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AP - Yahoo Inc. is expected to unveil plans to build a new facility in Nebraska on Friday, just days after the California-based Internet company announced it will cut at least 1,500 workers as it deals with the economic downturn.

CNET - Earlier Thursday, Richard Whitt, Google's telecom and media counsel in Washington, posted a note on the company's official blog urging people to put pressure on the FCC to open up the unused "white spaces" radio spectrum.

Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.

HP still rules, Sun is making money again and mainframe sales keep on chugging.

Amazon's toy gets talk show sofa space Oprah Winfrey is set to report that her favourite gadget is Amazon's Kindle e-book reader, and she's invited Amazon founded Jeff Bezos onto her show to explain why it's good to read electric..

Sounds good? SanDisk's already launched Micro SD cards with pre-loaded tunes on. So Dell's decided to get in on the music scene too and has launched a service to pre-install music on your new machine..

Microsoft shares poke in and out of positive territory before closing lower after the company posted results for the September quarter that reflected brisk sales of software and video-game consoles.

AFP - 123people.com, a free search engine which scours the Internet and gathers and displays information about people, has expanded to the United States.

When you watch YouTube, what's your 'skin response'? As part of its increasingly desperate attempt to actually make some money from YouTube, Google is reading the brainwaves of human guinea pigs in an effort to judge the effectiveness of video ads..

CNET - North Korea has been restricting the use of cell phones to prevent its residents from sharing news about a worsening food crisis, according to a report on the The Times of London Web site.