Friday Tech Links: Comcast competes, Indy Hall grows and more

In which we link out to the tech news from Philly and elsewhere (when it matters) that slips through the cracks and make it way fun.
Because that’s what we do best.

• The Inquirer’s Bob Fernandez rewrites a press release and puts two lanterns in the window, announcing that Verizon is coming; Verizon is coming. The company is upgrading its telephone network in Philadelphia for high-speed FiOS Internet and TV services, and they’re starting in Chestnut Hill.

Below see more stories you need to be sure you saw, including our most trafficked of the week.

• Philadelphia CityPaper co-publishes with Technically Philly a story on Old City’s co-working icon Independents Hall and its push to take on more space.
• PC World reports that when potentially millions Comcast.net e-mail accounts went down last Saturday, the details of the outage came from Twitter, as does so much of the company’s love.
• TechCrunch reports that Comcast’s On Demand service has reached 11-billion viewers in its six years, nearly double the number of iTunes downloads in the same period.
• Inquirer gaming columnist Dennis McCauley writes about a violent video game blah blah blah.
• The Inquirer reports that Campbell’s Soup is looking for innovation — from anyone.. please help us.

Our Most Trafficked Story of the Week: Penn and Academic Earth part of open source education movement
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