers go massive

  By Lexton Snol | 29 October, 2010 03:40

  Markets for advanced charging technologies (including solar-powered handsets, solar chargers, wireless power units, fuel-cell battery charging products and public charging kiosks), worth about $1.5 billion in 2010, are forecast to grow at a robust Compound Annual Growth Rate of more than 86 percent to exceed $34 billion in 2015.

• Sony to end TV manufacturing in Europe

  By Martyn Williams | 08 September, 2010 12:49

  Sony plans to end manufacturing of televisions in Europe this year and will sell its TV manufacturing plant in Spain to two local companies, it said Tuesday. The move, which is part of Sony's ongoing restructuring, will increase the company's reliance on outsourcing companies and it part of a plan to return its core TV operations to profitability.

• 3D content is king at giant tech show

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 02 September, 2010 08:10

  Most observers agree that more content is needed for 3D to take off in the living room. An important part will be self-generated, Panasonic said Wednesday at the Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) trade show in Berlin.

• Motorola Atrix 4G mightiest smartphone yet?

  By Rosemary Hattersley | 20 February, 2011 02:59

  The Motorola Xoom was the most advanced tablet that we got to try out at Mobile World Congress. Other tablets, including the HTC Flyer, certainly look promising, but the Xoom is the launch device for the Google Android Honeycomb OS - the version of Android developed specifically for tablets - and the devices on show at MWC were fully working ones used for live demonstrations.

• Is Sony preparing for the extinction of the DVD?

  By Daniel Ionescu | 05 January, 2011 02:29

  Sony is experimenting with exclusive features embedded into its iTunes movies, PaidContent reports, slowly paving the way for the day when DVDs will be no more. In the iTunes version of The Other Guys users can search through the script of the movie to see the exact moment a line was said in the film, while other pictures like Salt and Resident Evil: Afterlife allow you to share video snippets on social media.

• Sony's 10 greatest tech flops

  By Martyn Williams | 03 November, 2010 10:53

  Since its founding in 1946, Sony has produced some of the biggest hits in consumer electronics. Brand names like Walkman, Handycam and Trinitron helped define the company as a giant in the industry and more recent hits like Cybershot, Vaio, Bravia and PlayStation have helped keep it there. But no success story is failure-free. Let's take a look back at some Sony products that didn't win consumers' hearts and minds.

• Beauty shots: Technology to drool over

  By Anne B. McDonald | 29 July, 2010 15:24

  Sling Media's small Slingbox 700U won one of three Best in Show awards given by the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA).

• Google TV: The Android 'Dragonpoint'?

  By JR Raphael | 04 May, 2010 08:03

  Google's Android operating system already comes in plenty of flavors. Now, a brand new kind of Android may be on the way -- and this one could end up changing the way we think about television.

• TV industry needs a standard for 3D glasses -- now

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 10 March, 2010 03:55

  After months of buzz, 3D television has officially arrived.

• LPD HDTVs: Are they the future or late to the party?

  By David Ayala | 15 January, 2010 10:13

  Earlier this week, display company Prysm announced a new display technology that could revolutionize consumer HDTVs and business professional displays. The technology, has been dubbed Laser Phosphor-based Displays (LPD), due to the laser diodes at the heart of its image producing capabilities. How does it compare to the tech currently available, and is it too late for another contender?

• Cool speakers from around the world

  By Chris Brandrick | 27 July, 2009 15:06

  Kenwood's stunning new speakers (pictured above) are just about to hit Japanese stores, and hit them they shall. Each speaker is encased in a beautiful glass stand, and also features, as an optional extra, a number of blue and white LED lights.