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	Sony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sony Corporation is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under number 6758 and on the NYSE as SNE through ADRs.
		Sony was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees.
		The name "Sony" was chosen for the brand as a mix of the Latin word sonus, which is the root of sonic and sound, the English word "sunny", and from the word Sonny-boys which is Japanese slang for "whizz kids".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sony (1601 words)

	Sony Corporation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is currently the world's largest producer of (Click link for more info and facts about consumer electronics) consumer electronics and is one of the biggest corporations in (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan and around the world.
		Sony Corporation is traded on the (Click link for more info and facts about Tokyo Stock Exchange) Tokyo Stock Exchange under number 6758 and on the (A stock exchange in New York) NYSE as (Click link for more info and facts about SNE) SNE through (Click link for more info and facts about ADR) ADR.
		See also (Click link for more info and facts about Sony Corporation shareholders and subsidiaries) Sony Corporation shareholders and subsidiaries.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sony_corporation.htm (738 words)

	Sony Corporation
		CEO Norio Ohga has stated that the future for Sony, whose electronic sales have floundered in recent years, lies in what is happening in the US, the home of both the major movie studios and the largest consumer electronics market in the world.
		Sony's 1968 introduction of the Trinitron color TV tube began another decade of explosive growth.
		Sony acquired CBS Records from CBS for $2 billion in 1988 and Columbia Pictures from Coca-Cola in 1989 for $4.9 billion.
	www.minidisc.org /sony_overview.html (838 words)

	Read about Sony Corporation at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Sony Corporation and learn about Sony Corporation ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sony" as their own (which paid off when they sued a candy producer who also used the name who claimed that "
		Sony" was just an existing word in some language).
		On March 7th, 2005, Sony Corp. announced that Nobuyuki Idei will step down as Chairman and Group CEO and will be replaced by Briton Sir Howard Stringer, current Chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation of America, Corporate Executive Officer, Vice Chairman and COO Sony Entertainment Business Group.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Sony (899 words)

	Sony DADC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sony DADC is a recognized leader in providing full-service solutions for optical media.
		Sony DADC is a full-service technology and solution provider for optical media, offering services from the traditional replication business to advanced solutions.
		The Sony DADC Global Network consists of 13 facilities, providing unmatched capabilities and flexibility in providing leading solutions and technology for optical media.
	www.sonydadc.com (94 words)

	Sony Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sony's later innovations in consumer electronics included the Trinitron color television picture tube (1968), the Betamax videocassette recorder (1975), the Walkman personal stereo (1979), the compact disk player (1982), the 8mm video camera (1985), and the Video Walkman (1988).
		Sony's success in marketing its products worldwide rested on distinctive styling and "global localization," a practice that retained product development in Japan, while disbursing manufacturing among plants in Europe, the United States, and Asia.
		Sony would not make the same mistake again and found a way to protect itself as it contemplated introducing the 8-millimeter video and high definition television systems it had in development.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/sonycoporat/sonycorporat.htm (667 words)

	CNN.com - Sony to slash 20,000 jobs - Oct. 28, 2003
		Sony Corp, the world's largest consumer electronics company, says it will trim 20,000 jobs from its global workforce over the next three years as part of a turnaround strategy designed to lift flagging profits.
		Sony's result was hurt by softer returns from its videogame business, where software sales for its PlayStation console were down.
		Sony said extra research costs in its videogame division and losses from movie box office failures offset strong sales of digital cameras and mobile phones.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/BUSINESS/10/28/japan.sony (416 words)

	Sony Corporation Announces New Management Structure
		This is a pivotal year for Sony Corporation, and this new structure will enable the company to streamline its operation, and provide a more cohesive focus for operating its businesses around the world in a proactive and strategic manner.
		I urge all Sony employees to give their full support to the new management team as we move forward to a new era for Sony.
		Ando for the confidence they have shown in me, and the Sony Board of Directors for their support, and to the many talented executives throughout this organization who have shown their desire to lead and to innovate.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-06-2005/0003151510&EDATE= (1162 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		Sony introduced considerable evidence describing television programs that could be copied without objection from any copyright holder, with special emphasis on sports, religious, and educational programming.
		Sony supplies a piece of equipment that is generally capable of copying the entire range of programs that may be televised: those that are uncopyrighted, those that are copyrighted but may be copied without objection from the copyright holder, and those that the copyright holder would prefer not to have copied.
		Sony certainly does not "intentionally induc[e]" its customers to make infringing uses of respondents' copyrights, nor does it supply its products to identified individuals known by it to be engaging in continuing infringement of respondents' copyrights, see id., at 855.
	caselaw.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=464&invol=417 (16522 words)

	Sony USA - Sony Corporation of America
		Sony Corporation of America, based in New York City, is the U.S. subsidiary of Sony Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo.
		Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
		Sony's consolidated sales in the U.S. for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 were $18.4 billion.
	www.sony.com /SCA/index.shtml (230 words)

	E Ink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sony's e-Book reader LIBRIé, the first device to utilize Philips' display solution for enhanced reading, is similar in size and design to a paperback book.
		Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
		E Ink is a private corporation that includes among its investors and strategic partners TOPPAN Printing Company, Royal Philips Electronics, The Hearst Corporation, CNI Ventures, a division of Gannett Co., Inc, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Vossloh Information Technologies, and Motorola, Inc. E Ink news can be found at: www.eink.com.
	www.eink.com /news/releases/pr70.html (912 words)

	Kunitake Ando, President & Chief Operating Officer, Sony Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Most notably, he was President and Chief Operating Officer, Personal IT Network Company, Sony Corporation, from April 1999 to April 2000, where he engineered Sony's successful re-entry into the personal computer market with the VAIO series of personal computers.
		Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
		Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of over $62.3 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003, and employs 161,100 people worldwide.
	news.sel.sony.com /corporateinfo/executive_bios/kunitake_ando.htm (320 words)

	Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (1984) [81-1687] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sony Corporation of America manufactured and sold the "Betamax" home video tape recorder (VTR).
		Universal sued Sony for copyright infringement, alleging that because consumers used Sony's Betamax to record Universal's copyrighted works, Sony was liable for the copyright infringement allegedly committed by those consumers in violation of the Copyright Act.
		Moreover, the court concluded that Sony could not be held liable as contributory infringers even if the home use of a VTR was considered an infringing use.
	www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/case/768 (178 words)

	Howard Stringer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Sony Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He is also a Representative Corporate Executive Officer of Sony Corporation.
		Stringer had a distinguished 30-year career as a journalist, producer and executive at CBS Inc. As President of CBS from 1988 to 1995, he was responsible for all the broadcast activities of the company including entertainment, news, sports, radio and television stations.
		Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $67 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, and employs 151,400 people worldwide.
	news.sel.sony.com /corporateinfo/executive_bios/howard-stringer.htm (748 words)

	Universal Display: Universal Display Corporation and Sony Corporation Announce Joint Development Agreement Aimed at ...
		Sony has developed a 13-inch active matrix OLED display using its novel TAC technology.
		Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
		Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of more than $63 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000.
	www.universaldisplay.com /press/press-2001-04-17.htm (334 words)

	SONY BMG Music Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment will be 50% owned by Bertelsmann and 50% owned by Sony Corporation of America.
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment will be governed by a Board of Directors consisting of six representatives of Bertelsmann and Sony.
		Sony BMG Music Entertainment will combine the best creative, operational and strategic assets of two very accomplished music businesses, and provide a vital new platform to further the development of talent and enjoyment of music around the world.
	www.sonybmg.com (870 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Sony : The Private Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By mixing interviews with Sony executives with his own insights, Nathan provides readers with a thorough and entertaining history of the company that rose out of the ashes of WWII to embody Japan's postwar resurrection.
		Sony is evidently a big success story, but it is also a tale of egos, ambitions, stress, clashes, strokes, heart attacks and fear of death (Akio Morita: I'll never die).
		The vision and drive of the two founders of Sony is described with an electrifying intensity that reveals their surprising ability to see -- in a period of wartime defeat and national humiliation -- a glowing future of opportunity and innovation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395893275?v=glance (1969 words)

	Sony Corporation -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Japanese businessman Akio Morita was best known as the cofounder, chief executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of the board (from 1976 through 1994) of Sony Corporation, the world-renowned manufacturer of consumer electronics products.
		Through his position at Sony, Morita became one of the 20th century's most influential industrialists.
		Invented by Philips Electronics N.V. and Sony Corporation in 1980, the compact disc (CD) is a molded plastic disc containing digital data that is “read” by a laser beam.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313613 (769 words)

	Sony Corporation Files Suit Against KLH Audio Systems
		"Sony is known as a brand that provides a superior experience for the user, both for its state-of-the art technology and for its distinctive design elements," said Yoshinori Yamamoto, President of Home Audio Company, Sony Corporation.
		About Sony Corporation: Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
		With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and on-line businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading personal broadband entertainment company in the world.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-09-2003/0001962063&EDATE= (284 words)

	News Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sony Corporation is widely acknowledged as a leader in advanced technology, product development, productivity and retail sales.
		It is a great pleasure for me to be able to announce the inclusion of Sony Corporation and Fuji Television as equal partners in the JSkyB partnership alongside News Corporation and Softbank Corporation.
		Sony's ownership of a major Hollywood studio, Columbia Tristar, and their unique position at the top of the Japanese domestic music market make for a perfect match with News Corporation's own software investments.
	www.newscorp.com /news/news_015.html (1093 words)

	Sony, Ken Jennings, and me (kottke.org)
		Things may be a little quieter around here in the short term as I deal with some stuff going on in the real world.
		One of the reasons for the silence is that my legal difficulties with Sony about the whole Ken Jennings thing have yet to be resolved.
		I can't say too much about it (soon perhaps), but it sure has had a chilling effect on my enthusiasm for continuing to maintain kottke.org.
	www.kottke.org /04/12/sony-ken-jennings-and-me (589 words)

	Welcome to Sony Chemicals
		Sony Chemicals Corporation of America is the world leader in thermal transfer ribbon technology.
		Sony ribbons use the same coating technology as Sony high-performance recording tapes.
		Sony Distributor Partnership - You become part of a powerful, professional marketing team when you become an Authorized Sony Distributor.
	www.sonychemicals.com /ttr_index.asp (150 words)

	Hunt for Sony Corporation
		How do you understand this quotation “He made Sony a trusted name everywhere, because a company without borders is one without limit”?
		Try to make a list of Sony’s innovations both in technology and marketing.
		Latest moves: the stunning new PlayStation II and a continuing corporate restructuring.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/huntsonycorsv.html (264 words)

	Sony Corporation
		During the Nineties, Sony transformed itself from electronics manufacturer to global entertainment company, establishing a leading position in music, movies and computer gaming.
		Sony invented the concept of portable personal music players and dominated that sector for almost 20 years, before it was snatched away, virtually overnight, by Apple's iPod.
		At the same time Samsung and LG are threatening to steal Sony's lead in televisions and home entertainment appliances, Kodak and Canon are closing in on Sony's digital cameras, and Microsoft's Xbox has slashed the profitability of Playstation.
	www.mind-advertising.com /jp/sony_jp.htm (196 words)

	SONY CORPORATION JAPAN - TELEVISIONS, HI FI, CAMERAS, MOBILE PHONES, COMPUTERS, PLAYSTATION, FILMS AND MUSIC - ...
		Sony Corporation is a tremendous Japanese success story producing consumer electronics and associated services.
		Sony has been developing recycling technology primarily for large televisions since fiscal 1991.
		Since January 1999, Sony has been recycling the waste polystyrene foam generated by the Group companies with a recycling system using limonene, a substance derived from orange peel.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sponsorship/sony.htm (1170 words)

	PlayStation.com - News - Press Releases - IBM, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Toshiba Disclose Key Details ...
		A team of IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba engineers has collaborated on development of the Cell microprocessor at a joint design center established in Austin, Texas, since March 2001.
		Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $72 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004.
		Toshiba Corporation is a leader in the development and manufacture of electronic devices and components, information and communication systems, digital consumer products and power systems.
	www.us.playstation.com /pressreleases.aspx?id=252 (1006 words)

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