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AFP - Yahoo has followed through on a promise to give outside developers access to its software in order to jazz-up the website with fun, hip or functional programmes.

Reuters - Sony Computer Entertainment America's "LittleBigPlanet" game, released in North America on Tuesday, lets players create characters and scenarios for the PlayStation 3, taking the Internet's embrace of community-created sites to video games.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures Entertainment is ready to make Crackle pop.

LONDON (Reuters) - Good news for workers addicted to Facebook, Bebo and MySpace -- a British think-tank says bosses should not stop their staff using social networking sites because they could actually benefit their firms.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - LinkedIn, the career-oriented social networking website, on Wednesday will unveil an assortment of applications from big names like Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc in a push to integrate LinkedIn's platform into the daily workings of corporate life.

LONDON (Reuters) - Internet fraudsters will try to exploit the global financial crisis by sending fraudulent emails purporting to offer cash-strapped consumers new mortgages, loans or money from failed banks, a Microsoft executive said on Wednesday.

10 GbE makes large strides but the technology still has a few years to go until it leads the Ethernet segment.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc and Time Warner Inc's AOL unit are looking at each other's books to figure out how much money they could make together and where costs can be saved, a person familiar with the talks said on Wednesday, indicating a merger may finally be on the way.

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

Consumers say Apple must lower the phone's $500 price for them to make the move.