Connected, not just online.
Media may be even more social than some think (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Cable TV Standoffs Threaten Viewing Costs, Choices (Associated Press via New York
Times)

Cenero provides link to video-conferencing (Daily Local News)

Forecast for 2010: The Rise of Hybrid Clouds (GigaOM)

Clearwire Stayed Ahead in Big Year for WiMax (PC World)

Updated: Time Warner Cable, Fox Reach Agreement In Principle
Pact Pertains To Stations, Fox Broadcasting, National Cable Nets And RSNs (Multichannel News)

You Don’t Mean Average, You Mean Median (Enterprise Irregulars)



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Frederick Beste III - Program that helped transform Lehigh Valley economy faces challenges (Allentown Morning Call: Opinion)

HHS Defines 'Meaningful Use' for EHRs (Tech Insider)

How to Get $20 Billion for Using Electronic Medical Records (Wall Street Journal: Health Blog)

Donation by Action: The New Social Charity Model (Mashable)

AT&T Tells FCC It's Time to Cut the Cord (PC World)

City's parking kiosks are not working right (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Penn State Latest University Plagued by Data Breaches (eSecurity Planet)

Hands On with Comcast’s Xfinity: TV Everywhere That’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be (NewTeeVee)

Adelphia To Pay $133 Million To Claimants As It Closes Motorola Suit (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

CMS will publish 'Meaningful Use' regulation on Dec. 31 (FierceHealthIT)



ICG Commerce: The Evolution of a Successful Procurement BPO (Part 1) (Spend Matters)

FINNISH FIRM OPENING ELECTRONICS SCRAP RECYCLING FACILITY IN PENNSYLVANIA (Recycling Today)

The Top 10 SAP Watch blog posts of 2009 (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)




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Broadcasters' Woes Could Spell Trouble for Free TV
Assailed by cable and the Web, broadcast TV looks to build a new business model (Associated Press via ABC News)

NBC, Comcast, and the future of television (Audio: Minnesota Public Radio)

Canoe Pushes Back Interactive Ad Launch Until Spring 2010
MSO Venture Says It Conducted An RFI Trial In Q4 (Multichannel News)

InterDigital Mourns Loss of Harry Campagna, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Long-time Board Member Served as Chairman Since 1996 (Business Wire)



Google Phone Event Scheduled For Jan. 5 (Silicon Alley Insider)

Smoke Halts Trading at Nasdaq’s Philadelphia Exchange (Bloomberg via Business Week)
Trading resumes at Philadelphia Stock Exchange (MarketWatch)


Hacker in card theft to admit guilt today (Boston Globe)

Herley Industries, Inc. Subsidiary, Micro Systems, Inc. Receives $16M Contract to Supply Avionics (PR Newswire)

MyYearbook Speeds Web Responses (Information Week)

SS&C takes another crack at an IPO, looks for $300M (Mass High
Tech)




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AT&T Stops iPhone Sales in NYC (Wired: Gadget Lab)

AT&T Reverses Course: iPhone Available Again in New York City (Mashable)


The Set-Top Files (Part II) (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

2009 Top Ten: Most Popular Cable Stories (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Intelligroup to focus on shared apps outsourcing (Business Standard of India)
Intelligroup is based in Princeton.

Top 10 predictions for cloud financials and accounting for 2010 (SaaS 2.0)

Philadelphia Daily News loses Davies to WHYY radio (Poynter Online: Romenesko)




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People News 12/27/09

Lockheed Martin ATL names new lab director (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SunGard Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition (Business Wire)

BioNanomatrix Board Chairman Erickson Named President, CEO, as Genomic Analysis Technology Company Prepares for Market Entry
Battelle Ventures General Partner Tracy Warren succeeds Erickson as board chair (Business Wire)

Acsis Appoints Gene Eubanks to the Position of Chief Executive Officer
Former SAP and Oracle senior executive with 20+ years experience building profitable, high-growth organizations (Business Wire)

Acsis CEO Eubanks Solidifies Executive Team with Key Appointments (Business Wire)


SCTE Hires Motorola's Vernon As VP Marketing, Membership
Bernadette Vernon Takes Over For Deb Swann, Louis Games (Multichannel News)

NJTC CEO Maxine Ballen Honored for Commitment to Region's Technology Community (PR Newswire)

Drexel University LeBow College Student Named College Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur Magazine
(PR Newswire)

Temple University Provost Lisa Staiano-Coico Joins Science Center Board (Business Wire)

Timothy J. Carney is now vice president of health care for SunGard Availability Services L.P. in Wayne. He was formerly enterprise vice president for McKesson Corp in Alpharreta Ga.



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NPR Hires Key Staff For Local News Effort; Finalizes Station List (paidContent)
Philadelphia one of 10 markets to receive NPR's new local service.

Fine Print: Fee fight in Philly newspapers (TheDeal.com: Dealscape)

2009 Bickel Business Year in Review (Bickel Blog)

Company gives $400K for Washington's NJ river trek (Associated Press via Business Week)

NBC-Comcast will be big power in sports - but it will take time to gain rights (Canadian Press via Google News)

The Life of Brian
Roberts Helped Shape The Industry He Grew Up In (Multichannel News)




Interview with SunGard CEO Cristóbal Conde (Wall Street Journal)


Sequoia-backed testing firm AppLabs considering strategic sale (Reuters India)

Liquent, Inc. Acquired by Marlin Equity Partners (Company Release)

DecisionOne Acquires Anacomp MVS (PR Newswire)




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SCVNGR Raises $4 Million From Google Ventures (TechCrunch)
Though now based in Boston, SCVNGR started out at Princeton and was a graduate of the first DreamIt Ventures class.

The State of Global WiMAX: The 2009 Report
(GigaOM)

FCC Commissioner slams Verizon on $350 ETFs (ars technica)

Ian Berg of ETF Venture Funds dead at 68 (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Optellios to Develop Cutting Edge Technology for Civil Infrastructure Monitoring (Marketwire)



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