New Sony Mini Vaio

Please see the link below for a review in the Telegraph:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid2888913001/bclid1387917998/bctid10252485001

The ad has also been featured on elle.com.  They've gone down a similar avenue to the HP Vivienne Tam netbook, asking in the ad, "What's missing in your handbag? Your new season must have!"

Ad clicks through to a dedicated mini site where you can enter a competition to win one of the netbooks and watch some videos of the product being used in Paris, Bruges and Rome.

To fill in on the specs:

- weighs 638 grams

- 120mm x 245mm x 19.8mm

- 60gb memory, 2gb ram

- windows vista

....and costs a whopping £849!

There's a small picture taken from the website above. Please email me if you want to have a look at the bigger version.

Sony Vaio TT laptop rated by telegraph.co.uk

The Sony Vaio TT laptop has been rated as on the year's hottest gadgets by the Daily Telegraph:

"n tough carbon fibre and weighing only 1.3kg, this laptop is ultra-mobile, and its 11in widescreen display and ergonomic keyboard make it a joy to use. It offers about nine hours’ battery life, has a biometric fingerprint scanner for security, plus built-in webcam, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G mobile broadband connectivity."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologyreviews/4401545/Hottest-gadgets.html

Sony to cut plants, jobs and investments

Sony is to cut c. 8000 jobs and shut 10% of its manufacturing plants in a bid to cut costs amid the economic downturn. It is hoping to make savings of $1.1bn by the end of the next financial year and is cutting investment in electronic operations by 30%.

The news follows an annoucement last month of a 71% fall in net profits from July-September.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7772597.stm