Alps Electric Co., Ltd. (アルプス電気, Arupusu Denki) TYO: 6770 produces electronic devices, including touchpads. Alps is a multinational corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company was established in 1948. As of 2004, the CEO is Masataka Kataoka. Alps is also well-known for the Alpine brand of car audio. The main trading room of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where nowadays the trading is done by computers The Stock Exchange occupies a narrow site in Tokyos securities district The Tokyo Stock Exchange (abbreviated TSE) is a stock exchange market located in Tokyo, Japan. ... Electronics is the study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. ... Touchpad and a pointing stick on a Laptop A touchpad is an input device commonly used in laptop computers. ... A multinational corporation (MNC) or multinational enterprise (MNE) or transnational corporation (TNC) is an corporation/enterprise that manages production establishments located in at least two countries. ... Long a symbol of Tokyo, the Nijubashi Bridge at the Kokyo Imperial Palace. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alpine is a car audio manufacturer, famed for their range of in-car sources commonly known as headunits. It is a subsidiary of Alps Electric Corporation of Japan. ...

Alps licenses their touchpad hardware from Cirque Corporation, but write their owns drivers. Their drivers are Windows certified. They all have simple features such as edge scrolling, but no programmability. They are mostly found in Sony notebooks. Cirque Corporation is a United States based company which develops touchpad. ... Microsoft Windows refers to a series of operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758 , NYSE: SNE) is a global Japanese consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ...

External links

• Alps Electric Global Site