Martyn Williams

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s (SCEI) PlayStation 3 games console made its worldwide debut in Japan on Saturday.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) is planning capacity increases for its 2.5-inch hard-disk drives over the next 12 months, the company said Wednesday.

Sony is making an aggressive move into the business computing market with the launch in Japan on Wednesday of the "Vaio Business" brand.

Sony believes that nickel particles that got into the laptop batteries during production and system configuration are key elements that can spark a battery fire. But the probability of this occurrence very much depends on system configuration, Sony says.

The online video site YouTube has deleted close to 30,000 files after complaints from an organization representing Japanese copyright holders, the organization said.

Sony Corp. has added its name to a growing list of computer makers recalling laptop PC batteries made by one of its own subsidiaries. The Tokyo-based company said it will offer replacements for around 90,000 battery packs sold with models of its Vaio PCs in Japan and China.

Adobe Apollo's cross-operating system runtime will provide a way for developers to build applications drawing on Adobe technologies including PDF Flash and Flex, or with JavaScript, Ajax and HTML, in a single environment.

An agreement by the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on North Korea could see the Asian nation's few telecommunications links with the outside world cut.