Clearwire Needs Money, So Hopes Cable Needs WiMAX (GigaOM)

SAP Exec Sees Banks, Energy Leading 2010 Recovery (Information Week Blogs)

Heartland Rolls Out Encryption; CEO Blames Auditors for Breach (Credit Union Times)
U.S. payment-card industry grapples with security (Reuters)

Comcast and NFL Network Set to Offer “NFL RedZone” Channel This Football Season (Business Wire)

Guggenheim Looks To Capitalize On Distressed VC Deals (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Guggenheim Venture Partners has offices in King of Prussia and Austin.

OnCourse wins with Lesson Planner (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Ticketing Democratized: Touch screen and phone ticketing for all (The TicketLeap Blog)

PA Applies for $108 Million to Expand Broadband Infrastructure, Internet Access, Governor Rendell Says (PR Newswire)

Proposal With a Nice Touch
10 weeks of planning works out (NBC Washington)
Philly-based company helps out.



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People News 8/23/09

Two area scientists were named to MIT Technology Review's TR35, representing top innovators under 35. Ranjan Dash, 32, of King of Prussia's Y-Carbon, is using nanotechnology to develop ultra capacitors that could significantly outperform traditional batteries. Andrew Houck, 30. an assistant professor at Princeton, has developed a method for better protecting data used in quantum computing.


Board of Directors for Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania Elects Two New Members (Press Release)

Comcast Shores Up Content Brass (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

I-many Expands Leadership Team
P. Kevin Kilroy Appointed President & CEO, David Rode Appointed SVP, Global Markets (Business Wire)


Brolik Productions add Sam Huntington as director of business development (Philly Ad Club News)

Independence IT Promotes Charles Buck to Chief Operating Officer
(PR Newswire)

Former Oracle:Primavera Executive Joins Hard Dollar Corporation
Will Assume VP of Product Strategy and Management (Marketwire)

SAP plans broader launch of Mittelstand program in 2010 (MarketWatch)

SAP looks to India for enterprise market growth (Economic Times of India)

Comcast complaints grow (Atlanta
Journal-Constitution}

Small business lauded
Moorestown manufacturer is recognized for its growth by the governor. (PhillyBurbs.com)

2050: Philadelphia Becomes Orlando (New York Times)
Judging from the weather recently, I think this has already happened.
Does this mean we get our own Disneyworld?

SAP’s Plattner: Oracle control of Java is not a problem (FT.com: Tech Blog)

A Better Way to Manage Receipts for Business Travel (New York Times: Pogue's Posts)

SAS Institute: There Is No For Sale Sign In Our Yard (Information Week)

Salesforce.com fires back at Oracle in SaaS war (ZDNet Blogs)

Happy Cog smiles as Airbag becomes West Coast wing (Philadelphia Business Journal)

U.S. Allocates $1.2 Billion For Electronic Medical Records
The grants will go to regional centers to support implementing electronic health records, as well as state grants to share information nationwide. (Information Week)

DirecTV Could Drop Versus
Carriage Expires Sept.1 Unless New Deal Emerges (Multichannel News)

InfoLogix Files Preliminary Proxy Statement in Connection with Special Meeting of Its Stockholders to Approve Recapitalization Plan (PR Newswire)

GIS/Geospatial Industry Worldwide Growth Slows to 1% in 2009 (Daratech Press Release via Directions Magazine)

Boomi CEO: EDI Lives On In SaaS World (Information Week)

The Internet of Things (SAP TV)
How SAP Technology will help Big Brother track how you drive, and other neat things.

SAP Embraces Real-Time in the Entemrprise (Read Write Web)

SEDONA Corporation Announces Recent Court Ruling (PR Newswire)

Apple reconsidering C64 Emulator for iPhone? (MacNN)



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August 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Philly Fed)


Philadelphia Media Holdings files restructuring plan (Video Press Release)

This seems to cross a line. Someone who is supposed to be an objective journalist (Brandy Bell) presenting a company PR piece.
Bankruptcy Plan Calls for Philadelphia Papers to be Sold to Local Investors (Editor & Publisher)

Hacking Suspect’s Lawyer Criticizes Federal Prosecutors (New York Times: Bits)

A Medical Decision Support System That Learns
Best Practices Winner: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Project: Pediatric Knowledgebase (Bio-IT World)

Free For All? Profits Can Be Elusive Online
(National Public Radio)
Peter Fader of the Wharton School weighs in.

Forrester: SAP, Others Will Make Analytics Acquisitions (PC World)

Salesforce.com reports higher quarterly profit (MarketWatch)
Salesforce delivers strong second quarter, ups outlook (ZDNet
Blogs)

DOJ approves Oracle's Sun Micro buy (CNET News)

Accenture Cutting Jobs, Office Space to Trim Costs (Bloomberg)


Last Polaroid cameras and film to be sold at Urban Outfitters tomorrow (Engadget)


Verizon to Cut $20 Billion in Debt by 2011, Finance Chief Says (Bloomberg)

SSI Knowledge Center signs $1.9M hospital contract (Pittsburgh Business Times)

D&E shareholders to vote Sept. 24 on $330 million sale to Windstream (Lancaster Online)

Google to Present at Philadelphia Business Marketing Association's Inaugural Educational Event (Marketwire)



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How’d They Do That? The Virtual Debut of Infiniti’s New M (Wired.com)

Judge in newspapers case assails lawyer for creditors (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lincoln Sells Fund Unit to Macquarie in Post-TARP Cash Raiser (Bloomberg)

Ben Franklin Tech program invests $1.2M in seven firms (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Seed fund group, Temple to study venture trends (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Tapping a Legion of Smart Programmers (Business Week)
On San Francisco startup and First Round Capital portfolio company Mashery.

Olympic Network was doomed to flame out (LA Times Blogs: Company Town)


Kenexa's Award-Winning Global Recruiting Solution to Integrate QlikView Business Analysis Technology (Marketwire)

Memory Industry Leader Dataram Enters Storage Market
Will soon unveil innovative data storage acceleration product line (Business Wire)

LECG Announces Proposed Merger With SMART, New CEO and $25M Cash Infusion (Marketwire)
Smart Advisory is based in Devon and has more than 300 employees in the area.





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Daily Links 8/18/09: Comcast Fighting The FCC Again

FCC enforcing imaginary laws in P2P ruling, says Comcast
Comcast comes out swinging in court against the spanking it got from the FCC for BitTorrent throttling. We unpack the ISP's legal challenge. (ars technica)

Q2 Slowest In Eight Years For Broadband Growth
Just 634,000 new subscribers on the quarter... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast Enhances Triple Play With Launch of Universal Caller ID(TM) Service
Three-Product Digital Customers in Michigan Can Now See Who's Calling on the TV and PC (PR Newswire)

Tru2way's Retail Forecast: Cloudy (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Boomi Widgets Ease SaaS Integration (Read Wrie Web)

GSI Commerce stock offering snags $87.9 million (Associated Press via Forbes)

Lockheed discusses local impact of cuts (Philadelphia Business Journal

Controversial Anchor Alycia Lane Surfaces in LA
Fired Philly reporter signs with KNBC (Broadcasting & Cable)



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Daily Links 8/17/09: Hackers Charged with Heartland Data Breach

InterDigital is down about 21% so far today after a preliminary ruling on Friday by the International Trade Commission favoring Nokia in the Nokia/InterDigital patent dispute. It was earlier down by 30%.
InterDigital Announces Financial Guidance for Third Quarter 2009
Company to Host Conference Call at 2:00 PM ET to Discuss Recent ITC Determination (Business Wire)

TJX Hacker Charged with Heartland, Hannaford Breaches (Wired.com)


IBM Targets Mainframe At Specific Applications
IBM hopes to counter plummeting System z sales with seven packages of integrated hardware, software, and services tailored to specific application workloads. (Information Week)


Software AG offers to buy remaining Scheer shares (Associated Press via Forbes)

Tibco/SAP Redux: Does Tibco Code Meet SAP Standards? (Information Week Blogs)

Oracle looks to planning apps for future growth
Demand for PPM software growing (Computerworld)
Spotlight to be on Primavera at OpenWorld.


Greater Philadelphia Economy to Turn Upward Later this Year According to New Leading Indicator (Business Wire)

myYearbook Turns A Profit By Getting Users To Pay (paidContent}

Interview with Becki Heller from Trendsta Part 1 (Sparxoo)
Part 2

CoPilot® Live™ GPS Navigation available for iPhone in North America (Business Wire)

Air Force launches 8th new Lockheed GPS satellite (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Hercules Technology extends deadline for InfoLogix (Philadelphia Business Journal


CVPH moving toward total paperless record keeping (Plattsburgh Press Republican)



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People News 8/16/09

Cheng T. Chen Joins ProtonMedia as CTO and VP of Engineering
(Business Wire)

OKI Data Americas Promotes Takabumi Asahi to President, Chief Executive Officer (Business Wire)

HighPoint Solutions Names New Solution Lead For Master Data Management Practice
(PR Newswire}

Dr. George E. Daddis Jr. to Join WorldGate as Chief Executive Officer (Business Wire)

RCN Appoints Randy Nungester as Vice President, General Manager, RCN PA (Marketwire)

Founder of Pharmaceutical Software DEACOM Named to PharmaVOICE 100 (Newswire Today)




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