Daily Links 9/24/09: Twitter to raise another $100 million (WSJ)

WSJ: Twitter Will Raise Another $100 Million in VC Funding Today (Read Write Web)

How MicroCells Could End AT&T's iPhone Troubles
(PC Magazine)

Clearwire renaming itself CLEAR, getting a logo makeover too (Endgadget)

Carbon Counting Project Enlists SAP, Microsoft and Accenture (IT Business Edge)

Citi’s cities (Reuters Blogs)
Unclear how far Citigroup will pull back from Philly.

Software AG Has Already Acquired More Than 75% of IDS Scheer AG (Business Wire)

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Award of $35 Million U.S. Air Force Contract
Major Milestone in the Evolution of Tactical Flight Simulation (PR Newswire)

FCC: Comcast contradicts itself in claim agency has no power over it
(ZDNet Blogs)

Telecom Analysts Downplay Net-Neutrality Concerns (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

Interview with Verizon CTO Dick Lynch on FiOS (pdf: FTTH Council)

GameX 2009 set for Greater Philadelphia Expo Center (Philadelphia Business Journal: Media & Marketing Blog)

Halfpenny Technologies Announces Launch of Health Information Exchange (HIE) Portal and Release of Version 3.0 of the Integration Technology Framework™ (Business
Wire)

D&E Communications, Inc. Announces Shareholder Approval of Merger Agreement With Windstream Corporation
(Marketwire)

CMU-founded company purchased by Google (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)





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Daily Links 9/23/09: Study Says Drexel Ranks Third in Entrepreneurship

FCC of Two Minds on Net Neutrality Rules? (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

Microsoft Courier — Secret Tablet Book in Progress? (jkOnTheRun)

TruePosition Inc. & Liberty Media Corporation Take a Controlling Interest in EmFinders (PR Newswire)

ARRIS Buys Paul Allen-Controlled Digeo For $20 Million (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Digeo Gives Arris Multimedia Gateway Potential (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

CableLabs ITV Interop Lab Includes Comcast, TWC And Cox Guides
Next Tru2way and ETV Interoperability Event Scheduled for Oct. 5-9 (Multichannel News)


ARIS to remain independent despite Software AG merger, IDS Scheer says (ComputerWorld Canada)

Drexel Ranked Third in Nation for Entrepreneurship
(Business Wire)

InfoLogix Selected by Albert Einstein Healthcare Network for eLearning Modules to Support EMR Implementation (PR Newswire)

Melbourne call center to hire 600 seasonal workers (Florida Today)

ProtonMedia Takes Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to a New Dimension
ProtoSphere gains full integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Businesss Wire)

SAP Refurbishes Its Program With the Help of Its Own Technology (Workforce Management)

The Great HITECH Act Loophole (IT Business Edge)





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Daily Links 9/22/09: Comcast Ad Blitz for Fancast

Ahmadinejad Personally Recruited Sanctions Buster During New York Trip, Court Documents Show (Fox News)


Wipro brings SAP ex-CEO Kagermann on board (Economic Times of India)

Camden hospitals to create health-records exchange (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast Takes on Hulu With Ad Blitz for Fancast
(Advertising Age)

Who’s There?
A Simple Question Threatens 'TV Everywhere’s’ Business Model (Multichannel News)

Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 Hits Denver
New 22 Mbps, 50 Mbps tiers arrive in Colorado (Broadband Reports)

Incyte Announces Proposed Public Offering of 18,000,000 Shares of Common Stock (Business Wire)
Also offering $250 million in notes.

Deutsche Telekom Said to Be in Talks With Clearwire on Networks (Bloomberg)

QVC Inc sells $1 bln 10-year notes - IFR (Reuters)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Sale of 2.4 Million Additional Clarient Shares Pursuant to Overallotment Option (Business Wire)

DormNoise Officially Implemented at Clemson University, Bay State College, and Bryant & Stratton College (Business Wire)

Microsoft Buys Software to Bolster Its Core ERP Product (IDG via New York Times)

Acquire Me! Oracle's and SAP's Next Likely Targets (Computerworld)

Oracle: Ellison Says Sun Losing $100M/Month; Won’t Spin MySQL; Expects EU OK; Sees No Economic Recovery For 5 Years (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Philly Startup Leaders worth watching (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)




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FCC Chairman Calls for Formal Net Neutrality Rules (PC World)
Industry Questions Need for Open-Access Cop
Trade Groups, Providers Weigh In on Genachowski's Neutrality Plan (Broadcast Newsroom)
FCC Republicans Have Problems with Genachowksi Proposal
McDowell, Nakers Concerned Rules Would Reverse 'Decades Of Precedent' (Multichannel News)
FCC Position May Spell the End of Unlimited Internet (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

Blowing past Comcast's bandwidth cap
Or, why online backup is like driving a Ferrari in a school zone (Macworld)

InterDigital Signs Pantech to Worldwide Patent License Agreement Covering 2G, 3G and LTE Standards
InterDigital Acquires Minority Equity Interest in Pantech (Business Wire)

Dell To Buy Perot Systems For $3.9 Billion (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Philadelphia Software Freedom Day! (PLEIA2'S BLOG)

Smart Grid Standards Road Map Coming This Week (GigaOm via New York Times)

Drexel nursing students using iPods ... for nursing (Philadelphia Business Journal: Health Care Blog)

Unisys Announces Successful Multi-Vendor Interoperability of Iris Recognition Technology for Homeland Security (Business Wire)

SAP is India´s Top Software Company at 2009 Dataquest Annual Awards (SAP TV)

NEW: Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Scholarship for Journalists on Digital Platforms at Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists: October 18-21, 2009 (Business Wire)





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Philly Tech Events Calendar

People News 9/20/09

SunGard puts Ben Jackson in charge of combined Energy and Kiodex unit (Finextra)

SunGard Higher Education Names Matt Mandalinci as President and Chief Customer Officer and Jack Kramer as Vice President of Customer Satisfaction
(Business Wire)

Razorfish Appoints Executives in Americas Region
(PR Web)

Comcast Promotes Ron Phillips to Senior Vice President of Employee Engagement (Business Wire)

Bentley appoints solutions executives for utilities and communications, power generation, and process manufacturing (EnvironmentalExpert.com)

IMS Appoints Don Otterbein General Manager, Business Transformation Services, to Lead Expanded Knowledge Process Outsourcing Initiative (Business Wire)



Dynasil Announces Mr. Peter Sulick Elected Chairman of the Board of Directors (Business Wire)

E-Mon Hires Christopher Rennickas VP of Government Sales (PR Newswire)

Maria Brennan Named WICT CEO
AWRT Chief Exec Joins Cable Group Oct. 19 (Multichannel News)

BioNanomatrix Appoints Genomic Research Experts Charles Lee and David L. Barker as Advisers (PR Newswire)

EDA awards $60M to small high-tech firm (NJBIZ.com)

Consumer Watch: With cable bill, convenience at a price (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Many customers unhappy with Comcast's latest rate hikes
(San Jose Mercury News)

mySAP.com T-shirt - Ten Years Later
(The Agile Startup)

SAP Plans to Be ‘More Assertive’ With Acquisitions (Bloomberg)

Start-Up Tries to Revive Online Group Buying (New York Times: Bits)
Groupon recently launched in Philadelphia.

T-Mobile Launches 21Mbps 3G Service in Philadelphia (Gizmodo)

T-Mobile USA Launches HSPA+ in Philly (Wireless Week)

FCC To Introduce Net Neutrality Rule (Washington Post)


Possible loss of Siemens contract hits SAP (MarketWatch)

T-Systems plays the SAP ace (ovum)

In the Oracle vs. SAP life sciences battle, Oracle gains a healthy lead (SearchOracle.com)

Versatile Concepts gets more versatile (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Comcast Installer Arrested For Creative Marketing
Was yanking the competitor's plug to pitch Comcast service... (Broadband Reports)

Versus, DirecTV, Despite Negotiations, Remain Disconnected (Multichannel News)




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Daily Links 9/17/09: Oracle Blames SAP For Dip In New License Sales

Oracle blames weakness in Q1 license sales on slumping SAP sales (Dow Jones via Nasdaq.com)

Clearwire says it's not married to WiMAX for 4G, would be easy to switch (Engadget)

Toyota Program: Slash Meeting Costs
As companies move to trim off-site costs, Toyota uses StarCite event-planning software to manage more than 400 annual face-to-face gatherings (Business Week)

September 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

QVC Readying New $500 Million Deal (Another Financial Portal)

Vodafone thinking long and hard about its Verizon stake (Endgadget)

Cable Beating Telcos In Phone Service
According to latest study by J.D. Power and Associates (Broadband Reports)
But Comcast doesn't fare particularly well.

Net neutrality gets a boost from leading Democrat (CNET News)

Synchronoss Jumps On Weisel Upgrade (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
In addition to its headquarters in Bridgewater NJ, Synchronoss has major operations in the Lehigh Valley.


PNC’s Tom Kunz Cracks the Gen Y Code With Targeted Products (Bank Systems & Technology)

NTERA and plastic electronic GmbH Enter An Agreement To Develop Advanced Printed Electronics Products and Announce The Availability of an Evaluation Kit Based on NanoChromics(TM) Display Technologies
(PR Newswire)

Bucks software firm rolls out VictualNet food system (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

A trip down memory lane and beyond at Vintage Computer Fest (ars technica)



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Oracle unveils second Exadata machine; Ellison steps up data warehousing push (ZDNet Blogs)
Oracle Dumps HP After Co-Creating "Most Successful Introduction Ever" (Information Week)

Oracle earnings meet expectations of analysts
(San Jose Mercury News)

Comcast CFO: Third quarter 'shaping up just fine' (MarketWatch)

Comcast Considering 4G Voice
Though details are all but non-existent (Broadband Reports)
Does 4G actually sound better than 3G? Don't know.

Comcast plans to bring TV shows to your phone (Reuters)

Comcast to rape subs even more by raising cable modem rental fee to $5 nationwide (CrunchGear)

Mint.com: Nurtured by Super-Angel VCs
Intuit is acquiring a startup conceived by a "25-year-old kid" and funded by First Round Capital, a new breed of high-risk, early-stage venture capitalist (Business Week)


BioClinica™ Acquires Tourtellotte Solutions (Business Wire)

Portico Systems Selected by CIGNA (Business
Wire)

Vertex Integrates Support for Its Software Products with SAP® Enterprise Support (Business Wire)

Kulicke & Soffa raises revenue outlook (EE Times)

Taleo eyes deals to boost market share: CEO (Reuters)

Venture Fair Wraps Up GoodCompany Ventures' Inaugural Class (The Green Skeptic)



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