Daily Links 9/09/09: Steve Jobs' Return Appearance

Apple Live; Steve Jobs Hosts; Genius For App Store; Ringtones in iTunes; iTunes 9 (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Mobile gets down to business (Fortune)

Comcast's Burke: TV Everywhere trials going national in 30 to 60 days
(ZDNET Blogs)

Comcast Will Look at Cable Purchases at ‘Good Price’ (Bloomberg)

Fall TV's Biggest Hit: HULU (CNBC)

Comcast Fires Up 100-Mbps Business Tier
Operator Launches 100/15 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 Service in Twin Cities (Multichannel News)

Federal Reserve Board: Beige Book-Philadelphia, September 2009 (Federal Reserve Board)

MRO Corp. Acquires Release-of-Information Services Vendor, Record Enterprises Inc. (REI) (Business Wire)

Kalido Bows Application-Ready Data Warehouse Appliance
(Intelligent Enterprise)

SAP Exec: Business ByDesign Will Be Smash Success (PC World)
I'm tempted to say LOL to that, unless they are completely starting over from scratch.


NetWeaver PI 7.1 easier to implement than earlier versions, SAP says (SearchSAP.com)

Pa. city blankets streets with security cameras
(Associated Press via Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

inTEST Corporation to Transfer to The Nasdaq Capital Markets
(PR Newswire)



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No more MAC address: Comcast streamlines DNS helper opt-out (ars technica)

Court Rejects 30% Cap
Analysts Shrug, But Political Win Significant (Multichannel News)

Comcast launches speedy Internet offering (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Comcast Launches 100 Mbps High-Speed Internet Service for Businesses in the Twin Cities (Business Wire)


C64 emulator approved for iPhone (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Updated


SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES Satellite Division Re-Brands as SES WORLD SKIES
(Business Wire)

C&D Technologies Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results (PR Newswire)

Y-Carbon Receives Funding from NSF and DoD to Develop High Energy Supercapacitors (PR Web)

BioLeap Wins GlaxoSmithKline Contract to Design Novel Lead Compounds for Previously Intractable Targets for Important Unmet Medical Needs.
(Business Wire)





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One can't miss event in Philly this week is the Congress of the International Headache Society on September 10-13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Plenty of fun people and an endless supply of Tylenol is available.

Panels of Light Fascinate Designers (New York Times)

Cast Iron, Amazon Deal May Boost Integration-as-a-Service (IT Business Edge)

Hulu had more viewers in July than Time Warner Cable (Broadcast Engineering)

The online retail shake-out: GSI's Rubiin (Phiily.com: Philly Deals)

Wolfe's Den Vlog: SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Brings BI To Masses (Information Week Blogs)



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Comcast Wishes You A Happy Rate Hike Season
It's that time of year again.... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast Guides DVRs To Web
Operator Puts ‘Start Over' Service on Hold In Focusing on IPG Upgrade (Multichannel News)

Verizon COO, And FiOS Proponent, To Retire
So what happens next? (Broadband Reports)


Philly papers fight lenders over `local' ownership (Associated Press via Google News)

SAP - Friendly Takeover of SAF AG Successful (PR Newswire)

Med monitoring company CenTrak logs biggest deal (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Kulicke & Soffa Launches ConnX-LED (Business
Wire)


EU takes on Sun/Oracle
(Computerworld Blogs)




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Could Google Acquisition Plans Have Local Angle?

Google's Eric Schmidt recently indicated his company is on the prowl for acquisitions again. According to All Things Digital, sources say right now Google is focusing on small start-ups in the online advertising and cloud computing arenas.
AdExchanger.com suggests that two companies that could make sense for Google in the online advertising space are Philadelphia's Invite Media (originally backed by First Round Capital) and New York-based MediaMath, in which Safeguard Scientifics recently lead a $10 million venture round.



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Daily Links 9/03/09: Man Sues QVC Over Tomato Planter

Caught on Video: Thieves Ransack Apple Store in 31 Seconds (Switched)

MedQuist Announces Establishment of Revolving Credit Facility and Payment of Special Cash Dividend (PR Newswire)

Higher Ground: Downtown University Tied to Harrisburg's Rebirth (KeystoneEdge)

Verizon Boosts Dividend 3.3% (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Five companies named to FEMA support contract
They will compete for $500 million in task orders (Washington Technology)
Unisys is one of them.

QVC sued when hanging tomato planter knocks man topsy turvy (Southeast Texas Record)
I wouldn't want to tell QVC this, but this is the same judicial district where a jury just issued a $139 million verdict
against SAP.

IDS Scheer: U.S. lags in BPM implementations (Internetnews.com)

Chariot Solutions develops iPhone App to Monitor JBoss Application Platform Performance (Chariot News)



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DivX Acquires Streaming Video Tech Firm AnySource For $7.5 Million, Plus Earnout (paidContent)
AnySource staying in Malvern for now (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Philadelphia CIO Allan Frank Has Plans for a Digital City
(Government Technology)

QlikView Partners Deliver On-Demand, Interactive Analytics in the Cloud (Business Wire)

Internet Capital Group Announces Channel Intelligence’s Acquisition of Vcommerce (Business Wire)

Facebook-Focused Startups Pitch to VCs (Wall Street Journal: Digits)

SeaChange Gets Closer to Comcast, Europe (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Network President Says DBS Provider Wants Sports Service To Shed 6 Million Subscribers (Multichannel
News)

The state of hyperlocal online news in Philadelphia (Technically Philly)

Web company adopts new name, Hosting.com
Exec will transfer from Newark to Denver, but local staff to grow (Wilmington News Journal)

Tibco/SAP Rumors Resurface (Barrons: Tech Trader Daily)


Five Sought in Heist at Apple Computer Store in Marlton, NJ (KYW Newsradio)
I wonder if anyone would ever try to break into one of these new Microsoft stores.







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CardioNet Provides Update on Communications with Highmark Medicare Services Regarding Mobile Cardiovascular Technology Reimbursement (Business Wire)
CardioNet slides as Medicare rate cut is confirmed (Associated Press via Forbes)

Versus network goes dark on DirecTV in rate dispute (LA Times)

Comcast, Verizon duke it out
Ad blitz gets personal as firms spar for cable customers (Boston Globe)

GSI Commerce Acquires Pepperjam
Acquisition Marks GSI’s Entry into Affiliate Network Business and Expands Presence in Affiliate Program Management and Search (Business Wire)

DivX Acquires AnySource Media, Creator of On-Demand Internet Television Platform
(PR Newswire)

BioClinica™ Acquires CardioNow from Agfa Healthcare
-Adds Proven Solution for Secure, Regulatory Compliant Electronic Transmission and Analysis of Medical Images for Clinical Trials- (Business Wire)

HostMySite and Hosting.Com Merge Under Hosting.Com Name
Hosting.com Becomes Official Name for HostMySite|Hosting.com. Brand Consolidation Begins and Includes Opening of a New Corporate Headquarters and Data Center in Denver, CO. (PR Newswire)

With new buyer, Transcend sheds Denny Hecker stake (Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal)


John Wookey about SAP's On Demand Offerings for Large Enterprises (SAP TV)


30,000 Job Openings For SAP Consultants, SAP Official Says (Information Week Blogs)













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