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Sony CEO and President Sir Howard Stringer announced some surprise guests Monday night at the Sony press event, including Will Smith and the director of the latest movie in the Men in Black franchise.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer defended the quality of Sony's products at the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, and said his company would leverage its broad music and video holdings to bolster its electronics.

Sony is hoping you'll kick off the New Year by picking up a 16GB or 32GB Tablet S device priced as low as $400 -- $100 cheaper than the device's original pricing. The new price tag also brings Sony's Android 3.1 Honeycomb-based tablet $100 below the cost of competing iPad 2 models, which are priced at $500 (16GB) and $600 (32GB). Sony's latest price drop follows a $50 price cut during the holiday season, but this drop appears to be permanent.

Five major Blu-ray and memory manufactures are collaborating to create a new security protocol to protect hi-def content that will be available across multiple consumer platforms, including smartphones and tablets.

Sony posts two new videos showing off its PS Vita handheld gamer, set for release in 2012.

Up until now, 3D television technology hasn't been that interesting to me - the glasses, cost and lack of 3D content hasn't made it appealing. But then I saw this video from Sony showing off its PlayStation 3D Display.

Carelessness in concealing home IP addresses, servers and Twitter accounts puts the FBI on more hacker doorsteps than any mistake but the most obvious: don't tell people you did it.

I normally don't talk about commercials in this space, but I'll make an exception for this Sony PlayStation ad, which is brilliant. In the ad, a bunch of video game characters are in a bar, just hanging out talking about their experiences, and then honoring "Michael", the person who controls them all.

The Personal 3D viewer simulates a 750-inch screen at 20 meters.

The tablets will integrate with other Sony products so, for example, consumers can use them as a remote control for their TV.

In 2008, Microsoft's 'New Xbox Experience' reboot took a page (or was it a book?) from Sony's up-down, left-right Emmy-winning XrossMediaBar PlayStation 3 interface. According to Reg Hardware, it sounds like Sony's about to return the nod by revamping its PlayStation Network interface "along the lines of Xbox LIVE."

One of 19 lawsuits filed following the Sony hacks charged Sony shored up security only on the internal network used by employees.