Flurry Analytics analyst firm has published a new study of the American market of console video games. The volume of this market games in the past year fell from $ 11 to $ 9.9 billion, but Apple, whose devays long compete with portable consoles, yet increased in this area.

So, iPhone OS share in the common market of video games – in relation to consoles incl. – over the past year increased from 1% to 5%.

Apple Earnings from sales of games from the App Store grew by as much as 500%, so that the market is portable gaming Apple gets 19% of revenues from total sales, ahead of Sony PSP.

"Our research has shown that such indicators platform iPhone / iPod touch will cause other players in the market to reckon with it. Obtain your 5% 10-billion industry in just a year and a half – this is serious progress "- wrote in his report Flurry Analytics.

Via AppleInsider

Sony announced the price of a set of 3D-glasses and a transmitter, which allows to make a series of three-dimensional model of the TV series Sony Bravia.

Currently, only one such TV, LX900, is sold under the brand 3D Ready: it includes a special transmitter and comes with two stereo glasses with the active gates. However, a set of points and the transmitter can be purchase separately, adding stereo to a few more TVs Sony Bravia: NX900, HX700, HX800 and HX90. A set of two points is 12 000 yen (about 3950 rubles.). Price of the transmitter is 5000 yen (about 1650 rubles.).

Via TechRadar

Site Engadget, with reference to the Wall Street Journal wrote that this year, Sony may release a certain phone with game console, or consoles with the function of the phone.

The Sony some time working on a new ecosystem of products built around the proprietary online service Sony. This ecosystem will include a hybrid device that combines netbook, e-book and the prefix a-la PlayStation Portable. Details of these plans are not yet known, although reports that the project involved Sony Ericsson, and directs the work Kunimasa Suzuki (Kunimasa Suzuki), responsible for VAIO notebooks, and is closely associated with the development of PlayStation.

It seems that Sony is moving in the same direction as that of Microsoft – the integration of smartphone with a gaming platform. New Windows Phone 7, as is known, is closely integrated with Xbox LIVE, and allows you to run games from the Xbox (at least some).

Via Engadget

Resource Technologizer wrote about an interesting patent Sony called "universal game controller» (Universal Game Controller). In the patent application explains that this controller can work with any game consoles. Direct text called PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox. Controller even be able to emulate the old manipulators, not manufactured anymore.

The controller will touch screen LCD display and a wireless receiver. Instead of physical keys – virtual, appear on the touch screen. Depending on whether a console is connected to the controller, the screen displays the different keys.

Difficult to predict, will play comfortably in a fully virtual keys, but maybe, Sony will really do something interesting.

Via Technologizer

There are reports that Sony may be brought back to life the brand six years ago VAIO M, but in a new guise. In 2004, under this brand made desktop monoblocks, but now M can be a laptop. Sony Insider states that will soon be released model VPC-M111AX / B and VPC-M111AX / W: probably a two-color (black and white) the same model.

Via Electronista

According to Impress, Sony might abandon the Cell processor in PlayStation fourth generation, preferring him to multi-core architecture. It is reported that Sony originally planned to install on PS4 with an updated version of the PS3, but then began to gravitate toward a completely new model of the chip with multiple high-grade nuclei. They may be, for example, Intel Larrabee. In this case, Sony would go a considerable concession to game developers, who have long complained about the difficulty of writing games for the PS3.

Processor PS3 is much more difficult triple-core Xbox 360. He had only one full core and seven vector math co-processors, which require careful optimization and is not always possible to compensate for the lack of nuclei. Game developers for the PS3 came face to face with the problems that lead to poor performance.

While nothing is known either about the specific characteristics of the new chip, nor the fate of the Cell.

Via Electronista

Sony has long been engaged in three-dimensional technology, and now it came to photography. The Japanese company will create a digital reflex camera, shoot in 3D, and the resulting images can be viewed at any hardware Sony, supporting this feature: TV, PS3 consoles and laptops, VAIO, – as well as to publish a special web site. Stereofotoapparaty will be issued under the well-known brand name Alpha.

When exactly in the market will appear the first three-dimensional SLRs Sony, is still unknown. In Japanese companies reported only one year – 2010-th.

Via Electronista

Sony has released an update for e-book Reader and Reader Daily Edition, as well as the characteristics of similar software for Windows and Mac. Now all these tools can automatically download and display the latest edition of newspapers and magazines available by subscription. These are popular in the U.S. edition as the New York Times, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune and ten editions.

How to pay for the electronic versions of the press, Sony has not yet reported.

In the Japanese companies promised to release Reader Daily Edition with support for 3G in December. While this has not happened yet, and Sony are continuing to take pre-orders. Probably, the Japanese want to stretch up to the Christmas holidays, to make all the big surprise.

Via Electronista

In the Japanese media today was informed that Sony is planning to delay the monthly salaries of all the working staff for the full year, counting from the beginning of fiscal year – from April.

In addition, the rate of senior management, including Chairman of the Board of Directors Howard Stinger (Howard Stringer) (pictured), will be significantly reduced – by 35-50%.

Annual premiums of all managers who are not involved in the management company will be reduced by 35-40%.

According to the Stinger in January this year, he was going to cut 16,000 Sony employees around the world and a complete restructuring of the company.

According to the expectations of experts, the losses Sony in this budget year, made a mark in 2,7 billion dollars. In connection with all of the deteriorating situation of the company – on the Tokyo stock exchange today, shares of Sony fell by 1,5%.

Reportedly, the company's Panasonic and Sharp are now operating on about the same pattern as the Sony.

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After service in the Flickr photos of the new network has spilled VAIO P-like computers from Lenovo with the code name «Pocket Yoga» ( «Pocket Yoga»).

Judging by the pictures, you can provide any size will devays, but what there will be an operating system, remains anyone's guess.