Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mismanagement. Soon afterward, Sony co-founder Akio Morita, who had continued to help guide the company despite suffering a stroke in 1993, resigned as chairman. Then Sony found itself losing ground to rivals in the race to develop the digital videodisc, expected to replace the videocassette recorder and the compact disc...
...addition to several businesses, Harvard-Radcliffe Television and Quad Sound Studios are co-sponsoring the event with PfoHo. There will also be a number of prizes, including movie passes and compact discs from Strawberries...
...process of converting our fleet into compact natural gas vehicles," he said. "We have a contract for six more vans...
Forget artists and spies; the real market for Sony's compact new digital camcorder is teens who are forced to endure the embarrassment of tourist dads pointing their giant cameras at every Paris cafe. This tiny, 1-lb. DCR-PC7 camera, with its 2.5-in. screen that swivels out to preview each shot, lets Dad always have Paris and the kids their dignity. ($3,199; Sony...
Toshiba, the world leader in laptops, realized two years ago that compact machines would not dominate half of the PC market, so they went to work on a desktop version (laptops, pricey and difficult to upgrade, currently account for only some 20% of computers). "A lot of it was discussion around life-style and ease of use," says Ron Smith, a Toshiba marketing V.P., describing the development of the Infinia. "The concept was to design it for real people who are used to using stereos...