PTC Advances Green Product Design and Environmental Regulatory Compliance Solution with Acquisition of Synapsis Technology (Business Wire)
Synapsis is based in Spring House.

Verizon Speeds Up LTE Launch (GigaOM)

Verizon defends honor in Wilmington FiOS talks (FierceTelecom)

Checkpoint CEO van der Merwe named board chairman (Associated Press via MSN Money)

Lockheed Martin Technology Significantly Increases Situation Awareness for Small Unit Forces
(PR Newswire)

Business Objects Fleshes Out SAAS BI with More Salesforce.com Support (eWEEK)

GMAC Rescue Plan Falters, Raising Bankruptcy Concern (Bloomberg)

Project Management on Demand (eWEEK)
Interview with Clarizen CEO Avinoam Nowogrodski.

Lighting Science rises in Burlington County (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Devon IT Sees Substantial Growth in Thin Client Industry (Business Wire)

Haydenfilms Significantly Upgrades Website With Latest Technology; Opens Public Judging for 4.0 Festival Finalists (PR Newswire)

An Introduction to Aklero (Slidshare)
Aklero, based in Radnor, provides information systems for finding deficiences in mortgage documents, which would seem
like a timely solution.

Human errors caused police radio failure, report finds (Philadelphia Inquirer)


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Breaking: SAP maintenance price hike: partial victory (ZDNet
Blogs)

SAP eyes big time distribution deals (itbusiness.ca)

Salesforce CEO Benioff Sinks Teeth Into Non-SaaS Rivals (Information Week)

Congress busts Kevin Martin's chops, demands change at FCC (ars technica)

A Second Look at Citywide Wi-Fi
Wireless networks across entire cities were launched with great promise. Too much, in fact. (Wall Street Journal)

NFL to Fire 150 League Employees, Freeze Salaries (Bloomberg)
Includes cuts at NFL Films in Mount Laurel.

Comcast Backs WiFi Ad Network JiWire (PE Hub)

Verizon: Report of 100mbps FiOS in 2009 Was Erroneous (xchange)

Groups Merge To Form Technology Association Of America (Information Week)

The Vast World of Network Management (TMCnet)
Profiles SevOne of Newark, DE, among others.

Ad-ventures in marketing II
(Med Ad News)
3FX of Conshohocken named one of Med Ad News' "four Pharmaceutical Marketing Ventures to Watch for 2008".

It Seems GSI Commerce Only Shines In Q4 (Seeking Alpha)

JERRY JOHNSON: FROM PRINCIPAL TO CORPORATE LEADER
(Sages of Business)

Binswanger Negotiates Long-Term Lease for AWeber Communications in Huntingdon Valley, PA (Marketwire)

Google Health to Host Webcast Next Wed (DEC 10) (Chilmark Research)





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Breaking: Brian Tierney’s Message Of Christmas Cheer — See Ya, Wouldn’t Wanna Be Ya (Philebrity)




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Aria Systems Completes $10 Million in Series B Funding
Leader in SaaS Billing Looks Ahead to Launch of Its A+ Billing Platform (Marketwire)
Aria Systems raises $10M more for online billing (Venture Beat)

Comcast sees slowing effects of economy (Associated Press via Business Week)

Dow committed to closing Rohm & Haas buy (Reuters)

Tyco Electronics cuts jobs, some local (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

Tribune Files Bankruptcy One Year After Zell Bailout (Bloomberg)
Properties in eastern Pennsylvania owned by Tribune include the Allentown Morning Call and TV stations in Philadelphia (WPHL) and Harrisburg (WPMT).

CONFIRMED: Two iPhone models to sell at Walmart (this month!) (ZDNet Blogs)

Intel develops fast, cheap optical links on silicon
(CNET News)

5 Reasons To Avoid GSI Commerce (GSIC) (Investopedia)
Though I don't play stock-picker here, I generally agree with this assessment.

Successful exit for Textronics Inc (fibre2fashion)
Textronics is based in Wilmington

Fresh Thinking: Harvard Business Review Article Explores When and How Companies Must Reinvent Their Businesses (PR Newswire)
Article by Clayton Christensen and SAP co-CEO Henning Kagermann in HBR.

inTEST (INTT) Cuts 10 Employees from Tester Interface Product Segment (StreetInsider.com)
inTEST is based in Cherry Hill.

Emtec, Inc. Announces Fiscal 2008 Results (PR Newswire)

C&D Technologies turns profit
(Philadelphia Business Journal)




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An Interview With @comcastcares (John Battelle's Searchblog)

Bentley Systems and MicroStation V8i - interview (JTB
World Blog)

Auditorium game combines music, lights and puzzles (Macworld)

Web site focuses on fun and games
(pillyBurbs.com)




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People News



New president to lead PNC unit
Wolcott joins business that provides services, information worldwide (Wilmington News Journal)

StarCite Taps Industry Veteran Kevin Iwamoto As Vice President, Enterprise Strategy (Business Wire)

Riepe to step down as trustee chairman
Cohen will head the Board of Trustees beginning in Nov. 2009 (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Ex-Comcast exec Doyle joins WPCS (Philadelphia Inquirer)

FiOS’s Denson Crosses Over
Telco Programming Chief Expands Responsibilities Across Platforms (Multichannel News)

Rowan grad makes Philly 100 (South Jersey Life)

BioNanomatrix Appoints Gary Zweiger, Ph.D., as Vice President of Business Development
(PR Newswire)

Chris Beiswenger Joins Axon Americas as Executive Vice President of Delivery
Former CSC Global SAP Practice leader rounds out seasoned executive leadership team (PR Newswire)

Matthews & Rubin Appointed Engagement Managers for ISA Consulting (Business Wire)

INVIDI Taps Scanzoni, Scheppach, Manning for Board (Media
Week)

Janney Continues Building Research Expertise with Hires from Wachovia and Citigroup (Business Wire)
Janney Lands Oppenheimer Analyst and Continues Research Expansion (Business Wire)

Award-Winning Visual Effects Arts, Ed Mendez, Joins Dive Staff, Division of Shooters Post (Philly Ad Club)

Power Medical Interventions Announces Executive Management Change (Surgistrategies)




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Comcast attacks Verizon’s HD claims (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Robert M. Jelenic, 58, former chairman and chief executive officer of Journal Register Company, the publisher of the New Haven Register, died Wednesday night in Pennsylvania after a long bout with cancer. (Kent Dispatch)



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100Mbps FiOS Will Arrive Next Year
Largely aimed at winning the marketing wars.. (Broadband Reports)

Top 23 U.S. ISPs by Subscriber: Q3 2008 (ISP Planet)

Downturn Will Hurt Cable, Too (GigaOM)

More Takeaways...
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Analyst cuts IMS target on data privacy questions (Associated Press via MSN Money)

Who’s shopping for Business Objects? (SAP Watch)

Unisys Announces Plan for Reverse Stock Split
Company said it intends to regain compliance with NYSE minimum share price rule (Business Wire)

Obama sports white earbuds, doesn't rock Zune
(Macworld)

Take A Virtual Tour Of Philadelphia (CBS 3)

Unisys lays off 90 local workers (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle)

PAETEC lays off 222 full-time workers (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle)

Penske Truck Leasing teams up with PeopleNet (LBSzone)




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Groups push for net neutrality in Obama administration (Macworld)

Cable Operators Want FCC Cap Ruling Reversed
Saying FCC failed to perform a crucial market-power analysis on the industry (Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast to launch meter to track Web usage (ZDNet Blogs)

Verizon Promises Not To Cherry Pick Philadelphia
Insists that FiOS deployments will reach entire city... (Broadband Reports)

PJM Board Authorizes $1.6 Billion in Transmission Additions, Upgrades (PR Newswire)

Gutmann responds to U.'s budget problems (Daily Pennsylvanian)


Tweeter abruptly shut; workers fired (Philadelphia Inquirer)

rVibe bringing live music concerts to the Web (KeyStone Edge)

I2 Technologies ends merger deal with JDA Software (Thomson Financial via Forbes)

SAP Exec: Belt-tightening to Continue, but Business Better (PC World)

Angel investors collaborate, pump $1.1M into NanoPack Inc. (Keystone Edge)

Barack Obama Uses a Zune (Wired Blogs:
Gadget Lab)

Judge Sides With University Against Student-Teacher With 'Drunken Pirate' Photo (Chronicles of Higher
Education)

Police: sibs hacked PC, used GPS to track—and maybe kill—father (ars technica)

Marchex cuts 10 percent of workforce (TechFlash)
No word on whether the cuts involved anyone from Marchex's Philadelphia-based VoiceStar unit, but VoiceStar cofounder Ari
Jacoby seems eager to drum up some new business.

CSC Announces Social Networking Community for Property and Casualty Insurance Clients
(PR Newswire)

Network engineers and developers must collaborate on WAN applications (SearchNetworking.com)




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