Daily Links 9/20/2011: Morning Call reports on Amazon warehouse conditions

Inside Amazon's warehouse
Lehigh Valley workers tell of brutal heat, dizzying pace at online retailer. (Allentown Morning Call)
I wonder how GSI Commerce's warehouse operations compare to this.

Quidsi Co-Founder Marc Lore on What Happens After Amazon Buys Your Company and His New Site YoYo.com (Betabeat)

SAP to Acquire Business-to-Business Networking Provider Crossgate (PR Newswire)

Oracle's first quarter: Can the hardware deliver? (ZDNet Blogs)

Oracle's Q1 strong, but hardware sales lag; New SPARC chip on tap (ZDNet Blogs)

Internet of Things Comes to Life in Version 2.0 of ThingWorx Connected Application Platform (Business Wire)

Report tallies the growing vitality of U City (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast's $9.99 Internet for low-income families goes nationwide (Ars Technica)

Comcast Sues British Telecommunications Over Network Patents
(Bloomberg)
Not sure what to make of this yet.

LMC Software Solutions Awarded Second Round of Ben Franklin Technology Partners Funding (PR Newswire)

SunGard to Acquire Syntesys to Expand SWIFT Connectivity and Professional Services over the AvantGard EcoSystem Communication Hub (Echos) (PR Newswire)

LCB turning off wine vending machines (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)



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Daily Links 1/25/2011: Comcast to hold kickoff "Town Hall Meeting" on Thursday

Comcast: Take the bus, park the golf carts at the office (LA Times: Company Town)

Verizon Profit Misses Estimates as Customers Pay Less for Voice (Bloomberg)

Verizon backs off $30 unlimited data plan for iPhone (CNN Money)

Verizon Tacks On 182,000 FiOS TV Subs In Q4
Wireless Shines While Wireline Declines in Fourth Quarter of 2010 (Multichannel News)

Verizon Wireless to Pay ‘Fair Dividend’ to Vodafone (Bloomberg)

Comcast SportsNet buys 2 blogs (Washington Business Journal)

Comcast's Program-Guide Chief Exiting (Light Reading Cable)

Business is growing for Phila. energy suppliers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Epocrates, Mobile App Developer Since Palm Days, Preps for IPO—And for Push Into Electronic Medical Records
(Xconomy San Francisco)

Will SAP’s Stock Pop Again? (Forbes)

MicroStrategy Ramps up Its BI Strategy for IPad, IPhone (PC World)

LMC Software Solutions and Alliance Global Services Form Strategic Partnership (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 5/4/2010: Report blames IT staff for school Webcam 'spying'

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2010 Results (Business Wire)

FCC likely to hire outsider to oversee NBC-Comcast review (The Hill: Hillicon Valley)

Report blames IT staff for school Webcam 'spying' mess (Computerworld)

SunGard Launches Cliq, a SaaS Solution for Derivatives Post-Trade Processing (PR Web)

Commentary on IBM WebSphere – Cast Iron Deal (The Boomi Blog)

LMC Software Solutions Awarded Ben Franklin Technology Partners Funding (PR Newswire)

Startup Wants to Be R Alternative to IBM, SAS
(IDG via New York Times)

Comcast Does 3G In Beantown, With WiMax In The Wings
MSO's High-Speed 2go Initially Available Only via Sprint's 3G Wireless Network (Multichannel News)

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2010 (Business Wire)

New Kenexa 2xTM Platform Drives Business Transformation (Marketwire)

Intelligroup® Q1 Revenue Increased 8.7% to $33.5 Million, Net Income Rose 159% to $2.0 Million and EPS Rose 165% to $0.05
(Business Wire)

Ulticom says 1Q sales lower than expected (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Technitrol shares dive after 1Q loss
(Associated Press via Forbes)




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