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CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Moviegoers are invited to join an initiative with Zero Dark Thirty, which has been nominated for five Academy Awards® including Best Picture, that allows people to donate their social media statuses in support of a unified message applauding the women who serve in the U.S. intelligence and military communities. Via Twitter or Facebook, participants' tweets or posts will be broadcast simultaneously with all other supporters....
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Network Entertainment International today announced that the company's Music Unlimited service now offers users the ability to listen to high quality audio through the service's PC (Windows® and Mac OS®), Sony Xperia(TM) and other Android(TM) smartphones and tablets, Sony Android Walkman®, and PlayStation®3 (PS3(TM)) computer entertainment system applications. By turning on the high quality streaming option in Music...
The Avril Lavigne Rockstar Club at Easter Seals Expands Into New North American Markets LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Avril Lavigne Foundation announced the expansion of the Avril Lavigne Rockstar Clubs at Easter Seals into 10 markets in the U.S. and Canada to support much-needed recreational programming for kids and youth with disabilities to just be kids, explore their talents, make friends and have fun. (Logo:...
CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Even though over 111 million people tuned in to last year's broadcast, Sony Movie Channel (SMC) recognizes the fact that there are a few million more TV viewers out there who would rather watch something other than the NFL's matchup between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers. Instead of presenting the drama of the Harbaugh Brothers taking sibling rivalry to the main stage on February 3, SMC is punting toward romance all...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Currently, it is illegal to buy or sell a video game console (PlayStation, Wii, Xbox and the like) in China. Of course, just because something is illegal doesn’t keep people from doing what they shouldn’t. According to a new report in China Daily, authorities will begin reviewing a ban against these video games set in place in the year 2000. Console makers have been trying for years to enter the Chinese market legally, but...
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Though best known as one of the preeminent pop singers of our time, Barbra Streisand made a powerful statement in the classical music realm when she recorded Classical Barbra in 1973. Originally released in 1976, the album gained Streisand a raft of admirers in the classical music world. Glenn Gould called her voice "one of the natural wonders of the age, an instrument of infinite diversity and timbral resource." Classical Barbra was one...
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Network Entertainment International and Sony Computer Entertainment America, today unveiled a new online store in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil that enables PlayStation®Network and Sony Entertainment Network users to conveniently discover and purchase games, movies, TV shows, and more from the web. The new online store features rich product pages that offer an easy way to browse the store's integrated...
NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Megan Hilty's debut album, It Happens All The Time will be available March 12, 2013 from Portrait, Sony Masterworks' new adult contemporary imprint, in partnership with Columbia Records. The album is produced by Grammy-winners Andy Zulla and Jimmy Hogarth and showcases a different side of Hilty, the beloved star of the hit musical TV drama series Smash. Songs featured on It Happens All The Time include Hilty's fresh interpretations...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In April of 2011, hackers broke into Sony’s PlayStation Network, bringing the service to its knees and exposing the personal information of millions of customers. More than a year and a half later, the Information Commissioners Office, (ICO) a British watchdog group, has fined Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited £250,000, more than $395,000 USD, in response to this breach. According to the ICO, these data leaks were a...
ATLANTA, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- LCDTVBUYINGGUIDE.COM editors have returned from their trip to Las Vegas with decisions on which TVs were the best of the best. Jack Burden and Robert Wiley were overwhelmed by the number of 4K TVs and OLED TVs the major manufacturers were showing off. It's no surprise that the Best TVs CES 2013 page is made up of nothing but TVs with those technologies. Sony's 4K OLED TV received much praise as the best of CES. Senior editor Wiley...
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The Sony Tablet S is manufactured by Sony and released on September 16, 2011 as Sony’s first tablet. It uses Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 OS, with a dual core CPU. It has a 9.4-inch multi-touch display, a front and rear camera, and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity. It has a unique tapering design enabling it to have stability as well as ease of grip. It has 1 GB RAM with either 16 or 32 GB of internal storage and a memory card slot for an extra 32 GB. The Tablet S also has a GPS, micro USB...
The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a video game console released on March 4, 2000 in Japan, October 26, 2000 in North America, and November 24, 2000 in Europe by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI). Since its release over 150 million consoles and 1.52 billion PS2 titles have been sold. There are 3,857 available games and the PS2 continued to be produced with revisions released in 2006 and 2007. On January 4, 2013, Sony announced it would discontinue production of the PS2. One day after its...
The PlayStation is a game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) first sold on December 3, 1994 in Japan. It has sold over 100 million units worldwide since its release. Ken Kutaragi known as “The Father of the PlayStation” is the creator of the PlayStation game console and a Sony executive. In 1988, Sony and Nintendo formed a partnership to develop a CD-ROM for the Super Nintendo, but a day after the PlayStation’s official announcement at the Consumer...
The PSP is a handheld game console that is manufactured by Sony and was unveiled on May 11, 2004. It was released on December 12, 2004 in Japan, and March 24, 2005, in North America. In early September 2007 the slimmer and lighter PSP-2000 was released. It was replaced later with the PSP-3000, and then redesigned into the PSP Go, which sold along with the PSP-3000. In 2011 a low priced version was released the PSP-E1000. In December 2011 the PlayStation Vita was released in Japan and February...
A Compact Disc, or CD, is an optical disc used to store digital data although it was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively. Audio CDs have been available commercially since October 1982 and were popular until around 2010 when other digital forms took over. The standard CD can hold up to 80 minutes of uncompressed audio. There are also Mini CDs that hold up to 24 minutes of audio. Eventually the technology was expanded to include CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, video compact...
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