Mixed messages? From Sony? Surely not. Apparently the company is to take "sacred cow-slaying" measures in order to restructure its various business divisions. At least this is what unnamed company sources have told The Times.

Named company sources, however, have told Bloomberg that it's already announced all the restructuring its going to.

Atsuo Omagari, a spokesman at Sony in Japan, told the agency, "We are not planning to announce further restructuring at this time."

Back to The Times' sources, however, and we are lead to believe that, "The expected restructuring - considered by many analysts to be occurring far too late - is likely to be announced early next month, with the lion's share of the changes imposed on Sony's domestic Japanese operations in the form of factory closures and the abolition of several major divisions."