At a roundtable event this morning, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer admitted a Sony tablet would be launching this year, before announcing that they hope to be the number two player in tablets by the end of the year. More »
Let’s just say that (not so hypothetically) you managed to score a place at a roundtable with Sony’s top, top brass. We’re talking Chairman, CEO and President of Sony Corporation, Sir Howard Stringer; President and Group CEO of Playstation Kaz Hirai; Phil Molyneux, President and COO of Sony Electronics and Hiroshi Yoshioka, President of Consumer, Professional and Devices Group at Sony Corporation. What would you ask them? More »
Kaz Hirai, head of Sony’s Networked Products & Service division (leading their PlayStation department) is tipped as the favourite to take over the Prez role, which has been filled by Stringer since April 2009. More »
Fortune’s profile-cum-appraisal of Howard Stringer and his efforts to reform Sony paints a fairly bleak picture. Stringer’s got some solid ideas, but implementing them sounds like a nightmare, and the future—even in his hopeful forecast—is alarmingly hazy. More »
