TV Mega-mergers? Bad for Subscribers, Good for the Web (GigaOM)

Video: Introduction to ERP complexity (ZDNet Blogs)

Smartphones drive business for software writers
Companies find mobile apps provide a potential gold mine
(NJBIZ.com)



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Oracle Has Customers Over a Barrel (Business Week)

SAP and SME's: an update (ZDNet Blogs)

Hacker Gonzalez Pleads Guilty to 20 Charges (IDG via New York Times)

Brightcove, thePlatform Announce New Partners (Contentinople)

Verizon CFO: More Job Cuts Coming
16,000 job cuts was only just the beginning
(Broadband Reports)

MetroPCS Talking To Bankers, But Not Leap (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Technology Professionals connect in King of Prussia (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)




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Philly Tech Events Calendar

One can't miss event in Philly this week is the Congress of the International Headache Society on September 10-13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Plenty of fun people and an endless supply of Tylenol is available.




Panels of Light Fascinate Designers (New York Times)

Cast Iron, Amazon Deal May Boost Integration-as-a-Service (IT Business Edge)


Hulu had more viewers in July than Time Warner Cable (Broadcast Engineering)

The online retail shake-out: GSI's Rubiin (Phiily.com: Philly Deals)

Wolfe's Den Vlog: SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Brings BI To Masses (Information Week Blogs)



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Could Google Acquisition Plans Have Local Angle?

Google's Eric Schmidt recently indicated his company is on the prowl for acquisitions again. According to All Things Digital, sources say right now Google is focusing on small start-ups in the online advertising and cloud computing arenas.
AdExchanger.com suggests that two companies that could make sense for Google in the online advertising space are Philadelphia's Invite Media (originally backed by First Round Capital) and New York-based MediaMath, in which Safeguard Scientifics recently lead a $10 million venture round.



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Daily Links 9/03/09: Man Sues QVC Over Tomato Planter

Caught on Video: Thieves Ransack Apple Store in 31 Seconds (Switched)

MedQuist Announces Establishment of Revolving Credit Facility and Payment of Special Cash Dividend (PR Newswire)

Higher Ground: Downtown University Tied to Harrisburg's Rebirth (KeystoneEdge)

Verizon Boosts Dividend 3.3% (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Five companies named to FEMA support contract
They will compete for $500 million in task orders
(Washington Technology)
Unisys is one of them.

QVC sued when hanging tomato planter knocks man topsy turvy (Southeast Texas Record)
I wouldn't want to tell QVC this, but this is the same judicial district where a jury just issued a $139 million verdict
against SAP
.

IDS Scheer: U.S. lags in BPM implementations (Internetnews.com)

Chariot Solutions develops iPhone App to Monitor JBoss Application Platform Performance (Chariot News)



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