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MORGAN STANLEY (P. 88) l BOSS-HATERS (P. 136) lIDENTITY THEFT (P. 34) www.businessweek.com JULY 3, 2006 The Godfather of Invention Ex-Microsoft brainiac NATHAN MYHRVOLD is out to corner the market on big ideas. Why that’s spooking the business world BY MICHAEL OREY (P.53) >>Plus THEINFOTECH 100 July 3, 2006 54 The Future of Tech 54 The Godfather of Invention IDEA MACHINE Intellectual Ventures has a detailed plan for profiting from the vast array of patents it’s acquiring The inside story on Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures. Will snapping up thousands of patents make it a leader in innovation— or litigation? 62 Games: Tiny Ones for a Giant Market The likely payoff from cell-phone play 63 Computers: The Next Cheap Thing ncomputing’s device for mass pc access 68 Software: Office Rivals Microsoft’s megapackage has company 70 Phones: Putting It All Together Add a little Wi-Fi, and some video... 72 The Web: Lending Peer-to-peer banking online 74 Markets: Latin America Jockeying for the red-hot cellular market 76 Downfalls: Four That Tumbled Samsung, ibm, France Télécom, Intel 78 The Info Tech 100 Tables The Business Week Nokia Siemens Networks; Bill Gates; eads’s Airbus woes; housing watch; McDonald’s in China; bids for a bourse 88 CEO MACK 34 NO EASY MARK ID theft is harder than you think 6 | BusinessWeek | July 3, 2006 Shaking the dust off Morgan Stanley News: Analysis & Commentary 34 ID Theft: More Hype Than Harm Law enforcement officials say that criminals tend not to follow through and that losses are overstated 37 Hedge Fund Toddlers Why wait for that big break when you and a few buds can manage millions now? BusinessWeek (ISSN 0007-71