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...Kentucky kindergarten teachers, Mildred and Patty Hill, published Happy Birthday in 1893 as Good Morning to All and later added the familiar lyrics. The song was copyrighted in 1935 and earns $1 million a year in royalties. Japan's Casio Computer company, for instance, pays a 1 cents fee for each of the digital watches that it programs to play the tune. The song will earn royalties until 2010, when it will pass into the public domain...
...combination radio and tape player for cars. Ford has announced that similar units, made by Sony, will be in some Lincoln Continentals by June. While those two machines will only play tapes, other models that record music as well have been promised for the summer by Harman/Kardon, Marantz and Casio...
...first the equipment will be too expensive to appeal to anyone but real audiophiles. The Kenwood DAT unit will cost $2,000, and the cheapest recorder announced so far will be a $1,099 model from Casio. But as happened with CD players, prices can be expected to come down sharply as the market grows and competition heats up. Almost no prerecorded tapes are available yet to play on the machines, but at the Las Vegas show three small companies announced plans to market 100 classical and jazz tapes. The dearth of prerecorded tapes and the high price...
Competition can be as rough-and-tumble inside Japan as anywhere else in the world. Price cutting is relentless and often ruinous. A Casio digital wristwatch that cost $120 five years ago sells today in Japan for only $12 to $15. Since 1975 the price of a simple hand-held calculator has decreased from about $25 to $10. That drop has forced more than 30 Japanese companies out of the calculator business, leaving six firms at the moment. Says Kenichi Ohmae, manager of Tokyo operations for the McKinsey & Co. businessconsulting firm: "By no definition can this fierce rivalry be construed...
...industry exploded, however, Japan's presence began to be felt. Last year Japanese manufacturers rang up sales of $210 million. The companies include a number of well-established firms with recognizable brand names in digital watches, stereo equipment and calculators: Canon, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko, Sharp and Casio. Nippon Electric Co., the giant electronics firm, is now selling $100 million worth of personal computer equipment in the U.S., and last week it introduced three versions of its latest model...