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VAIO


''VAIO'', an acronym for "Video Audio Integrated Operation", is a brand slogan for many of Sony's computer products. The branding was created to distinguish items that encompassed the use of consumer audio and video, as well as being conventional computing products. One example of this was the Sony VAIO W Series Personal Computer, which functioned as a regular PC and a miniature entertainment center. The VAIO logo is a thoughtful design. It uses the letters V and A to represent a sine wave and the letters I and O to represent the numerals one and zero. The logo symbolizes the analog and digital multi-media capabilities of the product line. Sony is expanding the use of the VAIO label. It can now be found on notebook and desktop computers and on their VAIO POCKET player, a harddisk-based audio player. Network media solutions by Sony have and will also carry the VAIO brand. VAIO laptops are noted for their insanely varying product numbers and the almost total lack of firmware and driver updates for them within months of them going on sale. Typically, any given model will have three varying product numbers, one for the entry model, one for the medium level model and one the high end model. High-end model notebooks are usually shipped with Windows XP Professional, the other two with XP Home. Most recently, some models no longer ship with a Recovery CD, but a special partition on the hard drive is used for the recovery information, including operating system and all bundled software. VAIO users are prompted to create a set of recovery CDs or DVDs immediately after purchase. Sony has been widely critiziced for not supporting its users to switch to other operating systems. This situation is gradually changing, with drivers becoming available on the website or a special folder on the harddrive, to allow for software upgrades- usually from XP Home to Pro. On the plus side, VAIO computers feature a wide array of specially designed or bundled software,

Marco Di Vaio


Marco Di Vaio (born July 15, 1976 in Rome) is an Italian football (soccer) striker, who currently plays for Valencia in the Spanish La Liga. Di Vaio has played for Lazio (1994-95), Hellas Verona (1996), Bari (1996-97), Salernitana (1997-99), Parma (1999-2002), Juventus (2002-04) and Valencia (2004-). He won one ''scudetto'' with Juventus. For Italy, Di Vaio played at . Di Vaio, Marco Di Vaio, Marco Di Vaio, Marco

Sony


Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) , is a global consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. It is currently one of the world's largest producers of consumer electronics and is one of the biggest corporations in Japan. Sony Corporation is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under number 6758 and on the NYSE as SNE through ADR. See also Sony Corporation shareholders and subsidiaries.

History

It was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees. Their first consumer product, in the late 1940s, was a rice boiler. As it grew into a major international corporation, Sony acquired other companies with longer histories, including Columbia Records (the oldest continuously produced brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888). Today Norio Ohga is Honorary Chairman, Nobuyuki Idei is Chairman and CEO, and Kunitake Ando is president of the corporation.
Brand change
When Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was looking for a romanized name to use to market themselves, they strongly considered using their initials, TTK. The primary reason they did not, is that the railway company Tokyo Kyuko was known as TKK. 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". However "Sonny" seemed not to be appropriate since it sounds too much like the Japanese ''soh-nee'' which means something like ''"business goes bad"'', Akio Morita pushed for a word that does not exist in any language so that they could claim the word "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). At the time of the change, it was extremely unusual for a Japanese company to use Roman letters instead of Chinese

Sony


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Logo

Isn't using the company's logo a copyvio (see similar additon by Tonius on the Hasbro article)? We should probably get clear on this before we add company logos to every article in the 'pedia and get a lawsuit on our hands. Please correct me if I'm wrong (such as, using company logos is allowed under Fair Use). —Frecklefoot 15:19, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC :I was wondering about that. It would be nice to know if we can include logos.Vancouverguy 15:24, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC) There's a discussion regarding this issue now in progress on the Village Pump. Regardless, the current image is rather poor in quality (grainy) and should be replaced with a crisper (and perhaps larger) version. A PNG would probably be preferable to a JPG as it is not lossy. See IBM for a better implementation of a logo. —Frecklefoot 19:12, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC) Okay, I replaced it. But the old one, Image:Sony.jpg, is still sitting on a server somewhere. Does anyone know where to request to get it deleted? —Frecklefoot 17:38, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC) Why is the notice on this page, shouldn't it be on the Image:SonyLogo.png page? -- EmperorBMA|話す 22:33, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC) ---- I notice that Columbia Pictures is a redirect to this page; Columbia had a long and interesting history before Sony bought them in 1989, and it really should have its own article. I'll go ahead and start on it, though I don't have much time at the moment. -lee 16:14, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

From Talk:Sony

background on the sony brand: http://news.sel.sony.com/corporateinfo/sony_brand/ from http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-35/h1.html: In 1958, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, which was gaining recognition for its Sony brand goods, changed its name to Sony Corporation. The name "Sony" is easy to pronounce and read in any language. from http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-35/h4.html: Following registration of the


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