Daily Links 5/19/09: Comcast, NFL Net Settle

Comcast and National Football League Reach Long-Term Carriage Agreement for NFL Network (Business Wire)
Comcast Reaches Deal on NFL Network (New York Times)

Comcast Improves Customer Satisfaction
Jumps five points in ACSI rankings.. (Broadband Reports)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt transcript (Philly.com: Philly Deals)


Eric Schmidt's Penn Commencement Address:



HostMySite Acquires Hosting.com (Web Host Industry Review)

On the Matter of John Schwarz: Thank You (ZDNet Blogs)

GPS System Reportedly On Verge Of Breakdown (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Lockheed Martin better hurry up getting those satellites launched.

New SaaS Aggregate Spend Solution Unveiled at the Veeva Customer Summit (Business Wire)

UniRisX Ltd Announces 15th New Client Win with Arnold Fisher Insurance
World’s Leading Provider of SaaS Insurance Solutions to Develop Online Insurance Solution for Rapid Speed-to-Market Capabilities (Business Wire)

arcplan Announces arcplan Edge®, the Next Generation of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Solutions for the Web and Microsoft Excel® (Business Wire)

Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger: Customers are competitors, Azoff says (Ticket News)

RJMetrics Relocates World Headquarters (The Metric System Blog)



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Daily Links 5/18/09: Supreme Court to hear SOX Challenge

Reflections on the last nosedive
A look back at the 2001 'tech wreck' reveals something about this one. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast picks up Internet speed in Delco (Delco Times)

How to get cheap(er) FiOS: buy it from someone else (ars technica)

http://adage.com/article?article_id=136688">Is Verizon's $23 Billion Bet With Fios Paying Off? (Ad Age)

Goodbye, SOX? (ZDNet Blogs)
Supreme Court to hear Sarbanes-Oxley challenge.

Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategy (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Says China Stimulus ‘Positive’ for Asia-Pacific (Bloomberg)

SAP's McDermott Has Crafty Plan To Beat Oracle On Deals (Information Week Blogs)

Developing Clinical Dashboards (Computerworld)
As done at Penn Medicine.

Online Ad Auditing Tech Firm DoubleVerify Raises $3.5M (Alarm Clock)
First Round Capital an investor in NY startup.

Atiam Technologies Announces New Company Name: InsPro Technologies (PR Web)

Astea Reports First Quarter 2009 Results (PR Newswire)

Voxware Reports Results for Third Quarter of Fiscal 2009 (Business WIre)

Kulicke & Soffa Increases Revenue Outlook for Third Fiscal Quarter of 2009 (Business Wire via Philly.com)



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Philly Tech Events

Snipi, Inc. Launches New System for Social Shopping
Unique Platform Offers Simple Way to Organize, Discover and Share the Internet (Marketwire)

Thanks Red Tettemer, for the Stomach Ache (Media Bistro: AgencySpy)

NFL closing in on deal with Comcast (Sports Illustrated)

MASN-Comcast Program-Carriage Complaint Hearing Set For May 18
FCC Administrative Law Judge Sippel Will Preside Over Third Of Three Cases (Multichannel News)

People News 5/17/09

Peter J. Quadagno Announces His Departure from Maverick Network Solutions to Rejoin Quadagno & Associates and Work on New Prepaid Debit Program Initiatives (Business Wire)

Domus Adds Won Dong as Account Director (Philly
Ad Club News)

Rohm & Haas plans widespread layoffs (Philadelphia Inquirer)

'Excel on steroids' (phillyBurbs.com)
On PARIS Technologies of Buckingham.




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SAPPHIRE 2009 Wrap

SAP's new world order
As the software giant's CEO goes solo, he faces troubling times. (Fortune)

SAP Signals BPM Intentions (eWeek)

Sapphire 09: From Sapphire to green - the event highlights (MyCustomer.com)

SAP cautiously ponders social networking (Internetnews.com)


ASUG's plans for 2009 include finding new CEO, more software influence (SearchSAP.com)




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Verizon, Frontier in $8.6B deal for wirelines (Associated Press via Google News)
Comcast Should Benefit From Verizon-Frontier Deal: Analyst
Operator Has Launched DOCSIS 3.0 In Indiana, Oregon, Washington (Multichannel News)

What the Eclipsys story tells us (ZDNet Healthcare)

GMAC Bank, it's time for a new name (The Deal.com: Dealscape)

CardioNet Announces Launch of Clinical Indicator for Sleep Disorders (Business Wire)

Viddler bumps up features including widgets (gadgetell)


AllenPort Brings New Twist to SaaS (Channel Web)

Motorola and Clearwire (Media Experiences 2 Go)


What’s Up With HSN? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)






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Comcast Unleashes 'Shaq 'n Stein'
Unlikely pair star in push that touts both quality and value (Adweek)

SAPPHIRE 2009: Thursday 5/14/09

SAP Campaign 'Clarifies' Its Vision (MediaPost: News: Marketing Daily)

SAP co-founder: Hardware will change the way SAP develops software (SearchSAP.com)

One-on-One with SAP "Demo Boy" Ian Kimbell
Meet the man who can make SAP product demonstrations humorous. Yes, we said humorous. (CIO.com)


SAP Solution Manager will play major role in SAP Enterprise Support KPIs (SearchSAP.com)


New SAP CRM ordering system helps Coke roll out new dispenser (SearchCRM.com)

SAP still trying to bring cloud computing down to earth (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)

SAP maps out its sustainability strategy at Sapphire (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)



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Daily Links 5/14/09: IMS: Drug Cos Should Re-Allocate $15 Billion In Promotional Spending

Back online after Google's little outage this morning.


IMS: Drug Cos Should Re-Allocate $15 Billion In Promotional Spending (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

Should drug companies know what the doctor prescribed (ZDNet
Healthcare)

Teen entrepreneur Catherine Cook says myYearbook’s Lunch Money adds up (VentureBeat)

Comcast won't sell stake in Sixers, Flyers (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Heartland Breach Blamed for Failed Membership Renewals (Washington Post: Security Fix Blog)

Sunoco Signs $34 Million IT Services Contract Extension with Infocrossing, a Wipro Company (Business Wire)
An article in today's Wall Street Journal quotes Sunoco CIO Peter Whatnell as saying that the company is finished with cuts to its $90 million IT budget.

Vishay founder Zandman taking $60M to amend contract (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Urban Outfitters Profit Declines as Consumers Pare Spending (Bloomberg)

Journal Register Looks to Void Union Contracts (Associated Press via Editor & Publisher)

Extended Q&A with Eric Mayberry (City Paper)

geographIT Awarded Philadelphia SWEEP Contract (Press Release via Directions Magazine)

Avencia R&D: sourcemap.org (Avencia Labs)



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