1.
Google TV
–
Google TV was a smart TV platform from Google co-developed by Intel, Sony, and Logitech that was launched in October 2010 with official devices initially made by Sony and Logitech. Google TVs first generation devices were all based on x86 architecture processors and were created and commercialized by Sony, the second generation of devices are all based on ARM architecture processors and with additional partners including LG, Samsung, Vizio and Hisense. In 2013, more second generation Google TV-supported devices were announced by new partners, including Hisense, Netgear, TCL, while a small subset of Google TV devices will be upgraded to the Android TV platform, the majority will not. In June 2014, the Google TV SDK was pulled, ending any future development for existing devices. Google TV leveraged many of Google’s existing products, Google TV’s operating system, a customized version of Android, provided the underlying foundation, allowing developers to create applications that extended the system’s functionality. Google’s Chrome browser provided a gateway to the Internet, allowing consumers to browse web sites, consumers could access HBO, CNBC, and content from other providers through the Chrome browser. Android and Apple smartphones and tablet computers could be used as controls for Google TV. Google TV products shipped with wireless remote controls with a full QWERTY keypad, an update in November 2011 allowed access to Google Play and enabled search to find content from live TV, Netflix, YouTube, HBO GO, Amazon, and more. Xyologic has compiled a list of the early Google TV apps with the largest number of installations, as of November 2012, the most installed apps are Napster, Pandora Radio and CNBC. The Google TV platform was provided by Google to OEMs for incorporation into their consumer products, the first generation of consumer devices were produced by Logitech and Sony. The second generation of devices were produced by Sony, LG, Vizio, Hisense, NetGear. The third generation of devices was announced by LG at 2013 International CES. Cable providers as well as content providers have been slow to warm to Google TV, NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS and Hulu have blocked Google TV enabled devices from accessing their web content since Google TVs launch. As of November 22,2010, Google TV devices are blocked from accessing any programs offered by Viacom’s subsidiaries, of the cable and satellite providers, only Dish Network, had embraced Google TV and promoted it by offering customers a discount on the Logitech Revue. In January 2014, Google filed a UDRP case against the owner of domain names androidtv. com, the domain names were owned Exo Level, Inc. and were registered with GoDaddy in November 2006. In March 2014, Google’s case was denied,2010 March – Media outlets reported that the Google TV project was underway, although the partnering companies did not confirm their involvement in the venture until later. 2010 May 20 – The Google TV project was announced at the 2010 Google I/O conference on May 20. The company indicated that the new systems developed by Sony and Logitech would be powered by Intel Atom based CE4100 consumer electronics system-on-chip and it also stated that a fully optimized viewer experience would be available through the Dish Network, although the platform would operate through any provider
2.
Digital media player
–
Digital media players are home entertainment consumer electronics devices first introduced in 2000 that can connect to a home network to stream digital media. They should not be confused with media players, which are portable consumer electronics devices capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images. Most digital media players utilize a 10-foot user interface, and many are navigated via a remote control. com and these types of digital media player are sometimes referred to as HD Media Players or HDD Media Player if they can support a Hard Disk Drive installed inside. The means to play files on a network-connected digital media player that is permanently connected to a television. Digital media players fill this market niche, the rapid growth in the availability of online content, including digital music and video files and video games, has made it easier for consumers to use these devices and obtain content. YouTube, for instance, is a common plug-in available on most networked devices, Netflix has also struck deals with many consumer-electronics makers to make their interface available in the devices menus, for their streaming subscribers. Media players are often designed for compactness and affordability, and tend to have small or non-existent hardware displays other than simple LED lights to indicate whether the device is powered on, some remotes also include accelerometers for air mouse features which allow basic motion gaming. They are also incapable of recording audio or video. Digital media players are commonly referred to as a digital media extender, digital media streamer, digital media hub, digital media adapter. Digital media player manufacturers use a variety of names to describe their devices, some more commonly used alternative names include, A digital media player can connect to the home network using either a wireless or wired Ethernet connection. Digital media players includes an interface that allows users to navigate through their digital media library, search for. Stream movies, music, photos over the wired or wireless network View digital pictures Stream online video to a TV from services such as Netflix, play video games such as Angry Birds and others. Browse the Internet, check email and access social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, video conference by connecting a webcam and microphone. The models change frequently, so it is advisable to visit their web sites for current model names and these devices come with low power consumption processors or SoC and are most commonly either based on MIPS or ARM architecture processors combined with integrated DSP GPU in a SoC package. They also include RAM-memory and some type of type of non-volatile computer memory. All these can play computer-based media files to a television without the need for a computer or network connection. Some players come with USB ports which allow local media content playback, digital media players can usually play H.264, MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-1, MPEG-2. mpg, MPEG-2. TS, VOB and ISO images video, with PCM, MP3 and AC3 audio tracks. They can also display images and play music files, some digital media players will only connect to specific media server software installed on a PC to stream music, pictures and recorded or live TV originating from the computer
3.
Google
–
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph. D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares, and they incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4,1998. An initial public offering took place on August 19,2004, in August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabets leading subsidiary, will continue to be the company for Alphabets Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page, rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Googles core search engine. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, the new hardware chief, Rick Osterloh, stated, a lot of the innovation that we want to do now ends up requiring controlling the end-to-end user experience. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier, alexa, a company that monitors commercial web traffic, lists Google. com as the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube, Googles mission statement, from the outset, was to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful, and its unofficial slogan was Dont be evil. In October 2015, the motto was replaced in the Alphabet corporate code of conduct by the phrase Do the right thing, Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. They called this new technology PageRank, it determined a websites relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine BackRub, because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Originally, Google ran under Stanford Universitys website, with the domains google. stanford. edu, the domain name for Google was registered on September 15,1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4,1998. It was based in the garage of a friend in Menlo Park, craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee. The first funding for Google was an August 1998 contribution of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given before Google was incorporated. At least three other investors invested in 1998, Amazon. com founder Jeff Bezos, Stanford University computer science professor David Cheriton. Author Ken Auletta claims that each invested $250,000, early in 1999, Brin and Page decided they wanted to sell Google to Excite. They went to Excite CEO George Bell and offered to sell it to him for $1 million, vinod Khosla, one of Excites venture capitalists, talked the duo down to $750,000, but Bell still rejected it. Googles initial public offering took place five years later, on August 19,2004, at that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024
4.
Smart TV
–
A smart TV, sometimes referred to as connected TV or hybrid TV, is a television set with integrated Internet and interactive Web 2.0 features. Smart TV is a convergence between computers and flatscreen television sets and set-top boxes. Smart TV should not be confused with Internet TV, IPTV or with Web TV, Internet TV refers to receiving television content over the Internet instead of traditional systems. Internet Protocol television is one of the Internet television technology standards for use by television broadcasters, Web television is a term used for programs created by a wide variety of companies and individuals for broadcast on Internet TV. In smart TVs, the system is preloaded or is available through the set-top box. These devices allow viewers to search, find and play videos, movies, TV shows, photos and other content from the Web, on a cable TV channel, on a satellite TV channel, or on a local storage drive. A first patent was published in 1994 for an intelligent television system, linked with data processing systems, apart from being linked to data networks, one key point is its ability to automatically download necessary software routines, according to a users demand, and process their needs. The mass acceptance of digital television in late 2000s and early 2010s greatly improved smart TVs, major TV manufacturers have announced production of smart TVs only, for their middle-end to high-end TVs in 2015. Smart TVs are expected to become the dominant form of television by the late 2010s, at the beginning of 2016, Nielsen reported that 29 percent of those with incomes over $75,000 a year had a smart TV. Smart TVs run complete operating system or mobile operating system providing a platform for application developers. Smart TV enables access to movies, shows, video games, apps, some of those apps include Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and Amazon. Smart TV devices also provide access to user-generated content and to services and Internet applications, such as YouTube. Smart TV devices facilitate the curation of traditional content by combining information from the Internet with content from TV Providers, services offer users a means to track and receive reminders about shows or sporting events, as well as the ability to change channels for immediate viewing. Smart TV develops new features to satisfy consumers and companies, such as new payment processes, LG and PaymentWall have collaborated to allow consumers to access purchased apps, movies, games, and more using a remote control, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. This is intended for an easier and more convenient way for checkout, Smart TV technology and software is still evolving, with both proprietary and open source software frameworks already available. These can run applications, interactive media, personalized communications. There are many Smart TV platforms used for individual purposes, Smart TV owners desire the most successful platform possible for their Smart TV. For this reason, platforms are ranked from best to worst, HbbTV, provided by the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV association, CE-HTML, part of Web4CE, OIPF, part of HbbTV, and Tru2way are framework platforms managed by technology businesses
5.
Operating system
–
An operating system is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs. All computer programs, excluding firmware, require a system to function. Operating systems are found on many devices that contain a computer – from cellular phones, the dominant desktop operating system is Microsoft Windows with a market share of around 83. 3%. MacOS by Apple Inc. is in place, and the varieties of Linux is in third position. Linux distributions are dominant in the server and supercomputing sectors, other specialized classes of operating systems, such as embedded and real-time systems, exist for many applications. A single-tasking system can run one program at a time. Multi-tasking may be characterized in preemptive and co-operative types, in preemptive multitasking, the operating system slices the CPU time and dedicates a slot to each of the programs. Unix-like operating systems, e. g. Solaris, Linux, cooperative multitasking is achieved by relying on each process to provide time to the other processes in a defined manner. 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows used cooperative multi-tasking, 32-bit versions of both Windows NT and Win9x, used preemptive multi-tasking. Single-user operating systems have no facilities to distinguish users, but may allow multiple programs to run in tandem, a distributed operating system manages a group of distinct computers and makes them appear to be a single computer. The development of networked computers that could be linked and communicate with each other gave rise to distributed computing, distributed computations are carried out on more than one machine. When computers in a work in cooperation, they form a distributed system. The technique is used both in virtualization and cloud computing management, and is common in large server warehouses, embedded operating systems are designed to be used in embedded computer systems. They are designed to operate on small machines like PDAs with less autonomy and they are able to operate with a limited number of resources. They are very compact and extremely efficient by design, Windows CE and Minix 3 are some examples of embedded operating systems. A real-time operating system is a system that guarantees to process events or data by a specific moment in time. A real-time operating system may be single- or multi-tasking, but when multitasking, early computers were built to perform a series of single tasks, like a calculator. Basic operating system features were developed in the 1950s, such as resident monitor functions that could run different programs in succession to speed up processing
6.
Android (operating system)
–
Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. In addition to devices, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars. Variants of Android are also used on notebooks, game consoles, digital cameras, beginning with the first commercial Android device in September 2008, the operating system has gone through multiple major releases, with the current version being 7.0 Nougat, released in August 2016. Android applications can be downloaded from the Google Play store, which features over 2.7 million apps as of February 2017, Android has been the best-selling OS on tablets since 2013, and runs on the vast majority of smartphones. In September 2015, Android had 1.4 billion monthly active users, Android is popular with technology companies that require a ready-made, low-cost and customizable operating system for high-tech devices. The success of Android has made it a target for patent, Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. Rubin described the Android project as tremendous potential in developing smarter mobile devices that are aware of its owners location. The early intentions of the company were to develop an operating system for digital cameras. Despite the past accomplishments of the founders and early employees, Android Inc. operated secretly and that same year, Rubin ran out of money. Steve Perlman, a friend of Rubin, brought him $10,000 in cash in an envelope. In July 2005, Google acquired Android Inc. for at least $50 million and its key employees, including Rubin, Miner and White, joined Google as part of the acquisition. Not much was known about Android at the time, with Rubin having only stated that they were making software for mobile phones, at Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel. Google marketed the platform to handset makers and carriers on the promise of providing a flexible, upgradeable system, Google had lined up a series of hardware components and software partners and signaled to carriers that it was open to various degrees of cooperation. Speculation about Googles intention to enter the communications market continued to build through December 2006. In September 2007, InformationWeek covered an Evalueserve study reporting that Google had filed several patent applications in the area of mobile telephony, the first commercially available smartphone running Android was the HTC Dream, also known as T-Mobile G1, announced on September 23,2008. Since 2008, Android has seen numerous updates which have improved the operating system, adding new features. Each major release is named in order after a dessert or sugary treat, with the first few Android versions being called Cupcake, Donut, Eclair. In 2010, Google launched its Nexus series of devices, a lineup in which Google partnered with different device manufacturers to produce new devices and introduce new Android versions
7.
Google Play
–
Google Play is a digital distribution service, including a digital media store, the Google Play Store, operated and developed by Google. Google Play also serves as a digital media store, offering music, magazines, books, movies and it previously offered Google hardware devices for purchase until the introduction of a separate online hardware retailer, Google Store, on March 11,2015. Applications are available through Google Play either free of charge or at a cost and they can be downloaded directly to an Android device through the Play Store mobile app, or by deploying the application to a device from the Google Play website. Applications exploiting hardware capabilities of a device can be targeted to users of devices with specific hardware components, the Google Play store had over 50 billion app downloads in 2013 and has reached over 2.7 million apps published in 2017. Google Play was launched on March 6,2012, bringing together the Android Market, Google Music, and the Google eBookstore under one brand, marking a shift in Googles digital distribution strategy. The services operating under the Google Play banner are, Google Play Books, Google Play Games, Google Play Movies & TV, Google Play Music, as of February 2017, Google Play features over 2.7 million Android applications. Developers in over 150 locations can distribute apps on Google Play, to distribute apps, developers have to pay a one-time $25 registration fee for a Google Play Developer Console account. App developers can control which countries an app is distributed to, Developers receive 70% of the application price, while the remaining 30% goes to the distribution partner and operating fees. Developers can set up sales, with the original price striked out, Google Play allows developers to release early versions of apps to a select group of users, as alpha or beta tests. Developers can also release apps through staged rollouts, in which your update reaches only a percentage of your users, users can pre-order select apps to have the items delivered as soon as they are available. Some network carriers offer billing for Google Play purchases, allowing users to opt for charges in the phone bill rather than on credit cards. Users can request refunds within 48 hours if something you bought isnt working, isnt what you expected, was bought by accident, Apps meeting specific usability requirements can qualify as an Android Wear app. Google Play Games is a gaming service for Android that features real-time multiplayer gaming capabilities, cloud saves, social and public leaderboards. The service was introduced at the Google I/O2013 Developer Conference, Google Play Music is a music and podcast streaming service and online music locker. It features over 40 million songs, and gives users free cloud storage of up to 50,000 songs, as of January 2017, Google Play Music is available in 62 countries. Google Play Books is a digital distribution service. Google Play offers over five million ebooks available for purchase, as of January 2017, Google Play Books is available in 75 countries. Google Play Movies & TV is a video on demand service offering movies and television shows available for purchase or rental, Google Play Newsstand is a news aggregator and digital newsstand service offering subscriptions to digital magazines and topical news feeds
8.
Google Cast
–
The protocol was first launched on July 24,2013, to support Googles first-generation Chromecast player. The Google Cast SDK was released on February 3,2014, according to Google, over 20,000 Google Cast-ready apps were available as of May 2015. Google Cast would later be built into the Nexus Player and other Android TV devices, such as televisions, as well as soundbars, speakers, in both cases, playback is initiated through the cast button on the sender device. The primary method of playing media on the device is through Google Cast–enabled mobile and web apps, which control program selection, playback, streamed content can be Internet-based, as provided by specific apps, or reside on the sender devices local storage. Apps that provide access to the latter include AllCast, Avia, Plex, content can also be mirrored from a tab of the Chrome browser on a personal computer or from the screen of some Android 4. 4+ devices. In the case of tab casting, the quality of the image depends on the power of the device. Content that uses plug-ins, such as Silverlight and QuickTime, does not fully work, similarly, screen images mirrored from Android devices are typically degraded, reflecting the fact that video displayed on the smaller screens of tablets and smartphones is usually downscaled. Guest mode is available for Chromecasts, the Nexus Player. Additional apps supporting casting would require access to the Google Cast software development kit, the SDK was first released as a preview version on July 24,2013. Google advised interested developers to use the SDK to create and test apps, while that admonition remained in force, Google Cast-enabled applications for Hulu Plus and Pandora Radio were released in October 2013, and HBO GO in November. Google invited developers to a two-day hackathon on December 7 at Googleplex, its Mountain View headquarters, the session attracted 40 developers from 30 companies and was followed by 10 additional apps, including Plex, Avia, and Realplayer Cloud. Google opened the SDK to all developers on February 3,2014, in its introductory documentation and video presentation, Google said the SDK worked with both Chromecast devices and other unnamed cast receiver devices. Google also made the SDK a part of the Google Play Services framework, over time, many more applications have been updated to support Google Cast. At Google I/O2014, the announced that 6,000 registered developers were working on 10,000 Google Cast–ready apps, by the following years conference. Googles official list of apps and platforms is available on the Chromecast website. Google has published studies documenting Google Cast integration by Comedy Central, Just Dance Now, Haystack TV. The development framework has two components, an app and a receiver app, both of which make use of APIs provided by the SDK. Under the hood, sender apps can detect receiver devices on the local network, establish a secure channel
9.
Middleware
–
Middleware is computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as software glue, middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement communication and input/output, so they can focus on the specific purpose of their application. The term is most commonly used for software that enables communication, an IETF workshop in 2000 defined middleware as those services found above the transport layer set of services but below the application environment. In this more specific sense middleware can be described as the dash in client-server, middleware includes web servers, application servers, content management systems, and similar tools that support application development and delivery. ObjectWeb defines middleware as, The software layer that lies between the system and applications on each side of a distributed computing system in a network. Services that can be regarded as middleware include enterprise application integration, data integration, message oriented middleware, object request brokers, database access services are often characterised as middleware. Some of them are language specific implementations and support heterogeneous features, examples of database-oriented middleware include ODBC, JDBC and transaction processing monitors. Distributed computing system middleware can loosely be divided into two categories—those that provide services and those that perform in machine-time. This latter middleware is somewhat standardized through the Service Availability Forum and is used in complex, embedded systems within telecom, defense. The term middleware is used in contexts as well. Middleware is sometimes used in a sense to a software driver. The mer software distribution is a middleware, it lacks the Linux kernel, mer is targeted at hardware vendors mobile-oriented operating systems. The Android operating system uses the Linux kernel at its core, in addition, Android provides a middleware layer including libraries that provide services such as data storage, screen display, multimedia, and web browsing. Because the middleware libraries are compiled to machine language, services execute quickly, middleware libraries also implement device-specific functions, so applications and the application framework need not concern themselves with variations between various Android devices. Androids middleware layer also contains the Dalvik virtual machine and its core Java application libraries, game engine software such as Gamebryo and Renderware are sometimes described as middleware, because they provide many services to simplify game development. In simulation technology, middleware is used in the context of the high level architecture that applies to many distributed simulations. It is a layer of software that lies between the code and the run-time infrastructure. Wireless networking developers can use middleware to meet the associated with a wireless sensor network
10.
Sony
–
Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation that is headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, entertainment, the company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony was ranked 116th on the 2015 list of Fortune Global 500 and these make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. The group consists of Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Financial Holdings and others. Sony is among the Semiconductor sales leaders by year and as of 2013, the companys current slogan is BE MOVED. Their former slogans were make. believe, like. no. other, Sony has a weak tie to the SMFG keiretsu, the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu. Sony began in the wake of World War II, in 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in a department store building in Tokyo. The company had $530 in capital and a total of eight employees, in the following year he was joined by his colleague, Akio Morita, and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo 東京通信工業. The company built Japans first tape recorder, called the Type-G, in 1958 the company changed its name to Sony. When Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was looking for a name to use to market themselves, they strongly considered using their initials. The primary reason they did not is that the railway company Tokyo Kyuko was known as TTK, the company occasionally used the acronym Totsuko in Japan, but during his visit to the United States, Morita discovered that Americans had trouble pronouncing that name. Another early name that was tried out for a while was Tokyo Teletech until Akio Morita discovered that there was an American company already using Teletech as a brand name, the name Sony was chosen for the brand as a mix of two words. One was the Latin word sonus, which is the root of sonic and sound, and the other was sonny, a common slang term used in 1950s America to call a boy. In the 1950s Japan sonny boys, was a word into Japanese which connoted smart and presentable young men. The first Sony-branded product, the TR-55 transistor radio, appeared in 1955, at the time of the change, it was extremely unusual for a Japanese company to use Roman letters to spell its name instead of writing it in kanji. The move was not without opposition, TTKs principal bank at the time and they pushed for a name such as Sony Electronic Industries, or Sony Teletech. Akio Morita was firm, however, as he did not want the company tied to any particular industry. Eventually, both Ibuka and Mitsui Banks chairman gave their approval, according to Schiffer, Sonys TR-63 radio cracked open the U. S. market and launched the new industry of consumer microelectronics
11.
Sharp Corporation
–
Sharp Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products, headquartered in Sakai-ku, Sakai. Since 2016 it has been a part of Taiwan-based Foxconn Group. Sharp employs more than 50,000 people worldwide, the company was founded in September 1912 in Tokyo and takes its name from one of its founder’s first inventions, the Ever-Sharp mechanical pencil, which was invented by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1915. As of 2013, Sharp Corporation is the tenth-largest, by market share, in Japan it has been a long-time leader. Sharp has at times also been the most popular mobile phone brand in the Japanese market, in 1912, Tokuji Hayakawa founded a metal workshop in Tokyo. The first of his inventions was a snap buckle named ‘Tokubijo’. Another of his inventions was the Ever-Sharp mechanical pencil in 1915, after the pencil business was destroyed by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, the company relocated to Osaka and began designing the first generation of Japanese radio sets. These went on sale in 1925, in 1953, Sharp started producing TV sets. In 1964, Sharp developed the world’s first transistor calculator, which was priced at JP¥535,000 and it took Sharp several years to develop the product as they had no experience in making computing devices at the time. Two years later, in 1966, Sharp introduced its first IC calculator using 145 Mitsubishi-made bipolar ICs and its first LSI calculator was introduced in 1969. This was the first pocketable calculator priced at less than JP¥100,000, the company produced the first LCD calculator in 1973. All of these units are considered collectors items on the secondary market, one of the company’s main inventors of LCD calculators was Tadashi Sasaki. The company ventured into the high end stereo market in 1976 with the introduction of high end receivers, amplifiers, speakers, turntables and cassette players. The Optonica line as it was called, consisted of quality and technically advanced components. The line was changed, in 1981, and moved mainly into digital high end. Sharp’s Mobile Communications Division created the world’s first commercial camera phone, since 2000, Sharp has heavily invested in LCD panel manufacturing plants, Kameyama in 2004, Sakai in 2009. The Sakai plant is still the only 10th generation LCD manufacturing plant on the globe, however, the 2008 financial crisis and strong Yen significantly lowered world demand for Japanese LCD panels. Furthermore, the switch to digital TV broadcasting was completed in Japan by the middle of 2011
12.
Android Wear
–
Android Wear is a version of Googles Android operating system designed for smartwatches and other wearables. It also adds the ability to download applications from the Google Play Store, Android Wear supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G and LTE connectivity, as well as a range of features and applications. Watch face styles include round, square and rectangular, released devices include Motorola Moto 360, the LG G Watch, and the Samsung Gear Live. Hardware manufacturing partners include Asus, Broadcom, Fossil, HTC, Intel, LG, MediaTek, Imagination Technologies, Motorola, New Balance, Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei, Polar and TAG Heuer. In the first six months of availability, Canalys estimates that over 720,000 Android Wear smartwatches were shipped, as of 15 January 2016, Android Wear had between one and five million application installations. Android Wear was estimated to account for 10% of the watch market in 2015. The platform was announced on March 18,2014, along with the release of a developer preview, at the same time, companies such as Motorola, Samsung, LG, HTC and Asus were announced as partners. On June 25,2014, at Google I/O, the Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch were launched, the LG G Watch is the first Android Wear smartwatch to be released and shipped. Motorolas Moto 360 was released on September 5,2014, on December 10,2014, an update started to roll out, adding new features including a watch face API and changed the software to be based on Android 5.0 Lollipop. The LG G Watch and Gear Live started shipping in July 2014, the next batch of Android Wear devices, which arrived at the end of 2014, included the Asus ZenWatch, the Sony SmartWatch 3, and the LG G Watch R. As of March 2015, the latest Android Wear devices are the LG Watch Urbane, on August 31,2015, Google launched pairing application for iOS version 8.2 or newer, allowing limited support for receiving iOS notifications on smartwatches running Android Wear. As of September 2015, only the LG Watch Urbane and Huawei Watch are supported, options include a screen always on feature and a tilt to wake screen setting, to light the screen automatically. Users can find directions by voice from the phone, choose transport mode, including bike, while traveling, the watch shows directions, and vibrates to indicate turns by feel. Via Google Fit and similar applications, Android Wear supports ride, on devices sporting the needed sensor, heart activity can be sampled automatically through the day or on demand. Step-counting, calorie expenditure etc. are also monitored and these features work within the Fit ecosystem, allowing integration with companion devices and applications. The watch reinforces achievements with cards noting goal attainment, when a goal is near, summaries of heart, users can use their Android Wear Watch to control their phone. The screen then shows a card for play-control, volume, skip, media images, the vibration engine alerts users about important notifications originating from a user-selectable set of applications. Wear provides multiple options for replying, including Google Voice for dictating responses to email, users can receive messages sent to them via Google Hangouts, and respond with a voice message
13.
Video game
–
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor. The word video in video game referred to a raster display device. Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial, the electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms, examples of these are personal computers and video game consoles. These platforms range from large mainframe computers to small handheld computing devices, the input device used for games, the game controller, varies across platforms. Common controllers include gamepads, joysticks, mouse devices, keyboards, the touchscreens of mobile devices, and buttons, or even, with the Kinect sensor, a persons hands and body. Players typically view the game on a screen or television or computer monitor, or sometimes on virtual reality head-mounted display goggles. There are often game sound effects, music and, in the 2010s, some games in the 2000s include haptic, vibration-creating effects, force feedback peripherals and virtual reality headsets. In the 2010s, the game industry is of increasing commercial importance, with growth driven particularly by the emerging Asian markets and mobile games. As of 2015, video games generated sales of USD74 billion annually worldwide, early games used interactive electronic devices with various display formats. The earliest example is from 1947—a Cathode ray tube Amusement Device was filed for a patent on 25 January 1947, by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann, and issued on 14 December 1948, as U. S. Written by MIT students Martin Graetz, Steve Russell, and Wayne Wiitanens on a DEC PDP-1 computer in 1961, and the hit ping pong-style Pong, used the DEC PDP-1s vector display to have two spaceships battle each other. In 1971, Computer Space, created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was the first commercially sold and it used a black-and-white television for its display, and the computer system was made of 74 series TTL chips. The game was featured in the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green, Computer Space was followed in 1972 by the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console. Modeled after a late 1960s prototype console developed by Ralph H. Baer called the Brown Box and these were followed by two versions of Ataris Pong, an arcade version in 1972 and a home version in 1975 that dramatically increased video game popularity. The commercial success of Pong led numerous other companies to develop Pong clones and their own systems, the game inspired arcade machines to become prevalent in mainstream locations such as shopping malls, traditional storefronts, restaurants, and convenience stores. The game also became the subject of articles and stories on television and in newspapers and magazines. Space Invaders was soon licensed for the Atari VCS, becoming the first killer app, the term platform refers to the specific combination of electronic components or computer hardware which, in conjunction with software, allows a video game to operate. The term system is commonly used
14.
Bluetooth
–
Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, and building personal area networks. Invented by telecom vendor Ericsson in 1994, it was conceived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables. It can connect up to seven devices, overcoming problems that older technologies had when attempting to connect to each other. Bluetooth is managed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which has more than 30,000 member companies in the areas of telecommunication, computing, networking, the IEEE standardized Bluetooth as IEEE802.15.1, but no longer maintains the standard. The Bluetooth SIG oversees development of the specification, manages the qualification program, a manufacturer must meet Bluetooth SIG standards to market it as a Bluetooth device. A network of patents apply to the technology, which are licensed to individual qualifying devices, the development of the short-link radio technology, later named Bluetooth, was initiated in 1989 by Nils Rydbeck, CTO at Ericsson Mobile in Lund, Sweden, and by Johan Ullman. The purpose was to develop wireless headsets, according to two inventions by Johan Ullman, SE 8902098-6, issued 1989-06-12 and SE9202239, issued 1992-07-24, Nils Rydbeck tasked Tord Wingren with specifying and Jaap Haartsen and Sven Mattisson with developing. Both were working for Ericsson in Lund, the specification is based on frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology. The idea of this name was proposed in 1997 by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow mobile phones to communicate with computers, at the time of this proposal he was reading Frans G. Bengtssons historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and King Harald Bluetooth. The implication is that Bluetooth does the same with communications protocols, the Bluetooth logo is a bind rune merging the Younger Futhark runes and, Haralds initials. Bluetooth operates at frequencies between 2402 and 2480 MHz, or 2400 and 2483.5 MHz including guard bands 2 MHz wide at the end and 3.5 MHz wide at the top. This is in the globally unlicensed Industrial, Scientific and Medical 2.4 GHz short-range radio frequency band, Bluetooth uses a radio technology called frequency-hopping spread spectrum. Bluetooth divides transmitted data into packets, and transmits each packet on one of 79 designated Bluetooth channels, each channel has a bandwidth of 1 MHz. It usually performs 800 hops per second, with Adaptive Frequency-Hopping enabled, Bluetooth low energy uses 2 MHz spacing, which accommodates 40 channels. Originally, Gaussian frequency-shift keying modulation was the modulation scheme available. Since the introduction of Bluetooth 2. 0+EDR, π/4-DQPSK and 8DPSK modulation may also be used between compatible devices, devices functioning with GFSK are said to be operating in basic rate mode where an instantaneous data rate of 1 Mbit/s is possible. The term Enhanced Data Rate is used to describe π/4-DPSK and 8DPSK schemes, the combination of these modes in Bluetooth radio technology is classified as a BR/EDR radio. Bluetooth is a protocol with a master-slave structure
15.
Gamepad
–
A gamepad, is a type of game controller held in two hands, where the fingers are used to provide input. They are typically the main input device for video game consoles, gamepads generally feature a set of buttons handled with the right thumb and a direction controller handled with the left. The direction controller has traditionally been a four-way digital cross, there are programmable joysticks that can emulate keyboard input. Generally they have made to circumvent the lack of joystick support in some computer games. Initially used toggle switches built into the computer display to control the game. These switches were awkward and uncomfortable to use, so Alan Kotok and Bob Saunders built and this device has been called the earliest gamepad. The third generation of video games saw many changes. Nintendo developed a device for directional inputs, a D-pad with a cross design for their Donkey Kong handheld game. This design would be incorporated into their Game & Watch series, though developed because they were more compact than joysticks, and thus more appropriate for handheld games, game designers soon discovered that D-pads were more comfortable to use than joysticks. The original Sega Genesis control pad has three buttons, but a six-button pad was later released. The inclusion of six action buttons was influenced by the popularity of the Street Fighter arcade series, for most of the 1980s and early 1990s, analog joysticks were the predominant form of gaming controller for PCs, while console gaming controllers were mostly digital. This changed in 1996, when all three major consoles introduced an optional analog control, despite these changes, gamepads essentially continued to follow the template set by the NES controller. Gamepads failed to any soft of dominance outside of the home console market, though several PC gamepads have enjoyed popularity. In 1994 Logitech introduced the CyberMan, the first practical six degrees of freedom controller, but due to its price, poor build quality. Industry insiders blame the CyberMans high profile and costly failure for the gaming industrys lack of interest in developing 3D control over the several years. The Wii Remote is shaped like a remote control and contains tilt sensors and three-dimensional pointing which allows the system to understand all directions of movement. The controller is also multifunctional and includes a bay which can be used with different types of peripherals. An analog stick peripheral called Nunchuk also contains an accelerometer but unlike the Wii Remote, gamepads are also available for personal computers
16.
Google Play Games
–
Google Play Games is an online gaming service and software development kit operated by Google for the Android operating system. It features real-time multiplayer gaming capabilities, cloud saves, social and public leaderboards, the Play Games service allows developers to incorporate the above features into their games without having to develop those features from scratch themselves. The Google Play Games service was introduced at the Google I/O2013 Developer Conference, andrew Webster of The Verge compared Google Play Games to Game Center, a similar gaming network for users of Apple Inc. s own iOS operating system. Google Play Games has received updates over the years since its launch, including a screen-recording feature, and custom gamer IDs
17.
Asus
–
AsusTek Computer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational computer hardware and electronics company headquartered in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. The company is also an original equipment manufacturer, Asus is the worlds 4th-largest PC vendor by 2015 unit sales.3 billion. Asus has a listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under the ticker code 2357. The company is referred to as Asus or Huáshuò in Chinese. According to the website, the name Asus originates from Pegasus. Only the last four letters of the word were used in order to give the name a high position in alphabetical listings, the companys slogan/tagline was Rock Solid. Persistent Perfection. and is currently In Search of Incredible, persistent Perfection In Search of Incredible Asus was founded in Taipei in 1989 by T. H. Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M. T, liao, all four having previously worked at Acer as hardware engineers. At this time, Taiwan had yet to establish a position in the computer-hardware business. According to the legend, the created a prototype for a motherboard using an Intel 486. When Asus approached Intel to request a processor to test it, Asus solved Intels problem and it turned out that Asus own motherboard worked correctly without the need for further modification. Since then, Asus was receiving Intel engineering samples ahead of its competitors, in September 2005 Asus released the first PhysX accelerator card. In December 2005 Asus entered the LCD TV market with the TLW32001 model, in January 2006 ASUS announced that it would cooperate with Lamborghini to develop the VX series. On 9 March 2006 Asus was confirmed as one of the manufacturers of the first Microsoft Origami models, together with Samsung, on 8 August 2006 Asus announced a joint venture with Gigabyte Technology. On 5 June 2007 Asus announced the launch of the Eee PC at COMPUTEX Taipei, on 9 September 2007 Asus indicated support for Blu-ray, announcing the release of a BD-ROM/DVD writer PC drive, BC-1205PT. ASUS subsequently released several Blu-ray based notebooks, in January 2008, Asus began a major restructuring of its operations, splitting into three independent companies, Asus, Pegatron, and Unihan Corporation. In the process of the restructuring, a highly criticized pension-plan restructuring effectively zeroed out the existing pension balances, the company paid out all contributions previously made by employees. On 9 December 2008, the Open Handset Alliance announced that Asus had become one of 14 new members of the organization, on 1 June 2010, Asus spun off Pegatron Corp
18.
Microconsole
–
A microconsole is a type of video game console. In late 2010, cloud gaming startup OnLive released MicroConsole, a television adapter, the MicroConsole TV adapter was produced at a loss. OnLives MicroConsole made the company a leader in the nascent microconsole field. The Ouya was a success and raised $8.5 million. Significant interest in low-cost Android console gaming followed Ouyas success, spurred by the games industry growth. The industry began to refer to the consoles as alternative consoles. Forbess Daniel Nye Griffiths referred to Ouya and GameSticks close release dates as the fields first showdown. The GamePop and MOJO announcements in the summer referred to the devices as microconsoles. The PlayStation TV is a microconsole announced in September 2013 at a Sony Computer Entertainment Japan presentation and it was released in Japan on November 14,2013 and in North America on October 14,2014. Gamasutra called Ouya, GameStick, and GamePop console alternatives that represent a new market space for developers. Microconsole promises of a less restrictive platform are expected to empower independent game developers, kelly referred to the deliberately small microconsoles as the netbooks of the console world, not intended to compete with big video game consoles. Other reviewers called the microconsoles competitors, though not a threat, kelly added that Ouya is heavily focused on the early adopter audience and its interests, and that Ouyas natural advantage of price has not been communicated effectively. Edge questioned possibilities of success due to competition within the field as well as from Nintendo, Sony. The pre-release Ouya was panned by early reviewers, the Verge called it unfinished, and in a later review, Eurogamer questioned why consumers would purchase a console that duplicated the functionality of smartphones they already had. The video game saw the digital media receiver on Apples Apple TV as potential microconsole competition due to the companys experience in the mobile games market. List of microconsoles Mobile game Cloud gaming Handheld TV game Video game clones
19.
Xiaomi
–
Xiaomi Inc. is a privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. It is the worlds 5th largest smartphone maker, Xiaomi designs, develops, and sells smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics. The companys founder and CEO is Lei Jun, Chinas 23rd richest person according to Forbes, the company sold over 60 million smartphones in 2014. The company has over 8,000 employees, mainly in mainland China, India, Malaysia, and Singapore, and is expanding to other such as Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa. According to IDC, in October 2014 Xiaomi was the third largest smartphone maker in the world, following Samsung and Apple Inc. and followed by Lenovo, Xiaomi became the largest smartphone vendor in China in 2014, having overtaken Samsung, according to an IDC report. Xiaomi is 4th worlds most valuable technology start-up after it received US$1.1 billion funding from investors, Xiaomi entered the Indian market in July 2014 via flipkart. com. Xiaomi is the Chinese word for millet, in 2011 its CEO Lei Jun suggested there are more meanings than just the millet and rice. He also stated that he thinks the name is cute, in 2012 Lei Jun said that the name is about revolution and being able to bring innovation into a new area. Xiaomis new Rifle processor has given weight to several sources linking the latter meaning to the Communist Party of Chinas millet, Xiaomi was co-founded by eight partners on 6 April 2010. On 16 August 2010, Xiaomi officially launched its first Android-based firmware MIUI, the Xiaomi Mi1 smartphone was announced in August 2011. It was shipped with Xiaomis MIUI firmware which is based on Android and resembles Samsungs TouchWiz, the device could also be equipped with stock Android. In August 2012 Xiaomi announced the Xiaomi Mi2 smartphone, the phone was powered by Qualcomms Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064, a 1.5 GHz quad-core Krait chip featuring with 2 GB of RAM and the Adreno 320 GPU. The company said on 24 September 2013 that the company had sold over 10 million Mi2 devices over the preceding 11 months, mi-2 smartphones were sold by wireless phone vendor Mobicity in Australia, Europe, New Zealand, the UK and the US. On 5 September 2013, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced plans to launch an Android-based 47-inch 3D-capable Smart TV, the company explained the choice as to take advantage of Wistrons skill as a supplier of Sony. In September 2013, Xiaomi announced its Mi3 phone, with a version powered by the Snapdragon 800, a 2.3 GHz quad-core Krait chip featuring with 2 GB of RAM and the Adreno 330 GPU. On 25 September 2013, Xiaomi announced plans to open its first service center in Beijing, by October 2013 Xiaomi was reported as the fifth-most-used smartphone brand in China. In 2013 it sold 18.7 million smartphones, and 26.1 million in the first half of 2014, in 2014 Xiaomi announced its expansion outside China, with their first stop in Singapore. The international headquarters, which will coordinate all activities including future product launches in the region, Xiaomis Redmi and Mi3 phone were released in Singapore on 21 February –7 March 2014
20.
Bravia (brand)
–
BRAVIA is a brand of Sony Visual Products Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, and used for its television products. Its backronym is Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture, all Sony high-definition flat-panel LCD televisions in North America have carried the logo for BRAVIA since 2005. BRAVIA replaces the LCD WEGA which Sony used for their LCD TVs until Summer 2005, the brand is also used on mobile phones in North American, Japanese and European markets. In 2014, in part of Hirais plans to turn Sony around, noteworthy for being the first Android TV available. In September 2016, Sony announced that TVs older than 2012 will lose access to YouTube, in April 2007, Sony launched the BRAVIA TDM-IP1, a docking cradle to permit playback of audio and video hosted on an Apple iPod on a BRAVIA model television. Current accessories available include a Skype camera and Wi-Fi adapter, Sony Bravia Internet Video first became available in late 2009 on Internet enabled Bravia TVs, later becoming available on Sony Blu-ray and home theatre systems. The original Bravia Internet Video was built around Sonys XMB interface and had several streaming media partners including, Amazon Video On Demand, YouTube,2011 saw a revamp of Bravia Internet Video, with a rework of the interface and an added Skype capability. Sony Bravia Internet TV is the first TV to incorporate Google TV, XBR8 is a series of Sony BRAVIA LCD High Definition Televisions. They were released into the US marketplace starting in September 2008, the 46- and 55-inch models of the XBR8 series features an RGB LED backlight system which Sony calls Triluminos. The new backlight system is claimed to provide a truer and higher color spectrum and this model also marked the debut of Sonys new video processor, the BRAVIA Engine 2 Pro. The display panel uses ten-bit processing and offers the 120 Hz MotionFlow technology, the XBR8 line offers two screen sizes, the 46 was released on September 29,2008. The second model, the 55 became available for order in October 2008, for consumers who rely on electricity generated from carbon dioxide emitting sources, it reduces carbon dioxide emissions totaling 79 kilograms a year. Sony uses a BRAVIA image processing engine in high-end mobile devices produced by its Sony Ericsson communications arm, subsequent flagship models of Sonys smartphone range such as the Xperia S, and Xperia Z use enhanced versions of the BRAVIA engine. In addition, BRAVIA brand phones have been produced by Sony/Sony Ericsson, BRAVIA brand phones are able to watch 1seg terrestrial television. For NTT DoCoMo FOMA SO903iTV FOMA SO906i FOMA SO-01C For au by KDDI U1 S004 S005 The LCD panels within BRAVIA TVs are manufactured by Sony corporation with a special architecture. Since 2010, high end Bravia LX, HX and selected NX series use 10th gen Sony Bravia ASV panel, the 8th gen SPVA panel from Sony LCD continue to serve other midrange and budget Bravia models. Many Sony televisions with USB connectivity run Linux, the software can be upgraded via a USB type A interface labeled DMEx / service only and via the Internet for later models. 2006–2007 models may be updated using Memory Stick or USB, depending upon the country and TV standard the Tuner may need a Service Device to update it
21.
Arcelik
–
Arçelik A. Ş. is a household appliances manufacturer from Turkey. The Company engages in the production and marketing of goods, components, consumer electronics. Arçelik A. Ş. is active in more than 100 countries including China, the Company operates 15 production plants in Turkey, Romania, Russia, China, South Africa and Thailand including refrigerator, washing machine, dishwasher, cooking appliances and components plants. It offers products under its own Eleven brand names, including Arçelik, Beko, Grundig, Dawlance, Altus, Blomberg, Arctic, Defy, Leisure, Arstil, Elektra Bregenz and Flavel. It is also the fourth largest household appliances company in Europe after Bosch & Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, Electrolux and its top executives are Aka Gündüz Özdemir, Durable Goods President of the Koç Group, and General Manager Levent Çakıroğlu. Arçelik has been ranked Number One in the Private Sector for the 14th time in 19 years in Turkey’s Top 500 Industrial Corporations survey that was carried out by the Istanbul Chamber of Industry. Arçelik was founded in 1955 and entered the Turkish white goods sector by producing its first washing machine in 1959, in 1968, Arçelik moved to its Çayırova facilities near Istanbul. In the 1970s and 1980s, the company expanded its range and opened its Eskişehir refrigerator plant in 1975, İzmir vacuum cleaner plant in 1979. 1999 was a year of growth and reorganization, Arçelik founded Ardem to manufacture cooking appliances and brought under its roof Türk Elektrik Endüstrisi A. Ş. and Atılım ve Gelişim Pazarlama A. Ş. as a single legal entity. In 2001, Arçelik took over the marketing and sales activities of Beko products that used to be marketed, the new organization model enabled the company to manage production and sales/marketing activities centrally and to increase productivity. Most recently, the plan between Arçelik A. Ş. and Grundig Elektronik A. Ş. was declared on February 27,2009. The companys recent goal is to one of the ten most preferred global brands in its sector by the year 2010. To reach this goal brands like Grundig, Elektra Bregenz, Blomberg, Arctic, Leisure, Flavel, and Troila have been incorporated in addition to existing Arçelik, Beko, in accordance with international expansion strategies, the company seeks to maintain its competitive edge through continuous development. As for the marketing and advertising strategy of the company in the UK, Beko launched a campaign with the slogan, Beko. It was widely seen on LED advertising boards used at Premier League football grounds in England and this has now changed to Beko, Home appliances. The company used to sponsor Watford FC, who play in the Football League Championship, during the 2007-2008, moreover, Beko was the main sponsor of Eurobasket 2009 and the presenting sponsor of 2010 World Mens Basketball championship. In addition to these, Beko is the sponsor of Turkish Basketball League since 2007-2008 season. According to company data, Arçelik/Beko holds a 7 per cent share of the European free-standing appliances market and 5 per cent of the OBM market
22.
Bang & Olufsen
–
Bang & Olufsen is a Danish consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets, and telephones. It was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, in 2004, the company opened a factory in the Czech Republic where it employs approximately 250 staff producing mainly audio products. Peter Bang, son of Camillo Bang, a successful Danish businessman, after graduating as an engineer in 1924, he spent six months working in a U. S. radio factory. Upon his return to Denmark, he teamed up with his friend Svend Olufsen, when they officially opened their business in 1925, Bang concentrated on the technology while Olufsen dealt with business. It was, however, many years before their business became significantly profitable, in the 1990s B&O opened dedicated B&O stores selling directly to users instead of selling through retailers. Production of audio separates was discontinued in favor of mini-type audio systems sold, as was usual for B&O, at a price higher than the industry average.50. A restructuring plan included 300 layoffs in Denmark on 21 October 2008, and the abandonment of development of new phones, MP3 players. Instead, the company focus on its traditional strengths, high-quality audio. B&O returned to profitability in 2010, Bang & Olufsen revealed in January 2015 that the firm would consider bid approaches from rivals due to a profit warning issued at the end of 2014. In March 2015, HP announced that Bang & Olufsen would become the new premium audio partner for its computers. The partnership replaced one with Beats Electronics which ended upon its acquisition by Apple Inc, despite its decision to suspend the manufacture of separate components, B&O continues to develop and market loudspeakers. Its flagship speaker, the BeoLab 5, uses digital signal processing to adjust its frequency response to the room, B&O acquired the audio lens technology in 2007. Audi markets this system using the Bang & Olufsen brand name. A unique feature of this system is its motorized tweeters that emerge from the dashboard when the sound system is turned on. Audi subsequently extended the optional advanced sound system to their A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, Q5, Q7, TT and it is a US$6,300 option on the A8/Q7. B&O has a distinctive design appeal that Wired described as quality media delivery via striking objects, to this end, psychoacoustics was important to designing and testing B&O products. By 1960 Bang & Olufsen had begun its foray into global markets with star designers Henning Moldenhawer, B&O hires designers rather than directly employing them in the company. David Lewis, who involved with B&O in 1965 then went on to design most of the companys products after 1980
23.
Hisense
–
Hisense Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational white goods and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong province, China. It is an enterprise with publicly traded subsidiaries. Hisense has 13 manufacturing facilities in China and several outside of China, namely in Hungary, South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, France, Hisense retails products under several brand names. These include Combine, Kelon and Ronshen, etc, Hisense is also an OEM, so some of the products it makes are sold to other manufacturers and carry a brand name not related to Hisense. In 2015 it acquired the right to sell televisions in the Americas using the name of former Japanese firm Sharp. It also makes televisions under its own name as of 2013, Hisense a Chinese Company grew out of Qingdao No.2 Radio Factory, setup in September or December of 1969 by Qingdao governmental authorities. This was the year its existence was first officially recognized and this involved technical training of three employees at another Chinese factory, Tianjin 712, and resulted in the production of 82 televisions by 1971 and the development of transistor TVs by 1975. Television production in China was limited until 1979 when a Beijing meeting of the Ministry of Electronics called for development of the civil-use electronics industry. Qingdao No.2 Radio Factory was then merged with other local electronics makers. The companies it has bought from include Hitachi, Lucent, Matsushita, NEC, Sanyo, Toshiba, the Hisense Group emerged in 1994 from a tumult started in 1992 by then-president Zhou Houjian or perhaps even by Li Dezhen, director of the Electronic Instrument Bureau of Qingdao. The Hisense Electrical Appliance Share Holding Company was publicly listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in April 1997, increased competition and price wars in the Chinese electronics market in the 1990s were a boon to Hisense, which acquired ten failing enterprises by 1998. Eager to expand beyond consumer electronics, Hisense Group aimed to become a regional leader in household appliances, computers. This strategy prompted great outlays of capital on R&D and on the creation of industrial parks, in July 2015, Hisense bought a Mexico facility from Sharp for $23.7 million alongside rights to use the Sharp brand on televisions sold in North and South America. It also provides a variety of services, including property management, information services, product design, mold design. Hisense sells under multiple brand names, affixed to no frills air conditioners and refrigerators, Combine-branded products may be purchased by Chinese farmers. A brand of commercial air-conditioners designed and manufactured by a joint venture of Hisense, Kelon, a high-end brand under Hisense, can be found on refrigerators and air-conditioners. High quality, middle-end air conditioners and refrigerators retail under brand name. A home appliance brand, from the eponymous English word, Hisense owns over 40 subsidiaries, both in and outside of China
24.
RCA (trademark)
–
RCA is an American trademark brand owned by Technicolor SA, which is used on products made by that company as well as Voxx International, ON Corporation and Sony Music Entertainment. RCA stood for Radio Corporation of America, a company later became RCA Corporation which was purchased by General Electric in 1986. As a perpetual license, it has survived both GEs sale of the brand to Thomson and BMGs transfer of the labels to Sony BMG, RCA Accessories, Manufactured by Voxx, produces Audio and video connectors, remote controls, keyboards, mice and television antennas. RCA Televisions, Manufactured by ON Corporation RCA Car Stereo, Also known as RCA Mobile RCA Appliances, Produces RCA brand Microwaves, refrigerators, RCA Computers, Produces RCA Computers marketed by American Future Technology Corporation RCA Computer Tablets, RCA tablets manufactured by Alco Electronics Ltd. RCA Projectors, Manufactured by Telefield RCA Digital TV Box, Produces RCA Set-top Boxes marketed by Search Commercial Inc, BMG and Thomson bought those assets from General Electric, which took over the RCA conglomerate in 1986 and kept RCAs NBC broadcast television interests. Initially, GE continued to control the RCA trademarks which were licensed to Thomson. Thomson eventually bought the RCA trademarks in 2003 subject to the perpetual license GE had issued to BMG, Bertelsmann AG was new to the RCA family. Sony took full ownership of Sony BMG in 2008 and the company was renamed Sony Music. Thomson started as the French subsidiary of Thomson-Houston Electric, a company later evolved into General Electric. RCA sponsored the Argentinian football San Lorenzo de Almagro from 2005 until 2007, in the mid-1990s, RCA bought the naming rights to the Hoosier Dome. RCA was the sponsor for the #98 Cale Yarborough Racing NASCAR team between 1995 and 1997
25.
TCL Corporation
–
TCL Corporation is a Chinese multinational electronics company headquartered in Huizhou, Guangdong Province. It designs, develops, manufactures and sells products including television sets, mobile phones, air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, in 2010 it was the worlds 25th-largest consumer electronics producer. In 2013, it was third-largest television producer by market share, TCL comprises four listed companies, TCL Corporation which is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings, Ltd. TCL Display Technology and Tonly Electronics which are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, tCLs current corporate slogan is The Creative Life. The company was founded in 1981 under the brand name TTK as a cassette maker making knock-off TDK cassettes, in 1985, after being sued by TDK for IP violation, the company changed its name to TCL by taking the initial letters from Telephone Communication Limited. It began manufacturing consumer electronics for the Chinese market during the 1980s, though a state-owned enterprise, TCL was established as a joint venture with several Hong Kong-based investors. At the beginning, TCL was referred as an acronym for True China Lion, in July 2003, TCL chairman Li Dongsheng formally announced a Dragon and Tiger Plan to establish two competitive TCL businesses in global markets and three leading businesses inside China. In November 2003, TCL and Thomson SA of France announced the creation of a joint venture to produce televisions, in April 2004, TCL and Alcatel announced the creation of a mobile phone manufacturing joint venture, Alcatel Mobile Phones. TCL injected 55 million euros in the venture in return for a 55 per cent shareholding, in June 2007, TCL announced that its mobile phone division planned to cease using the Alcatel brand and switch entirely to the TCL brand within five years. In April 2008, Samsung Electronics announced that it would be outsourcing the production of some LCD TV modules to TCL, in July 2008, TCL announced that it planned to raise 1. TCL sold a total of 4.18 million LCD TV sets in 2008, in January 2009, TCL announced plans to double its LCD TV production capacity to 10 million units by the end of 2009. In January 2013, TCL bought the rights for Graumans Chinese Theatre for $5 million. In 2014, TCL changed the meaning of its initials from Telephone Communication Limited to a branding slogan, The Creative Life. In October 2014, TCL acquired the Palm brand from HP for use on smartphones, in 2016, TCL reached an agreement with BlackBerry Limited to produce smartphones under the BlackBerry brand. It has 18 R&D centers,20 major manufacturing facilities and over 40 sales offices worldwide, tCLs primary products are TVs, DVD players, air conditioners, GSM and CDMA mobile phones, personal computers, home appliances, electric lighting, and digital media. It primarily sells its products under the TCL brand name in Africa, Asia, Australasia, North America, South America and it also manufactures some products sold under the RCA brand name in the United States. The company, as of April 2012, is in venture with Swedish furniture giant IKEA to provide the consumer electronics behind the Uppleva integrated HDTV, official Website Economic Observer Businessweek article about the Company Company Stock Listing Skyworth
26.
Vestel
–
Vestel is a Turkish home and professional appliances manufacturing company consisting of 18 companies specialised in electronics, major appliances and information technology. Vestels headquarters and production plant are located in Manisa, while the companys parent conglomerate is the Istanbul based Zorlu Holding, Vestel, together with its subsidiary brands has a significant share in the European market of consumer electronics and home appliances, in particular TV sets. As of 2006, Vestel was the largest TV producer in Europe with more than 8 million units sold, Vestel also has a subsidiary brand Vestfrost, used for white goods sold in the Nordic countries. In 2014, Vestel entered the smartphone market, techwood, a consumer electronics brand Telefunken is manufactured under license from the brand owner. Vestel said it would use Toshibas plant in Wrocław, Poland to make TVs to be sold as Toshibas, AKAI - for some countries, Vestel sets are branded Akai. CROWN - Vestel sells TV sets under the name CROWN, Daewoo - some TV sets made by Vestel are marketed under the Daewoo brand in some countries. Dual - a German electronics brand, some Dual brand TV are manufactured by Vestel. Emerson - some sets sold under the Emerson brand in some European countries were made by Vestel, Ferguson - LCD TV sets branded Ferguson and marketed by a Polish company, are made by Vestel. Funai - some Funai CRT sets were made by Vestel, gorenje - Vestel has made TVs for the Slovenian white goods manufacturer. Hitachi - Vestel is rebranding some of its TV sets as Hitachi, horizon Global Electronics - low cost brand, usually LED TVs, marketed in Romania by NOD distribution, previous ASEsoft. Hyundai - TV Sets, both TFT and CRT TV sets were manufactured by Vestel, for some countries ITT and Schaub & Lorenz - some sets under these German brands are made by Vestel. JVC - some JVC TVs, both flat panel and CRT models, were manufactured by Vestel, which sells LCD TVs in some countries as JVC brand equipment. Linsar - Vestel manufactured products for this independent British company, set up in 2006, medion - Vestel has manufactured many TVs sold under this Chinese-owned German consumer electronics brand - and under the Tevion, Microstar, Lifetec brands. Mitchell & Brown- Exciting new British Brand manufactured by Europe’s largest TV manufacturer, no.1 - Vestel has made TVs and appliances sold under this brand, which belongs to Frances Carrefour hypermarket chain. Nordmende - some Vestel TV sets are marketed under Nordmende brand, Orion - some TV sets made by Vestel are branded Orion Electric, for some countries. Orion TV sets with Vestel chassis, were usually belonging to ORION Hungary, Palladium - a brand of TV Sets. Some Palladium sets were made by Vestel, Panasonic - some LED TVs sets from Panasonic, such as the A300, CX350 and CX400, are made by Vestel, these are mainly entry level/budget, HD-ready, HD and some low cost Ultra HD 4K models. Philips - some LED TVs from Philips - mainly entry level models, Polaroid - LCD TV sets from Polaroid, in Europe, are made by Vestel
27.
Free (ISP)
–
Free is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Iliad that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France. Its head office is in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, Free provides ISP services in France and in the 30 OECD countries. Developing its own 3G and 4G networks, Free Mobile was launched in 2012, Free was the third ISP in France to offer Internet access without a subscription or a surcharged phone number, on 26 April 1999. Unlike its predecessors in the niche of access without subscription, Frees offer was not restricted in time or number of subscribers, in 2002, Free was the first ISP to provide a V.92 connection. Since September 2002, Free contributed significantly to French ADSL boom, the offer was able to launch as soon as the incumbent was forced to stop abuse of dominant position and to apply fair wholesale prices. Unbundling, in France, refers to the obligation for the incumbent carrier France Telecom to lease the Local loop, because it is a natural monopoly. Free has to pay a fee of €9 per month. Although more expensive than the real cost of €7.63, since January 2003, a Freenaut has maintained an unofficial website showing figures and graphics about Free unbundled network deployment. Another Freenaut website has provided network status monitoring maps Unbundling status and these initiatives are made possible thanks to the transparency of Frees network, their equipment replies to ping and has a meaningful reverse DNS. On 11 November 2006, Free announced the deployment of a new fiber to the network for its subscribers. The initial plans goal is to cover Paris as well as towns in the Paris suburbs. By December 2007, the work was 30% finished, and the work was progressing at a furious pace. On 31 August 2007, Free updated the offer more details. Download bandwidth shall be 100 Mbit/s and TV services shall be available for two televisions, at the price of €29. 99/month. Free has developed its own fiber network technology, called Iliad P2P, based on Ethernet in the First Mile, high curvature optic fibers are manufactured by the Dutch company Draka. The deployment is still essentially in the phase, and large-scale deployment to customers is foreseen. On 26 June 2008, Maxime Lombardini and the mayor inaugurated Frees FTTH network in a district of Montpellier. On March 2008, Iliad made the commitment to cover Paris at 75% by the half of 2009
28.
Bouygues Telecom
–
Bouygues Telecom is a French mobile phone, Internet service provider and IPTV company, part of the Bouygues group. Its headquarters, designed by Arquitectonica, are located at the border of Paris, in January 2016 Bouygues Telecom were subject to negotiations regarding an acquisition from mobile carrier Orange. The three companies were collectively fined €535 million in total, in November 2007 Bouygues Telecom went to court seeking cancellation on its edition. In February 2009 the company was ordered to take down a phone mast due to uncertainty about its effect on health. Residents in the commune Charbonnières in the Rhône department had sued the company claiming adverse health effects from the emitted by the 19 meter tall antenna. In October 2012 the company charged Solenne San Jose 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros for her phone usage. The company initially offered Solenne San Jose that she could repay in installments, before admitting that the bill was wrong. They sponsored the bicycle racing team Bbox Bouygues Telecom from 2005 to 2010, Official website Official Website for International Visitors
29.
Airtel digital TV
–
Airtel digital TV is an Indian direct-broadcast satellite service provider owned and operated by Bharti Airtel. Its satellite service, launched in 2008, transmits digital satellite television and it has a total subscriber base of 10.07 million as of 30 March 2015. On 4 May 2010, Airtel digital TV announced the launch of its HD+ recorder that records content, on 24 May 2011, Airtel announced that its digital TV HD and HD-DVR boxes are software-enabled to view standard definition content up-scaled to 1080i HD. Airtel Digital TVs standard definition broadcasts are in MPEG-4 with Interactive Service, a universal remote is included in the package that can, over IR frequencies, control both the TV and the DTH box. Airtel Digital TV HD provides channels of resolution 1080 or 720 pixel with 16,9 aspect ratio, the Set-top box is compatible with 7.1 Channel Dolby digital Plus surround sound and is the first HD Set-top box in India to be compliant with the standard. Airtel Digital TV provides On-Demand services on connected boxes that includes a catalog of movies, TV series and other programmes across English and it also offers interactive services such as iDarshan, iKidsworld, iMusicspace and games
30.
Dish Network
–
Dish Network is an American direct-broadcast satellite service provider. The company provides satellite television, satellite Internet access, audio programming, as of November 2016, the company provided services to 13.7 million television and 580,000 broadband subscribers. The company has approximately 16,000 employees, the company is headquartered in Meridian, Colorado, though the postal designation of nearby Englewood, Colorado is used in the corporate mailing address. In January 2008, Dish Network was spun off from its parent company EchoStar. The company began using Dish Network as its brand in March 1997, after the successful launch of its first satellite, EchoStar I. That launch marked the beginning of its television services, and EchoStar has since launched numerous satellites. EchoStar continues to be the technology partner to Dish Network. Joseph Clayton became president and chief officer of the company in June 2011. Clayton remained in the position until March 31,2015 when he retired leaving Ergen to resume the post, Dishs main service is satellite television. Its offerings are similar to satellite and cable companies. Viewers can choose from a series of bundles, paying more money for more channels. A la carte programming is available, however limited other than Premium channels, the company is currently working on diversifying its offerings. With its purchase of Blockbuster LLC, it now owns the Blockbuster trademarks and has used its intellectual property agreement to offer streaming, Dish Anywhere is Dishs subscriber-only streaming video service, which includes HBO and Cinemax programming. In May 2012, the American Customer Satisfaction Index ranked Dish second among American television providers and it weighs ten pounds, is protected from weather, and automatically searches for a signal. The only satellites that are compatible with the Tailgater are at Dishs 119,110. In March 2012, Dish began offering a video recorder called Dish Hopper that can automatically record all prime time programming on the four major television networks. The other half is for video on demand, a Hopper feature, called AutoHop, enables customers to view these programs without commercials, subject to time restrictions. AutoHop has attracted enthusiasts, critics, boycotts and legal action, at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show Dish won an award for their AutoHop feature on the Hopper
31.
Sling TV
–
Sling TV is an American over-the-top internet television service that is owned by Dish Network. Sling TV is led by CEO Roger Lynch, who served as the executive vice president of advanced technologies for Dish Network. The services precursor, the television service DishWorld, was also brought under the auspices of Sling TV LLC and was rebranded as Sling International. Sling TV officially launched on February 9,2015, after offering the service on a basis in January of that year. As of March 2017, the service has approximately 1.18 million subscribers. In November 2014, Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen explained that the company planned to launch its OTT service by the end of the year and he explained, the regular linear MVPD business is a mature business. You cant just go back every day and say Im going to raise my rates to make my budget and you have to figure out other revenue streams and get other people to pay for your product and watch more minutes of your product. Dish did not provide any details on when the service would be launched. Sling TV CEO Roger Lynch explained that the service was designed to target the viewing habits of the 18–35 demographic and we would have ended up with $60 or $70 bundles. We dont think that is the way to reach that demographic and we spent a lot of time working with programmers to make sure we had smaller bundles, lower costs and more flexibility. He also noted the importance of reaching a deal to include ESPN in the service, after an invitation-only beta, Sling TV officially launched on February 9,2015. That same day, Sling announced a deal with AMC Networks, allowing networks such as AMC, IFC, BBC America. On February 16,2015, Sling TV announced an agreement to all four channels of Epix as a premium channel option to its customers. The premium channel was added to its service on April 9,2015, Sling TV debuted Sling Latino on June 4,2015. The service features two Spanish-language packages, Paquete Total and Paquete Esencial, customers can purchase two additional add-on packs, Colombia and España. This service does not require the purchase of the Best of Live TV package, in November 2015, the Blockbuster On Demand service by Blockbuster LLC was shut down and all customers were redirected to Sling. Sling TV began offering a Multi-Stream package on April 13,2016 that includes the FOX family of networks and this was attained by dropping ESPN, ESPN2, Disney Channel, and Freeform. Sling TV added FS2, FXX, Nat Geo Wild and Viacom Media Networks channels to the Multi-Stream package, Sling restructured their channel offerings on June 30,2016, creating the Sling Orange single-stream and Sling Blue multi-stream packages
32.
Television antenna
–
They can also be mounted in a loft or attic, where the dry conditions and increased elevation are advantageous for reception and antenna longevity. Outdoor antennas are more expensive and difficult to install, but are necessary for adequate reception in areas far from television stations. The most common types of antennas are the dipole and loop antennas, and for outdoor antennas the yagi, log periodic. To cover this range, antennas generally consist of multiple conductors of different lengths which correspond to the range the antenna is intended to receive. The length of the elements of a TV antenna are usually half the wavelength of the signal they are intended to receive, the wavelength of a signal equals the speed of light divided by the frequency. The design of a television broadcast receiving antenna is the same for the analog transmissions. Simple half-wave dipole antenna for VHF or UHF loop antennas that are made to be placed indoors are often used for television, these are often called rabbit ears or bunny aerials. The length of the ears can be adjusted by the user. These are not as efficient as a rooftop antenna since they are less directional. Dipole antennas are bi-directional, that is, they receive evenly forward and backwards and this makes them less efficient than antennas designed to maximize the signal from a narrower angle in one direction. These simple antennas are called set-top antennas because they were placed on top of the television set or receiver. The actual length of the ears is optimally about 91% of half the wavelength of the channel in free space. Quarter-wave television antennas are also used and these use a single element, and use the earth as a ground plane, therefore, no ground is required in the feed line. See also, Dipole antenna#Quarter-wave monopole Soon after television broadcasting switched from analog to digital broadcasting, RCA is one manufacturer which has commercially sold a flat antenna. Flat antennas are very lightweight, very thin, and square-shaped like a thin notebook and they connect to televisions, or to digital converter boxes, with a single coaxial cable, and may be sold with an optional signal amplifier. The amplifier must be plugged into a source, but the flat antenna does not require a power source. The flat antenna may need some moving around to achieve an optimum reception, an outdoor TV antenna generally consists of multiple conductive elements that are arranged such that it is a directional antenna. The length of the elements is one half of the signal wavelength
33.
Com Hem
–
Com Hem Aktiebolag of Sweden supplies Triple Play services that include Cable Television, Broadband Internet, Telephone. Today the company has 135+ TV channels available to its TV customers, digital TV was introduced in 1997. A broadband service that uses the companys proprietary Cable Network was launched in 1999, in 2004 VoIP Telephone was introduced and the company became Swedens first nationwide Triple Play Service Provider. All the households connected to the Com Hem Cable Network have access to Broadband Internet services, services, Fixedline Telephony, Com Hem also provides interactive services that facilitate management, communication and maintenance for property owners. The company has around 700 employees with offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås, Härnösand, when Televerket was privatized, the company remained as part of Telia, before being bought by private equity firm EQT. In 2011 the company was acquired by private equity firm BC Partners, Com Hem has been ranked as the TV brand with the least satisfied customers in Sweden 2007,2008 and 2009 according to Svenskt Kvalitetsindex, an independent customer survey company. In areas near Denmark, Norway or Finland, Com Hem usually includes channels from the countries such as TV Finland, YLE TV1, DR1, TV2 Denmark. List of Swedish television channels Official Com Hem website Official Com Hem Group website
34.
The Verge
–
The Verge is an American technology news and media network operated by Vox Media. It has offices in Manhattan, New York City, the network publishes news items, long-form feature stories, product reviews, podcasts, and an entertainment show. The website uses its own proprietary publishing platform with video content, the networks content is financed through advertising and sponsorship and is managed by its editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and executive editor Dieter Bohn. The site launched on November 1,2011, the Verge won five Webby Awards for the year 2012 including awards for Best Writing, Best Podcast for The Vergecast, Best Visual Design, Best Consumer Electronics Site, and Best Mobile News App. Throughout the 2010s, AOL began to acquire websites in pursuit of a new content strategy for the company. One of their first acquisitions was Weblogs, Inc. in 2005, a company that ran dozens of websites, including Engadget, according to Business Insider, Engadget became the industry-leading gadget site, and AOLs most popular and important media property. All Things Digital called it one of the largest in tech, joshua Topolsky became Engadgets editor-in-chief in 2007, and was responsible for new efforts like The Engadget Show and their mobile app, and the sites continued growth. When the acrimony between the two editors escalated in January 2011, AOL didnt intervene, the next month, an internal AOL editor training document called The AOL Way, a new content strategy that prioritized profitability metrics, leaked to the press. The document leaked before Engadget writers and editors saw it internally, the AOL Way dispirited the Engadget staff and created an ideological schism between the two entities. Topolsky and up to eight of Engadgets most prominent writers, editors, the other departing editors included managing editor Nilay Patel and staffers Paul Miller, Ross Miller, Joanna Stern, Chris Ziegler, as well as product developers Justin Glow, and Dan Chilton. In early April 2011, Topolsky announced that their new site would be done in partnership with sports news website SB Nation. Jim Bankoff of SB Nation saw an overlap in the two sites demographics and an opportunity to expand SB Nations model, Bankoff previously worked at AOL in 2005, where he led their Engadget acquisition. Other news outlets viewed the partnership as positive for both SB Nation and Topolskys staff, and negative for AOLs outlook, Bankoff also expressed a wish to attract other journalists and bloggers outside of the sports medium to Vox Media. Development of the Vox Medias content management system, Chorus, is led by Trei Brundrett, by August 2011, the site had reached 1 million unique visitors and 3.4 million page views. By October 2011, the site had 3 million unique views per month and 10 million total page views, time listed the site in its Best Blogs of 2011, calling the prototype site exemplary. The site closed upon The Verges launch on November 1,2011, on June 11,2014, The Verge launched a new section on TheVerge. com called This Is My Next, edited by David Pierce, as a buyers guide for consumer electronics. The Verge launched November 1,2011, along with an announcement of a new parent company, according to the company, the site launched with 4 million unique visitors and 20 million pageviews. At the time of Topolskys departure, Engadget had 14 million unique visitors, Vox Media overall doubled its unique visitors to about 15 million during the last half of 2012
35.
Vox Media
–
Vox Media is an American multinational digital media company founded on August 1,2002 by Jerome Armstrong, Tyler Bleszinsky, and Markos Moulitsas and based in Washington, D. C. and New York City. It currently runs eight editorial brands, SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Vox, voxs brands are built on Chorus, its proprietary content management system. The company owns and operates its offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, the network now features over 300 sites with over 400 paid writers. The site was a spin-off and expansion of Tyler Bleszinskis Oakland Athletics blog Athletics Nation, the popularity of the site led to other sports blogs being incorporated. In 2008, SB Nation hired former AOL executive Jim Bankoff as CEO to assist in its growth and he showed interest in SB Nations goal of building a network of niche-oriented sports websites. As of February 2009, the SB Nation network contained 185 blogs, the 208 percent increase in unique visitors over November 2009 made SB Nation the fastest-growing sports website the company tracked at the time. In 2011, Bankoff hired a number of writers from AOLs technology blog Engadget, including former editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky. Bankoff felt that a website would complement SB Nation due to their overlapping demographics. In November 2011, the company, now renamed Vox Media, officially launched The Verge, in 2012, Vox launched a video gaming website, Polygon, led by former Joystiq editor Christopher Grant. In November 2013, Vox Media acquired the Curbed network, which consisted of the blog network Curbed, the food blog Eater. In May 2015, Vox Media acquired Recode, an industry news website that was founded by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. In December 2014, Vox Media raised a $46.5 million round led by the equity firm General Atlantic. Participants in Vox Medias previous rounds include Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, other funders are Allen & Company, Providence Equity Partners, and various angel investors, including Ted Leonsis, Dan Rosensweig, Jeff Weiner, and Brent Jones. According to sources, the Series C in May 2012, valued Vox at $140 million, Vox Media Inc. is made up of eight media brands, The Verge, Vox, SB Nation, Polygon, Eater, Racked, Curbed, and Recode. The Verge is a news and media network operated by Vox Media with offices in Manhattan. The site launched on November 1,2011, the network publishes news items, long form feature stories, product reviews, podcasts, and an entertainment show. The networks content is managed by its editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and Vox Medias chief content officer Marty Moe, Joshua Topolsky was the editor of Engadget until March 2011. Topolsky and eight of the more prominent editorial and technology staff members at Engadget left AOL to join SB Nation to build a new tech and gadget site
36.
Time (magazine)
–
Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was founded in 1923 and for decades was dominated by Henry Luce, a European edition is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong, the South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney, Australia. In December 2008, Time discontinued publishing a Canadian advertiser edition, Time has the worlds largest circulation for a weekly news magazine, and has a readership of 26 million,20 million of which are based in the United States. As of 2012, it had a circulation of 3.3 million making it the eleventh most circulated magazine in the United States reception room circuit, as of 2015, its circulation was 3,036,602. Richard Stengel was the editor from May 2006 to October 2013. Nancy Gibbs has been the editor since October 2013. Time magazine was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, the two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor respectively of the Yale Daily News. They first called the proposed magazine Facts and they wanted to emphasize brevity, so that a busy man could read it in an hour. They changed the name to Time and used the slogan Take Time–Its Brief and it set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazines cover depicted a single person. More recently, Time has incorporated People of the Year issues which grew in popularity over the years, notable mentions of them were Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Matej Turk, etc. The first issue of Time was published on March 3,1923, featuring Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover, a facsimile reprint of Issue No. 1, including all of the articles and advertisements contained in the original, was included with copies of the February 28,1938 issue as a commemoration of the magazines 15th anniversary. The cover price was 15¢ On Haddens death in 1929, Luce became the dominant man at Time, the Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923–1941. In 1929, Roy Larsen was also named a Time Inc. director, J. P. Morgan retained a certain control through two directorates and a share of stocks, both over Time and Fortune. Other shareholders were Brown Brothers W. A. Harriman & Co. the Intimate History of a Changing Enterprise 1957–1983. According to the September 10,1979 issue of The New York Times, after Time magazine began publishing its weekly issues in March 1923, Roy Larsen was able to increase its circulation by utilizing U. S. radio and movie theaters around the world. It often promoted both Time magazine and U. S. political and corporate interests, Larsen next arranged for a 30-minute radio program, The March of Time, to be broadcast over CBS, beginning on March 6,1931
37.
Time Inc.
–
Time Inc. is an American mass media company founded on November 28,1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City. It owns and publishes over 100 magazine brands, most notably its flagship Time, other magazines include Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Fortune, People, InStyle, Life, Golf Magazine, Southern Living, Essence, Real Simple, and Entertainment Weekly. It also owns the UK magazine house Time Inc, UK, whose major titles include Whats on TV, NME, Country Life and Wallpaper. Time Inc. also operates over 60 websites and digital-only titles including MyRecipes, TheSnug, HelloGiggles, Time Inc. also owns the rights to LIFE, a well-known magazine that has been published in many different formats. Time Inc. currently owns and runs LIFE. com, a dedicated to news. In 1990, Time Inc. merged with Warner Communications to form the media conglomerate Time Warner and this merger lasted until the company was spun off on June 9,2014. Nightly discussions of the concept of a magazine led its founders Henry Luce and Briton Hadden. Later that same year, they formed Time Inc, having raised $86,000 of a $100,000 goal, the first issue of Time was published on March 3,1923, as the first weekly news magazine in the United States. Luce served as manager while Hadden was editor-in-chief. Luce and Hadden annually alternated year-to-year the titles of president and secretary-treasurer, upon Haddens sudden death in 1929, Luce assumed Haddens position. Luce launched the business magazine Fortune in February 1930 and created/founded the pictorial Life magazine in 1934 and he also produced The March of Time radio and newsreel series. By the mid 1960s, Time Inc. was the largest and most prestigious magazine publisher in the world, the main target was Luce, who had long opposed FDR. Historian Alan Brinkley argues the move was badly mistaken, for had Luce been allowed to travel, but stranded in New York City, Luces frustration and anger expressed itself in hard-edged partisanship. Luce, supported by Editor-in-Chief T. S. Matthews, appointed Whittaker Chambers as acting Foreign News editor in 1944, in 1963, recommendations from Time Inc. based on how it delivered magazines led to the introduction of ZIP codes by the United States Post Office. Luce, who remained editor-in-chief of all his publications until 1964, holding anti-communist sentiments, he used Time to support right-wing dictatorships in the name of fighting communism. The merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications was announced on March 4,1989 and this caused Time to raise its bid for Warner to $14.9 billion in cash and stock. Paramount responded by filing a lawsuit in a Delaware court to block the Time/Warner merger, in 2008, Time Inc. launched Maghound, an internet-based magazine membership service that featured approximately 300 magazine titles from both Time Inc. brands and external publishing companies. On January 19,2010, Time Inc. acquired StyleFeeder, on March 6,2013, Time Warner announced plans to spin-off Time Inc. into a publicly traded company
38.
Android software development
–
Android software development is the process by which new applications are created for the Android operating system. Applications are usually developed in Java programming language using the Android software development kit, the Android software development kit includes a comprehensive set of development tools. These include a debugger, libraries, an emulator based on QEMU, documentation, sample code. Currently supported development platforms include computers running Linux, Mac OS X10.5.8 or later, as of March 2015, the SDK is not available on Android itself, but software development is possible by using specialized Android applications. Additionally, developers may use any text editor to edit Java and XML files, then use command line tools to create, build, enhancements to Androids SDK go hand in hand with the overall Android platform development. The SDK also supports older versions of the Android platform in case developers wish to target their applications at older devices, Development tools are downloadable components, so after one has downloaded the latest version and platform, older platforms and tools can also be downloaded for compatibility testing. Android applications are packaged in. apk format and stored under /data/app folder on the Android OS, APK package contains. dex files, resource files, etc. The Android Debug Bridge is an included in the Android SDK package. It consists of both client and server-side programs that communicate with one another, the ADB is typically accessed through the command-line interface, although numerous graphical user interfaces exist to control ADB. If there is only one attached device or running emulator, these options are not necessary, for example, Android applications can be saved by the command backup to a file, whose name is backup. ab by default. In a security issue reported in March 2011, ADB was targeted as a vector to attempt to install a rootkit on connected phones using a resource exhaustion attack. Fastboot is a diagnostic protocol included with the SDK package used primarily to modify the flash filesystem via a USB connection from host computer. It requires that the device be started in a loader or Secondary Program Loader mode. After enabling the protocol on the device itself, it will accept a set of commands sent to it via USB using a command line. These native libraries can be called from Java code running under the Dalvik VM using the System. loadLibrary call, complete applications can be compiled and installed using traditional development tools. The ADB debugger gives a root shell under the Android Emulator which allows ARM, native code can be compiled using GCC or the Intel C++ Compiler on a standard PC. Running native code is complicated by Androids use of a non-standard C library, the graphics library that Android uses to arbitrate and control access to this device is called the Skia Graphics Library, and it has been released under an open source licence. Skia has backends for both Win32 and Unix, allowing the development of applications, and it is the graphics engine underlying the Google Chrome web browser
Category
