Sony: Most trusted brand name

Out of all the corporations in the world, Sony has topped them all. AlixPartners surveyed 5,000 people for their Brand Power Index ranking study of 2007. Out of all the surveyed people, Sony came out on top as the most trusted and recognized brand name.

Surprisingly, consumer trust for Sony surpasses all of America's favorite food suppliers; Kraft Foods came in at a close third, Campbell's comes in 5th, and Ben & Jerry's (America's Self Proclaimed "Favorite Ice Cream") comes in 41st.

The top ten overall most trusted and recognized companies according to the survey looks like this:

1. Sony (NYSE-SNE)

2. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE-JNJ)

3. Kraft (NYSE-KFT)

4. Procter & Gamble (NYSE-PG)

5. Campbell's (NYSE-CPB)

6. Toyota (NYSE-TM)

7. Tylenol

8. Dell (NasdaqGS-DELL)

9. General Mills (NYSE-GIS)

10. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE-HPQ)

PSN Store Update Today

Today, April 26th, 2007, is one of the largest updates to the Playstation Store since it launched back alongside the Playstation 3.

Here is what you can expect to find on the store in slightly less than one hour:
-Ninja Gaiden: Sigma (Demo)

-Virtua Tennis 3 (Demo)

-The Wheelman (Game Trailer)

-Stranglehold (Game Trailer)

-The Godfather (Game Trailer)

-Gauntlet 2 (Game Trailer)

There is also the first update for Folding@Home, which is required to be downloaded upon usage of the program.

My Setup

TV Sony Wega 27~

Monster Power Reference PoweCenter HTS 3500

Logitech 5500 1015watts

Kenwood Recever

Speaker Stands

Ps3 60gb

PSP 2gb

Dlink Wireless Router

LCD for sound

LINUX Ps3

COMING:this week 250gb External Hard Drive for pc to ps3..Down the road new TV 67"1080p Sony

Buying I/O Magic 250GB 3.5" External Hard Drive (pc to ps3)

For 159.99


Rotations Per Minute (RPM) 7200RPM

Karakker: SIXAXIS will have rumble

In an interview with Killzoneunit.com, Dave Karraker has provided some very interesting responses to the questions he was asked. Here are some of the main take-aways of the intereview:

1.Karraker confirmed Immersion and Sony are in discussions on how they can incorporate their technologies into their products, meaning the SIXAXIS controller. Unfortunately he couldn't specify when this would happen.

2.Sony is looking for a way to make every PlayStation 3 more personalised, for example by allowing users to customize the background of their XMB.

3.Again Sony confirmed they are just scratching the surface with what they would like to do in the XMB, so more updates are on the way.

4.PlayStation Store pre-paid cards are in the works, no word yet on when they will be released though.

5. You will see more downloadable content on the PlayStation Store soon, such as third-party downloadable games and add-on packs. In the next few months Sony will be ramping up the third-party game demos and other content. And they will also sort out the region delays.

PS Network hits 1.3 million users

Sony the official numbers of the playstation network . It seems it is doing very well than it was initially thought, and with about 600,000 of the users are from the US alone.

In news that will no-doubt turn the heat-up in the Xbox Live board room, Sony has said that its free-of charge PlayStation Network online service has reached 1.3 million users worldwide.

The news comes from SCEA’s senior director of PR Dave Karraker, who told Gamespot that of those 1.3 million users 600,000 signed up in North America where Sony has shipped over 2 million consoles

Worldwide some 3.7 million pieces of content have been downloaded from the PS3 online service, though the Sony PR man didn’t specify how much of the number is download games.

Microsoft's Needs $$$$

Though it won't officially be on store shelves for another nine days, the Xbox 360 Elite has already apparently been purchased, spirited away, and gutted. Minnesotan tech blog Llama.com is posting pictures of of what it claims is a disassembled Elite. And, other than the HDMI output and 120GB hard drive, its silicon entrails apparently aren't much different from those of a standard Xbox 360.

According to Llama.com, the Elite it disassembled has the same noisy Hitachi DVD drive as many older 360s, not the quieter BenQ drives found in several newer batches of the console. The site was also unable to tell if the console's CPU was made using the larger 90nm process or the more energy-efficient 65nm process, which is supposed to be introduced later this year.

UPDATE:According to the article they [Gamespot] released when the Elite was revealed, it WASN'T going to implement the newer CPUs...