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Amstrad Logo — Amstrad is an electronics manufacturer based in Brentwood , Essex , England , founded in 1968 by Sir Alan Michael Sugar in the United Kingdom . The name is a contraction of A lan M ichael SUgar Trad ing. He entered the London Stock Exchange in 1980 . At the end of the decade of 1980 Amstrad managed to take 25% of the PC market in Europe . In 2006 the main business area is manufacturing Amstrad receivers Interactive TV Sky .

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In July 2007, BSkyB announced the purchase of Amstrad for £ 125m. BSkyB has been the main customer of Amstrad, representing 75% of sales in its sector of Set-Top-Boxes. Amstrad has been a supplier of BSkyB since 1988. On July 2, 2008 Alan Sugar leaves the presidency of the company. More

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Aiwa Logo – Aiwa was a consumer electronics company that had its heyday during the decades of global 1970 and 1980 selling audio and video equipment household. It pioneered in the country in selling radio recorders and Mini Systems with cassette , digital audio tape (DAT) and headphone stereo , among others. In 2006 officially ended the sale of Aiwa and 2009 ended the support that Sony gave these products.

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aiwa logo

Despite the refloating, Aiwa again suffered financial problems due to stiff competition in international markets and the low acceptance of their products among consumers. By the end of the decade and the arrival of digital media audio and video, Aiwa was relegated in the markets, falling into bankruptcy in the year 2002 . At that time it was acquired completely by Sony Corporation that capitalized and tried again reposition the brand from consumers. However, Aiwa’s sales never reached their best times, which is why since 2004 suffered a slow process of disappearance with cancellations in many of its assembly lines for products from Sony itself. More

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Olympus Corporation Logo — Olympus Corporation is a company Japan specializing in optics and image . Olympus was founded in 1919 , and its headquarters is in Tokyo , Japan . His base of operations in the United States is in Allentown (Pennsylvania) . Olympus Europe offices are in Hamburg , Germany , which depends Olympus Optical Spain based in Barcelona . The company name is based on the “Olympus”, home of the gods of Greek mythology.

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Olympus has a long tradition in designing and manufacturing of cameras and lenses. The first truly innovative camera from Olympus was the PEN system, launched in 1959 . With a 18x24mm format, was one of the most compact cameras and notebooks of his time. The group PEN system design was led by Yoshihisa Maitani. More

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Kodak Logo — Eastman Kodak Company (popularly known as Kodak) is a multinational company engaged in the design, production and marketing of photographic equipment. The current company has its antecedent in the Eastman Dry Plate Company founded by inventor George Eastman and businessman Henry Strong in 1881 . On January 19, 2012 entered into an arrangement with creditors . The choice of the word Kodak to name the company seems to be justified by purely commercial reasons, since it is easy to pronounce in all languages. George Eastman said he had always taken the word of the language of young children, there is also a second hypothesis says that it was two syllables, two sounds of his first camera.

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Its commercial success was the introduction of the reel of paper in the market in 1888 , prompting the replacement of the glass plates used so far, and the launch in the same year as the camera Kodak 100 Vista , which 100 photos using circular reels and whose campaign promoting coined the phrase “You press the button, we do the rest.” Later, he released the reel of film that finally allowed to use a protection removal and placement sunlight. Other cameras were famous Kodak Brownie and Kodak Instamatic . More

Konica Minolta Logo

Konica Minolta Logo — Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. is a multinational Japanese manufacturer of office equipment ( photocopiers , faxes , printers ) and medical equipment and other products. Its headquarters are located in the business district ofTokyo , and has subsidiaries in Spain and other countries like Germany, USA, Canada, UK and Australia.

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Konica Minolta was born in 2003 by the merger of two former companies: Konica and Minolta , whose history dates back to 1873, when he began to make photographic materials in Japan . In fact, both companies were known for their contributions to the history of photography , with advances such as manual focusing in the 60’s, the auto-focus SLR (sold under the name Minolta Dynax in Europe) and digital SLR cameras in the 90s of last century. More

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MP3 Logo — MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III , more commonly known as MP3 is a format of audio compression that uses a proprietary digital algorithm with loss to get a smaller file size. It is a format of audio music commonly used for both computers as portable audio players .

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MP3 Logo

MP3 was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) to form part of the standard MPEG-1 and later and more extended MPEG-2 . Created using an MP3 compression 128kbit / s have a size of approximately 11 times lower than its namesake in CD. An MP3 can also be compressed using a higher or lower bit rate per second, resulting directly in their degree of end audio quality, and in the resulting file size.This format was pioneered by Karlheinz Brandenburg , director of electronic media technologies at the Fraunhofer Institute IIS, part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft — research network of Germans — who along with Thomson Multimedia controls the bulk of patents related to MP3. The first was recorded in 1986 and several more in 1991. It was not until July 1995 when Brandenburg was first used by the. Mp3 for MP3 files related to that stored in his computer. A year later entered the institute for patents 1.2 million euros . Ten years later this figure has reached 26.1 million. More