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 …

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 …

Digital Trends - At 9 a.m. U.K. time this morning, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop kicked off Nokia World 2011 by unveiling six new phones including its first two Windows Phone 7.5 handsets: the Lumia 800 and the cheaper Lumia 710. Unfortunately for those of us in the States, they won’t be coming to the U.S. until sometime in 2012. 

AP - A massive federal investigation that resulted in Google Inc. forfeiting $500 million this year to settle criminal claims over its advertising began with the 2008 arrest of a jet-setting career con artist, who took federal agents in Rhode Island into the underground world of peddling pills online.

Appolicious - The new authorized Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson on the late Apple co-founder, reveals that the visionary Jobs initially opposed the concept of apps, now an anchor of the smartphone ecosystem. The book is scheduled to be released Monday.

The Atlantic Wire - The gadget is a hit, but its share of the market for tablet computers fell sharply last quarter, as Android devices surged.

ContributorNetwork - Games are the most popular apps to download for any smartphone, but the iPhone (and its phone-less sibling, the iPod Touch) is widely perceived as the best gaming smartphone. That's mostly because it has the biggest game library, including a number of exclusive titles from both indie and name-brand publishers.

AP - Long before there was an Internet or an iPad, before people were social networking and instant messaging, Americans had already gotten wired.

Digital Trends - With Apple now setting a new standard following the release of the iPhone 4S, attention has shifted to the other smartphone-makers of the world and the imminent release of the latest generation of competing devices. Three of those phones now have potential release dates pinned to them, for Verizon at least, thanks to a leaked product listing obtained by Android Central.

Digital Trends - In a survey of over 2,000 women conducted by Cosmopolitan magazine, one in five women would rather give up sex for a week than giving up all the time spent on Facebook checking up on the lives of friends. Adding to that figure, about 57 percent of the female respondents would rather hang onto their computer than give it up for a week just to have sex and 50 percent would do the same with their mobile smartphone. However, 80 percent of the group would easily give up their favorite television shows for a week and 70 percent would stop texting over a mobile phone for a week to continue having sex. 

Mashable - The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Each weekend, Mashable handpicks a few startups that we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.

Appolicious - While developers continue to embrace iOS and Android platforms for mobile applications, HTML5 and innovations in browser-based technologies are catching up quickly.

Yahoo! News - In the next few years, extreme travelers could spend the night floating around in a space hotel. For now, what the Earth can offer will have to suffice. Thankfully, some options have the potential to satiate even the most adventurous …

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