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• 09 January 2012

• Video: Video: Spock meets Steve Wozniak

  Actor Leonard Nimoy, famed for playing Spock on the original "Star Trek" TV show and films, sat down briefly with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak at the Demo Enterprise event on Thursday night in San Francisco. Wozniak wowed him with the progress of machine translation technology.

• Video: Video: Yahoo's new CEO, Sony and RIM's tablets, Apple iBooks, CES and more

  Coming up on World Tech Update this week Yahoo finds a new CEO, we get ready for the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony and RIM try to entice tablet buyers, Apple prepares to revamp iBooks, Google offers voters political info and find out how to own the Steve Jobs action figure.

• News: Sweden's Tobii shows 'gaze control' on Windows 8 PC

  We've had gesture control with Microsoft Kinect. Now get ready for gaze control. Swedish firm Tobii is at the Consumer Electronics Show this week to promote the use of its eye tracking technology in PCs and tablets, though it could be a couple of years before it's ready for mainstream use.

• 07 January 2012

• News: Sony denies report it will promote No. 2 Kazuo Hirai to run company from April

  Sony on Saturday denied a report that it has decided to promote the head of its consumer product division, Kazuo Hirai, to lead the company from April.

• News: Claims of legal challenge over Jobs doll

  Report says the wrath of Apple has fallen on doll maker

• News: Fortnum & Mason Christmas hampers still undelivered after IT glitch

  Fortnum & Mason, the luxury London department store, has still not delivered all the hampers customers ordered for Christmas after being floored by an IT glitch in December.

• 06 January 2012

• News: Lawsuits, competition weigh on Motorola

  The cost of patent lawsuits and a more competitive market weighed down Motorola Mobility's fourth-quarter financial results, the company reported Friday in releasing preliminary numbers.

• News: Wall Street Beat: Tech may be a bright spot in tough economy

  Tech stocks ended the first trading week of 2012 on an upbeat note even though both Forrester and Gartner this week forecast slowing growth in IT spending, due mainly to concerns about the global economy.

• News: FBI warns of new Zeus-based malware in phishing scam

  So long as people click on unsolicited attachments in email, scammers will invent new ways to take their money, identities and more.

• News: Grooveshark's Legal Woes Mount as EMI Sues

  Grooveshark, a popular but legally questionable streaming music service, is now being sued by all four major record labels.

• News: U.S. report sees perils to America's tech future

  The ability of the U.S. to compete globally is eroding, according to a Commerce Department report released Friday that described itself as a "call to arms."

• News: E-voting machine freezes, misreads votes, U.S. agency says

  An electronic ballot scanning device set for use in this year's presidential elections, misreads ballots, fails to log critical events and is prone to freezes and sudden lockups, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission found.

• News: Symantec's Norton AntiVirus source code leaked online?

  Symantec has started an investigation after a group of hackers claimed to have gained possession of the source code for the security firm's Norton AntiVirus software.

• News: Barnes & Noble may spin off Nook business

  Bookseller Barnes & Noble is considering spinning off its Nook digital business to help it grow, following strong growth in sales of the Nook reader and tablet and digital content in the nine-week holiday period ending Dec. 31.

• 05 January 2012

• News: Symantec investigates possible leak of Norton AntiVirus source code

  Symantec is investigating claims by a group of hackers that they are in possession of source code for its Norton AntiVirus (NAV) product.

• News: With Thompson in CEO seat, Yahoo may go after Netflix

  Just one day after Yahoo announced that it has found a new CEO, speculation began swirling that the Internet company may be looking to scoop up Netflix.

• News: 9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012

  Nine networking and IT startups that could hit the big-time in 2012.

• News: Software whiz Ray Ozzie re-emerges with startup Cocomo

  Lotus Notes creator and former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is coming back with a startup named Cocomo that seems to be focused on mobile communication.

• 200th issue of PC Advisor onsale today

  The 200th issue of PC Advisor is onsale now. You can buy the March 2012 issue in all good newsagents and via digital download.

• News: Apple pays $5 million to settle Elan patent lawsuit

  If patent infringement lawsuits are the soap operas of the tech industry, the news that Apple has paid out $5 million as part of a settlement to Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics might qualify as a “shocking twist.”

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