Sony to take over Sony-Ericsson

Sony will finally make its own cellphones, absorbing the joint-venture it established with Ericsson in 2001. The time it took for this decision to move from evident necessity to execution — about 3 years — is effectively a benchmark. If you struck Sony on the head with an axe, or punched it in the balls, it would stand still for 3 years and then say, "Ow."