X-Nico

62 unusual facts about Sony


Alexander Kronlund

Kronlund co-wrote Meja's million-selling debut album on Sony and co-wrote two songs for Britney Spears' second album, Oops!... I Did It Again.

Barbara Guggenheim

Barbara and her partner, Abigail Asher, have built collections for corporations including Coca Cola and Sony, and numerous individuals, including celebrities Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg.

Bat species identification

Some home camcorders made by Sony are sensitive to IR enabling an IR video recording to be made at low cost.

Birgit C. Muller

She resides in Beverly Hills, California and has worked in the film and television industry in the United States for Paramount, Sony, Disney and Universal Studios and others, with such noted directors as William Friedkin, David Lynch, Michael Bay, Francis Ford Coppola and Ridley Scott.

Bruno Walter

These recordings, as well as his other American recordings, were released initially by Columbia Records and later on CD by Sony.

Cavalry Ground

The main boulevard of Cavalry Ground (also known as Jinnah Flyover Road) is a major commercial area with designer outlets, boutiques, banks (including Royal Bank of Scotland), bakeries, electronics shops (including Samsung and Sony Centre) and supermarkets.

Centurion Card

The card, available for personal and business use, offers services such as a dedicated concierge and travel agent; complimentary companion airline tickets on international flights on selected airlines with the purchase of a full-fare ticket; personal shoppers at retailers such as Gucci, Escada, and Saks Fifth Avenue; access to airport clubs; first-class flight upgrades; membership in Sony's Cierge personal shopping program and dozens of other elite club memberships.

Chucho Valdés

In 2008 Sony released an album of Chucho playing with his father Bebo Valdés.

Cinematography Mailing List

The CML has over 3500 members worldwide, including members of the American Society of Cinematographers, the British Society of Cinematographers, the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, etc. as well as representatives from most major equipment manufacturers, including Kodak, Fujifilm, Aaton, Arri, Panavision, Sony, Panasonic, etc.

City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Recordings have been made for film production companies such as Paramount, Sony, Lucasfilm and many others in the Smecky Music Studios.

Civil service of Japan

The ministry could not restrain aggressive and often politically controversial purchases by Japanese corporate investors in the United States, such as Mitsubishi Estate's October 1989 purchase of Rockefeller Center in New York City, which, along with the Sony Corporation's acquisition of Columbia Pictures several weeks earlier, heated up trade friction between the two countries.

David A. Bader

In November 2006, Bader was selected by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, to direct the first Center of Competence for the Cell Processor.

David Caspe

In 2010, his screenplay for I Hate You, Dad (later re-titled That's My Boy) was picked up by Sony and Happy Madison productions.

Dependeq

The artificial word "dependeq" is said having been created by Herbert Weissenbaeck after incidentally reading Jeffrey Robinson's Book "The Manipulators" while waiting for a delayed plane at London Heathrow Airport and studying the roots of other carefully crafted company names like "Sony" or "Compaq".

Digifusion

The Multiguide EPG was used by most Digifusion PVRs, the Thomson DHD-4000, the Inverto IDL-7000, and a number of other receivers, but the last new product based on Multiguide was the Sony SVR-S500 launched in 2006.

Electro-Voice

When Columbia/CBS and Sony developed their Stereo Quadraphonic system (SQ) that system become the leading matrix system and Electro-Voice adapted their decoders so they also could play SQ records as well as Sansui's QS records.

Emanuel Ax

Before the quartet had to disband in 2001 due to the death of Stern, they recorded works for Sony by Brahms, Fauré, Beethoven, Schumann and Mozart.

Engelina

In 1997 she moved from Århus to Copenhagen, where she met producer and disc jockey DJ Encore in 2000 through an employee at Sony/ATV Music Publishing, who suggested that DJ Encore's music would fit well with Engelina's vocal.

Evan Chandler

Chandler requested $60 million from Sony music so that he could record his own rebuttal album entitled EVANstory.

Expanding Man

After releasing Free T.V.s on a Boston area indie label, they were signed by Sony and recorded "Head to the Ground" with producer Mike Denneen.

Flamma Flamma

In 1995 Sony Classical USA released an American cover version of the work.

Game testing

For example, Sony publishes a Technical Requirements Checklist (TRC), Microsoft publishes Technical Certification Requirements (TCR), and Nintendo publishes a set of "guidelines" (Lotcheck).

Gimme That

After catching the eye of a girl near him, he falls asleep listening to "Poppin'" on his Sony Walkman Bean.

I'm Glad

The recreation of scenes from Flashdance led Maureen Marder—whose life was the inspiration for the storyline of the film—to sue Lopez, Sony Corporation, and Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement in November 2003, claiming the video was an unauthorized depiction of her life story.

Immersion v. Sony

In 2002, Sony and Microsoft were sued by Immersion for patent infringement for the use of vibration functions in their gaming controllers.

Jamie Silberhartz

She also had a recurring role as Bonnie the receptionist on the CBS television show Without a Trace and has appeared in commercials for Life Savers, Pizza Hut ,and Sony.

Jerry Perenchio

The company sold to Coca-Cola in 1985 (who at the time was the parent of Columbia Pictures, now owned by Sony) for $485 million in Coke shares which later doubled.

Lord Infamous

In 2006 following jail time which lead to a breach of contract with Sony, Lord Infamous was forced to end work with Three 6 Mafia, leaving the group on good terms.

Lullaby for Columbine

Within weeks of its inception, the Project garnered more than a quarter of a million dollars of support through in-kind donations from large corporations such as Sony Disc Manufacturing, Musicland and the National Digital Television Center to facilitate nearly all production, manufacturing and distribution phases of the record project.

Mainstream Records

In 1991 it was resurrected in order to reissue much of its holdings on compact disc and, in 1993, it was purchased by Sony subsidiary Legacy Records.

Manu Chhabria

Dubai was at that time an obscure backwater, and in 1974, Chhabria was able to bag a contract with Sony, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, for Jumbo Electronics to become the sole distributors of Sony in the UAE.

Menlo Capital Group

Menlo has leased its properties to corporations, including Hewlett Packard, Intel, Sony, Panasonic, FedEx, Visa, UPS, Warburg Pincus and Sofinnova Ventures.

Michael Cieply

In the 1990s, he worked as a film producer for Sony for eight and a half years where he was producing or in trying to produce movies and TV programs.

Mick Cooke

He is a founding member of the band, although he did not officially join until their third album (he was prevented from doing so because his other band, Hardbody, was under contract with Sony).

Mini-VGA

Mini-VGA connectors are most commonly seen on Apple's iBooks, eMacs, early PowerBooks (12 inch), and some iMacs, but has also been included on several laptops manufactured by Sony.

Mocedades

In 1980 Mocedades signed up to CBS Records, now Sony, and recorded more songs for the Spanish-speaking market, including "Ay Amor!" ("Oh Love") and "Amor de Hombre" ("Love of Man"), which was the first Mocedades track to enter English-speaking charts since the smash hit "Eres Tú".

Mohamed Toihiri

Outside of his academic career, he has worked for Sony and TDK as Director for Public Relations, in Paris.

Nely Galán

Her newly formed company branched out launching networks for ESPN, MGM and Sony as well.

Nicolas Babin

Managing Director for Sony Europe(Etak a unit of the Sony group) in London (1997–2000)

Nigel McCulloch

In June 2007, McCulloch considered taking legal action against Sony because of their PlayStation game Resistance: Fall of Man.

NQ Mobile Inc.

NQ Mobile also cooperated with Nokia and Sony and both pre-installed NQ products in their companywide mobile phones.

Ooh Yeah!

In 2009, Sony Music Custom Marketing Group released a triple pack of Hall & Oates albums.

Outernauts

Developed by Insomniac Games, it is the developer's first social video game, as well as their first game for a non-Sony platform.

Pieter Bustijn

Harpsichord in the Netherlands, Bob van Asperen (Sony B00000277E, 1991) – Recording of only Suitte No. 5 in g minor

Publishing

Google, Amazon.com and Sony have been leaders in working with publishers and libraries to digitize books.

Pye Ltd.

In the early 1970s Sony and Hitachi launched UK colour televisions that cost less than £200.

Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium

The system also features three Sony video projectors, a Barco video projector, scores of Kodak ektagraphic slide projectors and even more special effect projectors and devices.

Russell Fuller

Russell was part of the team who won the bronze award in the best sports programme category at the 2009 Sony Radio Academy awards, and was interviewer for BBC TV's coverage of the 2011 Open Championship golf.

Save Karyn

As discussed near the end of the book, in 2003 Bosnak signed a deal with a Sony subsidiary for the rights to a movie chronicling her rise to fame.

Taya Marquis

Taya wrote and performed the main theme song for Sony's video game,"The Agency", which was nominated at the 2009 Hollywood Music Awards for Best Original Song in Video Game.

The Label: The Story of Columbia Records

In 1988 CBS Records, including the Columbia Records unit, was acquired by Sony, who re-christened the parent division Sony Music Entertainment in 1991.

The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams

In 2006, a janitor working for Sony/ATV Music Publishing claimed to have found Williams' unfinished lyrics inside of a Sony-owned dumpster.

The World Tonight

In 1998, Robin Lustig won a Sony Silver award as Talk/News Broadcaster of the Year.

Tim Levy

Tim Levy began his career in the field of 3D technology, design and strategy, and in 1996 started his own technological marketing company for clients including Roland DG, Sony, and IBM.

Tomoko Namba

She started DeNA after working on a consulting assignment with Sony's So-net while she was a consultant at Mckinsey.

Travon Potts

After completing a demo package and shopping to different record labels, Jackie Patillo, GM of Integrity Music/Sony signed Charles and Taylor to a record deal.

Un-D-Nyable Entertainment

Virgo was the featured vocalist on a Sony/So So Def Records album release "So So Def Bass All Stars" that sold over 560,000 units in the US.

User-generated TV

The first UGTV advert broadcast on national TV was a spot for Sony created by Tyson Ibele, an 18-year-old from Minneapolis.

Věříš si?

The special prize may vary in every episode, usually it's a portable media player or a Sony video game console.

VG Chartz

The main service provided by VG Chartz is weekly charts of hardware and software sales for the video game consoles sold by Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.

Will Horton

By October, it was confirmed that Will would come out as gay, receiving support from both NBC and Sony.

You Gonna Fly

According to Brust, a Sony/ATV Music Publishing representative suggested that he and Lucas write with Johnston.


Aisling Stephenson

This led to a number five in Japan with the boy band W-inds track Im a man along with a track entitled Used to be released on Sony artist Timothy James's album "Make it happen" She has written and released material ranging from jazz, RnB, pop, house and soul and toured with Roots Manuva and performed with Matthew Herbert's big band, Omar, Eska Mtungwazi and the late Lynden David Hall.

Anaheim University

The University is made up of three graduate schools: the Graduate School of Education, the Akio Morita School of Business (named after Sony founder Akio Morita), and the Akira Kurosawa School of Film (named after Akira Kurosawa).

Badacsonytomaj

The town's name was recently used in a viral promotion by Sony to promote a new feature in their PlayStation 3 Home Service.

Bokeh

Lens manufacturers including Nikon, Minolta, and Sony make lenses designed with specific controls to change the rendering of the out-of-focus areas.

Christy Gibson

During her time with Sony Music Thailand, Gibson also recorded an album jointly with Swedish luk tung singer Jonas Anderson, called Rum-tone, Rum-thai.

Dan Fishbach

During Fishbach's tenure at The Groundlings, the improv company inked a New Media deal with Sony for short digital sketches.

DJ Delicious

A variety of successful remixes and commissions followed in the next few years: these were released under a large number of different pseudonyms on Urban/Polydor, Sony, and WEA.

Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia

These include many international global players such as 3M, BP, Ericsson, Ford, LG Electronics, QVC, Sony, Renault, Toyota, and Vodafone.

Elise LeGrow

Her first self-titled EP contains songs written with Sony/ATV artists Jon Levine, Ron Sexsmith and Stefan Skarbek.

Energy Saving Trust Recommended

Over 250 large, medium and small companies are currently members of the scheme including Hitachi Digital Media Group, Sony, Epson, John Lewis Partnership, Home Retail Group, Next, Samsung, Beko, Glen Dimplex, Baxi, Electrolux, Pure radios, Indesit, Knauf Insulation, Panasonic, Smeg and Aga Rangemaster.

Häschenparty

"Häschenparty featuring Michael Wendler" (Bunny party) is the third single released by Schnuffel, on 19 September 2008 by Sony BMG Germany (Sony BMG).

Krypteria

Ji-In Cho, was chosen as the lead vocalist for the song and Sony/BMG, decided to re-release an edited version of their first album under the same name.

Lee Mallory

He published with Opryland, Acuff-Rose and finally Sony/ATV before becoming an independent artist/songwriter/guitarist.

Leila Steinberg

As a veteran music industry executive she served as a marketer with Atlantic Records, Sony, Def Jam, Tommy Boy, Interscope, and Relativity.

Lycée Seijo

During the school's lifetime, according to the Western Society for French History, the "core" of the student body consisted of children of executives working for offices of Japanese multinational companies such as Sharp Corporation and Sony in the Alsace region.

Martin O'Brien

Previously he produced Good Morning Ulster and Sunday Newsbreak, winning a Radio Academy Sony Award.

Nassos Vakalis

Greece, where Nassos returned to produce and supervise animation for several sequences of Sony’s Eight Crazy Nights and Paramount’s Rugrats Go Wild as well as El Cid the Legend for the Spanish Filmax and Jester Till for the German Munich Animation, as well as many 2D and 3D commercials for the Greek and international market.

Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design

In the field of art and design, NTU has links with a wide range of companies, professional bodies and institutions on an international level, including Apple, Arcadia Group, Broadway, Fashion Institute of Technology, Marks & Spencer, Ralsey Group Limited, Association of Illustrators, Sony, and Sophie Stellar.

Oswaldo Romano Junior

Segurar.com has now Jose Augusto Correa (Crival/FGV) and Rodrigo Veloso (onedrinks.com) as co-founders, and Aber Whitcomb (MySpace), Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent,Flingo), Paul Bragiel (I/O Ventures), Tommy Mottola (Sony Music), Michael Farello and Scott Dahnke (Catterton Partners) on the advisory board.

Paul Hollins

He has been heard on advertising campaigns for companies as diverse as Cadbury, Sony, TrafficMaster and Universal Music.

Pete Vuckovic

He was quickly signed by Sony Records and spent 2 years writing and recording an album for his new project 'Elevation', they played a show in London with Vuckovic on guitar as well as releasing an E.P but by the time it was finally finished his A&R man had left the company, Vuckovic was dropped and the album never released.

Piers Gibbon

He had a regular spot on Resonance FM where he and David McCandless received a Sony Award nomination for the documentary series The Good Drugs Guide.

Psy-S

Frontman Masaya Matsuura went on to create several famous video games for the Sony PlayStation.

Resistance: Fall of Man

Sony and Insomniac Games have since become embattled with the Church of England for using interior shots of Manchester Cathedral to recreate the building within the game, as well as "promoting violence" within the building.

Rudolf Buchbinder

2012: Echo Klassik in German music award as Instrumentalist of the Year (piano) and the album Beethoven: The Sonata Legacy issued by RCA Red Seal/Sony

Scott J. Bolton

Dr. Bolton has worked with a number of corporate sponsors dedicated to space science educational programs, including Lego, Universal, Sony, and Time-Warner.

Segagaga

The game also references things associated with Sony's PlayStation and PlayStation 2 and there is as a strange cameo appearance from Ralph Macchio of Karate Kid fame, who in various mecha-forms,can be fought in one of the R&D departments and persuaded to join your team.

SoapCity

However the channel would never air after being beaten to the market by ABC/Disney's SoapNet, and because of distribution problems with Sony's Game Show Network.

Sony Canada

With headquarters in Toronto, sales offices in Vancouver and Montreal and distribution centres in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and Whitby, Ontario, approximately 1,200 employees support a network of more than 500 authorized dealers and 70 Sony Style retail locations across Canada.

Sony Ericsson Naite

It is a relatively cheap candybar phone that is placed at the bottom of Sony Ericsson's Greenheart range.

Sony Ericsson Xperia neo

The Xperia Neo has many of the same features found in the Xperia Arc and the Xperia Play including the mobile Sony Bravia engine and an 8-megapixel camera capable of recording 720p high-definition video.

Tanglewood Festival Chorus

They can also be heard on the RCA Victor disc "A Splash of Pops", as well as on three Christmas albums — "Joy to the World" on Sony Classical and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" on Philips, both with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra, and "Holiday Pops" on RCA Victor with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra.

The Brilliant Green discography

These were released through Sony Music Records from 1997 until mid 2000, when the band moved to Sony sub-label Defstar Records.

The Derailers

Seeking greater mainstream success, The Derailers switched to Sony’s Lucky Dog Records for their next release, Here Come the Derailers, and were paired with Nashville A-list producer Kyle Lehning.

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

In 2006 Sony optioned the rights to make the book into a film, with comedy director Chris Weitz reportedly signing on to helm the project for Columbia Pictures.

Thrill Kill

Thrill Kill was developed in the late 1990s for the Sony PlayStation by Paradox Development, later Midway Studios - Los Angeles.

Thrill Kill is a cancelled and unpublished 1998 fighting video game for the Sony PlayStation.

Toy2R

Additionally, Toy2r has been commissioned to create exclusive Qee figures for such companies as Adidas, DKNY, Mitsubishi, Xbox 360, Nokia, Sony, Clutter Magazine, and Starbucks.

Ultra high definition television

On July 2, 2013, Jimmy Kimmel Live! recorded in 4K Ultra HD a performance by musical guest Karmin and the video clip will be used as demonstration material at Sony stores.

What's New

What's New, a PlayStation Network feature that displays news related to Sony's software and events

Wuxi New Area

It is home to many such companies such as hard disk maker Seagate, the Japanese electrical giant Sony and Matsushita Electric among others.