Live blogging CES opening keynote: Steve Ballmer admits, “I am a PC and proud of it!” (Venture Beat)
Windows 7 beta released.




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Dow set to miss takeover deadline (Financial Times)
Dow weighs Rohm & Haas options (Associated Press via Google News)

Satyam Chairman Resigns After Falsifying Accounts (Bloomberg)
Accounting Scandal Rocks Indian Outsourcer Satyam (Information Week)
Satyam has a large SAP consultancy business.

Bio-Imaging Technologies Sells CapMed Division to Metavante Technologies (Business Wire)

Comcast Will Write Down Clearwire, Not Franchise Rights (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

SAP’s Apotheker & Harvard Business School’s McAfee discuss silos (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Wants Oracle to Reveal Software, Support Profit Margins (PC World)
Fat chance that will ever happen.

Scene But Not Nerd
Geeks in Philadelphia make their mark.
(Philadelphia Weekly)

CES: Cisco Says It Is Now A Consumer Company (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

'Savior' of Connecticut Papers Says Local Control Will Succeed (Editor & Publisher)

The Sports Network Responds to Growing Newspaper Exodus From AP With Alternative Sports Offering (PR Newswire)

Infrastructure Spending: The Timing is Good (Business Week: Globespotting)

ICT closing call centers, seeking lower-cost sites (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Phanfare Photon: Finally Photo and Video Sharing Worthy of Your iPhone (Phanfare Press Release)

NeatDesk Helps Reduce SMB Paper Loads (eWEEK)

Caught Between WARN And A Hard Place (The
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel)

Debit card startup to expand, add jobs (Wilmington News Journal)

TicketLeap Unleashes Barcode Scanning (The TicketLeap Blog)

Philly Chooses GIS to Showcase and Manage its Thousands of Murals (GISuser)

Investbx inspires similar operations in United States (Birmingham Post UK)




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Cigna will cut 1,100 jobs and consolidate (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Dow to Take Action Against Kuwait on Halted Venture (Bloomberg)

No clear sign of settlement in Oracle-SAP suit (Network World)

Wrist-worn flexible OLED prototype is for the military, but kids like it too (engadget)
Universal Display is based in Ewing, NJ.

Motorola Captures 3 Trends for 2009 in One Device (GigaOm)

Motorola Provides WiMAX Devices, Infrastructure for Clear(TM) 4G Mobile Internet Service in Portland (PR Newswire)

Clearwire Launches Portland WiMax, Delays D.C., Chicago (Information Week)

Samsung developing own baseband for LTE and WiMAX (Fierce Broadband Wireless)

Smarter Agent starts off 2009 with a BANG on the iPhone! (Smarter Agent Blog)

Unisys not moving HQ to Phila.
(Philadelphia Business Journal)

FearNet Joins Comcast Entertainment Group In Move To L.A. (Multichannel News)

Comcast Goes 'Protocol Agnostic' Everywhere (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Year In Review: Thin clients get boost from .... (Network World)
HP gains from Neoware technology.


Xobni Closes $7 Million B Round Led By Cisco (TechCrunch)
Early investor First Round Capital participates again.

Philly Area Bioscience Officials Create
‘Clubhouse’ To Foster Commercialization
(BioRegion News)

Introducing: Demo Day 2009! (Philly Startup Leaders)

Environmental Tectonics in settlement with Disney (Philadelphia Business Journal)

UPenn To Manage Virtualization with Virtual Iron Software (Campus Technology)

Email Marketing Service AWeber Defies Recession, Increases Customer Base By More Than 65% (PR Web)




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Dow Chemical May Reduce Rohm & Haas Price by 35%, Investors Say (Bloomberg)
Dow Chemical could close on Rohm & Haas this week (Associated Press via Forbes)

Two very different takes on the same story. We will find out more about who's right tomorrow.



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Dow Chemical’s Tale of Woe (Wall Street
Journal: Deal Journal)

Nabbing infections with technology
Sweeping Pa. law aims to reduce illnesses contracted during hospital stays
(MSNBC)

School consultant target of probe (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Make' magazine debuts television series (CNET News)




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Wells Fargo completes Wachovia purchase (Reuters)

ISGN Acquires Title Company
(National Mortgage News)

Comcast Mum On New Bandwidth Tracker
Tells us it's still in the oven, no word on date...
(Broadband Reports)




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Zune Freeze Result of Leap Year: Microsoft
(Wired Blogs: Gadget Lab)




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GMAC Raises $21.2 Billion in Debt Swap (Associated Press via New York Times)




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Dow has limited leverage in Rohm & Haas deal (Reuters)
Fitch Places Short-Term IDRs of Dow Chemical and Rohm & Haas on Watch Negative (Business Wire)

Comcast, FCC's Chief Battle One Last Time (Wall Street Journal)

3-1-1 Is Up and Running (Philadelphia Daily News)

Motorola cutting 400 more jobs as troubles continue (MarketWatch)

Winning in the Broadband Business (Motorola: Media Experiences 2 Go)

The Promise of Broadband–Is the Umpteenth Time a Charm? (All Things Digital: Boomtown)



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