The Japanese electronics company introduces a pocket-sized device designed for instant messaging. Is e-mail doomed? Plus: AOL: "We blew it".... Google, MySpace.com scratch each other's backs.

Sony Corporation is set to launch on Tuesday Sony mylo, a tiny hand-held device that allows users instant messaging capability, Web browsing and Voice over Internet Protocol calls. The slim, oblong-shaped gizmo that has a 2.4 inch display and slides open to expose a thumb keyboard, is not a...

AFP - Sony has said it will market in the United States a first-of-a-kind wireless broadband device allowing users to exchange online voice and text messages, browse the Internet and listen to music.

AP - Hoping to tap into the growth of wireless networks across college campuses, other public spaces and within homes, Sony Corp. will announce Tuesday a new pocket-sized gadget for instant messaging and other Internet-based communications.

Reuters - Sony Corp. said it is set to introduce its first wireless broadband communications and entertainment device, aimed at heavy users of instant messaging.

The music industry has filed suit against popular peer-to-peer software company LimeWire. The coalition of record companies taking legal action includes Sony BMG, Virgin Records and Warner Bros. Records.

Sony's Media Software division has announced the availability of a new Blu-ray Disc development application called Blu-print. The software is a tool for authoring new high-capacity, Blu-ray format discs.

Reuters - Canon Inc. (7751.T) unveiled a digital video camera for home users on Wednesday that can record high-definition movies, matching a product offered by rival Sony Corp. (6758.T).

Reuters - The Nikkei average fell 0.57 percent on Wednesday as recent gainers on quarterly results such as Sony Corp. (6758.T) slipped on doubts about earnings prospects given uncertainty about the U.S. economy and the likelihood of higher material and labor costs.

Reuters - The Indigo Girls will emphasize their "Differences" with the September 19 release of their next album, which marks their debut for Disney's Hollywood Records after almost two decades at Sony Music.

AP - Three years ago, Sony Corp. launched the Qualia line of luxury gadgets that included a tiny $3,300 digital camera and a $13,000 audio console that automatically centered a compact disc regardless of how carelessly it was tossed into the player.

The European Commission has launched an anti-trust probe into the licensing strategies of two new generation DVD formats created by Toshiba and Sony-led consortium. An anonymous EU spokesman on Thursday said that a letter asking information about licensing has been sent to the developers earlier...

Macworld.com - The European Commission has launched an unofficial antitrust probe into the two emerging DVD formats championed by Toshiba and Sony, a spokesman said Thursday.

AP - Sony's latest quarter earnings results were better than expected, and its once-troubled TV business will turn profitable in the second half of the fiscal year, a senior executive said Friday.

Reuters - Sony Corp. said on Friday that losses at its games division in the July-September quarter may be bigger than its losses for the quarter ended in June due to a possible increase in valuation losses on PlayStation 3 microchips.

Technology fans voted Microsoft's Xbox 360 as the best games console, beating Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) and Nintendo's DS Lite for top prize. Other top winners were the iPod 30GB as the best MP3 player and the Sony Ericsson W810i for being the most lust-worthy mobile phone....

Sony Corp said strong sales of flat-panel televisions and the hit movie The Da Vinci Code helped it reverse a year-earlier loss in the June quarter to continue its turnaround. The Japanese electronics giant, undergoing major restructuring, reported a net profit of $ 278.3 million for the fiscal...

Macworld.com - Video podcast support is coming to the PlayStation Portable (PSP) thanks to a firmware update Sony published on Thursday.

AFP - Sony Corp has said strong sales of flat-panel televisions in the June quarter and the hit movie "The Da Vinci Code" helped it reverse the losses of a year ago and continue its turnaround.

AP - Sony returned to profit in the April-June quarter after losing money the same period a year ago, signaling a possible turnaround under its first foreign chief executive.