Daily Links 7/23/2010: FiOS TV adds slowing

Education inventors get boost under new programs (AP via Google News)

Verizon Beats Estimates on Demand for Droid Phones (Bloomberg)
FiOS Keeps Chugging Along
Verizon Posts Gains on TV, Broadband, Wireless (Multichannel News)



Oracle plans to double acquisition budget (Fortune)
Oracle Denies Report of $70 Billion in Planned Acquisitions
Oracle is distancing itself from comments reportedly made by its co-president, Charles Phillips, about the amount of money it intends to spend on future acquisitions (CIO.com)

The Return of Business ByDesign and the Future of the On-Demand ERP Market (Enterprise Matters)

Comcast's 'Project Infinity' Takes Flight (Light Reading Cable)


Police investigate link between Apple Store break-ins (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Honeywell Keeps On Smart Grid Shopping (earth2tech)
More on Honeywell's acquisition of Langhorne's E-Mon.




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Comcast's Big Day

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts gave the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and the company also made several well-orchestrated announcements. The overall emphasis was to signal Comcast's (and the cable industry's) movement towards a more open architecture, and also to demonstrate its increasing role in the world of Consumer Electronics.

Roberts Declares Open Season (Light Reading Cable Digital News)

Comcast Tunes In Fancast.com Movie-TV Hub (Red Herring)


Comcast Plans to Offer a Huge Menu of Films (New York Times)


Comcast titan getting playful
The keynote speaker at the Consumer Electronics Show vows a "Hollywoodization of Brian Roberts." (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Move Over Bells: Comcast Corporation Becomes The Fourth-Largest Phone Service Provider in the U.S. (PRNewswire via Broadcast Newsroom)

Comcast Talks 100 Mbit/s 'Net Access for Consumers (PC Magazine)


Cable's consumer electronics makeover (Fortune)

FCC: We'll investigate Comcast-BitTorrent flap (CNET News)