Stories about: Playstation.com

For some of us, it's that magical time of year. Better than the summer holidays, better than Father's or Mother's Day -- even better than your own birthday.

Free. It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk.

It's 2008 already. Didn't the magazines promise us flying cars by now?

In response to demand from Linux users, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) has announced plans to sell a kit which enables the Linux operating system to run on the PlayStation 2 (PS2) game console platform. The kit will allow developers to write PS2 software in a Linux environment on the PS2 console.

Prospective e-tailers better have $7.5 million to spare, because that's the ballpark cost to get it right with mySAP.com in Sony Computer Entertainment's experience. Fresh from implementing an SAP R/3 back end, Sony is preparing to launch Playstation.com, its next-generation computer entertainment and communication system, using a mySAP.com solution to create an online store.

Sony Computer Entertainment is considering spinning off the Internet arm of its video-game company, PlayStation.com, in the U.S., Japan and Europe as early as next year, Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Ken Kutaragi told The Standard on Thursday. The motive behind such an undertaking - be it an initial public offering or a tracking stock - remains unclear even to the executives involved, Kutaragi warns.

Sony last week outlined its business plan for the coming financial year and vowed to continue corporate reform and push for ever tighter integration of the Internet and other network platforms with the company's core electronics businesses.

Brushing aside an embarrassing recall of utility discs shipped with its month-old PlayStation 2 game console, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today forecast it will sell 10 million [M] units of the new machine around the world in the year from April.

NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Japan's leading cellular telephone network operator, is to invest in both an Internet-based bank being established by Sakura Bank Ltd., and online games retailer PlayStation.com (Japan) Inc., the company announced late today.

With only a day left before its new PlayStation 2 goes on sale in Japan, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) has been forced to make an embarrassing apology after personal details of some customers were revealed through a Web site.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) began advance sales of its new PlayStation 2 games console at midnight last night but immediately hit problems as its Web site failed to cope with the demand.