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– Sony Corp’s No.2 Kazuo Hirai will brief media on Sunday about a huge security breach of its PlayStation Network, the first time an executive of the Japanese electronics giant will publicly address the case, which could prompt global legal actions.

Hirai, in line to succeed CEO Howard Stringer, will hold a news conference in Tokyo at 2:00 p.m. on Sony’s investigation of the case, its information management system and the schedule to resume services, the firm said in a news release on Saturday.

Sony warned on Tuesday that hackers had stolen names, addresses, and possibly credit card details from 77 million user accounts of its online video game network, which produces an estimated $500 million in annual revenues.

The disclosure of one of the biggest ever online data infiltrations came on Tuesday, a week after Sony shut down the network.

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INNOVATIVE GLASS: David Lussey, CTO of England-based Peratech, holds the new QTC Clear glass, which may soon be found on touchscreen devices. (Peratech)

A new form of touch screen glass can bring iPhones, Androids, and the slew of tablets on the horizon to a new level. It is based on the award-winning Quantum Tunneling Composite (QTC) material, and researchers at England-based Peratech found a way to turn it clear, opening its use as a screen. Fittingly, they’ve dubbed it “QTC Clear.” The material brings new possibilities for touch screens, including 3-D input. It also has a similar thickness to current touch screens, which means it could easily work as a replacement for future devices. Pera

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IDG News Service — Nokia, China’s biggest handset vendor, reported on Wednesday that a mobile app aimed at helping rural Chinese users has become the company’s fastest-growing service in the country.

Nokia launched Ovi Life Tools in China last May. The tools are a set of informational services meant for rural markets in developing countries. With the app, information can be found on a variety of topics including the weather, market prices and pregnancy care. S Find more…

The last Endeavour mission before its retirement is one of the most ambitious scientific searches ever attempted in Space: to track antimatter and dark matter in the Universe.

The International Space Stations AMS-2 module analyses cosmic rays to search for missing elements to understand the origins of the Universe.

Outside the Earths atmosphere the hunt will be easier.

Instead of the atmospere preventing the observation of radiation reaching us in situ, we will climb to an altitude of 400 km to observe this radiation without any obstruction, says the leader of the Swiss team participating in the project, Dr. Martin Pohl.

According the Big Bang theory antimatter was created on a par with normal matter but then disappeared.

The matter from which everything is made is only a very small part, 5%, of the universe. Find more…

LG Phoenix smartphone : A smartphone that has just what you need. With fast processing, robust web browsing, improved synchronization, feature-rich interaction and helpful customization options, the LG Phoenix lets you have your world, your way! The LG Phoenix mobile phone features a 3.2 inch color full-touch display, Android 2.2 platform, Exchange email support, unlimited Wi-Fi usage on the entire national AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spot network and a 3.2-megapixel camera. The LG Phoenix smartphone will be available for purchase nationwide at AT&T company-owned retail stores and in select national retail locations. On April 17, AT&T will begin selling the LG Phoenix smartphone in dark blue for $49.99, and requires a two-year agreement. Find more…

– A cache of classified U.S. military documents provides intelligence assessments on nearly all of the 779 people who been detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

The secret documents, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, reveal that most of the 172 remaining prisoners have been rated as a “high risk” of posing a threat to the United States and its allies if released without adequate rehabilitation and supervision, the newspaper said.

The documents, provided by WikiLeaks, also show about a third of the 600 detainees already sent to other countries were also designated “high risk” before they were freed or passed to the custody of other governments, the Times said in its report late on Sunday.

The dossiers, prepared under the Bush administration, also show the seat-of-the-pants intelligence gathering in war zones that led to the incarcerations of innocent men for years in cases of mistaken identity or simple misfortune, the Times said.

The documents are largely silent about the use of the harsh interrogation tactics at Guantanamo that drew global condemnation, the newspaper reported.

President Barack Obama pledged two years ago to close the prison at U.S.

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Samsung ST93 digital camera : Samsung Electronics launches the compact, stylish and feature-packed ST93. The new Samsung ST93 camera is the latest addition to Samsung’s ultra-slim, stylish ST range, with enhanced optical performance through Dual Image Stabilization, 16-megapixel picture quality, and 26mm wide angle and 5x optical zoom lenses. The Samsung ST93 camera also boasts a Smart Filter feature, for users to be creative with their snaps. The Samsung ST93 digital camera reinforces Samsung’s ambition to produce fashionable and portable cameras that maintain a premium and high-quality feature set to create great images. Find more…