Philips owns the naming rights to the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia and to the Philips Championship, the premier basketball league in Australia, traditionally known as the National Basketball League.

The Thrashers take the puck into the offensive zone against the St. Louis Blues at Philips Arena on September 22, 2007.

They were members of the Southeast Division of the NHL's Eastern Conference, and played their home games at Philips Arena in downtown Atlanta.

" Thrashers " had actually been runner-up to " Flames " in the poll ( as a homage to the old Atlanta Flames ), and Philips Arena, the Thrashers ' new home, was built on the site of the former Omni, which had been home to the Flames.

Banner in Philips Arena honoring the Thrashers ' sole division championship in 2006 – 2007.

On January 27, 2008, the Thrashers hosted the NHL All-Star Game at Philips Arena, matching the Eastern Conference All-Stars vs. the Western Conference All-Stars.

The final NHL goal scored in Philips Arena was tallied by the Penguins ' Mike Comrie, an empty net goal and his first of the season.

The Hawks won all three games at Philips Arena, which hosted its first playoff games and earned its first sellout.

* Philips Arena 1999 – present

Widely renowned for their live performances, as of 2011, they hold the record for number of sold-out performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre ( Morrison, Colorado ) at 38 and Philips Arena ( Atlanta, Georgia ) at 17.

Panic ’ s 7th annual New Year ’ s shows on December 30 and 31, 2007, marked their 15th and 16th sellout performance at Philips Arena.

Two escalators failed at Five Points station, and one escalator failed at Dome / GWCC / Philips Arena / CNN Center station.

* Atlanta Spirit, LLC, aka Atlanta Spirit Group, the governing body of the Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Thrashers, and Philips Arena

The Omni in Atlanta ( now the site of Philips Arena ), McNichols Sports Arena in Denver ( now a parking lot for Sports Authority Field ), and the Coliseum at Richfield in Cleveland ( now an open meadow in the process of being reclaimed by forest ) were all constructed during this period and remained in service until the continued growth of the NBA sparked a new arena construction boom in the late 1990s.

The rechristened Force initially played in Atlanta's downtown Philips Arena, home of the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks and former home of the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers, prior to relocating to suburban Duluth and playing in the Arena at Gwinnett Center for the 2003 and 2004 seasons.

Upon selling the team to Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank in September 2004, it was announced that the franchise would return to the downtown Philips Arena for the 2005 season in response to fan desires as expressed in a poll.

In 2007 – 08, Pavel was voted by the NHL fans, along with teammates Nicklas Lidström and Henrik Zetterberg, to start for the Western Conference in the 2008 NHL All-Star Game at Philips Arena in Atlanta.

) The Georgia Dome, Georgia World Congress Center and Philips Arena are located off Northside Drive.

For basketball, video advertising panels ( installed by the NCAA for the 2006 Women's Final Four ) replaced the traditional scrolling panels, and added a see-through shot clock, joining the FedExForum, Wells Fargo Center ( Philadelphia ), Philips Arena, US Airways Center, United Center, Quicken Loans Arena, and the Time Warner Cable Arena.

On New Year's Day, the Ebenezer Baptist Church held an extended service including a roll call of the members, a song service led by Mary Philips, a student at the Philadelphia Bible Institute, and a temperance address for the children.

The use of OLEDs may be subject to patents held by Eastman Kodak, DuPont, General Electric, Royal Philips Electronics, numerous universities and others.

In 1920, he took a job as a research physicist at the Philips Incandescent Lamp Factory in Eindhoven, which he held until 1925.

A reception was held after the ceremony at the fashionable London St John restaurant in Smithfield, attended by, among others, the politician Peter Mandelson and Trevor Philips, chairman of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, both former colleagues at LWT.

Melchior Hoffman, Menno Simons, Dirk Philips and others held and taught an idea which has been dubbed " celestial flesh ".

The ninth Backlash event was held on April 29, 2007 at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.

Passion previously held conferences simultaneously in Philips Arena and the Georgia World Congress Center in 2010 and 2011.

The 2012 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament was also held at Philips Arena.

As part of the celebrations for the 75th NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the finals of the men's Division II and Division III tournaments will be held at Philips Arena on April 7, 2013, the day between the Division I semifinals and final to be held at the nearby Georgia Dome.

The beam tetrode design was also undertaken to avoid the patents which the giant Philips firm held on power pentodes in Europe.

The beam tetrode design was also undertaken to avoid the patents which the giant Philips firm held on power pentodes in Europe.

Since Philips held a patent on this design, other manufacturers were keen to produce pentode type tubes without infringing the patent.

The former view is held by other contemporary Islamic scholars such as Bilal Philips, and Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the latter reduces the punishment to imprisonment till repentance in the case of an apostate who did not proclaim apostasy, whereas the judgement which is still widely adopted advocates death for every ex-Muslim, for instance, Muhammad Al-Munajid the owner, writer and administrator for the popular islam-qa. com site advocates that judgement stating that leaving them alive " may encourage others to forsake the truth ".

The Philips Arena in Atlanta was the scheduled site for the tournament, but backed out in the summer of 2004 because of logistics following plans for the 54th NHL All-Star Game which was to be held just six weeks before the 2005 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament.

The Stanley Cup playoffs ended on June 4, with the Detroit Red Wings taking the championship. The 56th NHL All-Star Game was held in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Thrashers hosted the event at Philips Arena on January 27, 2008.

The current record is 14 min 05 sec held by John Philips of the Cambridge Hash House Harriers.

He wrote :" Already virtually doomed is material held on early domestic tape formats manufactured by Sony, Shibaden and Philips.

By 1992 the cost of typical recorders was down to $ 10 – 12, 000, and in September 1995 Hewlett-Packard introduced its model 4020i manufactured by Philips, which at $ 995 was the first recorder to cost less than $ 1000.

One of its former students is Gerard Kleisterlee, a former CEO of Philips.

The Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek ( NSF ) company established a professional transmitter and radio factory in Hilversum in the early 1920s, growing into the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, and in 1948 being taken over by Philips.

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.

In 1978, Magnavox, now a subsidiary of North American Philips, released the Odyssey², its new second-generation video game console.

Since just a few units were sold, the Brazilian branch of Philips released in 1983 Odyssey² without its number.

Philips was instrumental in the revival of the Stirling engine when, in the early 1930s, the management decided that offering a low-power portable generator would assist in expanding sales of its radios into parts of the world where mains electricity was unavailable and the supply of batteries uncertain.

Philips UK has its headquarters in Guildford, Surrey.

Philips Lighting has its corporate office in Somerset, New Jersey

Philips Consumer Lifestyle has its corporate office in Stamford, Connecticut.

On 21 February 2008 Philips had completed its acquisition of VISICU Baltimore, Maryland through the merger of its indirect wholly owned subsidiary into VISICU.

In November 2008 Philips renewed and extended its F1 partnership with AT & T Williams.

Also Philips marks its " green " products with the Philips Green Logo, identifying them as products that have a significantly better environmental performance than their competitors or predecessors.

In 2011, Philips won a $ 10 million cash prize from the US Department of Energy for winning its L-Prize competition, to produce a high-efficiency, long operating life replacement for a standard 60-W incandescent lightbulb.

Philips have made some considerable progress since 2007 ( when it was first ranked in this guide ), in particular by supporting the Individual Producer Responsibility principle, which means that the company is accepting the responsibility for the toxic impacts of its products on e-waste dumps around the world.

A few years later, Philips decided to give CDs the ability to produce video just like its 12-inch counterpart.

Current vendors of MCS-51 compatible processors include more than 20 independent manufacturers including Atmel, Infineon Technologies ( formerly Siemens AG ), Maxim Integrated Products ( via its Dallas Semiconductor subsidiary ), NXP ( formerly Philips Semiconductor ), Microchip Technology, Nuvoton ( formerly Winbond ), ST Microelectronics, Silicon Laboratories ( formerly Cygnal ), Texas Instruments, Ramtron International, Silicon Storage Technology, Cypress Semiconductor and Analog Devices.

PSV's home stadium, the Philips Stadion, then known as Philips Sportpark, was built at the same time as the inauguration of the club, although its current capacity was achieved by renovations and improvements over the years.

The RC-5 protocol that has its origins within Philips, uses, for instance, a total of 14 bits for each button press.

The SOAS Library, housed in Philips Building ( designed at the beginning of the 1970s by Sir Denys Lasdun, and named after the then SOAS Director, Professor Cyril Philips ), is the UK's national resource for materials relating to Asia and Africa and is the largest of its kind in Europe.