Besides Philips, several other manufacturers produced CD-i players, including Magnavox, GoldStar / LG Electronics, Digital Video Systems, Memorex, Grundig, Sony (' Intelligent Discman ', a portable CD-i player ), Kyocera, NBS, Highscreen, and Bang & Olufsen, who produced a television with a built-in CD-i device ( Beocenter AV5 ).

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.

Sony's principal business operations include Sony Corporation ( Sony Electronics in the U. S .), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Mobile Communications ( formerly Sony Ericsson ), and Sony Financial.

Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders and third-largest television manufacturer in the world, after Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.

Other big industrial companies include US Steel ( metallurgy ), Slovnaft ( oil industry ), Samsung Electronics ( electronics ), Sony ( electronics ), Mondi Business Paper ( paper ), Hydro Aluminium ( aluminum production ), and Whirlpool Corporation.

In 2012, the GPHI filed lawsuit against Apple, Sony, HTC Corp, LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., Research in Motion Ltd. for allegedly violating patent relating to a computer graphics process that turns text and images into pixels to be displayed on screens.

Electronics businesses include JVC, Sony ( Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita ), and Texas Instruments ( Cecil H. Green, J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott, and Patrick E. Haggerty ).

It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics, and intended to be the successor to their Compact Disc format.

During the run of Hogan's Heroes, co-star Richard Dawson introduced Crane ( a photography enthusiast ) to John Henry Carpenter, who worked with the video department at Sony Electronics and had access to early video tape recorders.

In addition to Sony and Sanyo, Beta-format video recorders were also sold by Toshiba, Pioneer, Murphy, Aiwa, and NEC ; the Zenith Electronics Corporation and WEGA Corporations contracted with Sony to produce VCRs for their product lines.

At the 2007 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ), Sony showcased 11-inch ( 28 cm, resolution 960 × 540 ) and 27-inch ( 68. 5 cm, full HD resolution at 1920 × 1080 ) OLED TV models.

Sony exhibited a 24. 5 " prototype OLED 3D television during the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010.

In 2005, Samsung Electronics surpassed Japanese rival, Sony, for the first time to become the world's twentieth-largest and most popular consumer brand, as measured by Interbrand.

* Semiconductor companies Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Broadcom, Sony, Freescale Semiconductor, Samsung Electronics

On October 5, 2007, Thomas was ordered to pay the six record companies ( Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc .) $ 9, 250 for each of the 24 songs they had focused on in this case.

Companies that are current or former ARM licensees include Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent, Apple Inc., AppliedMicro, Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, CSR_plc, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ember, Energy Micro, Freescale, Intel ( through DEC ), LG, Marvell Technology Group, Microsemi, Microsoft, NEC, Nintendo, Nuvoton, Nvidia, Sony, NXP ( formerly Philips Semiconductor ), Oki, ON Semiconductor, Psion, Qualcomm, Renesas, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sharp, Silicon Labs, ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Symbios Logic, Texas Instruments, VLSI Technology, Yamaha, Fuzhou Rockchip, and ZiiLABS.

Keynote speakers included Sega of America, Inc. president and CEO Thomas Kalinske ; Sony Electronic Publishing Company president Olaf Olafsson ; and Nintendo chairman Howard Lincoln.

Palm OS runs on 38 million devices that have been sold since 1996 from hardware manufacturers including Palm, Inc., Samsung, IBM, Aceeca, AlphaSmart, Fossil, Inc., Garmin, Group Sense PDA ( Xplore ), Kyocera, PiTech, Sony, and Symbol.

Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corporation was a 1999 lawsuit which established an important precedent in regard to reverse engineering.

* Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corporation, 203 F. 3d 596 ( 9th Cir.

To this day, Wheel of Fortune legally does business as Califon Productions, Inc., although the show is owned by Sony Pictures.

Now there are many dye-sublimation printers on the market starting from as low as $ 100 marketed by corporations such as Canon, Sony, Sagem, HiTi Digital Inc., DNP Fotolusio, Mitsubishi Electric and Kodak ( among others ), especially postcard-sized mobile photo printers.

Some units from manufacturers such as HiTi Digital Inc. and Sony incorporate kiosk features such as display screens and card slots directly into the unit.

Around this time, Viacom, Gannett, Disney, Republic Pictures, General Electric, CBS, Time Inc., Hearst, News Corporation, TCI, Globo of Brazil, Aaron Spelling's Spelling Entertainment and Sony all tried to purchase MGM / UA.

* Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

These changes led to speculation that the Apple Records catalogue — and most importantly The Beatles discography — would soon appear on Apple Inc .' s iTunes online music store, and that a remastering and reissue program of The Beatles ' CDs might be forthcoming ( Jones having worked on reissues at Sony ).

Bertelsmann sold its 50 % share of Sony BMG to Sony Corporation of America for a total of $ 1. 5 billion, and the company was renamed back to Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Bungeishunjū, Calbee, Creatures Inc., Datam Polystar, HAL Laboratory, Hakusensha, Jaleco, The Japan FM Network Company, Japan Freight Railway Company, Japan Post Holdings, KDDI, Konica Minolta, Mitsubishi Estate, MCDecaux, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group, New Otani, NTT docomo, Stack Ltd. ( 0verflow ), Seibu Kaihatsu, Seven & i Holdings, Shinsei Bank, Shogakukan, Shueisha, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Toho, Tokio Marine Nichido, Tokyo FM, Yamazaki Baking Company ( incl.

* D1 ( Sony ) and Broadcast Television Systems Inc.

* Domain Wall Displacement Detection ( DWDD ), a new magneto-optical reproducing technology developed by Canon Inc. and Sony.

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Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

Published from Bangladesh, by renowned news presenter Mahbuba Chowdhury, the newspaper is ranked in the Top 10 Bengali news sites in the world, and is the only newspaper in Bangladesh which houses credentials with FIFA, UEFA, The Football Association, Warner Bros., and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Originally marketed as the " Soundabout " in the U. S., the " Stowaway " in the U. K., and the " Freestyle " in Sweden, Sony soon had the new name " Walkman " embossed into the metal tape cover of the device.

This codec is used in Sony Hi-MD Walkman devices ( e. g., " Hi-LP and Hi-SP "), Network Walkman players, Memory Stick players, VAIO Pocket, PS3 and PSP console, and ATRAC CD players.

The letter was signed by 34 prominent figures in the U. S. entertainment industry, including the top executives of MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as actors Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn, director Oliver Stone, writers Mario Puzo and Gore Vidal and talk-show host Larry King.

As of January 6, 2009, all 4 big music studios ( Warner Bros., Sony BMG, Universal, and EMI ) have signed up to remove the DRM from their tracks, at no extra cost.

Despite the announcement that Enix's long-time competitor Square Co., Ltd. would develop exclusively for Sony PlayStation, Enix announced in January 1997 that it would release games for both Nintendo and Sony consoles.

It also continued to attract attention from advertisers and filmmakers with " Hands Around My Throat " being used in a Sony Ericsson advert and appearing on the soundtrack to The Animatrix, while the track " Girls " was used on the soundtracks to Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and Angela Robinson's D. E. B. S., as well as in an episode of the TV show Veronica Mars and a commercial for BBC's most recent production of Sense and Sensibility.

It is also home to various companies, including Honda, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, NEC, Sony, Fujitsu and Toshiba.

It was later revealed that Radiohead Media Solutions, Inc., MTV Philippines, Smart Communications, and Sony BMG Philippines have taken over the event.

This is thanks to the efforts of Sony Music ( with the Epic catalog, though Collector's Choice Music was the first to reissue Feedback on CD in the U. S., following a brief release on disc in France in the late 1990s ) and Beat Goes On alongside Edsel, both UK labels ( with the Mercury catalog, some of which had made it to CD prior to Beat Goes On and Edsel reissuing all of their Mercury albums ).

* In 2008, The Chicken was featured in a Sony commercial that also featured Dale Earnhardt, Jr., James Brown and Peyton Manning.

Insisting that the Son Volt trademark belonged to him, Farrar formed a new version of the band with a different line-up and released an album on Transmit Sound / Sony Legacy, Okemah and the Melody of Riot., in 2005.