By extending the deadline for nominating board members Yahoo acts to discourage a Microsoft proxy fight and hopes to buy time to seek alternatives to the proposed acquisition. Sparked by a marked surge in data, video and voice traffic, AT&T plans to invest $1 billion to expand its IP networks for large corporations in 2008. Avaya demos an iPhone version of one-X Mobile, but the company is waiting for Apple to issue the SDK until it knows if the iPhone will be open enough for Avaya to equip it for business. Greenpeace ranks the greenest electronic devices and among the winners are Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sony-Ericsson, but even they ought not to be rejoicing at these results. IBM’s takeover of Telelogic gets approved by the European Commission, clearing the way for Big Blue to become the largest vendor of software modeling and requirements management tools. And with investment banks last year predicting Google’s stock would soar even higher than it actually did, recent falling prices prompted Dan Nystedt of the IDG News Service to ask Whatever happened to Google $900? Well, at least one analyst still believes the search giant’s stock will climb up to $2000, just not very soon. Technology Industry