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Sony's laptop computer Vaio is on display at a retail shop in Tokyo Wednesdasy, Jan. 28, 2004. The electronic and entertainment giant Sony Corp.. which has been cutting jobs to focus on fresh businesses, reported profits dipped 26 percent for the quarter ended December compared to a year earlier as expenses for job cuts and other restructuring costs offset sales gains in cell phones, flat-panel television sets and DVD recorders. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)