X-Nico

68 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.

American Inventor

It was conceived by UK entrepreneur Peter Jones, who appears on the British version of the somewhat similar programme Dragons' Den, a format originated in Japan where it is owned by Sony.

Anna Webber

She has also created publicity and album cover photography for Sony, EMI, and numerous other record labels.

Assassination of a High School President

This attracted a response in the media urging a theatrical release, and to avoid a direct-to-DVD release by Sony, who own the home video distribution rights.

Ayla Kell

Kell has appeared in many international commercials for Disney, Sony, Mattel, and Pringles.

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.

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.

Busco un Pueblo

Busco Un Pueblo (English: I am Searching for A City) is the thirteenth studio album by Puerto Rican-American salsa singer-songwriter Víctor Manuelle released on November 21, 2011 on Sony Music.

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.

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.

Contrareloj

Originally released in 1986, Contra Reloj was Los Enanitos Verdes sophomore effort but the first that the group recorded for CBS (now Sony).

Courtney Buses

The company also runs park & ride services in Windsor and Basingstoke, and contracts to Milton Park, Maidenhead Office Park and Foundation Park, plus a contract for Sony in Basingstoke.

Dan Fishbach

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

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.

Digifusion

Beko manufactured a PVR called the SVR-S500 on behalf of Sony, and its internal architecture was virtually identical to the Digifusion FVRT200.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Journeys by DJ

Originally released in 1996, Journeys by DJ: Coldcut - 70 Minutes of Madness was a release on the Music Unites/Sony record label.

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.

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.

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.

While working for Sony, Cieply would consult with Ray Stark Productions.

Mike Muir

Muir has criticized the band Rage Against the Machine, who are well known for expressing anti-corporate, left-wing politics in their lyrics, but are signed with Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony, a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation.

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".

Motoi Sakuraba

In 1994, former Wolf Team director and composer Masaaki Uno started working at Camelot Software Planning as coordinator and sound director, developing games for Sony, Sega and Nintendo.

Naveen Selvadurai

Naveen graduated with degrees from King's College London in the UK and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US, and went to work with Lucent, Sony, Nokia and Sun Microsystems before he started his mobile social-networking venture Foursquare, along with Dennis Crowley.

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)

NQ Mobile Inc.

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

Parashqevi Simaku

In 2006 she signed a contract with Sony and BMG for her new Albanian language CD entitled Echoes from Iliria (Jehonë nga Iliria).

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.

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.

Roman Dirge

26 episodes of a Lenore Animation were created for Sony's website ScreenBlast, these are no longer available on Screenblast, but can now be seen on Dirge's site Spooky Land.

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.

S/PDIF

The name stands for Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format (more commonly known as Sony Philips Digital Interface), Sony and Philips being the primary designers of S/PDIF.

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.

The Big Gundown

Four decades later, in December of 2013, Grindhouse Releasing in association with original rights holder Columbia Pictures/Sony, has digitally restored and re-released the film, including the full unedited director's cut (making it available for the first time ever on either Blu-ray or DVD in the United States).

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 Man Called Flintstone

However, owing to licensing complications between Warner Bros. (current owners of the Flintstones property) and Sony (current owners of then-Flintstones distributor Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems), only a Canadian release occurred; a United States release was canceled and would not be rescheduled until the rights issue was cleared in August 2008.

The Poor

On 13 June 1994 they released a debut album, Who Cares, on the Sony label, which peaked at No.

The World Tonight

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

Thomas Smolej

ZOOM – Children's exhibition, Österreichischer Rundfunk, Servus TV, McDonald's, Nissan, Sony, ÖAMTC, Dulcolax, Alpla, 3, T-Mobile, IKEA, Kurier (Tageszeitung), Schwarzkopf (Haarkosmetik), Schartner Bombe, NÖ-Card, Vereinigte Bühnen Wien.

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.

Věříš si?

Since the show is sponsored by Sony, the contestants compete in various video games from Sony's EyeToy series.

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.

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.


2009 Sony Ericsson Open

The 2009 Sony Ericsson Open was the 25th edition of the Miami Masters tournament and was held at Tennis Center at Crandon Park, Key Biscayne near Miami, Florida.

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.

Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis

2012: Osamu Kumagai, Sony Corp., “Multi-Wavelength Laser Diode for Backward Compatibility of Three Generations’ Optical Disc Systems

Billy Joe Cuthbert

Billy Joe Cuthbert (born in Terre Haute, Indiana), nicknamed "Mongoose", is a fictional American basketball player, played by John Mead, who promotes Sony's NBA The Life video game.

Boutique

For example, before the release of the Wii, a Time Magazine article suggested that Nintendo could become a "boutique video-game company", producing games for niche audiences, rather than trying to compete directly with Microsoft and Sony.

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.

Dada Entertainment

Its assets include Dada’s mobile club, Dada.net, Upoc (mobile community) and Sony Music Box (BREW application live on Verizon Wireless, Alltel and U.S. Cellular).

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.

Ivy Queen discography

In 1999, Ivy Queen released her second studio album for the Sony label The Original Rude Girl which carried the hit songs "In The Zone", "Que Sabes Tu", and "The King and Queen".

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.

Lobotomy Software

PowerSlave received enough success to help Lobotomy secure a contract to port the game over to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation.

Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford

The album was released on September 23, 2008 on his own record label Martyr Inc, with distribution by Hickory Records/Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Magic Cap

Several electronic companies came to market with Magic Cap devices, the most notable of which being the Sony Magic Link released in 1994 and the Motorola Envoy, also released in 1994.

Martin O'Brien

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

Media Key Block

The system was developed by big companies from the film industry and the electronics industry including IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Matsushita (Panasonic), Sony, Toshiba, The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros.

Mohamed Toihiri

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

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.

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.

Paul Hollins

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

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.

PlayStation 4 technical specifications

The PlayStation 4 uses a semi-custom accelerated processing unit (APU) developed by AMD in cooperation with Sony and is manufactured on the TSMC 28 nm process node.

PreviewNetworks

Preview Networks partners with entertainment content companies including Sony, Fox, Disney, Warner, Universal, and Paramount.

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.

Roger Allers

Allers was then tapped by Sony Pictures to direct their first ever animated release, Open Season, featuring the voice talents of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher, released in theaters summer of 2006.

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.

Scott Lochmus

Previously, Mr. Lochmus served as Senior Director at Sony Music Studios, in charge of production, where he directed and produced award-winning videos of every soundtrack recorded by Celine Dion from 1996 to 2008, including her landmark duet with Barbra Streisand, as well as Dion’s “One Year, One Heart” ABC Family TV Special, and two widely acclaimed documentaries, “Let's Talk About Love,” and “Taking Chances,” among others.

Scratch Track

A tour which had Scratch Track headlining small venues and open as a special guest to the band O.A.R., which was inspired by their appearance on Sony PlayStation’s MLB 06: The Show for the song Hands Together.

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.

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.

Throwing It All Away

A music video for the song was composed of soundcheck footage and shots of the band traveling whilst on their Invisible Touch tour of North America, much of which was filmed by Phil Collins on his 1985 Sony Handycam.

TriStar Productions

It was jointly announced on August 1, 2013 by Rothman, Michael Lynton, the CEO of Sony Entertainment and co-chairman and CEO of SPE, and Amy Pascal, co-chairwoman of SPE.

UIQ Technology

UIQ Technology, established in 1999, was owned jointly by Motorola and Sony Ericsson.

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.