TOKYO: Sony Corp.'s CEO, Howard Stringer, announced on Monday that the future ownership structure of Sony BMG, Sony's music venture with Bertelsmann AG, would be determined by how the German company decides to repay its debt.
Immersion, a developer of tactile or haptic technologies, has announced that it plans to license its new force-feedback technology to handset makers, to make virtual buttons on cell-phone screens.
Sony's PlayStation 2 or Microsoft's XBox users are already familiar with the tactile reactions they feel in joysticks and steering wheels on their gaming consoles. Now this technology is being worked out to move to mobile devices.
CALIFORNIA: Microsoft has planned to publicly release the privacy rules its employees have to follow when developing products in August.
This move is meant to give the industry an example of what the software giant sees as best practices in customer privacy, said Peter Cullen, the chief privacy strategist at Microsoft.
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IBM Corp. for collaborative research, officials said Friday.
San Francisco -- Business software maker, Oracle Corporation, announced on Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit has risen 27 percent on record revenue as sales surged across most of its business lines and geographic regions.
Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, and Sanyo Electric Co. have taken back their plans to jointly develop handsets for the main standard in North America and Japan, as the Finnish company plans to cut spending on the technology.
Univision Communications Inc.'s plan to sell the company has recently received a setback and that is no less than a shock. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Blackstone Group LP have dropped out of the group planning to bid for the biggest U.S.
Aditya Birla group (AV Birla group) yesterday declared it had concluded acquisition of Tata group's nearly 49% stake in Idea Cellular Ltd. for Rs 44.06 billion, putting an end to the high-profile corporate battle between the chief stakeholders in the telecom company, the Aditya Birla Group and the Tata Group.
