Sony fined $82 million
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p2pnet.net News:- Sony Computer Entertainment and its US subsidiary may have to pay touch feedback technology firm Immersion Corp - which says it &quot; brings feeling to Microsoft Windows and the Internet&quot; - $82 million for patent infringement.
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Individual penalties for the four Infineon executives who pled guilty in a price-fixing scheme follow a record $160 million fine that Infineon agreed to pay in mid-September stemming from the same investigation.
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Japanese electronics conglomerate Sony  Corp. posted a 13 percent drop in quarterly profit on Thursday  due to sliding prices of TVs, DVD recorders and video cameras,  compounded by its failure to overtake Apple Computer's iPod in  the portable audio market.
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Sony said quarterly net profit jumped to 73.7 billion yen, or $646.7 million, as sales of digital cameras, televisions and other electronics more than offset losses at its video-games unit.
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Announces 40GB model too Sony has cut the price of the US 80GB PlayStation 3 to $499 (Â£245/â¬352), a prelude to the launch next month of the 40GB version, already announced in Europe and Japan.â¦
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By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 8--Samsung will pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 50  states, including Utah, over the alleged fixing of prices for computer memory  chips.   The bulk of the settlement, $80 million, goes directly to consumers.
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Sony Corp. announced a price more fitting of a video-game machine than a slick movie-playing gadget for its new PlayStation Portable - 19,800 yen ($186).
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SACRAMENTO A California commission has approved 82 (m) million dollars in tax refunds to nearly two dozen companies that didn&#39;t actually pay state income tax.
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LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in San Francisco has ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc and its US unit to pay Immersion Corp, a leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, $82 million in compensation for patent infringement
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THE DEPARTMENT of Justice said that four employees of Infineon have pleaded guilty to charges of price fixing DRAM. Three German citizens and one US citizen will each pay $250,000 in fines as well as serving between four to six months in jail.
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Sony Corp. posted a 13 percent drop in  quarterly profit on Thursday due to sliding prices of TVs, DVD  recorders and video cameras and its failure to overtake Apple  Computer's iPod in the portable audio market.
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Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players.
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Sony agreed to pay the Immersion Corporation $150.3 million to end a patent dispute over technology used in the PlayStation video-game console.
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Detroit Tigers outfielder Gary Sheffield was fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball Wednesday for remarks he made about umpires.
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A case pitting two of the biggest names in IP law against each other came to a head Tuesday, when an Oakland, Calif., jury awarded $82 million to a San Jose, Calif.
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US TV network CBS is fined a record $550,000 for Janet Jackson's Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction".
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Jean-Marie Messier, the disgraced former chief executive at media giant Vivendi Universal, was fined $1.35 million yesterday for misleading investors.