Confirming reports from earlier in the week, Sony has announced plans to sell off its VAIO computer division to a Japanese investment fund. Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) will take control of the ...

Here's the thing: Sony's VAIO Z series of ultraportables doesn't get to be a part of the X300 / Envy 133 / MacBook Air / X360 club. We like it, it's a great laptop, but it's just too chubby to count ...

Despite stamping out the once-popular Mac clone program upon his return to Apple in the late 1990s, Steve Jobs a few years later reportedly flew to Hawaii to pitch executives of Japanese electronics ...

Sony Vaio computers come equipped with special software called Vaio Care that enables you to make them work faster. This program monitors your Vaio's performance and can provide you with reports that ...

Update: Nov. 2004: Sony announced that they'll sell the U70 in the US for ~$2,000 as the U750 The U comes in a nice box packed with goodies. It comes with a docking station/port replicator, and ...

A search for a laptop suitable for the power user who has everything led to the Sony VAIO PCG-FX290. The FX290, a top-of-the-line laptop, runs on a Pentium III clocked at 1 gigahertz - it bills itself ...

Last year, Sony sold its struggling VAIO PC business to the private equity fund Japan Industrial Partners, Inc., which soon ceased selling computers outside of Japan. Now VAIO Corp. wants its ...

One of the first all-in-one desktop computers I ever laid eyes on was a widescreen beauty from Sony. Nearly seven years later, the company's latest entry into an increasingly crowded market brings ...

VAIO, formerly Sony's PC business, teased on its website in Japanese that it is now "free," with several changes coming to the company. The Japanese message implies that VAIO will be a smaller brand ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Sony unveiled a slew of new desktop and notebook computers last week that will make their public debut at PC Expo in New York City next month. The company continued its emphasis on convergence by ...

Sony and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Wednesday a product recall for Sony Vaio laptops affecting more than half a million notebooks worldwide. Affected laptops pose a burn ...