Japan's Ricoh to buy Ikon Office for $1.6 bln (Reuters)
Activist Steel pushed Ikon's sale to Ricoh: analyst (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

SAP to Innovate Heavily in SMB On-Demand Suite
Business intelligence to pervade enterprise software giant's forthcoming products. (InternetNews.com)
Business ByDesign isn't dead. Its just resting.

Is the SAP skills shortage pushing buyers to Oracle, Microsoft? (SearchSAP.com)

Refused its sign, Unisys reconsiders move to city (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Entrepreneurs help nonprofits and pols get Net savvy (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Bentley Expands Professional Services for Structural Engineering and Plant Application Users in North America (BusinessWire)

Google's wireless efforts drawing political fire
AT&T lobbies against WiMax network primed for forthcoming 'Google phones' (MarketWatch)
Clearwire Has 12 Months' Worth of Cash
Will the company survive long enough to get Sprint deal done? (DSL Reports)

Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, Comcast again sparring over carriage (Baltimore Business Journal)

Philly Newspaper Staffers vote to defer Raises (Associated Press via Editor & Publisher)

Open source for the future. Art, music, and sustainablity at Monome (Red Hat Magazine)

Linux Foundation announces end user summit (ZDNet Blogs)

Tales From The Boom: The Open Cybercafe Thread (Philebrity)
Philebrity's Philly Internet History Week has a number of interesting vignettes like this.

AZ Adds an Electronic Component to Direct Mail
(PharmExec.com)

Dataram Reports Fiscal 2009 First Quarter Financial Results (BusinessWire)



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