Amyris opens plant to make diesel from sugar cane

CES 2009: Gadget extravaganza
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the premier event for gadget makers and aficionados alike. Check here for the main CNET News stories from CES, and more.

Salesforce.com outage hits thousands of businesses
Disruption affected all data being processed in Japan, Europe, and North America for at least 40 minutes.

Time for vendors to stop foisting IE onto consumers
Adobe Systems has been force-feeding Microsoft's Web browser to its customers. Shouldn't Mozilla's Firefox and other browser makers get a say in the matter?

Yelp jumps across the pond
The business reviews site has launched a U.K. edition, adding to its original U.S. site and the Canada edition that launched this summer.

Dell's Ireland plant to shed 1,900 jobs
The first Limerick employees will leave the PC maker in April and the process of switching production to Poland and to contractors will be done by January 2010.