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Sony Pays $8 Million to Settle Digital Music Class Action Lawsuit

Eriq Gardner
March 08, 2012 21:42

Eriq Gardner The music giant Sony BMG ends it five-year battle with musicians including The Allman Brothers, Cheap Trick and The Youngbloodsread more

US Patent 8124044 - Arc discharge synthesis of CNTs

February 28, 2012 18:12

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8124044.htmlThis patent from Sony teaches techniques to improve the purity and diameter uniformity of carbon nanotubes formed via an arc discharge process. Claim 1 reads:1. A method for preparing carbon nanotubes comprising synthesizing carbon nanotubes from a...

Sony Makes Inroads into Health-Care in a Big Way

January 24, 2012 19:59

Put aside your Sony flat-screen TVs and Blu-Ray players and make way for ---flow cytometry. Why is Sony Corporation, a proven global manufacturer in the field of audio, video game, communications, key device and information technology, venturing in the turbulent, albeit often lucrative waters of...

Tracking Public Movements: GPS Tapping and Application to Virtual Worlds

Drew Boortz
January 04, 2012 15:08

A legal conundrum of sorts for you - are your movements in the real world more or less private than in a virtual world?  The answer may surprise you.  Your movements may be more private in a virtual world, but only if the world operator's privacy policy gives you such an...

2011 Data Breach Summary

Mark McCreary
December 28, 2011 23:30

Smart Money just ran a story about the top five data breaches of 2011.  While I do not necessarily agree that these are the top five (students, students, NYC hospital patients, not to mention the Stratfor breach), the takeaway is interesting: none of them have the same source for the...