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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)
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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
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NO EASY MARK
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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