. >>> a japanese court has ordered major electronics firm sony to pay a former employee some $60,000 for technology he helped invent while working for the company. hidehiro kume claimed that he had not been fully compensated for his invention and demanded about $1.2 million from sony. he said that his data scanning technology improved sony's popular game consoles and reaped a profit of $8.2 million for the electronics giant. on thursday, the intellectual property high court recognized that kume had contributed to the invention and helped generate a profit for sony. the high court ruling reversed the decision of a lower court. kume says he's grateful that the court recognized his contribution. >>> japanese retailer parco recently returned to the singapore market by setting up a giant shopping mall. besides bringing japanese flair, the firm is also investing in singapore's young designers. we have more. >> reporter: parco is a legendary company that created new fashions in the 1970s and '80s in japan. the giant has gone back to singapore with more in the commercial area. it's one of pa

it's a problem that's been simmering but now sony davey sees it's fast reaching boiling point she's a newly appointed cook in this primary school and johnny board here to prepare the government funded midday meal but despite sony's best intentions some of the students turned their noses up at her college many creations because she's a ballot or untouchable in traditional hindu society only upper caste cooks a lot of community minos but even now in some upper class children don't want to eat food made by me their parents consider the food polluted by my touch what can i do i'm here to make lunch in the school and treat the children here just like my own kids one hundred twenty million children across india receive a meet every working day in the largest school lunch program in the world but when the education ministry decided to send the it cooks to get schools where the majority of pupils are upper caste hindus many found it too hard to swallow. the media a meal can entice poor parents to send their children to school the kids look forward to it but there are some parents who don't wa

we have three years to to contain the use, this is the sony in the traders to apply reasonable standards. the conditions of approval or three years. there were several delays and they were reasonable. the various decision letters have a three-year window. the ballot was on the letter. this was recorded in a reasonable fashion. the other issues that delayed the project only delay it for the benefit of the project. there will be building code changes that went into effect. there are questions about how they can preserve the brick and work those issues out. also the wood floors and keeping those. the project was delayed, this was for the good of the project. it is reasonable to say that this is valid. this was never revoked. the zoning has not changed. this project can still be approved. if a conditional use forward to have expired, they would have to simply go by to the planning commission and have another hearing and to modify the previous condition of approval. there is an expensive process. that would take some time. there is a reasonable argument that a still timely. the suspension req

if sony is real sony, if cannon is real cannon, so i have to prove myself. >> reporter: the men have been indicted on counter fitting. in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> san jose's city council led with a number of contentious issues tonight which triggered hours of emotional debate. one of the issues was a tax on marijuana. cannabis club owners call that rate excessive but some people really don't want the clubs in the city at all. >> destruction and i want it stopped. >> reporter: even medical marijuana? >> there are other medicine. >> reporter: the council voted to put the proposed tax on the ballot and let the city voters decide. the council also supported a proposal to bring the oakland a's to san jose. a revamped pension plan for new city employees also will go before voters in november, but the council decided not to put a sales tax increase on the ballot. >>> san francisco was the first city in the nation to ban some nations from using plastic bags. now it wants to ban all of them from doing so. >>> today i am introduced an ordnance that bans plastic

if sony is real sony, if cannon is real cannon, so i have to prove myself. >> reporter: the men have been indicted on counter fitting. in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> san jose's city council led with a number of contentious issues tonight which triggered hours of emotional debate. one of the issues was a tax on marijuana. cannabis club owners call that rate excessive but some people really don't want the clubs in the city at all. >> destruction and i want it stopped. >> reporter: even medical marijuana? >> there are other medicine. >> reporter: the council voted to put the proposed tax on the ballot and let the city voters decide. the council also supported a proposal to bring the oakland a's to san jose. a revamped pension plan for new city employees also will go before voters in november, but the council decided not to put a sales tax increase on the ballot. >>> san francisco was the first city in the nation to ban some nations from using plastic bags. now it wants to ban all of them from doing so. >>> today i am introduced an ordnance that bans plastic

the previous weekend's top movie, sony's cop comedy "the other guys," slipped to third place with $18 million, $70.5 million. >> we will take a break more headlines straight ahead and developing stories as well. san francisco can seal whole lot because of all the fog causing delays at sfo looking at this coming up. real national pastime? saving money. and li baseball people love their stats. i started bringing my lunch to work -- 50 bucks a week in my pocket. here's a good one: state farm insures 40 million drivers. more than geico and progressive combined. i saved because i'm accident-free. of course, with so many ways to save including discounts of up to 40%, having that many customers shouldn't be a surprise. so ask a neighbor about state farm, then call an agent at 1-800-state-farm or go online. top stories at this hour danville teenager killed in a car accident in what police call a bad last minute decision. the other top story out of danville following the latest here from the scene and at least department. >> oakland three shootings in as many hours leave three people wounded.

sony said that they will make blu-ray disk software and then release movies and concerts filmed by it is group companies in 3-d. recent data suggests that the market is slowing down and they are focusing on what the u.n. central bank district will do next. a former bank of japan policy board member is here. >> will the federal reserve bank appears to move towards quantitate tif easing, what is your assessment of this and what impact will this have on the economy of the united states? >> i think the u.s. fed has already shifted their policy from credit easing quantitate tif easing because in the past the fed has insisted that the size of the fed balance sheet was just the result of acquiring a securities from traveled markets and the size of the balance sheet itself didn't mean much. but i think earlier this month the fed made public that the size of fed balance sheet, that's a matter that is important and on top of it the composition of the balance sheet does matter. and i think that they decided to accumulate longer securities inclined that they try to keep lower interest rates lower

some devices work well with the library software, like the one from sony and barnes and noble nook, but amazon's kindle is a very different story. >> the amazon kindle doesn't support e-pub, they want you to get documents in other formats, and e-pub is not one of them. >> reporter: this establishment has a foot in both worlds, old media and electronics. and more libraries are joining their ranks. two-thirds of public libraries offered e-books to customers, and 80% offered content online. >> if people come in and say i have a blackberry, i want do download content, how do i do it. >> reporter: a library is a place still to sit down and read, but if you have an e-book, you don't have to worry about late fees. >>> they call him spider-man, a french skyscraper climber who was arrested again after he finished climbing up a 57-story in australia. the man's name is arlon rober, known for climbing some of the tallest and best-known buildings. you can see him going up here. using just his hands, he scaled the building with a fair of shoes and a bag of baby powder. took him about 20 minutes to ge

just no point four percent that's much less than expected exporters also being hurt by the strong yen sony is down more than three percent. more than two percent. in the heart of the holiday season meant a quiet ten to the trading session in brush up with the bosses continued last week's to the slide and rolls in the shed some said on friday as the price of law suite slipped below seventy six dollars a barrel. after last week's uncertainty on the stock market the head of analysis at forex club says investors or expecting gains this week. in russia they expect rebound on monday but mend our investors our clients to invest in a liquid blue chip for example just from looks attractive some other oil and gas stocks like look paul and ross nafta also could be quite lucrative for investing. markets should grow but it will depend on the general economic environment in the walled it remains quiet moods it's still there are certain problems for example g.d.p. all to us. most probably slowed down in the second quarter. forecast was like two point four percent in the second quarter but now the expect

they include this one plasma and 40 inch sony and there is differences in performance. >> so far we're finding that plasma is a better technology for 3-d. when it comes to screen size bigger is definitely better and 3-d experience with movies and video games. >> so if you are looking to buy a high end tv right now go ahead and get one that is 3-d. top rated pan that sonic dt 25 steers start outing $2500 and additional expenses and you'll need a 3-d blu-ray player. >> you really to have like the 3-d movies. >> it's all going that way. >> thanks. >> parts of the united states may be treated to an unusual show in the sky tonight and tomorrow. northern lights may be visible as the northern u.s. thanks to two minor solar storms. they were shooting energized particles. plasma reacts the w the atmosphere to produce shimmering lights. they may be visible as far south as michigan. >> and there has been a short drop in the sea otter population. annual study by the survey shows the number of pups dropping for the second year in a row now. it's down 11% compared to last summer. experts say it incl

to provide content for their system they use their own in-house camera adaptation essentially twelve sony digital cameras welded in wired together. the models were chosen to give the smallest possible distance between shooting angles meanwhile they've developed computer software to help them process and synchronize all twelve channels generated by the cameras and split the resulting images between their four projectors properly setting the scene to portray a realistic image from this many angles isn't something many cameramen are experienced with the institute hopes that interest in three d. since avatar will draw attention to the need for this kind of training. is going to be the next day. there will be a technology that would enable us to produce and view holographic images. that would be in this world's real three dimensional movie experience. to do. if you do the whole world is playing with different ways of transforming flat images into three d. telegraphs have come a long way since the first film clips debuted in the soviet union over thirty years ago this researchers are now experi

this primary school and johnny board here to prepare the government funded midday meal but despite sony's best intentions some of the students turned their noses up many creations because she's a doll it or untouchable in traditional hindu society on the upper caste books. community minos maybe even now in some upper class children don't want to try me by me their parents consider the food polluted by my time church what can i do i'm here to make lunch in the school and treat the children here just like my own kids one hundred twenty million children across india receive a me every working day in the largest school lunch program in the world but when the education ministry decided to send it cooks schools where the majority of upper caste hindus many found to hard to swallow. the media a meal can entice poor parents to send their children to school the kids look forward to it but there are some parents who don't want their children to eat food made by low caste people have removed their children from here and also threaten us as well. meet the same family a member of the upper caste raj b

if it's real canon, real sony. i have to prove myself. >> reporter: federal officials say 11 people, including two illegal immigrants, have been indicted on multiple counts of conspiracy, smuggling, and trafficking of counterfeit goods. permanents on those charges range as -- penalties range as high as 20 years in prison. in san francisco, david stevenson. >>> most auto makers today reported an increase in u.s. sales prompting speculation that the auto industry may be undergoing a gradual recovery. every major auto maker except for ford and daimler said july sales were up compared to the previous month when there was a slow down. chrysler and general motors reported a slight rise in sales. foreign-based companies including nissan, vox waggen and toyota saw the largest monthly sales increases. toyota's gaines came as the company offered promotions to lure customers after recalling 9 and a half million vehicles. ford reported flat sales while daimler said sales were down 5%. >>> wall street's recent run up stalled to

continuing this week slide the yen is back on the rise putting multinationals under pressure tech giants sony and cannon some half a percent. russia was a mixed bag yesterday north nickel puts on two percent as its share holder war enters the court bank shed one percent on the my six revealed the number of people who are paying back loans is rising slightly. president medvedev says russia is badly prepared for its customs union with belarus and kazakstan the country ranked one hundred thirty of the one hundred thirty three nations for ease of customs procedures he adds almost half the goods coming into the country are held up by border guards compared with just two percent in the u.k. border controls will screw up between the three countries last month. russian car production soared seventy one percent in the first seven months of the year with six hundred thousand vehicles rolling off the lines the money for domestic you made calls has risen strongly compared to last year when the financial crisis what crisis was at its peak manufacturers have highlighted the role of government in reviving t

and over in asia stocks are mostly low on wall street's weakness on friday even strong gains for sony in this are unable to prop up tokyo hong kong shares are sliding lower as profit taking. to the markets rose in the previous eight straight sessions. china says it's already become the world's second largest economy the country's g.d.p. it's almost five trillion dollars last year that's just below japan says its eleven point one percent growth in the first half of this year has already put its g.d.p. at five point five trillion. china will overtake the u.s. economy by twenty twenty. after of a decade of debating russia signed a law clamping down on insider trading the new legislation clarifies and defines concepts such as insider information and market manipulation business or to talk to the head of the federal financial markets service to find out what will change. but . it took us a while to find a definition for insiders those who have access to insider information by the nature of their work since we're talking about the public organized market share prices are formed and the atte