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To: P. Ramamoorthy who wrote (19711)	5/15/2000 12:50:00 AM
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Sunday May 14, 8:39 pm Eastern Time Sony mobile Internet device to be new Walkman-AWSJ TOKYO, May 15 (Reuters) - Sony hopes its mobile Internet device to be launched this year could be a product as strategic as its Walkman, the firm's newly appointed president Kunitake Ando was quoted by Monday's Asian Wall Street Journal as saying. The world's second-largest consumer electronics maker was shifting from commodity cellular phones to making higher-end wireless devices for tapping the web, Ando said in an interview. ``We believe that the mobile terminal will be a very ... strategic product for Sony,'' Ando was quoted as saying. ``Just like we created a Walkman culture, we'll have a sort of mobile culture.'' Sony wanted to work with telecommunications carriers worldwide to develop wireless Internet services such as online music and movies to be shipped to advanced cellular phones, Ando said. In September, Sony will start selling a mobile device based on software it licensed last year from Palm Computing Inc (NasdaqNM:PALM - news), the California-based maker of handheld computers, he said. The Internet-capable unit will be able to send and receive electronic mail as well as digital images and will initially use software applications from Palm, he said. Ando said after his appointment this month he aimed to strengthen Sony's electronics business by focusing mainly on four core products -- Sony's PlayStation home video game console, digital television set-top boxes, the Vaio personal computer, and mobile personal digital assistants (PDAs).