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Sony <6758.T> said on Tuesday shortages of parts and materials would force it to reduce or suspend production at five additional plants in Japan following the catastrophic earthquake this month.

TOKYO - Sony Corp <6758.T> said it would partially restart a lithium ion battery factory in Tochigi prefecture on Tuesday, leaving six plants, which make a range of devices from integrated circuit cards to Blu-ray discs, still closed.

A second statement from the company suggest that future 3DS shipments may be affected by the situation in Japan.

Samsung Electronics Co <005930.KS>, the world's top memory chip maker, forecast on Friday a challenging business outlook due to growing competition, but said it was aiming to achieve record profit this year.

A number of Japanese companies have reported disruptions to their supply chains in the wake of the the earthquake there.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said on Thursday the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan would disrupt its supply chain and that it was looking at measures to compensate.

Since, Japan is one of the world's largest economies, it is said that business activities of some of the U.S. communication technology (CommTech) companies could be disrupted in near term.

Home to much of the world's semiconductor factories and electronics companies, Japan's devastation will have significant effects on global electronics supplies.

Leveraging its content and channel, Amazon could present a unique and significant challenge to Apple and its iPad.

Companies across Japan are in emergency mode and assessing the immediate physical and economic damage caused by the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake.

Highly rated smartphones iPhone 4 and BlackBerry Torch 9800 bit dust at the Pwn2Own hacking competition while Samsung Nexus S, which runs on Android, and the Dell Venue, which runs on Windows Phone 7, came away unscathed.

Sony Pictures may become the second movie giant to embrace the social networking site Facebook in the ongoing war between the Hollywood film industry and the video rental service Netflix.

Sony Corp is promoting Kazuo Hirai as the head of its consumer products unit, the company's biggest division, and CEO Howard Stringer said Hirai was in the lead to be his successor.

Sony Corp said it would promote Kazuo Hirai as the head of the company's biggest division, as part of a realignment that signals he could be a potential successor to Chief Executive Howard Stringer.

Flat-screen maker LG Display said on Thursday it was in talks to provide 3D TV panels to Sony Corp, as it seeks to muster allies amid an intensifying feud over the 3D market with bigger rival Samsung.

A hacker found a way to exploit Sony PlayStation 3's supposedly 'unhackable' firmware version 3.56.

Sony Corp said it will appeal the seizure of Playstation 3 game consoles by customs officers in the Netherlands following a court injunction initiated by LG Electronics over a patent dispute.

Libyan state television Al-Jamahiriyah has broadcast footage of three Dutch soldiers (including one woman) who were captured by forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi while trying to help evacuate foreign citizens from the strife-torn country.

Sony Corp said on Friday shipments of its PlayStation 3 game consoles were being seized by customs officers in the Netherlands following a court injunction initiated by LG Electronics over a patent dispute.

With the software, users would have access to the same information that developers do.

A beating by Los Angeles police of motorist Rodney King caught on video twenty years ago triggered a national debate on racism and police brutality, and prompted an investigation that laid the groundwork for closer civilian supervision of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Sony Music and Japanese entertainment company Avex have rendered a written apology over the choice of attire by Japanese pop group Kishidan, who appeared on MTV Japan's Megavector program on February 23 wearing costumes that resembled the uniforms of the SS.

HTC's Android smartphones are among the best selling devices at all major U.S. carriers, according to checks of Robert W. Baird.

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) could be an attractive acquisition target for companies, including Broadcom Corp. and Oracle.

The top U.S. box office film for the weekend are: Disney's Gnomeo & Juliet; Warner Bros.'s Hall Pass; Warner Bros.'s Unknown; Sony's Just Go With It; Disney's I Am Number Four; Paramount's Justin Bieber: Never Say Never; The Weinstein Company's The King's Speech; 20th Century Fox's Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son; Summit Entertainment's Drive Angry 3D; and Sony's The Roommate.

NTT DoCoMo has launched the world’s thinnest smartphone, the NEC Medias N-04C in Japan.

Apple reigns supreme in product placement; but others are catching up, according to a recent report.

According to Brandcameo, 30 percent of last year's top movies featured some kind of Apple product, whether it was a MacBook, iPod or an iPhone.

Asian stock markets ended lower on Tuesday as continued political unrest in the Middle East weighed on the sentiment.