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Google (GOOG) is planning to hold a big press conference at the GooglePlex today, where engineers and flacks will unveil new details about the much-discussed Chrome operating system. This is part of the company's big push for cloud computing, in which users dispense with the usual model of expensive personal computers and run with lightweight, cheap netbooks that use the web itself as the platform for office software.

Luxury retailers that have cut their inventories this season are already selling out of hot items, the New York Times reports. High-end stores, like Neiman Marcus and Saks (SKS), are treading carefully this holiday season, aware that consumer spending hasn’t yet bounced back entirely.

Norah Jones is not really an actress. Yes, she was in that Wong Kar Wai movie My Blueberry Nights, but her career path does not exactly fit itself into Hulu’s wheelhouse. And yet today was her big debut; she now has an entire page dedicated to her on the streaming video site. Why?

We're used to Google (GOOG) doing something unexpected, or diving into a business no one could have foreseen. But the latest rumors are so completely counterintuitive that we have a really hard time believing them: Google is building its own smartphone. Not an operating system or software platform to hand out to handset manufacturers. Its own phone.

Bloomberg News reports that Hershey and Italy's Ferrero are both "evaluating their options" for whether and how much to bid for Cadbury, the British confectioner for which Kraft Foods has made a hostile bid.

Surely you’ve heard about the Balloon Boy. Well, now there’s the Balloon Chair. In this ad designed to get everyone talking about Toshiba’s new flat-screen television, the views get cooler and cooler as a chair floats up to space. And, even better, this footage isn’t a fake-out!

Title: Space Chair Project