* 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.

* atrac (. wav ) – the older style Sony ATRAC format.

* msv – a Sony proprietary format for Memory Stick compressed voice files.

Akio Morita ( 盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

In plotlines mirroring the negative reaction of non-commercial artists to the commercialization of the art form by companies like IBM ( and, later, Sony itself ) the Rakugaki Ōkoku series ( 2003 – 2005 ) for Sony's PlayStation 2 revolves around an anonymous hero and his magically imbued-with-life graffiti creations as they struggle against an evil king who only allows art to be produced which can benefit him.

* 1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.

* 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering ( later renamed Sony ) is founded with around 20 employees.

* 1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.

Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its four operating segments – Electronics ( including video games, network services and medical business ), Motion pictures, Music and Financial Services.

* 1995 – The debut of the Sony Playstation.

* May 7 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering ( later renamed Sony ) is founded with about 20 employees.

* 1984 – Sony Building, Manhattan, New York City

Lake used the same signature long-thin Sony ECM-51 telescoping microphone Rayburn used during the CBS version, and the set was rebuilt to be almost an exact match of that used from 1973 – 1978.

Although Sony Pictures Television announced that the show was renewed for the 2004 – 2005 TV season, Lake decided not to continue with the show, opting to spend more time with her family and having relocated to Los Angeles.

The show was produced by The Garth Ancier Company and was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television Distribution ( 1993 – 1996 ), then by Columbia TriStar Television Distribution ( 1996 – 2001 ), Columbia TriStar Domestic Television Distribution ( 2001 – 2002 ), and Sony Pictures Television Distribution ( 2002 – 2004 ).

* Doug Sweetland – animator for Pixar and Sony Pictures Animation

* Jerry Lambert – film and television actor, best known for his work on the ABC sitcom, Sons and Daughters, as well landmark commercials for companies including GEICO, Holiday Inn, and playing a fictional Sony Executive named Kevin Butler

* 1998 Yo-Yo Ma Premieres – Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse ( Sony Classical 66299 )

* 1995 The New York Album – Works of Albert, Bartók & Bloch ( Sony 57961 )

* dss – Digital Speech Standard files are an Olympus proprietary format.

* iklax – An iKlax Media proprietary format, the iKlax format is a multi-track digital audio format allowing various actions on musical data, for instance on mixing and volumes arrangements.

* IVS – A proprietary version with Digital Rights Management developed by 3D Solar UK Ltd for use in music downloaded from their Tronme Music Store and interactive music and video player.

* m4p – A version of AAC with proprietary Digital Rights Management developed by Apple for use in music downloaded from their iTunes Music Store.

* mxp4 – a Musinaut proprietary format allowing play of different versions ( or skins ) of the same song.

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances ( using short-wavelength radio transmissions in the ISM band from 2400 – 2480 MHz ) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks ( PANs ) with high levels of security.

* BlueSoleil – proprietary driver

* Movable Type ( until version 4. 0 ) – A proprietary weblog publishing system developed by California-based Six Apart

* – an article about the conflict over the proprietary or open-source nature of Dungeons & Dragons

In practice, this means rejecting " proprietary software ", which imposes such restrictions, and promoting free software, with the ultimate goal of liberating everyone " in cyberspace " – that is, every computer user.

In conjunction with an appropriate codec using MPEG or various manufacturers proprietary algorithms, an ISDN BRI can be used to send stereo bi-directional audio coded at 128 kbit / s with 20 Hz – 20 kHz audio bandwidth, although commonly the G. 722 algorithm is used with a single 64 kbit / s B channel to send much lower latency mono audio at the expense of audio quality.

* Navicat – a series of proprietary graphical database management applications, developed for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

The ZX Interface 1 add-on module included 8 kB of ROM, an RS-232 serial port, a proprietary LAN interface ( called ZX Net ), and an interface for the connection of up to eight ZX Microdrives – somewhat unreliable but speedy tape-loop cartridge storage devices released in July 1983.

For example, the 2009 – 2010 U2 360 ° Tour uses 24 Clair Brothers BT-218 subwoofers ( a double 18 " box ) around the perimeter of the central circular stage, and 72 proprietary Clair Brothers cardioid S4 subwoofers placed underneath the ring-shaped " B " stage which encircles the central main stage.

A variety of largely proprietary gauges were devised for the numerous camera and projection systems being developed independently in the late 19th century and early 20th century, ranging from 13 mm to 75 mm ( 0. 51 – 2. 95 in ), as well as a variety of film feeding systems.

Having taken holy orders, Badham was appointed headmaster of Louth grammar school, Lincolnshire ( 1851 – 1854 ), and subsequently headmaster of Edgbaston proprietary school, near Birmingham.

Unlike other systems of its age, AmigaDOS did not implement a proprietary character set ; the developers chose to use the ANSI – ISO standard ISO-8859-1 ( Latin 1 ), which includes the ASCII character set.

While the Mizar proof checker remains proprietary, the Mizar Mathematical Library – the sizable body of formalized mathematics that it verified – is licensed open-source.

* Barbados ( 1627 – 1652 ) ( as a proprietary colony under both William Courteen, followed by James Hay I.

In May 1980, VMI introduced the first nationwide voice-mail service from its headquarters in Santa Clara, CA using a Digital Equipment PDP 11 with proprietary voice technology called the " Big Talker ". Business Week-Information Processing – August, 1981-page90F.

* Captain Charles Calvert ( 1680 – 1734 ), Governor of Maryland in 1720, at a time when the Calvert family had recently regained control of their proprietary colony.

* Benedict Leonard Calvert ( 1700 – 1732 ), the proprietary governor of the Maryland colony from 1727 through 1731, appointed by his brother, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore.