I'll be traveling the next few days, and I will be posting intermittently. I will, however, be attending PodCamp/SearchCamp Philly, and hopefully I will have a few interesting items about that.



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GMAC Financial Services and ResCap Announce Further Streamlining of Mortgage Operation (PRNewswire)
"Further Streamlining" is somewhat of an understatement.

Alliance Consulting Launches Two Companies (PRNewswire)

Evidence-based Medicine Brings Wolters Kluwer and UptoDate Together (Health Contnet Advisors)
Wolters Kluwer Health is based in Conshohocken.

DreamIt assisting startups (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Philadelphia CIOs Forecast Increase in Fourth-Quarter Hiring
(PRNewswire)

W. Chester’s Prescient merging with Utah firm (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Can SaaS ERP be profitable?
(SearchSAP.com)

Americas’ SAP Users’ Group Announces Global, Independent User Community for Business Objects Customers and Partners (BusinessWire)

Kenexa shares drop on downgrade (Associated Press via Forbes)

Comcast Introduces Video *Download* Beta (Zatz Not Funny!)
LEAK: Comcast's Mobile Store Is Actually Quite Promising (Gizmodo)

PSC Info Group Introduces PAYMENTExpress, an Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment Solution that Helps Healthcare Providers Increase Collections, Accelerate Payments and Cut Costs (BusinessWire)

EZ-CAP, InterComponentWare Form Strategic Partnership (PRNewswire)

Zix Corporation to Participate in $29 Million Highmark e-Prescribing/eHealth Initiative (PRNewswire via MarketWatch)

CRM manager Joins Google Enterprise Partner Program (CRM Marketplace)

OSI wins $1.7 million in R&D contracts
(Ottawa Business Journal)



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Cable-Telco Price War Brewing As Broadband Growth Tanks (Silicon Alley Insider)

Sprint's Xohm gets ready for launch (CNET News)
Starting buildout in Philadelphia.

B4 Consulting Announces It Will Be Acquired by SCS (USA) (BusinessWire)

UD's Swany finds quicker computer on-ramp (Wilmington News Journal)

Wanted: Skilled workers -- but only those with the right skills need apply (Computerworld)

Surf & Fish Internet Solutions launches www.nobrokerage.in (IndiaPRwire.com)

ICG Announces Completion of Sale of Creditex to IntercontinentalExchange (BusinessWire)

New Year, New Faces, New Software (Cape May County Herald)
OnCourse Systems For Education is based in Gibbstown, NJ.

A Trade Secrets Practice With Extraordinary Bench Strength And A Strong Sense Of Economic Trends (The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel)
On Ballard Spahr's IP practice.



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Q&A: Army CMO Edward Walters (AD Week)
On the opening of the new interactive "Army Experience Center" in Philadelphia.

IDS Scheer dismisses talk of SAP interest (Reuters)

DRC Opens Philadelphia Office (bobsguide)
Decision Research



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The Eckert Tapes: Computer Pioneer Says ENIAC Team Couldn't Afford to Fail -- and Didn't (Computerworld)



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Finisar Corporation Completes Combination With Optium Corporation (Marketwire via CNN Money)

The Net Neutrality Debate All On One Page (TechCrunch)

Nofouls Puts Your Local Basketball Games on the Map (The Startup Review) (Mashable)
This is a neat app!

Anthillz Helps You Build an Online Work Reputation (CenterNetworks)




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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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