Profile of Sony in Newsweek: Sony, home of transistor radios, Trinitron, Walkman, Betamax, Bruce Springsteen, Spider-Man and Gran Turismo, now wants to be known as the home of connected entertainment in the digital age. CEO Nobuyuki Idei understands that the Net and the chip have exploded Morita and Ibuka’s world. …

And you thought windows were for looking THROUGH: Windows that double as television screens, computer monitors or stereo systems are being unveiled today, on the first day of the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas, by Andersen Corp., the country’s largest window manufacturer. The new windows are the latest advance …

Cynthia Webb reports in the Washington Post on the LinuxWorld conference (I’ll bet Doc is there): On the heels of Macworld and the Consumer Electronics Show comes the LinuxWorld conference, which starts today in New York, a major networking event for the open-source software movement. IBM’s big investment in Linux …

In Slate, Drew Clark takes a position contrary to intuition regarding the “clean” film debate: Cutting sex, violence, and profanity from movies is normally considered censorship. But if studios and directors like Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh win a copyright suit against 11 small companies that permit consumers to avoid …

The Golden Globes were announced last night, officially beginning the stretch run to the Academy Awards: HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION Golden Globe Awards 2003 BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA Winner: THE HOURS Paramount Pictures/Miramax Films; Paramount Pictures Other nominees: ABOUT SCHMIDT Michael Besman/Harry Gittes Prod.; New Line Cinema GANGS OF …

600 songs and a genome: Life science technology is about as cutting-edge as it gets, but now it’s apparently also hip. At least that’s the image projected by University of New Hampshire researcher Will Gilbert, who has taken to carrying around the human genome on his Apple Computer iPod. Gilbert, …

Although it gets very technical and boring and rife with legalese, the issue of copyright has very real ramifications for every one of us: the further copyright is extended, the smaller becomes the public domain, the open repository of our public culture. Here’s a specific example for MLK Jr. day. …

ARTISTdirect announces SnoCore 2003, “America’s first and only winter-season, road-show celebration of cutting-edge rock and the snow-sports lifestyle.” The tour begins February 11 in Albuquerque, NM, and will play at least thirty-one dates before it winds up on the east coast in late March. “We’ll be doing the same show …

After years of being better in theory than in execution, Nick Cave executes.

One of the best ways to honor the spirit of the day is to spend some time listening to his words. The Seattle Times has three excerpts from King’s most famous speeches. The first two are from the “I have a dream” speech; the last is from the speech King …