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January 27, 2006
Sony discontinues Aibo, Qrio
Akihabara News spotted a Sony earnings report press release containing the following announcement under the heading Restoring Profitability in Specific Business Categories:
Entertainment Robot
New product development for AIBO has already ceased and production is targeted to stop byy the end of fiscal year 2005. However, after-sales support will continue. There will also beno newd development for QRIO. R&D in the AI area which was developed in the AIBO and QRIO businesses will continue and will be deployed in a broad range of consumer electronics products.
3Yen.Com (who's site furnished the image above), provides a link to a pdf of the report as well as to an analysis by Business Week Magazine How Turned Around Is Sony? (Kenji Hall, Business Week Online, January 25, 2006).
Posted by sjc at January 27, 2006 11:26 AM
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