That's a great link, but this article is about Sony's Network Engineering Workstation, or NEWS.

Funny. I should have been more thorough. I skimmed the article, and thought it was Sony's effort to provide journalists with a portable version of their mainframe-connected boxed back in the office.

I must have made that mental link because of the name, and because of Sony's long history of producing news gathering and production gear. (The predecessor of the Walkman was the Pressman. My first introduction to XML was a Sony media server.)

This is fantastic, thanks for sharing it!