Cable boxes vexing residents
(phillyBurbs.com)

GSI Preps Services Push (AD Week)

iStreet Solutions, an SAP(R) Certified Hosting Partner, Accelerates Its Business Expansion with Data Center and Disaster Recovery Solutions
(PRNewswire)

Don't let Vishay offer distract you, International Rectifier tells employees (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Rich clickings for myYearbook founder (TimesOnline UK)

Regulations and risk will oblige banks to spend on IT (Financial Times UK)

Accenture bets big on pharma offshoring with end-to-end services (Financial Express India)

Qwest, Fiberlink deliver all-access remote endpoint security (Telecommunications Magazine)

Lockheed Martin Develops Context-Aware Computing for Intelligence Analysts
(PRNewswire)

Comcast’s blazing fast Internet is half the speed of DSL
(TG Daily)

Green from Green: Rising Energy Costs May be Good News for 'Clean Tech' Firms -- and Their Investors (Knowledge@Wharton)


Who Makes What: GPON Equipment (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Missionomics Releases CircleDog
Now Available: The World’s First ‘Uncomplicated’ Customer Management Software (BusinessWire)

Officials add tech chief to district staff (Daily Local
News)



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Can Comcast Deliver TV 2.0?
Inside the cable giant’s plan to marry television and the Internet (Multichannel News)

MSOs Admit To Tracking Consumers’ Online Activity
Cable One, Bresnan and Others Have Tested 'Tailored Ads' (Multichannel News)

Int'l Rectifier Finds Something Vishay In $1.5B Bid (Forbes)
Update: International Rectifier to make no immediate response to Vishay's $1.6 billion bid
(EE Times)

Phila. high-rise ruckus sign of the times (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Great news for MicroStation users - the Luxology announcement (BE Communities: On the Platform)

Strohl/Sungard Update (JAY BABEL WEBLOG)

Siemens Medical Solutions Layoff Rumors (HIS Talk)



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People News



Evan Malone joins Liberty Media board
(Denver Business Journal)

ESPRiT Consulting Appoints Alex Collevecchio as President of ESPRiT Consulting USA (BusinessWire via MarketWatch)

Rodale Promotes Prevention Editor-in-Chief Liz Vaccariello to Senior Vice President (BusinessWire via Philly.com)

MRO Corp. Promotes John Walton to Vice President of Client Relations (BusinessWire)

Career Management/Exec Search Consultant Elva Bankins Joins Kelleher Associates as Senior Partner (MMD Newswire.com)



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Siemens Medical Solutions to lay off 350 (Daily Local News)



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Vishay offers $1.6 billion for International Rectifier (Reuters)
Vishay offers to swallow International Rectifier for $1.6B (Tech Condfidential: The Deal)

HighPoint Solutions Acquires Aptiv Technology Partners (PRNewswire)

Dayak.com raises $1.2 million from area venture firms (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

HCSC Acquisition of MEDecision Supports Insurer's Strategy to Improve Health, Reduce Costs
(PRNewswire)

VoxWare Customers are Speechless (CIO.com)
VoxWare is based in Lawrenceville.

SAP CRM customers taking new application off the shelf
(SearchCRM.com)

SAP wrap and transparency points (ZDNet Blogs)

Comcast boasts service boosts
New technologies designed to benefit customers — and technicians
(Lancaster Intelligencer Journal)

Sanders: Free Comcast box doesn't cut it (Rutland Herald)



Explanation and Apology From Dick’s Sporting Goods ((The Unofficial Redskins Blog)
A big mistake by GSI Commerce.

Now Sun has a social network server, too (CNET
News)

Feds Want Berwyn Businessman Held Without Bail For Trading With Iran (KYW NewsRadio)

Astea Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire)

Commodities costs curtail profits at SL Industries (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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CardioNet Corporate Headquarters Impacted by Local Fire; Patient Monitoring Services Fully Intact (BusinessWire)

Was this the same fire as the apartment fire?


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Big Ten Network to debut on Comcast (Indianapolis Star)

Wanted: Writers for D.C. tech lobby group, secrecy mandatory (CNET News)

Keep It Simple: PhrazIt Offers 30 Character Long Reviews (TechCrunch)

Urban’s 79% profit increase defies retail downturn (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Internet and catalog sales up 42 percent.

Intrinsyc Launches RapidRILTM and Announces First Licensee
Wireless Software Solution Enables Telephony Support on Windows Mobile® Handheld Devices with InterDigital® SlimChipTM Modem Solution (Marketwire)

SAP fires back at Waste Management (Network World)

Greater Pacific To Invest $32.5 Million In Ahmedabad-Based KPO Azure Knowledge (Venture Chronicle)
Azure's US offices are in Blue Bell.

Acorn Energy Completes Acquisition of Coreworx, Leading Energy Infrastructure Software Provider (PRNewswire)

Emtec Global Services (EGS) Acquires eBAS and Aveeva
Acquisition Adds Over 300 Consultants and Global Delivery Capability (PRNewswire)

Pa. company buys Pittsford-based Tel-e-Atrics Inc. (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle)

NitroSecurity Secures $10M in Funding (Dark Reading)
Funding led by Radnor's NewSpring Capital, which also backed Conshohocken's RippleTech which was acquired by NitoSecurity
last month.

Parexel Closes the Acquisition of ClinPhone
Combined Capabilities Create the Industry's Largest eClinical Technology Offering (PharmaLive)
ClinPhone's US headquarters have ben in East Windsor, NJ. I don't know yet how the completed acquisition will effect its
local presence.

The Almost-Meteoric Rise of SaaS on Wall Street (Wall Street & Technology)

Architect: Unisys sign would mar Liberty Place
A 3d public hearing will be held Aug. 26 (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Gannett Confirms Cut in 1,000 Jobs
(Editor & Publisher)

Corporations Picking Up Bill for Co-Working
(Workforce Management)

American Express and H&R Block offices mark 20 years in Linton (Emmons County Record: North Dakota)
Originally a Rosenbluth Travel office.




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Tribal DDB's Executive Creative Director Joins GSI Interactive (ClickZ)

Best Buy to sell iPhone (Associated Press via Google News)

QVC® to Implement Quintiq’s Multi-Resource Scheduling Solution (BusinessWire)

AT&T & Verizon to Carry QVC HD (TVPedictions.com)

Verizon Ads Bash Cable Rivals in Northern Jersey
Telco Talks Up Its FiOS Service In Latest Campaign (Multichannel News)

SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do (ZDNet)


Business Objects Summit Q&A (Intelligent Enterprise)


SAP, Oracle Holding Out on Ubuntu? (InternetNews.com)

Unisys skyscraper sign gets public hearing tomorrow (Philadelphia Inquirer)

iNetU Opens Fifth Data Center (Web Host Industry News)

Franklin Electronic Publishers Reports First Quarter Results (PRNewswire)

Dynasil Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results (BusinessWire)

Philadelphia's Premiere UnConference Returns for a Second Year
PodCamp Philly Is Dedicated to Providing an Intense Event With Discussions, Demos and Interaction From All Participants
(Marketwire)

Digital Signage Expo East: Bright lights, new city
(Digital Signage Today)

Welcome to New Jersey, Media Wasteland (New York Observer)




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I had been trying to get an idea of how big PointRoll, the Conshohocken-based web advertising firm, is and how fast it is growing. Gannett owns PointRoll, and its 10-Q doesn't give much of a clue. Its financial results are buried in a category called "other" along with commercial printing services.
But a recent piece in Knowledge@Wharton on the online advertising market, which discusses PointRoll in some depth, says it now has 260 employees, up from 50 three years ago. (I would assume they are generating well over $100,000 per employee). The article describes PointRoll as a leader in delivering "rich media" banner ads, the market for which is expected to be $5.9 billion this year and as much as $8 billion by 2011.
Separately, PointRoll today announced a partnership with in-stream video ad network ScanScout.

Note: If you access the article in Knowledge@Wharton after August 23, free registration may be required.



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SAP: Financials Are Rosy, But Trouble Is Brewing in the Ecosystem (CIO.com)

SAP links corporate performance management to supply chain (SearchSAP.com)

SAP Business Objects Takes Next Steps on Performance Management, BI (Intelligent Enterprise)


The End of Best-of-Breed (Wall
Street Journal: Business Technology Blog)

Malone eyes Time Warner stake swap for AOL dial-up (Financial Times)
Liberty Entertainment Group Q2 Earnings Call Transcript (Seeking Alpha)
Malone is always entertaining.

Go Ringside for Social Activities
(Thoughts from the Ringside)

EchoStar Inks Tru2way Accord (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)

Comcast to launch action movie VOD channel with MGM (Associated Press via Google News)

Quality Systems names Steven Plochocki CEO (Associated Press via CNN Money)
Quality Systems' major business unit is NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham.

Lockheed Martin Develops Early Warning for Maritime Security (PRNewswire)

Bentley’s Forthcoming MicroStation Release to Incorporate Luxology’s Photorealistic Rendering Engine (BusinessWire)

Journal Register Company Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (Marketwire)
Not very good.

Shunra Software Releases Powerful Testing Package Reducing Root Cause Discovery Time from Weeks to Hours (BusinessWire)

Extreme Commuter: Traveling three states for love (am New York)

Internet giant gets free help from high schoolers (Crain's New York Business)
" The students said they didn’t mind working without a paycheck because they received valuable work experience at a major conglomerate in exchange." (They've got something to learn.)



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