PCWorld.com writes that “

[t]he latest survey from security vendor McAfee has found that small to medium-size businesses in North America and Europe wrongly conclude their revenue is too low to draw the attention of cybercriminals.  SMBs are in fact rich hunting ground for hackers, McAfee said. Although there may be less money or data to steal, the attacks are also less likely to gain the attention of law enforcement organizations such as the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.  ‘Lots of small attacks add up to large amounts of revenue,’ according to the survey, which polled 500 companies in the U.S. and Canada. There are an estimated 7.4 million SMBs in North America.  McAfee’s study this year focused on North America, whereas last year it surveyed 600 European SMBs. However, the conclusions of the two studies are similar.”

In a different article, PCWorld.com reports that “Joost and Hong Kong-based Internet company Tom Online launched a beta Chinese version of the online video service Wednesday.  The two companies, which are forming a joint venture to provide the service, said they had sourced over 16,000 hours of Chinese-language programming, which they would distribute both inside and beyond Greater China, which includes China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It sports partnerships with China Record Corp., film and television producers Huayi Brothers Media Group and Taihe Rye Music.”

The International Herald Tribune today has an interesting article about a new book by HBS Professors Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li which examines the influence of the Internet on companies’ efforts to control their image and brand.

According to Reuters, “[t]he German Federal Patent Court ruled on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case against the world’s top cell phone maker Nokia was invalid.  The companies have been at legal loggerheads since failing to renew a technology license pact that expired on April 9, 2007. A key court case to solve the row starts later on Wednesday in Delaware.”

BusinessWeek has a good discussion on what the U.S. can learn from Indian R&D.