Archive for March 2014
Videocon
VIDEOCON INDUSTRIES LIMITED is
a large diversified Indian company headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana. The group has 17 manufacturing sites in India and plants
in Mainland China, Poland, Italy and Mexico. It claims to be the third
largest picture
tube manufacturer in the world. The
group is a US$5
billion global conglomerate
The Videocon group's core areas of business are consumer electronics and home appliances.
They have recently diversified into areas such as DTH, power, oil exploration and
telecommunication.
Consumer electronics
In India, the group sells consumer products like colour
televisions, washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators, microwave ovens
and many other home appliances, through a multi-brand strategy with the largest
sales and service network in India.
Since the entry of Korean Chaebols and their rising popularity in
the Indian market, Videocon from a stand-point of market leader has seen a slow
decline to become a no 3 player in India. The company continues to do well in
the washing machine and refrigerator segment but has significantly lost ground
in the consumer electronics space.
Mobile phones
In November 2009, Videocon launched its new line of mobile phones. Videocon has, since launched a number of handsets ranging
from basic colour FM phones to high-end Android devices. In February 2011,
Videocon Mobile Phones launched the hitherto unknown concept of 'Zero' paise (1
paise is the 100th unit of 1INR) per second with bundled SIM cards of Videocon mobile services for 7 of its handset
models.
In June 2013, Videocon Mobiles launched its own flagship
smartphone Videocon A55HD in India for Rs. 13,499.
Oil and gas
An important asset for the group is its Ravva oil field with one
of the lowest operating costs in the world producing 50,0000 barrels of oil per
day.
DTH
In 2009, Videocon launched its DTH product, called 'd2h'. As a pioneering offer in the Indian DTH market, Videocon offered LCD & TVs with
built-in DTH satellite receiver with sizes 19" to 42".
Telecommunication
Videocon Telecommunications Limited has a licence for mobile service
operations across India. It launched its services on 7 April 2010 in Mumbai.
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Devices
Counter-Strike
COUNTER-STRIKE is a first-person
shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation. It was initially
developed and released as a Half-Life
modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess
"Cliffe" Cliffe in
1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property
acquired. Counter-Strike was first released by Valve on the Microsoft Windows platform in 2000. The game later
spawned a franchise, and is the first installment in the Counter-Strike series. Several remakes and Ports of Counter-Strike have been released on the Xbox console,
as well as OS X and Linux.
Set in
various locations around the globe, players assume the roles of members of
combating teams that include counter-terrorists and terrorists. During each
independent match, the two teams of five players are tasked with defeating the
other by the means of either achieving the map's objectives, or else killing
the enemy combatants. Each player may customize their arsenal of weapons and
accessories at the beginning of every match, with the currency earned through
each map reset, killing other players and achieving objectives.
As of
August 2011, the Counter-Strike franchise has sold over 25 million
units.
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PC Games
Chris Gayle
CHRISTOPHER HENRY "Chris" GAYLE (born 21
September 1979) is a Jamaican cricketer who plays international cricket for
the West Indies. He captained the
West Indies' Test side from 2007 to 2010. He plays
domestic cricket for Jamaica, and
also represents theRoyal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League and the Dhaka Gladiators in the Bangladesh Premier League. He has also
represented Worcestershire, the Western Warriors, Barisal Burners and the Kolkata Knight Riders in his career. He was also selected
for team Uva Next for the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League in 2012.
He is one
of only four players who have scored two triple
centuries at Test level: 317
against South Africa in 2005, and 333 against Sri Lanka in 2010. He is known as a big hitter,
often hitting sixes; in 2012 he became the first player to hit a six off the
first ball of a Test match. Playing for Royal
Challengers Bangalore, he scored a 30-ball century, the fastest across any
format, that became the highest individual T20 score (175). It eclipsed the previous mark set by Brendan McCullum of Kolkata
Knight Riders. At the launch of the Caribbean Premier League he was announced as the first
franchise player for the league.
Gayle started his cricket
career with the famous Lucas Cricket Club in Kingston, Jamaica. Gayle
claimed "If it was not for Lucas I don't know where I would be today.
Maybe on the streets." Lucas
Cricket Club's nursery has been named in honour of Gayle.
Gayle played for the West
Indies at youth international level prior to making his first-class debut aged 19 for Jamaica. He played his first One Day International eleven months later, and his first Test match six months after that. Gayle, who normally opens the
innings when he plays for the West Indies, is a destructive batsman who is most
effective playing square of the wicket. In July 2001, Gayle (175), together
with Daren Ganga (89) established the record for opening partnerships at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo when they put on 214 together against Zimbabwe.
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Cricket
Adam Gilchrist
ADAM CRAIG GILCHRIST, (born
14 November 1971), nicknamed "Gilly" or "Churchy" is a
former Australian cricketer who has captained Kings XI
Punjab and Middlesex. He is an attacking
left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keeper, who
redefined the role for the Australian national team through his aggressive
batting. He is considered to be one of the greatest wicket-keeper–batsmen in
the history of the game. He
holds the world record for the most dismissals by a wicket keeper in One
Day International(ODI) cricket and the most by an Australian in Test
cricket. His strike
rate is amongst the highest in the history of both ODI and Test cricket;
his century against England at Perth in December 2006 is the
second-fastest century in all Test cricket. He
is the only player to have hit 100 sixes in Test cricket. His
17 Test and 16 ODI centuries are the most by a wicket-keeper. He
holds the unique record of scoring at least 50 runs in successive World Cup
finals (in 1999, 2003 and 2007) and is one of only three
players to have won three titles.
Gilchrist is renowned for walking when he considers
himself to be out, sometimes contrary to the decision of the umpire. He
made his first-class debut in 1992, his first One-Day International
appearance in 1996 in India and his Test debut in 1999. During
his career, he played for Australia in 96 Test matches and over 270 One-day
internationals. He was Australia's vice-captain in both forms of the
game, captaining the team when regular captains Steve Waugh and Ricky
Ponting were unavailable. He retired from
international cricket in March 2008.
In March 2013, he announced that he would join the Caribbean
Premier League, a Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies in
July along with teammate Ricky Ponting.
Adam Gilchrist was born in 1971
at Bellingen Hospital, in Bellingen, New South Wales, the youngest of four
children. He and his family lived in Dorrigo, Junee and then Deniliquin where, playing for his school,
Deniliquin South Public School, he won the Brian Taber Shield (named after New South Wales cricketer Brian Taber). At the age of 13, his
parents, Stan and June, moved the family to Lismore where Gilchrist captained the Kadina High School cricket team. Gilchrist was selected for the state
under-17 team, and in 1989 he was offered a
scholarship by London-based
Richmond Cricket Club, a scheme he now supports himself. During his year at Richmond, he also
played junior cricket for Old
Actonians Cricket Club's under 17
team, with whom he won the Middlesex League and Cup double. He moved to Sydney
and joined the Gordon Club in Sydney
Grade Cricket, later moving to Northern Districts.
Gilchrist
is married to his high school sweetheart Melinda (Mel) Gilchrist (née Sharpe),
a dietitian, and they have three
sons, Harrison, Archie and Ted, and a daughter, Annie Jean. His family came under the spotlight in
the months leading up to the 2007
Cricket World Cup as Archie's
impending birth threatened his presence in the squad; Archie was born in
February and Gilchrist was able to take part in the tournament.
Gilchrist's attacking batting has
been a key part of Australia's one-day success, as he usually opens the batting.
He was a part of the successful1999, 2003 and 2007
Cricket World Cup campaigns. Gilchrist's Test batting average in
the upper 40s is unusually high for a wicket-keeper. He is currently 45th on the all–time
list of highest batting averages. He
maintains a Test strike-rate of 82 runs per hundred balls, the highest since
balls were recorded in full. His combination of attack and consistency create
one of the most dynamic world cricketers ever,playing shots to all areas of
the field with uncommon timing. Gilchrist's skills as a wicket-keeper are
sometimes questioned; some people would claim that he is the best keeper in
Australia while Victorian wicket-keeper Darren Berry was regarded by many as the best
Australian wicket-keeper of the 1990s and early 2000s.
In this
role, Gilchrist is perhaps disadvantaged by his relatively tall stature for a
pure wicket-keeper. However, while perhaps not as elegant as some, he has
successfully kept wicket for spin
bowler Shane Warne and fast
bowlers Glenn McGrath and Brett
Lee for most of his international
career. His partnerships with McGrath and Lee are second and fourth
respectively in both test and ODI history for the number of wickets taken. With Alec
Stewart and Mark Boucher, he shares the record for
most catches (6) by a wicketkeeper in a ODI match, however he has now achieved
this feat five times, the most recent versus India in 2008 CB Series. The match in 2007 was also the second
time he took six dismissals and scored a half century in the same
ODI; he remains the only player to do so even once. At Old
Trafford in August 2005, he
passed Alec Stewart's world record of 4,540 runs as a Test wicketkeeper. Statistically,
he is currently the most successful ODI wicket-keeper in history; with 417
catches and 55 stumpings, a total of 472 dismissals, his closest rival, Mark
Boucher, is more than 80 dismissals behind.
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Cricket
Serena Williams
SERENA JAMEKA WILLIAMS (born September 26, 1981) is an American
professional tennis player who is currently
ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. The Women's
Tennis Association has ranked her
World No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. She became the World No. 1
for the first time on July 8, 2002, and regained this ranking for the sixth
time on February 18, 2013, becoming the oldest world no. 1 player in WTA's
history. She is the only female player to have
won over $50 million in prize money. Williams
is the reigning French Open, US Open, WTA Tour Championships and Olympic ladies
singles champion.
Williams
holds the most Major singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles combined
amongst active players, male or female. Her record of 32 Major titles puts her seventh on the
all-time list: 17 in singles, 13 in women's doubles, and 2 in mixed doubles.
She is the most recent player, male or female, to have held all four Grand Slam
singles titles simultaneously ('02–'03) and only the fifth woman ever to do so.
Her total of 17 Grand Slam singles titles is sixth on the all-time list, and fourth in the Open Era, behind Steffi Graf (22 titles) and Chris Evertand Martina Navratilova (18 titles each). She has won 13 Grand Slam doubles
titles with her sister Venus
Williams and the pair are
unbeaten in Grand Slam finals. Serena Williams is also a four-time
winner of the WTA Tour
Championships. Williams is only
one of five tennis players all-time to win a multiple
slam set in two disciplines,
matching Margaret Court, Roy Emerson, Martina Navratilova and Frank Sedgman. The arrival of Venus
and Serena Williams has been credited with launching a new era of power and
athleticism in women's tennis.
Williams
has won four Olympic gold medals,
one in women's singles and three in women's doubles, an all-time record shared
with her sister Venus.
Serena Williams was born in Saginaw,
Michigan, to Richard
Williams and Oracene
Price and is the youngest of Price's five daughters: half-sisters Yetunde, Lyndrea and Isha Price, and full sister Venus. When the children were young, the family moved to Compton,
California, where Serena started playing tennis at
the age of four. Her father home-schooled Serena and
her sister Venus and to this day, Serena Williams was and remains
coached by both her parents. Williams' family moved from Compton to West
Palm Beach when
she was nine so that she could attend the tennis academy of Rick Macci, who
would provide additional coaching. Macci spotted the exceptional talents of the
sisters. He did not always agree with Williams' father, but respected that
"he treated his daughters like kids, allowed them to be little girls". Richard stopped sending his daughters to national
junior tennis tournaments when Williams was 10, since he wanted them to take it
slow and focus on school work. Another factor was racial, as he had heard white
parents talk about the Williams sisters in a derogatory manner during
tournaments. At that time, Williams had a 46–3 record on the United
States Tennis Association junior tour
and was ranked No. 1 among under-10 players in Florida. In
1995, when Serena was in the ninth grade, Richard pulled his daughters out of
Macci's academy, and from then on took over all coaching at their home. When
asked in 2000 whether having followed the normal path of playing regularly on
the junior circuit would have been beneficial, Williams responded:
"Everyone does different things. I think for Venus and I, we just
attempted a different road, and it worked for us." In
2003 sister Yetunde was fatally shot in an SUV after a confrontation with
youths in Compton.
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Kapil Dev
KAPIL DEV RAMLAL NIKHANJ (born 6
January 1959), better known as Kapil
Dev, is a former Indian cricketer.
He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002, Kapil Dev was one of the greatest all-rounders of all time. He was also India's
national cricket coach for 10 months between October 1999 and August 2000.
Kapil was
a right-arm pace bowler noted for his graceful action and
potent outswinger, and was
India's main strike bowler for most of his career. He also developed a fine inswinging yorker during the 1980s, which he used very
effectively against tail-enders.
As a batsman, he was a natural
striker of the ball who could hook and drive effectively. A naturally
aggressive player, he often helped India in difficult situations by taking the
attack to the opposition. Nicknamed The
Haryana Hurricane, he represented the Haryana
cricket team in domestic cricket. He retired in 1994, holding the world
record for the most number of wickets taken in Test cricket, a record subsequently
broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At the time, he was also
India's highest wicket taker in both major forms of cricket, Tests and ODIs. He is the only player in the
history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored
more than 5,000 runs in Tests, making him one of the greatest all-rounders to have played the game. On 8 March
2010, Kapil Dev was inducted into the ICC
Cricket Hall of Fame
Kapil Dev was born as Kapil
Dev Ramlal Nikhanj to Ram Lal Nikhanj, a building and timber contractor and his
wife Raj Kumari in Chandigarh on 6 January
1959. His
parents had migrated from Rawalpindi during the Partition of India. Kapil Dev was a student at D.A.V. School and
joined Desh Prem Azad in 1971.
By the end of 1983, Kapil
already had about 250 Test wickets in just five years and looked well on his
way to becoming one of the most prolific wicket-takers ever. However, his
bowling declined following knee surgery in 1984, as he lost some of his
majestic jump at the crease. Despite this setback, he never missed playing a
single test or one-day game on fitness grounds (save for his disciplinary
ouster in the 3rd test at Calcutta during the 1984/85 series against England).
He continued to be effective, if not devastating, for another ten years and
became the second bowler ever to take 400 wickets in Test
cricket in 1991–92 when he took Mark
Taylor's wicket in a series versus Australia in
Australia. In that Australian tour he took 25 wickets.
Kapil continued as India's lead
pace bowler under a succession of captains in the early 1990s. He was involved
in a notable incident during the Lord's Test Match of 1990, when he hit
off-spinner Eddie Hemmings for four sixes in succession to take
India past the follow-on target. This match also featured the highest
test score by an Englishman against India, 333 by Graham Gooch. He was also cited
by umpire Dickie Bird as being one of the greatest
all-rounders of all-time.
He also
became a valuable batsman in the ODI version of the game, being used as a
pinch-hitter to accelerate the run-scoring rate, usually in the final ten
overs, and relied upon to stabilise the innings in the event of a collapse. He
played in the 1992 Cricket World
Cup, which was his last, under the captaincy of Mohammad Azharuddin. He led the
bowling attack with younger talents like Javagal
Srinath and Manoj Prabhakar, who would eventually
succeed him as India's leading pace bowlers. He retired in 1994, after breaking Richard Hadlee's then standing record
for the most Test wickets taken.
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Cricket
Need For Speed
Need for Speed (NFS) is a series of racing video games published by Electronic Arts (EA) and developed by several studios including the Canadian company EA Black Box and the British company Criterion Games.
The
series released its first title, The
Need for Speed in 1994.
Initially, it was designed exclusively for use on fifth generation video game consoles,
but later on was reworked to be able to be used on all seventh generation consoles by 2008. All members of the series
consist of racing cars on various tracks, with some titles including police
pursuits in races. Since Need
for Speed: Underground, the series has integrated car body customization into gameplay.
Need for
Speed is the
most successful racing video game series in the world, and one of the most successful video game franchises of all time. As of October 2009, over
140 million copies of games in the series have been sold.
In June
2012, following Black Box's restructuring, British developer Criterion Games announced that it was in full control
of the Need for Speed franchise. However, in August 2013, Swedish and
British developers Ghost Games,
Ghost Games UK and Criterion
Gamesjoined forces for the foreseeable future of the Need for Speed series. At the time, Ghost Games UK
staff consisted of 80% of former Criterion Games employees
All the games in the Need For Speed (NFS) series employ the same
fundamental rules and similar mechanics: the player controls a race car in a variety of races, the goal being
to win the race. In the tournament/career mode, the player must win a series of
races in order to unlock vehicles and tracks. Before each race, the player
chooses a vehicle, and has the option of selecting either an automatic or manual
transmission. All games in the series have some form of multiplayer mode allowing players to race one
another via a split screen, a LAN or
the Internet.
Although
the games share the same name, their tone and focus can vary significantly. For
example, in some games the cars can suffer mechanical and visual damage, while
in other games the cars cannot be damaged at all; in some games the software
simulates real-car behavior (physics), while in others there are more forgiving
physics.
With the
release of Need for Speed:
Underground, the series shifted from racing sports cars on scenic point-to-point tracks, to an import/tuner subculture, and street racing in an urban setting. To date, this
theme has remained prevalent in most of the following games.
Need for
Speed: Shift and its sequel took a simulator approach to racing, featuring
closed-circuit racing on real tracks like the Nürburgring and the Laguna Seca, and fictional street
circuits in cities like London and Chicago.
The car lists include a combination of exotics, sports cars, and tuners in
addition to special race cars.
Most of
the games in the franchise include police
pursuits in some form or other.
In some of the games featuring police pursuit, the player can play as either
the felon or the cop. The concepts of drifting and dragging were introduced in Need for Speed: Underground.
These new mechanics are included in the tournament/career mode aside from the
regular street races. In drift races, the player must defeat other racers by
totaling the most points, earned by the length and timing of the drift made by
the player's vehicle. In
drag races, the player must finish first to win the race, though if the player
crashes into an obstacle, the race ends.
The
concept of car tuning evolved with each new game, from
focusing mainly on the mechanics of the car to including how the car looks.
Each game has car tuning which can set options for items like ABS, traction
control), or down force, or for
upgrading parts like the engine or gearbox. Visual tuning of the player's car
becomes important in tournament/career mode after the release of Need for Speed: Underground 2,
when the appearance is rated from zero to ten points. When a car attains a high
enough visual rating, the vehicle is eligible to be on the cover of a fictional
magazine.
Like all
racing games, the Need for
Speed series features an list
of cars, modeled and named after actual cars. Cars in the franchise are divided
into four categories: exotic cars, muscle cars, tuners, and special vehicles. Exotic cars feature high performance,
expensive cars like the Lamborghini
Murciélago, Mercedes-Benz SLR
McLaren, Chevrolet Corvette and the Ford GT; muscle cars refer to the Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger and the Chevrolet Camaro; while tuner cars are
cars like the Nissan Skyline and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. The
special vehicles are civilian and police cars that are available for use in
some games, such as the Ford
Crown Victoria in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010
video game) and garbage trucks,
fire engines and taxis in Need
for Speed: Carbon.
Originally
the series took place in international settings, such as race tracks in Australia, Europe, and Africa. Beginning with Underground, the series has
taken place in fictional metropolitan cities. The first game featured traffic on "head to head" mode,
while later games traffic can be toggled on and off, and starting with Underground, traffic is a fixed
obstacle.
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PC Games
Canon
CANON Inc. is
a Japanese multinational
corporation specialized in the
manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, camcorders, photocopiers, steppers, computer printers and medical equipment. Its headquarters
are located in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.
Canon has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX index. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
The company was originally
named Seikikōgaku
kenkyūsho (Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd.). In 1934 it produced the Kwanon, a prototype for Japan’s first-ever 35 mm
camera with a focal plane based shutter. In 1947 the company name was changed toCanon Camera Co., Inc., shortened to Canon Inc. in 1969. The name Canon comes from
Buddhism, of Buddhist bodhisattva Guan Yin,
in Japanese, despite that spelling is closer to canon (law).
Canon manufactures consumer imaging products including printers,
scanners, binoculars, compact digital cameras, film SLR and digital
SLR cameras, lenses and
video camcorders.
The "Business Solutions" division offers
multi-functional printers, black and white and color office printers, large
format printers, scanners, black and white and color production printers, as
well as software to support these products.
DeVito/Verdi was hired for an award winning, humorous campaign
with the concept “If business were that easy, you wouldn't need us,” using old
office footage to describe the new ways Canon Business Solutions was bringing
copiers and office supplies forward.
Lesser known Canon products include medical, optical and broadcast
products, including ophthalmic and x-ray devices, broadcast lenses,
semiconductors, digital microfilm scanners, and handy terminals.
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HP
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California,United States. It provides
hardware, software and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses
(SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and
education sectors.
The
company was founded in a one-car
garage in Palo Alto by William "Bill" Redington
Hewlett and Dave Packard. HP is the world's
leading PC manufacturer and has been since 2007, fending off a challenge by
Chinese manufacturer Lenovo,
according to Gartner. It specializes in developing and
manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing
software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal
computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices,
networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging
products. HP markets its products to households, small- to medium-sized
businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution,
consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major
technology vendors. HP also has strong services and consulting business around
its products and partner products. In 2012 it was the world's largest PC vendor by unit sales.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard graduated with degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford
University in 1935. The company
originated in agarage in nearby Palo Alto during a fellowship they had with a
past professor, Frederick Terman at Stanford during the Great Depression. Terman was
considered a mentor to them in forming Hewlett-Packard. In 1939, Packard and Hewlett
established Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Packard's garage with an initial capital
investment of US$538. Hewlett and Packard tossed a coin to
decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or
Packard-Hewlett. HP incorporated on August 18, 1947,
and went public on November 6, 1957.
Of the
many projects they worked on, their very first financially successful product
was a precision audio oscillator,
the Model HP200A. Their
innovation was the use of a small incandescent light bulb (known as a "pilot light")
as a temperature dependent resistor in a critical portion of the circuit,
the negative feedback loop which stabilized the amplitude of the output
sinusoidal waveform. This allowed them to sell the Model 200A for $54.40 when
competitors were selling less stable oscillators for over $200. The Model 200
series of generators continued until at least 1972 as the 200AB, still
tube-based but improved in design through the years.
One of
the company's earliest customers was Walt
Disney Productions which bought
eight Model 200B oscillators for use in certifying
the Fantasound surround sound systems installed in theaters for the
movie Fantasia.
HP produces lines of
printers, scanners, digital cameras, calculators, PDAs, servers, workstation computers, and computers for home
and small-business use; many of the computers came from the 2002 merger with Compaq. HP as of 201 promotes itself as supplying not just
hardware and software, but also a full range of services to design, implement,
and support IT infrastructure.
Products and technology associated with IPG include:
·
Inkjet and LaserJet printers
·
consumables and related
products
·
Officejet all-in-one multifunction printer/scanner/faxes
·
Designjet and Scitex
Large Format Printers
·
Indigo Digital Press
·
HP Web Jetadmin printer
management software
·
HP Output Management
suite of software
·
LightScribe optical recording technology
·
HP Photosmart digital cameras and photo printers
·
HP SPaM
·
Snapfish by HP, a photo sharing and photo products service.
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Devices
LG
LG CORPORATION, formerly Lucky
Goldstar is a South Koreanmultinational conglomerate corporation. It is the fourth-largest company of its kind
in South Korea. Its headquarters are situated in the LG Twin Towers
building in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. LG makes electronics, chemicals, and telecom products and operates subsidiaries such as LG Electronics, Zenith, LG
Display, LG
Telecom and LG
Chem in over 80 countries.
LG Corp. founder Koo In-Hwoi
established Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp. in 1947. In 1952, Lak-Hui (pronounced
"Lucky", currently LG Chem) became the first Korean company to enter
the plastic industry. As the company expanded its plastic business, it
established GoldStarCo. Ltd.
(currently LG Electronics Inc.) in 1958. Both companies Lucky and GoldStar merged and formed Lucky Goldstar.
GoldStar produced South Korea's first radio.
Many consumer electronics were sold under the brand name GoldStar, while some other household
products (not available outside South Korea) were sold under the brand name of
Lucky. The Lucky brand was famous for hygiene products such as soaps and HiTi
laundry detergents, but the brand was mostly associated with its Lucky and
Perioe toothpaste. Even today, LG
continues to manufacture some of these products for the South Korean market,
such as laundry detergent.
In 1995,
to compete better in the Western market, the Lucky-Goldstar Corporation was
renamed "LG". The company also associates the letters LG with the
company's tagline "Life's Good", which is actually a backronym. Since 2009, LG has owned
the domain name LG.com.
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Devices
Philips
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Royal Philips, commonly known as Philips) is a Dutch diversified technology company
headquartered inAmsterdam with
primary divisions focused in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and
Lighting. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik. It is one of
the largest electronics companies in the world and employs around 122,000
people across more than 60 countries.
Philips
is organized into three main divisions: Philips
Consumer Lifestyle (formerly
Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal
Care), Philips Healthcare (formerly Philips Medical Systems) and Philips
Lighting. As of 2012 Philips was the largest manufacturer of lighting in the
world measured by applicable revenues. In
2013, the company sold the bulk of its remaining consumer electronics
operations to Funai Electric Co. On 25 October 2013, the deal to Funai
Electric Co was broken off and the consumer electronics operations remain under
Philips.
Philips
has a primary listing on the Euronext
Amsterdam stock exchange and is a
constituent of the AEX index. It
has a secondary listing on the New
York Stock Exchange.
Philips began operations in
India in 1930 with the establishment of Philips Electrical Co. (India) Pvt Ltd in Kolkata as a sales outlet for imported Philips lamps. In 1938,
Philips established its first Indian lamp-manufacturing factory in Kolkata. In
1948, Philips started manufacturing radios in Kolkata. In 1959, a second radio
factory was established near Pune. In 1957, the company converted into a public limited
company, renamed "Philips India Ltd". In 1970 a new consumer
electronics factory began operations in Pimpri near Pune; the factory was
closed in 2006. In 1996, the Philips Software Centre was established in Bangalore, later renamed the Philips Innovation Campus. In 2008, Philips India entered the water purifier
market..
Philips' core products are
consumer electronics and electrical products (including audio equipment,
Blu-ray players, computer accessories, televisions, small domestic appliances
and shavers); healthcare products (including CT scanners, ECG equipment, mammography equipment, monitoring equipment, MRI scanners, radiography equipment, resuscitation equipment,
ultrasound equipment and X-ray equipment); and lighting products (including
indoor luminaires, outdoor luminaires, automotive
lighting, lamps, lighting controls and lighting
electronics).
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