Sony's profits-drop beats expectations

Sony has announced its third-quarter results and has halved its profit estimate for the full year to $423m. Analysts predicted profits to fall by as much as 27 per cent, but the picture was a touch rosier, with a $1.24bn operating profit for the quarter ending 31 December, down 11 per cent. ...more

Kylix 3 - coming to a development machine near you

C++ support is combined with Delphi in the latest release of Borland's Kylix development system. As well as its Object Pascal-based Delphi language, Kylix now supports the ANSI/ISO C++ language for programmers targeting the Linux platform. It's a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment that employs drag and drop techniques to quickly build an application. ...more

Fujifilm takes the FinePix F11 Zoom in hand

Fujifilm has announced the FinePix F11 Zoom, the successor to its popular F10. The F11 adds in more manual control, such as aperture and shutter priority modes, and faster focus response times in Macro mode - allowing objects to be photographed from as close as 5cm. The LCD monitor has also been improved, now with a 153,000 pixel resolution, and battery life has been stretched further to 500 shots. ...more

Sony's Grouper.com defends itself from Universal copyright charges

Grouper.com, which is an online video-sharing company owned by Sony Pictures, has denied charges in a Universal Music Group lawsuit that accuses the company of allowing users to swap pirated music videos. In a filing with the US District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Grouper denied the copyright-infringement allegations and said Universal was using the lawsuit to boost a rival video-sharing site in which it has a stake. ...more

Apple seeks UK switchers

The self-proclaimed success of Apple's Switch campaign seems to have prompted a similar effort on this side of the Atlantic. Apple Europe sent out the following email today inviting anyone who has recently switched from using a Windows PC to a Mac to tell their story. 'Dear Macintosh User, You know something we don't. ...more