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TechWeb Weekly Update - Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Nokia To Invest $150 Million In Venture Arm Growth
Nokia will invest a further $150 million into its venture investment arm, hoping to find emerging Internet services from China and India, the world's largest cellphone maker said Thursday.

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Here's where BPO is moving in its next wave, why not all vendors will catch that wave, and what to look for in those that will.

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Video Of N.Y. Police Officer Shoving Bicyclist A YouTube Hit
A New York City police officer is on desk duty after an anonymous YouTube user posted video showing the officer knocking a bicyclist to the ground in Times Square.

HP, Intel, Yahoo Join Government, Academia In Cloud Computing Research
Each of the founding members will host a cloud-computing infrastructure largely based on HP computers and Intel processors in six data centers.

Inside The OSCON 2008 Open Source Conference
We round up our coverage of the open source OSCON 2008 conference. Don't miss Q&As with Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth and The Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin. Check out the photo gallery, too.

British Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal
UFO fanatic Gary McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 U.S. military computer systems in 2001 and 2002 and may face as many as 70 years in a U.S. prison.

Microsoft Dupes Windows Vista Haters With 'Mojave Experiment'
Microsoft's opinion that Vista's troubles are all in users' heads -- and not in the OS's performance -- was supported by a company experiment.

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News of the Week

Motorola Posts Small Profit, Keeps No. 3 Ranking
Motorola posted a small quarterly profit on Thursday as it sold more mobile phones than expected and narrowly kept its No. 3 global ranking in the mobile phone market ahead of LG Electronics.

Court To Review Overturning Of Nacchio Conviction
Nacchio's April 2007 conviction of insider trading had been hailed as a major victory in the government's crackdown on corporate titans who profited while their companies suffered.

MySpace Adds To Senior Executive Suite
MySpace, which launched four years ago, now has more than 117 million users worldwide and offices in 19 countries and 29 localized sites across the Web.

Consumers Spend Less, Comparison Shop Online
The latest Consumer Behavior Report suggests prices at the pump are now a factor in how far shoppers will go to get that great deal.

Verizon To Help Government Manage Mobile Phones
In a deal worth up to $15 million, Verizon Business will manage and track mobile devices for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Hollywood Sues Two Free-Movie Sites
The sites offered free streams of copyrighted films, including the latest X-Files, Batman, and Hellboy movies.

Vote For Your Favorite Startup
Weigh in and tell us which startups you think have the most compelling technologies.

Intel's Barrett Sees No Slowdown In World PC Market
Intel, the world's biggest microchip producer, expects no slowdown in global demand for PCs despite economic problems in the United States and in other countries, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett said Wednesday.

Despite Buyout, Bell Canada Cuts 2,500 Managers
The company said the loss of positions will result in annual savings of about $300 million when combined with other reductions carried out earlier in the year.

Software Contract Dispute Threatened IM On Wall Street
A judge told Thomson Reuters it had to stop using its instant messaging software by Friday after a payment dispute with the contractor providing the technology.

Rural Areas Hotbeds Of Twitter Searches, Social Networking
Lightly populated areas are more prone to fostering online relationships because of travel constraints, a report from Gaebler Ventures suggests.


Breaking news

Virtual Sprawl Hits Wall Street
Rapid server virtualization has set the stage for a new malady known as 'virtual sprawl.' Here's what Wall Street firms are doing about it.

Microsoft Ad Agency Reaches Out To Old Media
Avenue A/Razorfish, a digital advertising and services agency, is set to announce plans to launch a media and entertainment consulting practice, banking on business from traditional media companies that are trying to broaden their image.

Phishing Kits Widely Compromised To Steal From Phishers
From 21 different distribution sites, the authors of the Usenix Conference paper identified 379 distinct phishing kits, 129 of which contained back doors.

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