Daily Links 9/30/09: Annenberg Study: Most Don't Want Targeted Behavioral Ads Online

What does our local tech culture need? (Baltimore Sun: BalTech)

Internet Speeds Are Often Slower Than What Consumers Pay For, FCC Finds (Washington Post: Post I.T.)

Editorial: "Network neutrality" or "network neutering"?
(ars technica)


Annenberg Study: Consumers Cool To Behavioral Marketing
Majority Don't Want Targeted Behavioral Ads Online (Multichannel News)

Battle lines still drawn in Versus vs. DirecTV (LA Times)

Salesforce.com, Coda Form New SaaS Financials Company (PC World)

SAP, Salesforce.com Could Sell Their Wares in the Google Wave Store (eWeek)

New App Deepens SAP Ties to LinkedIn (PC World)

SAP BW or third-party data warehouses a dilemma for SAP customers (SearchSAP.com)

TD Bank experiences computer glitch, shuts Internet banking (Philadelphia Business Journal)

How the health IT gold rush game will be played (ZDNet Healthcare)

Industry Demand for Interoperability Helps Drive Continued Adoption of NextGen® CHS (Business Wire)

Orbius Launches Social Website Platform for Small to Mid-Sized Organizations (Newswire Today)

ColdLight Takes Philly Technical Excellence Prize (ColdLight Blog)





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Daily Links 9/29/09: Verizon CTO on the Future of FiOS

Does Verizon Want DirecTV? (Multichannel News)

All-Fiber Network Is a Game Changer, Verizon CTO Says (PR Newswire)

Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO (GigaOM)

The Verizon Hub has been Discontinued (Zatz Not Funny!)
That didn't last long.

Cincinnati Bell Selects Motorola's FTTH and Video Delivery Solutions to Provide Advanced Television and Broadband Experiences to Consumers (PR Newswire)

Wharton’s interactive media research center is giving the school a new bag of tricks (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SAP expects to sail through rest of crisis (Reuters)

Safend Positioned in the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection (Marketwire)

Aria Systems Announces Aria Billing Platform 5.3 (Business Wire)

The Role of Cloud Utilities (The Boomi Blog)

Big Ten Hands Off Videos To Comcast's ThePlatform (MediaPost: Online Media Daily)

Economic meeting's creative differences (Philadelphia Inquirer)

New York City Is Bad At Building An Innovation Economy--Listen Up Mayor Bloomberg (Business Week: Nussbaum On Design)
How does Philly compare? (Training a bunch of investment bankers to be entrepreneurs doesn't sound like such a great idea.)




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People News 9/27/09

Technitrol Chairman / CEO James Papada Announces Retirement Intentions (Business Wire)

Quality Systems appoints Kaplan as its COO (Forbes via Associated Press)

MRO Corp. Launches Document Management Solutions Group
Stephen Keeler joins company to drive expansion of the division and explore growth opportunities in new markets
(Business Wire)

Emtec Promotes Siva Natarajan to CIO of Emtec, Inc.
(Business Wire)

Drexel Interim President C.R. “Chuck” Pennoni Joins Science Center Board (Business Wire)



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Daily Links 9/28/09: Unisys Takeover Speculation

JUNIPER Chosen to Begin Major Launch of 4G Network in Philadelphia (Business Wire)
This must be for the Clearwire network.

Sprint Banks on WiMax to Win Back Market Share (New York Times)

Dataram SSD Appliance Targets SAN Performance (GigaOM)
Dataram is based in Princeton.

Could Unisys (UIS) or Computer Sciences (CSC) Be Next In IT Services? (StreetInsider.com)

AMETEK Acquires Two Businesses in India: Unispec Marketing and Thelsha Technical Services (PR Newswire)

The FCC's Heavy Hand
Federal regulators should not be telling Internet service providers how to run their businesses. (Washington Post
Editorial)

Q&A: IDS Scheer’s Wolfram Jost talks Software AG acquisition (ComputerWorld Canada)

Cadient relocates in Montco (Philadelphia Business Journal)

AGI Named a Top Small Workplace by The Wall Street Journal (PR Newswire)

MSC.Software Announces Strategic Relationship With Phoenix Integration
Adds Multidiscipline Trade Study and Optimization Capabilities to CAE Tools Portfolio With PHX ModelCenter(R) 9.0 (Globe Newswire)

InvestEdge Receives Patent for Integrated Investment Management System (PR Newswire)

ISGN To Buy Fiserv's Loan Fulfillment Solutions Business (Mortgage Orb)

Voxware Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Year Ended June 30, 2009
Revenue Rebounds in Second Half, Cash Position Strengthened by June Equity Funding (Business Wire)



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ETC Names Finalists for Enterprise Awards

The Eastern Technology Council has named the finalists for its "Enterprise Awards" to be presented on December 3. There are 24 nominees in 8 categories covering technology and life sciences; as usual for Philly some of the technology nominees have a life sciences orientation and visa versa. In addition there are six nominees for "Company to Watch".
The December 3 awards ceremony is a "gala" event. I've never quite understood what gala means except that its usually pretty expensive.

Unisys loses $2B TSA contract to CSC (Washington Business Journal)

Despite ban on cable deal, he's caught in billing bind (Philadelphia Inquirer)

BodyBuilding.com Sells Supplements That Contain Steroids, Court Papers Say (New York Times)
Liberty Media (QVC, Atlanta Braves) acquired BodyBuilding.com last year.
Also last year, BodyBuilding.com added a new warehouse near Harrisburg.

Citigroup, Microsoft Said to Take on Intuit, Mint.com (Bloomberg)
Did Microsoft Try To Buy Mint.com? (Private Equity Hub)

Can SAP and Oracle hold the line on maintenance fees?
Upkeep business churns out profits; Industry scrutinizing SAP, Siemens affair (MarketWatch)

Greater Philadelphia High Tech Networking Group

An organization called the Greater Philadelphia High Tech Networking Group, which has a somewhat different emphasis than some of the other tech organizations in the area-more focused on electronics,engineering, and semiconductor stuff-has an interesting meeting planned for Monday, the 28th at Rutgers-Camden. The topic is "Top Technology Trends Impacting Business-to-Consumer Hardware Designs & Communications Services". Participants include Bruce Anderson, COO & Co-founder INVIDI Technologies of Princeton, Dr. Jangwoo Shin, CEO & CTO, WebforPhone, Philadelphia, Greg Jablonski, CEO & Founder, PChem Associates of Bensalem, and Dr. Jeffrey Bloom, Director of Video Technologies, Dialogic, Parsippany. John Currie, Prncipal, ITERATE Venture Consulting, will moderate the discussion.
The meeting starts at 5:30 on the 28th at the Rutgers Camden Incubator - Camden Tech Center, 200 Federal St, Camden.



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ESPN’s Industry-Leading Research and Analytics Team Launches New Program with Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Wharton Interactive Media Initiative to Collaborate with ESPN on Strategies for Cross-Platform Media Analysis and Measurement (Business Wire)

USA Technologies Reports Full Year Fiscal 2009 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Ben Franklin Technology Partners receives $6 million to build addition to Lehigh University facility (Easton Express-Times)

Aria Systems, the Global Leader of SaaS Based Billing and Customer Management Solutions Announces the Opening of Its Newest Office in San Mateo, CA (Business Wire)

Verizon Wireless Plans Mass LTE Deployment
In an interview, Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone lays out the carrier's ambitious Long-Term Evolution plans. (Information Week)

Verizon Might Be Considering DirecTV Bid (paidContent)

Vanguard readies iPhone app as fund firms go mobile (Reuters)

QVC Completes Issuance of $1 Billion of Senior Secured Notes Due 2019 (PR Newswire)



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Daily Links 9/24/09: Twitter to raise another $100 million (WSJ)

WSJ: Twitter Will Raise Another $100 Million in VC Funding Today (Read Write Web)

How MicroCells Could End AT&T's iPhone Troubles
(PC Magazine)

Clearwire renaming itself CLEAR, getting a logo makeover too (Endgadget)

Carbon Counting Project Enlists SAP, Microsoft and Accenture (IT Business Edge)

Citi’s cities (Reuters Blogs)
Unclear how far Citigroup will pull back from Philly.

Software AG Has Already Acquired More Than 75% of IDS Scheer AG (Business Wire)

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Award of $35 Million U.S. Air Force Contract
Major Milestone in the Evolution of Tactical Flight Simulation (PR Newswire)

FCC: Comcast contradicts itself in claim agency has no power over it
(ZDNet Blogs)

Telecom Analysts Downplay Net-Neutrality Concerns (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Interview with Verizon CTO Dick Lynch on FiOS (pdf: FTTH Council)

GameX 2009 set for Greater Philadelphia Expo Center (Philadelphia Business Journal: Media & Marketing Blog)

Halfpenny Technologies Announces Launch of Health Information Exchange (HIE) Portal and Release of Version 3.0 of the Integration Technology Framework™ (Business
Wire)

D&E Communications, Inc. Announces Shareholder Approval of Merger Agreement With Windstream Corporation
(Marketwire)

CMU-founded company purchased by Google (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)





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Daily Links 9/23/09: Study Says Drexel Ranks Third in Entrepreneurship

FCC of Two Minds on Net Neutrality Rules? (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

Microsoft Courier — Secret Tablet Book in Progress? (jkOnTheRun)

TruePosition Inc. & Liberty Media Corporation Take a Controlling Interest in EmFinders (PR Newswire)

ARRIS Buys Paul Allen-Controlled Digeo For $20 Million (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Digeo Gives Arris Multimedia Gateway Potential (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

CableLabs ITV Interop Lab Includes Comcast, TWC And Cox Guides
Next Tru2way and ETV Interoperability Event Scheduled for Oct. 5-9 (Multichannel News)


ARIS to remain independent despite Software AG merger, IDS Scheer says (ComputerWorld Canada)

Drexel Ranked Third in Nation for Entrepreneurship
(Business Wire)

InfoLogix Selected by Albert Einstein Healthcare Network for eLearning Modules to Support EMR Implementation (PR Newswire)

Melbourne call center to hire 600 seasonal workers (Florida Today)

ProtonMedia Takes Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to a New Dimension
ProtoSphere gains full integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Businesss Wire)

SAP Refurbishes Its Program With the Help of Its Own Technology (Workforce Management)

The Great HITECH Act Loophole (IT Business Edge)





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Daily Links 9/22/09: Comcast Ad Blitz for Fancast

Ahmadinejad Personally Recruited Sanctions Buster During New York Trip, Court Documents Show (Fox News)


Wipro brings SAP ex-CEO Kagermann on board (Economic Times of India)

Camden hospitals to create health-records exchange (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast Takes on Hulu With Ad Blitz for Fancast
(Advertising Age)

Who’s There?
A Simple Question Threatens 'TV Everywhere’s’ Business Model (Multichannel News)

Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 Hits Denver
New 22 Mbps, 50 Mbps tiers arrive in Colorado (Broadband Reports)

Incyte Announces Proposed Public Offering of 18,000,000 Shares of Common Stock (Business Wire)
Also offering $250 million in notes.

Deutsche Telekom Said to Be in Talks With Clearwire on Networks (Bloomberg)

QVC Inc sells $1 bln 10-year notes - IFR (Reuters)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Sale of 2.4 Million Additional Clarient Shares Pursuant to Overallotment Option (Business Wire)

DormNoise Officially Implemented at Clemson University, Bay State College, and Bryant & Stratton College (Business Wire)

Microsoft Buys Software to Bolster Its Core ERP Product (IDG via New York Times)

Acquire Me! Oracle's and SAP's Next Likely Targets (Computerworld)

Oracle: Ellison Says Sun Losing $100M/Month; Won’t Spin MySQL; Expects EU OK; Sees No Economic Recovery For 5 Years (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Philly Startup Leaders worth watching (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)




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FCC Chairman Calls for Formal Net Neutrality Rules (PC World)
Industry Questions Need for Open-Access Cop
Trade Groups, Providers Weigh In on Genachowski's Neutrality Plan (Broadcast Newsroom)
FCC Republicans Have Problems with Genachowksi Proposal
McDowell, Nakers Concerned Rules Would Reverse 'Decades Of Precedent' (Multichannel News)
FCC Position May Spell the End of Unlimited Internet (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

Blowing past Comcast's bandwidth cap
Or, why online backup is like driving a Ferrari in a school zone (Macworld)

InterDigital Signs Pantech to Worldwide Patent License Agreement Covering 2G, 3G and LTE Standards
InterDigital Acquires Minority Equity Interest in Pantech (Business Wire)

Dell To Buy Perot Systems For $3.9 Billion (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Philadelphia Software Freedom Day! (PLEIA2'S BLOG)

Smart Grid Standards Road Map Coming This Week (GigaOm via New York Times)

Drexel nursing students using iPods ... for nursing (Philadelphia Business Journal: Health Care Blog)

Unisys Announces Successful Multi-Vendor Interoperability of Iris Recognition Technology for Homeland Security (Business Wire)

SAP is India´s Top Software Company at 2009 Dataquest Annual Awards (SAP TV)

NEW: Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Scholarship for Journalists on Digital Platforms at Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists: October 18-21, 2009 (Business Wire)





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People News 9/20/09

SunGard puts Ben Jackson in charge of combined Energy and Kiodex unit (Finextra)

SunGard Higher Education Names Matt Mandalinci as President and Chief Customer Officer and Jack Kramer as Vice President of Customer Satisfaction
(Business Wire)

Razorfish Appoints Executives in Americas Region
(PR Web)

Comcast Promotes Ron Phillips to Senior Vice President of Employee Engagement (Business Wire)

Bentley appoints solutions executives for utilities and communications, power generation, and process manufacturing (EnvironmentalExpert.com)

IMS Appoints Don Otterbein General Manager, Business Transformation Services, to Lead Expanded Knowledge Process Outsourcing Initiative (Business Wire)



Dynasil Announces Mr. Peter Sulick Elected Chairman of the Board of Directors (Business Wire)

E-Mon Hires Christopher Rennickas VP of Government Sales (PR Newswire)

Maria Brennan Named WICT CEO
AWRT Chief Exec Joins Cable Group Oct. 19 (Multichannel News)

BioNanomatrix Appoints Genomic Research Experts Charles Lee and David L. Barker as Advisers (PR Newswire)

EDA awards $60M to small high-tech firm (NJBIZ.com)

Consumer Watch: With cable bill, convenience at a price (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Many customers unhappy with Comcast's latest rate hikes
(San Jose Mercury News)

mySAP.com T-shirt - Ten Years Later
(The Agile Startup)

SAP Plans to Be ‘More Assertive’ With Acquisitions (Bloomberg)

Start-Up Tries to Revive Online Group Buying (New York Times: Bits)
Groupon recently launched in Philadelphia.

T-Mobile Launches 21Mbps 3G Service in Philadelphia (Gizmodo)

T-Mobile USA Launches HSPA+ in Philly (Wireless Week)

FCC To Introduce Net Neutrality Rule (Washington Post)


Possible loss of Siemens contract hits SAP (MarketWatch)

T-Systems plays the SAP ace (ovum)

In the Oracle vs. SAP life sciences battle, Oracle gains a healthy lead (SearchOracle.com)

Versatile Concepts gets more versatile (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Comcast Installer Arrested For Creative Marketing
Was yanking the competitor's plug to pitch Comcast service... (Broadband Reports)

Versus, DirecTV, Despite Negotiations, Remain Disconnected (Multichannel News)




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Daily Links 9/17/09: Oracle Blames SAP For Dip In New License Sales

Oracle blames weakness in Q1 license sales on slumping SAP sales (Dow Jones via Nasdaq.com)

Clearwire says it's not married to WiMAX for 4G, would be easy to switch (Engadget)

Toyota Program: Slash Meeting Costs
As companies move to trim off-site costs, Toyota uses StarCite event-planning software to manage more than 400 annual face-to-face gatherings (Business Week)

September 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

QVC Readying New $500 Million Deal (Another Financial Portal)

Vodafone thinking long and hard about its Verizon stake (Endgadget)

Cable Beating Telcos In Phone Service
According to latest study by J.D. Power and Associates (Broadband Reports)
But Comcast doesn't fare particularly well.

Net neutrality gets a boost from leading Democrat (CNET News)

Synchronoss Jumps On Weisel Upgrade (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
In addition to its headquarters in Bridgewater NJ, Synchronoss has major operations in the Lehigh Valley.


PNC’s Tom Kunz Cracks the Gen Y Code With Targeted Products (Bank Systems & Technology)

NTERA and plastic electronic GmbH Enter An Agreement To Develop Advanced Printed Electronics Products and Announce The Availability of an Evaluation Kit Based on NanoChromics(TM) Display Technologies
(PR Newswire)

Bucks software firm rolls out VictualNet food system (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

A trip down memory lane and beyond at Vintage Computer Fest (ars technica)



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Oracle unveils second Exadata machine; Ellison steps up data warehousing push (ZDNet Blogs)
Oracle Dumps HP After Co-Creating "Most Successful Introduction Ever" (Information Week)

Oracle earnings meet expectations of analysts
(San Jose Mercury News)

Comcast CFO: Third quarter 'shaping up just fine' (MarketWatch)

Comcast Considering 4G Voice
Though details are all but non-existent (Broadband Reports)
Does 4G actually sound better than 3G? Don't know.

Comcast plans to bring TV shows to your phone (Reuters)

Comcast to rape subs even more by raising cable modem rental fee to $5 nationwide (CrunchGear)

Mint.com: Nurtured by Super-Angel VCs
Intuit is acquiring a startup conceived by a "25-year-old kid" and funded by First Round Capital, a new breed of high-risk, early-stage venture capitalist (Business Week)


BioClinica™ Acquires Tourtellotte Solutions (Business Wire)

Portico Systems Selected by CIGNA (Business
Wire)

Vertex Integrates Support for Its Software Products with SAP® Enterprise Support (Business Wire)

Kulicke & Soffa raises revenue outlook (EE Times)

Taleo eyes deals to boost market share: CEO (Reuters)

Venture Fair Wraps Up GoodCompany Ventures' Inaugural Class (The Green Skeptic)



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Information Week 500

The 2009 Information Week 500 is out, what IW calls its "Ranking Of The Most Innovative Business Technology Organizations". Relatively tiny Harleysville Group Inc., which has been rising on the list under the leadership of Senior VP & CIO Akhil Tripathi, ranks seventh. Other area companies in the top 100 are Cigna (64) and A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts (70).

Princeton-based Heartland Payment Systems ranked 224, despite
having suffered what many consider the worst commercial hacking incident ever.




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Should Comcast Buy Sprint?
Bloggers certainly seem to think so... (Broadband Reports)

TW Cable downplays merger with Comcast
CFO says just getting bigger not strategic (Hollywood Reporter)

Oracle May Spin MySQL To Win EU OK For Sun Deal, Analyst Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Mintuit! (Permanent Record)

Tech start-ups stick around (WHYY)
University City Science Center’s impact $9B, study says (Philadelphia Business Journal)

IDS Scheer’s ARIS Selected to Standardize Deloitte’s Business Process Modeling Approach
IndustryPrintTM Offerings by Deloitte will use ARIS to Deliver Best-in-Class Business Processes (Business Wire)

ZEDIT SOLUTIONS INC. ACQUIRES SAP BUSINESS ONE E-COMMERCE & WEBCRM PRODUCTS (Wire Service Canada)

Co-founder Plattner to cut stake in SAP (Reuters)


Siemens and PJM Announce Public Release of Shared Architecture Integration Platform (PR Newswire via Reuters)

SunGard Tracks Carbon Footprint with GreenBoard Technology (Business Wire)

MedAssurant, Inc. and Jefferson School of Population Health Establish Strategic Partnership to Advance Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research (Business
Wire)

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, wife, hang with Diane Sawyer, Mike Nichols (Philadelphia Daily News: Dan Gross)



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Daily Links 9/14/09: Intuit To Acquire Mint

Intuit To Acquire (Former TechCrunch50 Winner) Mint For $170 Million
(TechCrunch)
First Round Capital portfolio company.
A deal that was "mint to be..." (Redeye VC)

Deutsche Telekom acquires SAP European hosting services (V3.co.uk)

Comcast Should Buy Sprint (GigaOM)
Must have heard this 50 times, and still don"t understand why its a good idea.

Heir to Haas fortune a potential investor in Phila. Newspapers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Brand New Video – Touch Screen Kiosks at Wizard World Chicago (TicketLeap Blog)

Maxwell Systems Releases Estimating Touch Screen Monitor (PR Newswire)

QlikTech Expands Commitment in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (PR Web)

International Battery Awarded $2.1 Million in Federal Funding to Develop Advanced Batteries for U.S. Army (Business Wire)

Comcast: It’s time to act on digital-service upgrade (Delco Times)

Oracle to unveil Sun-based Exadata database machine (ZDNet Blogs)

Heartland CEO: Credit Card Encryption Needed (CIO.com)

WPCS Reports FY2010 First Quarter Financial Results (PR Newswire)



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Conshohocken's Viridity Energy, Targeting Smart Grid Solutions, Applies For Stimulus Funds

A Conshohocken startup, Viridity Energy, is seeking to help the US implement "Smart Grid" technology solutions. The one year old company, which has been working on tests with Drexel, PECO, and New York's Con Edison, among others, last week joined with several other companies partnering with Con Ed in applying for $46 million under the Federal Stimulus plan to fund a smart grid demonstration project. In Pennsylvania, Viridity also applied for a grant with Drexel , Penn State, the University of Pennsylvania and PECO. Other grant applications involving Viridity were filed in California and New Mexico.

Viridity uses a power management system developed by the energy unit of Siemens AG, complemented by its own technology, to implement what it calls "Virtual Power Plants". These enable an organization to manage its collective physical plant's energy use on a near real-time basis, buying to meet peak energy needs and selling excess production back onto the grid. Founded by utility veterans including former execs of Valley Forge grid management giant PJM , Virdity employs 11 people and is primarily funded by AltEnergy,LLC. President & CEO Audrey Zibelman was formerly EVP & COO of PJM.




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Comcast to Take TiVo National by Year End? (Zatz Not Funny!)
Update: Comcast now says timeline described in tweet was incorrect.

Siemens cans SAP support (ZDNet Blogs)

Deutsche Telekom Mulls Sprint Bid, Telegraph Reports (Bloomberg)



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People News 9/13/09

Drug Information Association (DIA) Names New Worldwide Executive Director (Business Wire)

TargetRx Expands Management Team to Support Continued Growth
Industry Leaders from IMS & Verispan Join TargetRx to Field Increasing Demand for Pharma & Biotech Sales & Marketing Solutions (Business Wire)


TelVue Corporation Promotes Daniell Krawczyk to National Sales Director, Community Broadcasting (GlobeNewswire via MarketWatch)

NCTA appoints Rick Chessen to regulatory policy post (Fierce Telecom)

Nancy Brennan Joins MedRisk as Vice President Customer Service (Business Wire)


Toni Hess Joins Rosetta as Partner in Creative and Customer Experience Group
(PR Newswire)

Mike Renda to succeed Pat Mullen atop WFLD, WPWR (Chicago Tribune)



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TV Mega-mergers? Bad for Subscribers, Good for the Web (GigaOM)

Video: Introduction to ERP complexity (ZDNet Blogs)

Smartphones drive business for software writers
Companies find mobile apps provide a potential gold mine (NJBIZ.com)



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Oracle Has Customers Over a Barrel (Business Week)

SAP and SME's: an update (ZDNet Blogs)

Hacker Gonzalez Pleads Guilty to 20 Charges (IDG via New York Times)

Brightcove, thePlatform Announce New Partners (Contentinople)

Verizon CFO: More Job Cuts Coming
16,000 job cuts was only just the beginning (Broadband Reports)

MetroPCS Talking To Bankers, But Not Leap (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Technology Professionals connect in King of Prussia (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)




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Is Comcast Trolling For Content?
Burke Says Cable Giant Would Look at Complementary Content Acquisitions
(Multichannel News)

Will Comcast Buy Time Warner Cable? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

VOD Startup Verivue Pulls In $20 Million Round
Investors Include Comcast, Arris, Sigma Partners and Other VC Firms (Multichannel News)

Troubled Times Test SAP's Strategy (CIO Today)

SAP Wants More Software Guinea Pigs (Business Week)

Motorola’s First Android Phone Takes Aim at Social Networks (Wired: Gadget Lab)

Tech Companies Push to Digitize Patients’ Records (New York Times)

Oracle Deal Holding Up Sales Of New Sun Servers - Avnet (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

HP Sued For Server Failure
Shipping and logistics vendor BDP International lost business due to system meltdown, suit contends. (Information
Week)

CardioNet Announces Enhanced MCOT System (Business Wire)


Awesome Philly Internship Opportunity! (Editor on the Verge)




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Daily Links 9/09/09: Steve Jobs' Return Appearance

Apple Live; Steve Jobs Hosts; Genius For App Store; Ringtones in iTunes; iTunes 9 (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Mobile gets down to business (Fortune)

Comcast's Burke: TV Everywhere trials going national in 30 to 60 days
(ZDNET Blogs)

Comcast Will Look at Cable Purchases at ‘Good Price’ (Bloomberg)

Fall TV's Biggest Hit: HULU (CNBC)

Comcast Fires Up 100-Mbps Business Tier
Operator Launches 100/15 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 Service in Twin Cities (Multichannel News)

Federal Reserve Board: Beige Book-Philadelphia, September 2009 (Federal Reserve Board)

MRO Corp. Acquires Release-of-Information Services Vendor, Record Enterprises Inc. (REI) (Business Wire)

Kalido Bows Application-Ready Data Warehouse Appliance
(Intelligent Enterprise)

SAP Exec: Business ByDesign Will Be Smash Success (PC World)
I'm tempted to say LOL to that, unless they are completely starting over from scratch.


NetWeaver PI 7.1 easier to implement than earlier versions, SAP says (SearchSAP.com)

Pa. city blankets streets with security cameras
(Associated Press via Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

inTEST Corporation to Transfer to The Nasdaq Capital Markets
(PR Newswire)



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No more MAC address: Comcast streamlines DNS helper opt-out (ars technica)

Court Rejects 30% Cap
Analysts Shrug, But Political Win Significant (Multichannel News)

Comcast launches speedy Internet offering (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Comcast Launches 100 Mbps High-Speed Internet Service for Businesses in the Twin Cities (Business Wire)


C64 emulator approved for iPhone (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Updated


SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES Satellite Division Re-Brands as SES WORLD SKIES
(Business Wire)

C&D Technologies Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results (PR Newswire)

Y-Carbon Receives Funding from NSF and DoD to Develop High Energy Supercapacitors (PR Web)

BioLeap Wins GlaxoSmithKline Contract to Design Novel Lead Compounds for Previously Intractable Targets for Important Unmet Medical Needs.
(Business Wire)





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One can't miss event in Philly this week is the Congress of the International Headache Society on September 10-13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Plenty of fun people and an endless supply of Tylenol is available.

Panels of Light Fascinate Designers (New York Times)

Cast Iron, Amazon Deal May Boost Integration-as-a-Service (IT Business Edge)

Hulu had more viewers in July than Time Warner Cable (Broadcast Engineering)

The online retail shake-out: GSI's Rubiin (Phiily.com: Philly Deals)

Wolfe's Den Vlog: SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Brings BI To Masses (Information Week Blogs)



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Comcast Wishes You A Happy Rate Hike Season
It's that time of year again.... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast Guides DVRs To Web
Operator Puts ‘Start Over' Service on Hold In Focusing on IPG Upgrade (Multichannel News)

Verizon COO, And FiOS Proponent, To Retire
So what happens next? (Broadband Reports)


Philly papers fight lenders over `local' ownership (Associated Press via Google News)

SAP - Friendly Takeover of SAF AG Successful (PR Newswire)

Med monitoring company CenTrak logs biggest deal (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Kulicke & Soffa Launches ConnX-LED (Business
Wire)


EU takes on Sun/Oracle
(Computerworld Blogs)




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Could Google Acquisition Plans Have Local Angle?

Google's Eric Schmidt recently indicated his company is on the prowl for acquisitions again. According to All Things Digital, sources say right now Google is focusing on small start-ups in the online advertising and cloud computing arenas.
AdExchanger.com suggests that two companies that could make sense for Google in the online advertising space are Philadelphia's Invite Media (originally backed by First Round Capital) and New York-based MediaMath, in which Safeguard Scientifics recently lead a $10 million venture round.



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Daily Links 9/03/09: Man Sues QVC Over Tomato Planter

Caught on Video: Thieves Ransack Apple Store in 31 Seconds (Switched)

MedQuist Announces Establishment of Revolving Credit Facility and Payment of Special Cash Dividend (PR Newswire)

Higher Ground: Downtown University Tied to Harrisburg's Rebirth (KeystoneEdge)

Verizon Boosts Dividend 3.3% (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Five companies named to FEMA support contract
They will compete for $500 million in task orders (Washington Technology)
Unisys is one of them.

QVC sued when hanging tomato planter knocks man topsy turvy (Southeast Texas Record)
I wouldn't want to tell QVC this, but this is the same judicial district where a jury just issued a $139 million verdict
against SAP.

IDS Scheer: U.S. lags in BPM implementations (Internetnews.com)

Chariot Solutions develops iPhone App to Monitor JBoss Application Platform Performance (Chariot News)



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DivX Acquires Streaming Video Tech Firm AnySource For $7.5 Million, Plus Earnout (paidContent)
AnySource staying in Malvern for now (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Philadelphia CIO Allan Frank Has Plans for a Digital City
(Government Technology)

QlikView Partners Deliver On-Demand, Interactive Analytics in the Cloud (Business Wire)

Internet Capital Group Announces Channel Intelligence’s Acquisition of Vcommerce (Business Wire)

Facebook-Focused Startups Pitch to VCs (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

SeaChange Gets Closer to Comcast, Europe (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Network President Says DBS Provider Wants Sports Service To Shed 6 Million Subscribers (Multichannel
News)

The state of hyperlocal online news in Philadelphia (Technically Philly)

Web company adopts new name, Hosting.com
Exec will transfer from Newark to Denver, but local staff to grow (Wilmington News Journal)

Tibco/SAP Rumors Resurface (Barrons: Tech Trader Daily)


Five Sought in Heist at Apple Computer Store in Marlton, NJ (KYW Newsradio)
I wonder if anyone would ever try to break into one of these new Microsoft stores.







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CardioNet Provides Update on Communications with Highmark Medicare Services Regarding Mobile Cardiovascular Technology Reimbursement (Business Wire)
CardioNet slides as Medicare rate cut is confirmed (Associated Press via Forbes)

Versus network goes dark on DirecTV in rate dispute (LA Times)

Comcast, Verizon duke it out
Ad blitz gets personal as firms spar for cable customers (Boston Globe)

GSI Commerce Acquires Pepperjam
Acquisition Marks GSI’s Entry into Affiliate Network Business and Expands Presence in Affiliate Program Management and Search (Business Wire)

DivX Acquires AnySource Media, Creator of On-Demand Internet Television Platform
(PR Newswire)

BioClinica™ Acquires CardioNow from Agfa Healthcare
-Adds Proven Solution for Secure, Regulatory Compliant Electronic Transmission and Analysis of Medical Images for Clinical Trials- (Business Wire)

HostMySite and Hosting.Com Merge Under Hosting.Com Name
Hosting.com Becomes Official Name for HostMySite|Hosting.com. Brand Consolidation Begins and Includes Opening of a New Corporate Headquarters and Data Center in Denver, CO. (PR Newswire)

With new buyer, Transcend sheds Denny Hecker stake (Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal)


John Wookey about SAP's On Demand Offerings for Large Enterprises (SAP TV)


30,000 Job Openings For SAP Consultants, SAP Official Says (Information Week Blogs)













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