Its product line consists of televisions, digital cameras, MP3 players, DVD players and videocassette recorders.

FORBES: Look out, Sony

Sony engineers invented Betamax, only to see the cheaper VHS become the standard for videocassette recorders.

FORBES: It Takes a Crisis

Plus: videocassette players, portable video recorders, the now-ubiquitous Walkman and 3.5-inch floppy disk drives, launched in 1980.

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The battery-powered devices, about the size of a videocassette, use Global Positioning System technology to report where a trailer is (Orbital Sciences also owns Magellan, the largest producer of GPS receivers).

FORBES: Iridium for truck trailers

Thus vesticula balnearis Bikiniana (a little bathing garment from Bikini) becomes sadly unskimpy, and sonorarum visualiumque taeniarum cistellula (a little box of ribbons of sounds and sights) does over-fussy duty for a videocassette.

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Videocassette libraries will be scrapped for disks.

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It had stayed out of the videocassette recorder format wars in the 1970s, when Sony's Betamax faced off with Matsushita's VHS. Toshiba is paying eventual winner Matsushita hefty amounts in license fees so it can make its own VHS machines.

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