New Delhi: Historian Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi and novels and essays by Gopalakrishna Pai, Kashinath Singh and Manik Sitaram Godghate alias Grace are among 22 books which were awarded prestigious Sahitya Akademi Awards for this year. Eight books of poetry, seven novels, three essays and one each short story, narrative history, biography and play were selected for this year's awards. While Guha got the award for his book of...
02:11 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Tokyo: Sony's long-awaited PlayStation Vita portable game machine hit stores in Japan on Saturday as thousands of game enthusiasts lined up early in the morning to be among the first to buy it. Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. is predicting brisk sales, even though the launch may have missed some holiday shoppers. A successful debut would help the company offset the rest of its struggling business. Sony projects a loss of...
10:22 AM, Dec 18, 2011
Tokyo: Into just his fourth month as head of Sony's videogames unit, Welshman Andrew House has to plot a much-needed success story for the new PlayStation Vita handheld games device, negotiating a minefield of consumer gloom and competition from smartphones and tablet PCs such as Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad. Sony Corp, the struggling Japanese electronics giant which last month forecast a net loss of more than $1 billion this...
03:21 PM, Dec 15, 2011
London: 'Transformers' star Megan Fox took to the stage in New York on Monday night to mark her Broadway debut with 'The 24 Hour Plays'. The actress was among a number of famous faces taking part in the charity theatre project, which gives a group of actors, writers and directors 24 hours to come up with a script and prepare it for the stage. Fox made her New York stage...
01:32 PM, Nov 17, 2011
Tokyo: Sony Corp said on Wednesday it would launch its new handheld games device, the PlayStation Vita, on February 22 in the United States and Europe. The new device, which hits stores in Japan on December 17, will be priced at $249.99 for the Wi-Fi version and $299.99 for the 3G/Wifi version in the US market, way above rival Nintendo's 3DS, which now sells for $169.99 in the US But...
09:11 AM, Oct 19, 2011
Tokyo: Sony said on Wednesday that intruders staged a massive attempt to access user accounts on its PlayStation Network and other online entertainment services in the second major attack on its flagship gaming site this year. The Tokyo-based company temporarily locked about 93,000 accounts whose IDs and passwords were successfully ascertained by the blitz. Sony sent email notifications and password reset procedures to affected customers on the PlayStation Network, Sony...
06:23 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Tokyo: Sony Corp will launch its new PlayStation Vita handheld games device on December 17 in Japan, kicking off a global rollout, and insisted it will not reduce the price in the face of discounting by rival Nintendo. Sony has been criticised for setting the PS Vita's price too high for the mass market but some analysts say the gadget will likely appeal chiefly to hardcore gamers, who are generally...
04:15 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Norman Mailer once advised another author to wait 10 years before writing about the attacks of Sept. 11 because " it will take that long for you to make sense of it." The estimate by the prominent New York novelist and journalist, who died in 2007, may have been premature. As the world marks a decade since the attacks, literary circles are still waiting for a definitive work on the...
01:02 PM, Sep 07, 2011
Los Angeles: Sony Corp. took the wraps off its next generation portable gaming machine, PlayStation Vita, a touch-interface and motion-sensitive handheld that outdoes its workhorse PlayStation Portable and will go on sale before the winter holidays. Company executives have called the device Sony's biggest product launch since the PlayStation 3 five years ago. The device will allow gamers to be connected with one another over cellphone networks and Wi-Fi hotspots,...
01:00 PM, Jun 08, 2011
Tokyo: Sony Corp said on Tuesday it was not certain when it could fully restore PlayStation Network videogame services in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, five weeks after a massive network security breach forced the company to shut them down. Sony's delayed response to the attack and a series of other network security problems has sparked criticism from governments and experts and threatens an online strategy meant to unite...
01:32 PM, May 31, 2011
Tokyo/New York: Had Sony stuck with the Airboard portable computer it launched in 2000, Satoru Maeda rather than Apple's Steve Jobs might have been feted as the creator of tablet PCs. "I was the inventor of the Airboard," says Maeda between mouthfuls of fried prawn and dumplings at a Chinese restaurant in downtown Tokyo. He was referring to a flat panel device that predated the iPad by a decade yet...
01:28 PM, May 23, 2011
New York: Sony Corp has shut down a website set up to help millions of users affected by April's massive data breach after finding a "security hole". The site had been designed to help 77 million users of its PlayStation Network reset their passwords after finding the security weakness. The issue, which Sony alerted customers to on its PlayStation website, marks yet another setback for the company, which has been...
12:12 PM, May 19, 2011
New York: Sony Corp defended its response time a hacker break-in of its video game network that led to the theft of more than 100 million user accounts. "This was an unprecedented attack," Sony chief executive Howard Stringer told reporters on Tuesday. "A lot of these breaches are never reported by companies or it takes companies a month. You're telling me my week wasn't fast enoough?" The global Japanese electronics...
07:20 PM, May 17, 2011
Tokyo: Sony began restoring its PlayStation Network service in the United States and Europe on Sunday after shutting down the service almost a month ago due to a massive security breach affecting over 100 million online accounts. Restored operations are mainly limited to online gaming, chat and music streaming services. Sony said it aimed to fully restore the PlayStation Network by the end of May. Sony also began Sunday a...
07:24 AM, May 16, 2011
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