Sony Entertainment has announced it is reducing the price of its PlayStation 3 games consoles. In Europe the price has been lowered to 299 euros, in the US to US$299 and in the UK to £249.99.

Online retailer Amazon.com has cut the price of its standard Kindle electronic reader by 17% to US$299, the company said on Wednesday. The price cut comes amid a budding digital book battle where rivals like Amazon, Sony and a host of smaller companies are anxious to get in on the ground floor of what some say is the future of reading.

Sony agreed to invest in a Sharp LCD unit, the Nikkan Kogyo newspaper reported, without saying where it obtained the information.

When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The BBC Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.

Sony Electronics Asia Pacific has introduced three new entry-level cameras. The new cameras support the Memory Stick Duo slot for high-capacity Memory Stick PRO Duo and Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo media, and the additional SD (Secure Digital) slot that is also SDHC-compliant.