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Reuters – The global mobile phone market should grow at much slower-than-expected rates next year as consumers put off buying new devices due to deepening economic concerns, according to forecasts from analysts.

InfoWorld – Red Hat is expanding its open-source JBoss SOA platform with the unveiling Wednesday of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1.

CNET – WASHINGTON—Is the idea of widespread biometric data collection still too spooky to win over the American public?

AP – Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, is taking on Apple Inc. with a touch-screen phone that puts a new twist on the technology.

AP – Google Inc., the leader in online search and advertising, is muscling in on video game territory — though it won’t exactly be in the form of a shoot ‘em up game.

Reuters – YouTube, the world’s most popular video-sharing site, will start to sell music and video games and experiment with new advertising formats to grow revenue, executives said on Tuesday.

CNET – Love that song in the latest “Where the hell is Matt?” video but have no idea what the hell it is? Wonder no more. Now YouTube will make it easier to identify songs and buy them instantly.

AFP – YouTube on Tuesday added links to online stores in a move crafted to pump more money from the hot video-sharing website Google bought nearly two years ago in a 1.65 billion dollar stock deal.

InfoWorld – Microsoft Office Labs released Tuesday its Touchless SDK for developers to experiment with multi-touch technology.

Reuters – The global cell phone market should grow at much slower-than-expected rates next year as consumers put off buying new devices due to deepening economic concerns, according to forecasts from analysts.