Nokia to beef up venture fund, expand in China (AP)
AP - Nokia Corp. is more than doubling the size of its direct venture investment fund with an injection of $150 million, with a view to putting some of the money to use in India and China. 213
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Review: In an iPod Nano world, some rivals lure (AP)
AP - It's easy to understand the appeal of Apple Inc.'s iPod Nano music and video player: It's slim and simple to use, and it has a crisp 2-inch LCD screen. Its brand name is considered synonymous with hip tech gear.
Project to rebuild Internet gets $12M, bandwidth (AP)
AP - A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations.
Next space tourist spending bulk of fortune to fly (AP)
AP - The world's next space tourist, a computer game wizard, said Wednesday he's spending the bulk of his fortune on his $30 million adventure this fall.
Report: Google developing VC arm (CNET)
CNET - Google is revisiting efforts to create a venture capital arm, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal site Wednesday night.
Defiant China hits out at US, stands firm on Internet (AFP)
AFP - A defiant China stood firm on controversies swirling around the Olympics on Thursday, hitting back at the United States over human rights criticism and insisting Internet censorship would remain.
Motorola posts small profit, keeps No. 3 ranking (Reuters)
Reuters - Motorola Inc 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 Inc (066570.KS).
Motorola Clings to Third Place in Mobile Market (PC World)
PC World - Motorola clung on to third place in the mobile phone market in the second quarter, far behind Nokia and Samsung, but just...
Cloud Computing Dream Team (TechWeb)
TechWeb - I'm still sorting through the last bits of my OSCON trip notes, but one striking conversation I had was with Byrne Reese of SixApart about people who violate the end-user licensing of for-pay editions of OSS apps. Do we sic the open source cops on them? I'd like to think not.
Rebooting Windows: How To Recover From Vista Crashes (TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - We've pulled together a passel of little-known software backup and repair techniques so you won't have to reinstall Vista from scratch, if it gets trashed or hits a fatal startup error.
Toshiba's Former CEO to Join IBM Board (PC World)
PC World - IBM's board of directors has appointed Taizo Nishimuro, former president and CEO of Toshiba, to serve on the board from later...
Gamers hit the virtual gridiron early (Reuters)
Reuters - Although the future team colors of quarterback Brett Favre are unknown, when the 20th Anniversary "Madden NFL 09" game is released in August he will be wearing the Green Bay Packers' colors on the cover.
Scrabulous returns with a new name and new rules (AP)
AP - Scrabulous is back on Facebook, but now it has a new name, new rules and circular tiles that could help its makers skirt legal claims from the owners of Scrabble.
Motorola posts small 2Q profit, beats expectations (AP)
AP - In a sign that it may be finally turning its fortunes around, Motorola Inc. surprised investors Thursday by reporting a small profit for the second quarter and revealing it had shipped more cell phones than in the first quarter. Its shares soared.
Google Street View is approved for the U.K. (CNET)
CNET - Google Street View has been given approval to drive on the other side of the street on the other side of the pond.
IOC "surprised" by Games web censorship (Reuters)
Reuters - The media should have been told they would not have total Internet freedom before arriving for the Beijing Olympics, a senior IOC official said on Thursday, as rights groups piled criticism on both the IOC and host China.
Kleiner Perkins invests in iPhone game publisher (Reuters)
Reuters - Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has invested in a first round of financing for ngmoco, a publisher of games for Apple Inc's iPhone.
Oracle Buys Global Knowledge Software (PC World)
PC World - Oracle has bought a Global Knowledge Software, a developer of tools used to build self-service training courses.
Sun Releases Preview of JavaFX SDK (PC World)
PC World - Sun has released a preview SDK for its JavaFX development platform.
Gamers hit the virtual gridiron early (Reuters)
Reuters - Although the future team colors of quarterback Brett Favre are unknown, when the 20th Anniversary "Madden NFL 09" game is released in August he will be wearing the Green Bay Packers' colors on the cover.
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