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Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. was founded on April 16, 2013, as a cooperation between Sony (owns 51%) and Olympus (owns 49%) with a goal to develop, design and sell surgical endoscopes with 4K+ resolution and 3D technologies. [1]
The same update also added extra font choices, and the ability to use custom themes that change the icons, wallpaper, color, font, and, in some cases, the sound effects. With the release of firmware 3.00, a 'sparkle' effect has been added to the XMB background (there is a "Classic" theme that doesn't have the 'sparkle' effect), and the black ...
Sony Financial Group is a holding company for Sony's financial services business which includes Sony Life (in Japan and the Philippines), Sony Assurance, Sony Bank, etc. The unit proved to be the most profitable of Sony's businesses in FY 2005, earning $1.7 billion in profit. [ 41 ]
As Sony was losing market relevance amid the widespread success of Apple's iPod range, the company developed for the first time a hard disk-based player. The NW-HD1 was announced on June 30, 2004 dubbed as “the world's smallest portable audio device”. [33] It was smaller and was advertised as having better sound quality than the iPod at the ...
Sony's chairman of board of directors since 2005 to 2009, Ryōji Chūbachi said, in 2007, that the company was well aware of the existence of this urban legend [1] [2]. The Sony timer (ソニータイマー, Sonī taimā), or Sony kill switch, is an urban legend that electronic devices produced by Sony are equipped with a timer which, upon reaching a deliberately preset deadline, causes the ...
The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the 2011 PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.
In LP4 mode, speeds of up to 32× real-time are possible and three Sony NetMD recorders (MZ-N10, MZ-N910, and MZ-N920) are capable of speeds up to 64× real-time. NetMD recorders all support MDLP. When transferring music in SP mode using NetMD with SonicStage, what is transferred is actually padded LP2.
In 1961, Sony launched the world's first compact transistor VTR, the PV-100. In 1968, Sony launched the legendary color television set, Trinitron. The Trinitron was the reason that Sony had been the world's largest TV manufacturer in terms of annual revenue until 2006. [5] [6] In 1969, Sony launched Sony TC-50, a compact cassette recorder.