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  02/02/2012

  Video: Sony CEO Howard Stringer hands the reins to Kazuo Hirai

  Sony's CEO Howard Stringer appeared alongside his incoming replacement at a press conference in Tokyo. Kazuo Hirai, who currently heads the company's core consumer products division, will take over in April, at the start of the new fiscal year.
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  02/02/2012

  Video: San Francisco's tech community is cautious about Facebook's IPO filing

  Southpark is the area where San Francisco’s technology folks so often go to lunch, just up the street from the AT&T ballfield, on streets swarming with tech’s version of hipsters. It’s just the crowd that should care about Facebook’s IPO filing—but the mood here, is cautious.
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  02/02/2012

  Video: Facebook files for $5 billion IPO

  The SEC filing does not give a proposed date for the IPO and Facebook hasn't released its expectations for the initial stock price.
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  02/02/2012

  Video: The Byte - iPhone envy, Samsung's troubles, Japan's tech problems

  The Byte, Jan. 31, 2012 Sources in the Taiwan smartphone supply chain say that a number of device makers are delaying new models on the heels of the iPhone's record success. Samsung still isn't allowed to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the latest ruling in Germany and the European Commission is also investigating the company for breach of competition law Toshiba and Fujitsu joined other tech companies in Japan as they booked deep losses in their latest quarter.
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  31/01/2012

  Video: The Byte - car tech, Twitter changes, anti-phishing fight

  A new report paints a chaotic picture of automated software control systems in cars, Twitter hopes to unmask censorship with a new controversial feature and industry heavyweights push for DMARC.
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  30/01/2012

  Video: Facebook, Washington state sue alleged ad scammer

  Washington's attorney general announced two new lawsuits against Adscend Media, a company that allegedly has been earning US$20 million a year using a Facebook scam.
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  30/01/2012

  Video: Nintendo Wii U will launch in time for 2012 holiday season

  Nintendo said its new game console called Wii U will be available for the 2012 holiday season in the US, Europe and Japan.
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  27/01/2012

  Video: Apple breaks records, new EU data laws and a new Facebook app to die for

  Coming up on World Tech Update this week the EU proposes new online data protection rules, Apple shatters sales records under CEO Tim Cook and a new Facebook app is to die for.
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  27/01/2012

  Video: EU data protection proposes big fines for businesses

  The European Commission announced a data protection bill this week that it hopes will safeguard citizen's online privacy.
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  25/01/2012

  Video: App Review, Episode 1 - Travel apps

  In our first IDG App Review we take a look at apps for travelers including Flight Track, Kayak, Flight Control and others.
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  24/01/2012

  Video: Location-based CPR app about to expand to San Jose, Calif.

  As of next month, the app will spread to nearby San Jose, California from San Ramon, where the fire chief came up with the app more than a year ago. It’s the first of many stops the app is making across the Bay Area—with development underway in San Francisco as well. The idea is that any good Samaritan in a public space can opt-in to the location-based app and If you’re nearby and 911 is dialed for a potential heart-attack, an alert will go to your phone.
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  23/01/2012

  Video: Intel's Q4 earnings strong despite Atom revenue drop

  While Intel saw a big drop in revenue from its Atom processors, it still managed to post a net income of US$3.5 billion in the fourth quarter.
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  20/01/2012

  Video: Apple Vs Samsung cont'd, SOPA protests, Yahoo's Yang resigns and more in World Tech Update, Jan. 19, 2012

  Coming up on World Tech Update this week, protestors rally against SOPA and PIPA, Yahoo's Yang resigns, Sony teases a universal remote gadget, the heated battle between Apple and Samsung rages on, the AR Drone 2 gets easier to fly and a small company makes a big splash at CES.
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  20/01/2012

  Video: Reddit co-founder discusses SOPA at New York protest

  "We need more representatives to either know what they're talking about or be willing to concede that they are not experts and they need to bring them in," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian said during the rally.
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  20/01/2012

  Video: Silicon Valley rallies against SOPA

  About 200 of Silicon Valley’s technology-employed rallied in front of San Francisco’s city hall Wednesday, protesting the U.S. House bill called the “Stop Online Piracy Act”—or SOPA, and its mate in Senate, PIPA.
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  20/01/2012

  Video: Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo

  It’s the end of an era for Yahoo as co-founder Jerry Yang announced his complete resignation this Tuesday.
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  13/01/2012

  Video: CES 2012: Entrepreneurs bet it all in Vegas

  Inside Eureka Park, first-timers can spent $1000 for a booth, though that price doesn't tell the whole story. Stephen Harris-Smith just stuck $20 thousand dollars into a business for his invention, that he’s here displaying for the first time.
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  13/01/2012

  Video: CES 2012: World Tech Update, Jan. 12, 2012

  Coming up on World Tech Update this week we’re at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show where Microsoft talked about the future of Kinect, Intel pushed Ultrabooks, Samsung showed off TVs with motion and voice control, Sony packed its press conferences with celebrities like Kelly Clarkson and Will Smith, a 10,000 watt iPod dock pumped out music and a hard drive survived 1,000,000 volts. To find out more follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/worldtechupdate.
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  13/01/2012

  Video: CES 2012: WowWee puts real toys in digital games

  The toymaker has come up with a high tech version of dog fighting using augmented reality and an iPad.
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