Verizon Adds 76 New Channels to FiOS TV Lineup Including 56 in HD for Customers in the Philadelphia Region (PRNewswire)

Comcast Disclosure Draws Cautious Praise
(Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

Industry Veteran Greg Case Joins LLR Partners
Former Apax partner to expand LLR’s growth equity franchise (BusinessWire)
Obviously, this probably means more IT deals are coming from LLR.

A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms (New York Times) Free Registration.

Faster Internet, across the region (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Why We Created ClickEquations (ClickEquations Blog)

Analyzing music the digital way (Philadelphia
Inquirer)

Scala conference builds on MISC acquisition
(Digital Signage Today)

SAP Expands Public Sector Reach and Gains Ground With State of Louisiana (PRNewswire)

SAP sketches its designs on SaaS (Australian IT News)

Forget eBay. Use Swaptree.
Boston company funded by Safeguard Scientifics.

Safeguard Scientifics Repurchases $38 Million of Convertible Senior Debentures at Discount (BusinessWire)

Cell Phone Triangulation Accuracy Is All Over The Map
(Search Engine Land)

The Delaware Health Information Network Plays Leadership Role in Advancing the National Health Information Network (BusinessWire via MarketWatch)




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Goldman, Morgan to Become Full-Fledged Banks
(New York Times: Deal Book)
Off topic, but obviously important.

Home Shopping’s Hard $ell
With Consumers Cutting Back, Retailers Bet On Web, New Technology (Multichannel News)

Sign of Optimism: Some Debt Still Flows for Deals (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)

Homes for Sale by Smarter Agent, Mobile, Launches (Smarter Agent Blog)

Apple Store Park City, Lancaster PA: Photos from opening day (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Pa. treasurer's race pits lawyer vs. finance pro (York Daily Record)

Alcatel-Lucent and Penn State University to collaborate on video social networking system prototype (WebWire)

Director Jerry Zaks Plugs Into Nerds Musical (Playbill)




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People News



Tyco Electronics Appoints Rob Shaddock Chief Technology Officer (PRNewswire)

Steering Comcast's nonprofit side
Community investment also part of VP's new territory. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Checkpoint Systems Names Prasad Putta General Manager of OATSystems, Its RFID Software Division (BusinessWire via MarketWatch)

SEDONA Announces New Interim Chief Executive Officer and President (PRNewswire)

Synygy Promotes Three Long-Time Employees to the Newly Created Position of Regional Vice President (BusinessWire)

C&D Technologies Announces Appointment of Steve Heir as Vice President, Business Development and Chief Marketing Officer (PRNewswire)

Education Management Solutions, Inc. Names Vice President Sales and Marketing (BusinessWire)

Philadelphia-based GIS Company Avencia Recently Hires Three New Employees (Directions Magazine)



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Why We Picked China For IT Outsourcing
The decision to outsource product development to China pays off for NeatReceipts. (Information Week)

Network Management Update (Comcast.net)

Comcast loses P2P religion, goes agnostic on throttling (ars technica)

North American securities industry IT spending to plummet
(Finextra)
Much of this short-term decline is inescapable, But I do think there is going to be some upside as investment firms are
required to implement systems that produce more transparency and real time in-depth analysis capabilities.

Midnight Deadline for Comcast Net Management Disclosure (xchange)

Emerging Retail Technologies-Personalization, Social Shopping, Mobile Marketing and Online Catalogs (New Media Blog)
A bit on what Anthropologie is trying.

Five Reasons The Economy Won't Tank (The Bulletin)
Marc Kramer's take from M&A East in Philadelphia.

Philly .NET Code Camp 2008.3 – Registration Is Now Open (Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew)

Oracle profit beats expectations as margins rise (Reuters)

Léo Apotheker’s Leadership Opportunity: SAP At the Crossroads
(ZDNet Blogs)

Intuit makes SaaS play, heads for Salesforce.com turf (MyCustomer.com)

Deal Radar 2008: Verticals onDemand (paidContent)

Helping New Technologies Grow Into Businesses, the San Diego Way
(New York Times) Free Registration.

Cablevision to begin rollout of
network DVR next year (Associated Press via Google News)

Navmar Applied Sciences wins $10M defense contract (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Apple to celebrate retail store grand opening in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on September 20 (MacDailyNews)
Tapping in to all that pent-up Amish demand, I guess.