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Apple's iPod music player

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows Apple Inc.'s iPod music player. The Tokyo District Court on Sept. 26, 2013, ordered Apple to pay 330 million yen in damages to Japanese inventor Norihiko Saito for a patent infringement involving the U.S. firm's iPod music player. The patent that Saito's company applied for in 1998 covers technology for the Click Wheel controller that Apple adopted for the music player in Japan in 2004, the presiding judge said in a ruling.

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Apple's iPod music player

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows Apple Inc.'s iPod music player. The Tokyo District Court on Sept. 26, 2013, ordered Apple to pay 330 million yen in damages to Japanese inventor Norihiko Saito for a patent infringement involving the U.S. firm's iPod music player. The patent that Saito's company applied for in 1998 covers technology for the Click Wheel controller that Apple adopted for the music player in Japan in 2004, the presiding judge said in a ruling.

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Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook introduces the new features of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch portable devices at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on June 11, 2012.

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12 women's magazines in electronic book

TOKYO, Japan - Models promote ''Viewn for Woman,'' a new electronic book service to distribute contents of 12 women's magazines, during an event in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011. Viewn Corp., subsidiary of Softbank Corp., began the flat-rate service the same day first for Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

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Sony unveils digital music player capable of displaying lyrics

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. President Howard Stringer shows off in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2009, one of 12 new models of the company's Walkman portable digital music player capable of displaying the lyrics of songs downloaded from online music libraries. He said at a news conference that the new Walkman players will help the company beat rivals in Sony's ''home ground'' of Japan and pave the way for Sony to secure a greater share of the global market, currently dominated by iPod music players produced by Apple Inc. of the United States.

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Moves to slap copyright charge on iPod, other players deadlocked

TOKYO, Japan - Customers check Apple iPod players at a shop in downtown Tokyo.

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Matsushita to introduce mobile audio player rivaling iPod

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki shows off the D-snap March 17 which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will put on the market April 8. The D-snap is a mobile digital handset that can play music transferred from compact disks onto an SD card.

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Apple's iPod mini hits stores in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A customer listens to music on Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod mini player at an electronics shop in Tokyo's Ginza district July 24.

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Matsushita to introduce mobile audio player rivaling iPod

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki shows off the D-snap March 17 which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will put on the market April 8. The D-snap is a mobile digital handset that can play music transferred from compact disks onto an SD card. (Kyodo)

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Apple's iPod mini hits stores in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A customer listens to music on Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod mini player at an electronics shop in Tokyo's Ginza district July 24. (Kyodo)

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Percy Jackson & The Olympians (2010)

Uma Thurman & Logan Lerman Characters: Medusa, Percy Jackson Film: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (USA/CAN/UK 2010) Director: Chris Columbus 10 February 2010 Date: 10 February 2010

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Sony unveils digital music player capable of displaying lyrics

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. President Howard Stringer shows off in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2009, one of 12 new models of the company's Walkman portable digital music player capable of displaying the lyrics of songs downloaded from online music libraries. He said at a news conference that the new Walkman players will help the company beat rivals in Sony's ''home ground'' of Japan and pave the way for Sony to secure a greater share of the global market, currently dominated by iPod music players produced by Apple Inc. of the United States. (Kyodo)

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12 women's magazines in electronic book

TOKYO, Japan - Models promote ''Viewn for Woman,'' a new electronic book service to distribute contents of 12 women's magazines, during an event in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011. Viewn Corp., subsidiary of Softbank Corp., began the flat-rate service the same day first for Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. (Kyodo)

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