AP - Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson he wanted him to write his biography because he's good at getting people to talk. Jobs, it turns out, didn't need much prodding, secretive as he was about both his private life and the company he founded.

AP - Facebook plans to build a large server farm in northern Sweden near the Arctic Circle, taking advantage of the chilly climate to keep its equipment cool, a Swedish newspaper reported Wednesday

NewsFactor - Nokia World is well under way in Europe, and the handset maker is rolling out a diverse lineup of new phones, including the Nokia Lumia 800 and 710. The Lumia devices are the first in Nokia's portfolio to use the Windows Phone 7 operating system.

Appolicious - Using the words “convoluted” or “confusing” to describe the patent battles going on in the mobile space might be going a little easy on them. Everywhere it seems companies are suing one another over anything they can think of, while others collect license fees from device and software makers just looking to avoid ending up in court. Just about everyone owns a small number of the patents necessary to create a smartphone or a tablet, and they’re all constantly at war over them.

Yahoo! News - The sad remnants of the massive tsunami that ravaged Japan earlier this year are drifting toward Hawaii at an alarming rate, but something decidedly more lighthearted just washed up on Florida's coastline. While taking a walk around dawn, an unsuspecting …

Reuters - Research In Motion won't upgrade the software for its much-maligned PlayBook tablet computer until February, months behind schedule, and the new version still won't feature the popular BlackBerry Messenger application.

Yahoo! News - When Apple unveiled its new iPhone 4S, the most striking new feature was the integrated virtual assistant named Siri. And you don't have to be a sci-fi junkie to know that Siri's eerily casual conversations are similar to those of …