Comcast Tests Do-It-Yourself Install Kits for Phones (Bloomberg)


MetroPCS plans to take a Leap (CNET News)
MetroPCS' proposed merger with Leap could create a strong competitor to the big four wireless companies, and pose a challenge to the industry's traditional pricing structure. Both MetroPCS and Leap have licencses and plans to enter the Philadelphia market within the next year or two.

Healthy growth in marketing of drugs (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Devon IT Adds Key Industry Executives to Spearhead Business Development, Strategic Alliance Plans
(BusinessWire via TMCnet)
Adding some heavyweights. Perhaps they are gearing up for an IPO.


Software Disruptors March On (Clayton Christensen on Forbes)
Clayton Christensen, author of "The Innovator's Dilemma", discusses the potential disruptive threat that SAP may be facing from the likes of Salesforce.com, and SAP's response to it so far.


Project Management Software is Hot (Red Herring)
Along the same lines, Primavera may be facing a similar disruptive threat from saas (software as a service) vendors who start at the lower end of the market and move up. Several are mentioned here.

Microsoft preps PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Computer Business Review/UK)
Microsoft's new BI platform may have appeal to many, but Qliktech doesn't see it as as threat to them right now.

Alliance Consulting Partners with SAP and Selects SAP(R) Business Suite (PR Newswire)


Global Design Firm Selects Microsoft Dynamics as Its Blueprint for Business Success (PR Newswire)
EwingCole to use Microsoft Dynamics for project management.


Phila.-area venture fund stakes software maker (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Solstice Software Chairman of the Board Appointed CEO (BusinessWire)
This is not a business for the faint of heart.


Inrix Looks for Express Lane (Red Herring)
Microsoft spinoff competes with Traffic.com


Lockheed Martin Team Shifts Into Production Effort to Add GPS Demonstration Signal to Modernized Satellite (PR Newswire)


Kulicke & Soffa Raises Guidance For Fourth Quarter to $226 Million (BusinessWire)


Ametek sells $450M in senior notes (Philadelphia Business Journal)


C&D Technologies Completes Sale of Power Electronics Division to Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (PR Newswire)


Philly Prepares to Open Faucet on New System -- After Opening Its Wallet (Computerworld)


City cabbies say technology is too taxing (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Reps. aim to create council to oversee high-tech systems (EveningSun.com)
Proposes State council to oversee uses of GIS technology.