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The LA Times is reporting that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Sony Pictures have come to an agreement to partner on the next two James Bond movies. Within this agreement there is also potential to co-finance other pictures over the next five years.

The hacker George Hotz, who settled with Sony after the company sued him for modifying his PlayStation 3 console, is getting a lot of flak from other hackers for not taking the fight further.

The hacktivist group Anonymous is planning a set of sit-ins at Sony stores on April 16, in response to the company's legal actions against hacker George Hotz.

Sony Computer Entertainment America and the hacker who published code that unlocked the PlayStation 3's firmware have reached a settlement in their months-long legal battle.

Apple's hawk eye on the gaming scene has been the point of much discussion and speculation. And finally there seems to be some real development. From rumors about acquiring Sony, or eying Adobe or Disney, there are now reports that Apple is hiring executives from gaming giant Nintendo to push its gaming presence.

World number two Novak Djokovic will miss next week's Monte Carlo Masters with a knee injury and with it an opportunity to close the gap on Rafael Nadal in the rankings.

In the wake of the attacks by the hacker collective Anonymous on Sony and on Livejournal, more attention has been focused on just what such attacks mean and how to defend against them.

In an interview with Fortune magazine, Tretton dismisses Nintendo's latest handheld as a great babysitting tool that offers no competition to Sony's PSP.

The hacker collective Anonymous seems to have changed tacks on its effort to pay back Sony, emphasizing that its members are on the side of consumers and gamers.

Sales for the 3DS took a nosedive in Japan last week as Sony's PSP overtook the top spot.

Motorola's Xoom was crowned the undisputed king of tablets at CES 2011 but little did Motorola realize that the spotlight would last only a month.

The statement counters a previous statement made by Sony America president Jack Tretton, who yesterday said that Sony may be forced to stagger the release of their next portable to keep with demand.

The hacker collective Anonymous has made good on its threat to attack Sony, having launched a distributed denial-of-service attack on Wednesday afternoon.

While the attacks against Sony by the hacktivist group Anonymous don't seem to have materialized, a Facebook page entitled Operation SONY has been set up, pointing to some kind of action on April 16.

NGP, the successor to Sony's PlayStation portable, is planned for a late 2011 release - but delays may force Sony to push the device's release into 2012.

Barclays Capital said it has received many questions over the past week around thoughts on the potential timing of Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5. In summary, Reitzes believes it may make sense for Apple to launch this version of the iPhone a little later than usual for five reasons.

Sony plans to release its version of Android 3.0 tablet codenamed S1 by the end of summer.

The hacker collective Anonymous has posted a warning to Sony that it plans an attack of some kind as revenge for the legal action taken against another hacker who modified a PlayStation 3.

Sony's Honeycomb tablet will be available by end of the summer.

Company has 'no desire' to get into smartphones, executives say

Shares of Omnivision were battered on Monday after reports surfaced this weekend suggesting that the company had lost a major contract to supply Apple with camera parts to Sony.