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      Spider Man 3 Cost Over Half a Billion

      Posted by Jeff from radaronline.com

      With marketing and promotion factored in, the total price tag will approach half a billion dollars—positioning Spider-Man 3 as the most expensive movie of all time. (Cleopatra, the 1963 epic that has long held the title of priciest picture, had an inflation-adjusted budget of $290 million.) Still reeling from a flurry of bad press on its PlayStation 3 gaming console, Sony isn't eager to claim this honor.

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      Linux ported to Sony PSP

      Posted by Kaerast

      A self-described "world famous celebrity hacker" has managed to boot uClinux on Sony's MIPS-based PSP (Playstation Portable). Chris Mulhearn's port so far lacks support for key PSP peripherals such as the screen, but could interest hackers able to connect serially to the PSP's "remote headphones" port.

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      Free downloads end Sony CD saga

      Posted by Billbar from BBC News

      Millions of music fans will be given free music downloads or money to compensate for flawed anti-piracy software on CDs from label Sony BMG. The dispute began in November 2005 after software developer Mark Russinovich found that anti-piracy software XCP used by Sony employed virus-like techniques to hide itself on PCs.

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    • Sony bows to Apple format

      Posted by Billbar from asahi.com

      Sony Corp. on Tuesday announced a symbolic concession to Apple Computer Corp. on digital audio technology. The company will make its latest music management software compatible with the AAC data compression technology used by Apple.

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    • Sony sued for iTunes royalties

      Posted by Billbar from Mac News Network

      In a new class action lawsuit, The Allman Brothers Band and Cheap Trick are claiming millions of dollars in damages from Sony Music because the entertainment giant is not paying its recording artists half of the net licensing revenue received in connection with music licensed to digital download providers, such as Apple.

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      Universal Media Disc 'another Sony bomb'

      Posted by Billbar from ZDNet

      Exactly a year after it was launched in the United States, the Sony PlayStation Portable's days as a handheld movie-viewing device might be numbered. Retailers are cutting the amount of shelf space they've been devoting to UMD movies, amid talk that Wal-Mart Stores is about to dump the category entirely.

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    Dell Will Recall Batteries in PC's

    Terrorists with Dell Laptops and Mountain Dew may try to blow up planes. Let's hope Dell and Homeland Security are in touch on this one!

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    8:49 am 8/15/06
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