ELECTRONICS

Sony Corp said U.S. electronics sales are looking positive after the holiday season, and that it was optimistic about meeting its full-year target for PlayStation 3 video game console sales.

Television manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets capable of adding that extra visual dimension expected to hit U.S. store shelves in force by the middle of 2010.

Dell Inc showed off a small slate computer that it could bring to market this year, exploring yet another type of device designed for computing on the go.

Television manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets capable of adding that extra visual dimension expected to hit U.S. store shelves in force by the middle of 2010.

Motorola Inc demonstrated a prototype media tablet that could be ready commercially by the fourth quarter, though the timing partly depends on an advanced mobile network being built by Verizon Wireless.

Boost, a unit of Sprint Nextel , said on Thursday that it would extend its $50-a-month unlimited service plan to the entire Sprint network in an effort to improve customer growth and handset choice.

Motorola Inc said it will sell a new inside-out Android flip-phone with a keyboard and display on the outside, and is considering joining the latest craze for tablet computing devices.

Motorola Inc (MOT.N) said it will sell a new inside-out Android flip-phone with a keyboard and display on the outside, and is considering joining the latest craze for tablet computing devices.

The smoke has finally cleared on Google Inc's highly anticipated Nexus One smartphone, but the ramifications of the Internet company's new role as a mobile phone vendor are still hazy.

Japan's Panasonic Corp and DirecTV Group, the top U.S. satellite TV provider, will together launch three high-definition 3D channels by June to try and jump-start demand for 3D TVs and content.

Sony Corp said flat-screen televisions, electronic readers and Blu-ray video players helped its U.S. holiday season sales top expectations, in a rare sign of encouragement for the Japanese conglomerate.

A U.S. software maker is suing China, several major PC makers and two Chinese software makers for $2.2 billion, accusing them of using stolen code in controversial Web filtering software that drew global criticism last year.

A U.S. software maker is suing China, several major PC makers and two Chinese software makers for $2.2 billion, accusing them of using stolen code in controversial Web filtering software that drew global criticism last year.

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer unveiled a new Hewlett-Packard Co tablet computer on Wednesday, beating Apple Inc's hotly anticipated move into the market.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd set robust TV sales growth targets for 2010 and announced its intention of moving into the increasingly crowded electronic reader market.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is headed for a robust year after October-December profit estimates came above market forecasts as the company rides a recovery in memory chips, its cash cow business.

Motorola Inc plans to make a phone that Google will sell in its direct cellphone sales channel and that device could potentially sport the Motorola brand, the company's cellphone chief Sanjay Jha said in an interview on Wednesday.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , the world's top maker of memory chips and flat screen TVs, estimated its October-December consolidated operating profit at a median 3.7 trillion won ($3.27 billion).

AT&T Inc plans to sell seven new smartphones in the first half of this year, including two from Palm Inc and five Android handsets from vendors such as Dell Inc.

Online DVD renter Netflix Inc agreed to wait 28 days before offering new Warner Bros titles in exchange for more content that can be sent directly to customers' televisions and computers.

Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co will unveil a new tablet computer on Wednesday, sources said, beating Apple Inc's hotly anticipated move into the market.