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In the News This Week: updated Dec. 28, 2011

PC Magazines Top 10 Tech Stories of 2011: Here are some of the best tech stories from PC Magazine for the year 2011. [PCMag]
PC Magazine: The Year in Review: a list of what was new in 2011. [PCMag]
Is Wi-Fi Really That Secure?: U.S. Computer Emgergency Readines Team warns about possible security flaws in many wi-fi routers. [CNET]
Scientists to Vote on Changing our Clocks: our clocks are wrong and a world group of scientists want to change that. [HuffPost]
Apple Fined for Misleading Customers: Italy sues Apple over inadequately informing customers about product guarantees and assistance. [HuffPost]

From Past Weeks:

Apple to 'overhaul' most products in 2012: Apple to overhaul its iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and iMac in the next year. [CNET]
New Nook Tablet to launch Nov. 16: Barnes & Noble to challenge new Kindle Fire. [CNET]
Microsoft issues temporary fix for critical Windows hole: Win32k TrueType flaw allows trojan to run in kernel mode. [CNET]
IDC: Samsung Passes Apple to Top Global Smartphone Market: Samsung has taken over the top spot in the global smartphone market while Apple slipped to second place after a brief stint in the No. 1 position. [PCMag]
Siri, Are You Working?: Siri, Apple's voice assistant service for the iPhone 4S, is experiencing an outage in locations throughout the country. [PCMag]
PBS Jobs Special Includes Never-Aired 2004 Interview: Check out video from Steve Jobs - One Last Thing. [PCMag]
Windows 8 to spawn new breed of low-cost laptops: Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will start a new growith in small low-cost laptops. The new OS will work with the latest ARM processors. [CNET]
Nook2Android turns Nook into full Android tablet: Using a SanDisk microSD card preloaded with Android 2.3, Nook Color users will be able to make their appliances turn into full scale Android tablets. [CNET]

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