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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Portable media players such as iPods are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration researcher reported on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said on Thursday that it might have to write off all of the $30.7 billion goodwill value from its purchase of Nextel Communications and smaller deals as it struggles with customer losses.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The head of telecom equipment maker Ericsson's Redback Networks unit is leaving his executive position to become vice chairman of the unit, Redback's chairman said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - They may be a whiz with the computer and brimming with confidence, but would you give "Generation Y" a job if you had to suffer their pushy parents and fairweather notions of loyalty?

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt had less than half its Internet capacity available on Thursday because of breaks in two undersea cables that have also affected the Gulf region and south Asia.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Siemens AG has extended its amnesty offer to employees in connection with a probe into a corruption scandal until the end of February, the company said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government, including the Ministry of defense (MoD), will be able to share or trade some of the most valuable radio spectrum in the country under new guidelines being drawn up by the communications regulator.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - You may know actor Keith David for starring opposite Kurt Russell in the 1982 horror film 'The Thing', or for his Tony Award-winning role in the 1992 production of 'Jelly's Last Jam'.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's top three executives had pledged to work together for 20 years in a pact they made shortly before the company's initial public offering in August 2004, Fortune magazine has reported.

SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) - Brash Entertainment is developing a video game based on the upcoming movie “Space Chimps,” from Vanguard Animation and Starz Media.