Annual Report 2003 Year Ended March 31‚ 2003 Financial Highlights Sony Corporation and Consolidated Subsidiaries Year ended March 31 Yen in millions except per share amounts and number of employees Percent change Dollars in millions* except per share amounts 2002 2003 2003/2002 2003 FOR THE YEAR Sales and operating revenue Operating income Income before income taxes Income before cumulative effect of accounting changes Net income Per share data: Income before cumulative
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recognizing known features (points of reference). Nevertheless In unknown environments‚ navigation often becomes harder or even dangerous. Besides‚ in pre-designed environments‚ wherever indoor or outdoor‚ orientation may also be achieved by perceiving regularities in the objects around. Blind navigation system using RFID for indoor environment is a project that aims to design and implement a reliable system to assist visually impaired citizen’s independent mobility .The proposed approach foresees
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Consumer Behavior Sony Case Analysis 1. Through years of innovation‚ Sony has developed high-quality products that consumers desire and established a number of cultural meanings for itself. Consumers see Sony as a manufacturer that produces high-quality products that are innovative and push the marketplace forward. Motivated and creative‚ Sony brings cutting-edge technology from Japan to America. They are mostly responsible for Americans perceiving products made in Japan as high-quality (Peter
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Research Case Study-3 SONY INDIA1 Sony‚ a multinational corporation based in Tokyo‚ Japan‚ stepped into India in early 1995‚ in the post Iiberalisation period. Within a couple of months in the same year‚ it set up its manufacturing unit. The company makes its presence felt in India through Sony Entertain Television‚ Sony Music and Sony India. While the first two are comfortably placed in their niche markets‚ it is the third which is expected to bring in all those exciting Sony digital products
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Sony Playstation Case Privacy protection has been a public policy concern for decades. However‚ rapid technological changes‚ the rapid growth of the Internet and electronic commerce‚ and the development of more sophisticated methods of collecting‚ analyzing‚ and using personal information have made privacy a major socio-political issue in the U.S.‚ Europe‚ and other areas. Privacy issues have attracted the attention of the media‚ politicians‚ government agencies‚ businesses‚ and privacy advocates
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Speaker’s notes Contours on the map are the brown lines drawn on a map connecting points of equal height above sea level. They are labelled with the height and with the topes of the figures uphill. A contour labelled 500 is 500m above sea level‚ and every place on that contour is precisely 500m above sea level. On a 1: 25‚ 000 map‚ they are usually 10m apart. If contours are very close together that means the hill is steep. However‚ is they are wide apart‚ it has a gentle gradient. When
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be followed by experienced navigators. The experienced navigators of many different cultures proved that celestial navigation was possible without the need for instrumentation or technology. The theory of celestial navigation shows us that with just a little bit of information anyone can find their unknown position from known positions in the sky. “The greatest advance in navigation came with the invention of the compass” (Tyson‚ 1996 - 2014). Latitude was easy to figure out by use of the compass
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In the face of substandard EyeToy Groove sales‚ Executive VP Phil Harrison of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has to make the decision as to whether SCEE should continue to market the EyeToy‚ and if so in what manner and with what resources. Despite the seemingly disappointing sales of EyeToy Groove‚ SCEE should carry on efforts to sell the EyeToy: marketing specifically towards children and families‚ offering hardware bundling options for all titles and collaborating with 3rd party software
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Samuel Lopes | Março 2011 Caso – Shoot the dog: bye-bye AIBO Q: A que segmentos se dirigem o AIBO‚ o Pleo e outros robots animais? Quem lhe parece que serão os compradores? R: Na minha perspectiva‚ no caso do Aibo os segmentos são: famílias (com médio-‐alto poder financeiro) com filhos
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believe that it is important for Sony to manufacture more products in the United States‚ Europe and from suppliers in Asia because Sony needs to remain a globally diversified corporation. The Yen stability against the US dollar has had a negative impact on the financial stability of Sony. When Sony translated US dollars and Euro financial statements into Yen‚ the net assets and earnings ended up being worth less in Yen which in turn dropped Sony’s financial results. Sony needs to work on spreading more
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