In 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio ( the first to be fully transistorized ), and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony ( sonus is Latin for sound, and Sonny-boys the most common American expression ).

A CD-R ( Compact Disc-Recordable ) is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony.

The first system implementing machine improvisation by means of Markov models and style modeling techniques is the Continuator, developed by François Pachet at Sony CSL Paris in 2002.

One original researcher in the field is Luc Steels, head of the research units of Sony CSL in Paris and the AI Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

At far left and far right, outside the perforations, is the Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS soundtrack as an image of a digital signal.

A similar series, SingStar, published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, is particularly popular in the European and Australasian markets.

In terms of its long lasting impact on the video game industry, perhaps the most intriguing aspect is Wyn Holloway's claim that Lucasfilm had their frequent partner Sony lined up to manufacture their version of the system, this being contemporaneous with Sony's development of the SNES-CD for Nintendo, which ultimately led to the first PlayStation.

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

The only clear-set rule is that ESRB AO-rated games will not be licensed on Nintendo consoles in North America, a practice which is also enforced by Sony and Microsoft, its two greatest competitors in the present market.

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

This new Sony Centre, designed by Helmut Jahn, is an eye-catching monolith of glass and steel featuring an enormous tent-like conical roof, its shape reportedly inspired by Mount Fuji in Japan, covering an elliptical central public space up to 102 metres across, and thus differing substantially from Hilmer & Sattler's original plan for the site.

In the left foreground is Leipziger Platz, while in the right foreground are parts of the Sony and Beisheim Centers.

Whilst the amounts involved have not been publicly disclosed, it is believed that neither Daimler nor Sony recouped all of their original investments ( what Daimler managed to get was reportedly well short ).

The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series.

The RCA trademark is used by Sony Music Entertainment and Technicolor, which licenses the name to other companies like Audiovox and TCL Corporation for products descended from that common ancestor.

A later variation of this logo was revived by BMG after it bought RCA Records from GE, and is still used by Sony Music Entertainment | Sony Music today.

* One Source-Formerly CLIÉ Source, One Source is a CLIÉ enthusiast site which changed its name when Sony ended the CLIÉ line.

It is still the more popular site that still talks about the Sony CLIÉ line of products through its forums.

(, ), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics products for the consumer and professional markets.

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.

Through Sony's effort to " certain meanings and practices which have become emblematic of -- which seem to stand for or to represent -- a distinctive ' way of life ': the culture of late-modern, post-industrial societies ", the Walkman remains, largely due to effective advertisement, a symbol of the freedom and portability that Sony sought to convey among the younger demographic.

Monterrey is also home to international companies such as Sony, Toshiba, Carrier, Whirlpool, Samsung, Toyota, Daewoo, Ericsson, Nokia, Dell, Boeing, HTC, General Electric, Gamesa, LG, SAS Institute, Grundfos, and Teleperformance, among others. The city is considered a Beta World City.

This move sparked controversy among music distributors and also led the UK arm of Prince's distributor, Sony BMG, to withdraw from distributing the album in UK stores.

In 2000, IBM, Toshiba and Sony collaborated to create the Cell processor, consisting of one scalar processor and eight vector processors, which found use in the Sony PlayStation 3 among other applications.

Sony continued its hold on the professional market with its ever-expanding 1 / 2 " ( 1. 27 cm ) component video Betacam family ( introduced in 1982 ), which, in its digital variants, is still among the professional market leaders.

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.

Tascam, Marantz, Yamaha, Teac, Denon, Sony, and JVC are among the companies still manufacturing cassette decks in relatively small quantities for professional and niche market use.

On September 28, 2006, Burke was among the several rock, soul, and country legends who sang along with Jerry Lee Lewis at the live concert " Last Man Standing " at the Sony Music Studio in New York.

Although Sony Pictures Television had many stations contracted through the 2004 – 2005 season, Lake decided to end the show in August 2004, citing ( among other things ) a desire to spend time with her family.

The direction proposed was to capitalize on the growing trend among personal-computer-literate teenagers and young adults to use their PCs for all forms of entertainment ( television, films, music, chat ), an area in which Sony itself was struggling primarily due to the heavy copyright protections it imposed upon its products.

In 2006, Rawkus signed with RED, a Sony Music distribution company and reemerged with a new line up of notable independent Hip Hop artists including The Procussions, Panacea, Mr. J. Medeiros and Kidz in the Hall, among others.

Sonus is a Latin word, derived from the Greek “ tonos ” that means “ noise, sound ” or “ tone, character, style .” It is also the root word for sonic and sound and was included in the names of well known companies including Sonus Networks, Sony and Panasonic, among others.

In the 1990s, he also produced several albums for Sony Classical, with conductor John Williams and The Boston Pops, including The Star Wars Trilogy ( Skywalker Orchestra ); The Spielberg-Williams Collaboration ; I Love a Parade ; Kismet, starring Samuel Ramey, Jerry Hadley, Dom DeLuise, Ruth Ann Swenson and Julia Migenes ; and The Green Album, among others.

The Walt Disney Company, HIT Entertainment, Haim Saban, Classic Media, Sesame Workshop, and Sony were among the companies who showed interested in owning the company.

The group's music appeared in several television commercials over the course of the year ; among the companies to license its music were Sony, Nissan, and Victoria's Secret, which used " The Desperate Man " in a lingerie commercial featuring Heidi Klum.

There were three families of DASH recorders produced by Sony and Studer, with few differences among them:

Instead, they generally sustain themselves by hosting profitable fashion shows and corporate events ; among others, Sony had a product launch gala at 798 space, and watchmaker Omega presented a fashion show at Yan Club.

For example, Sony HDV camcorders were used for production of highly acclaimed Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations program, among other cameras.

As of 2011, Starz, Encore and their respective multiplex movie channels have exclusive first-run premium cable rights to films from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ( including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( including Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures ), Overture Films ( also owned by Starz ' parents, Liberty Media and The Weinstein Company ), Anchor Bay Entertainment, Yari Film Group, and Warren Miller Films, among other leading distributors.

The service carries films distributed by Alliance Films, Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros., among others, and has supply agreements for original programming produced and owned by the American pay networks HBO and Showtime.

Stacey Kent, the American expatriate singer based in London, was among those who have recorded for the revitalised label — which led to furthering her recording career with Blue Note / EMI ; as are Clare Teal, who has since moved to Sony with the biggest ever recording-deal by a British jazz singer ; and singer-pianist Jamie Cullum – whose debut album ( funded by a student loan ) was taken on by the label – and eventually saw him land a million pound record deal with Verve Records.

U-matic is also available in a smaller cassette size, officially known as U-Matic S. Much like VHS-C, U-Matic S was developed as a more portable version of U-Matic, to be used in smaller-sized S-format recorders such as the aforementioned Sony VO-3800, as well as the later VO-4800, VO-6800, VO-8800, BVU-50, BVU-100 and BVU-150 models from Sony, among others from Sony, Panasonic, JVC and other manufacturers.