This is a very positive move for Matsushita and it's long overdue. I'd rather have them do that than keep on using their factories, keep on making 2.5G phones and bleeding red ink.

They can be informative or even sound positive, but not overly laudatory.

Everything is going well except for JVC. There's no reason to keep JVC at this point.

He is the only heir-apparent. I don't see any negative impact to the share price.

I'm still not convinced that Sony can stir growth. They have to come up with something nobody can imitate but consumers will buy. But they haven't given any details how they plan to do that.

If I had to give a grade to Howard Stringer, I'd give him a C-plus. Sony still wants to be the master of the universe. They want to conquer entertainment; they want to conquer consumer electronics; they want to conquer games.