QlikTech Names Bob Langer President of Americas Region (BusinessWire)

Bentley Expands Building Energy Analysis Software Portfolio Through New Exclusive Worldwide Agreement (BusinessWire)

Quintiles says it will not bid for ClinPhone (Reuters)
ClinPhone's US headquarters are in East Windsor, NJ.

Cherry Hill starts cashing in on recycling (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Phila. CIO stepping down (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Unisys loses U.S. security agency contract (Reuters)

Mr Chetan Shah, Managing Director of Synygy India Pvt. Ltd (India Infoline)
Synygy has over 500 employees? I didn't know they were that big.

Shunra Software Expands its Asia Pacific Region Operations with New Office and Regional VP (BusinessWire)

Using Linux to get around Comcast’s BitTorrent throttling (CrunchGear)


Cadient Group President and CEO, Stephen Wray, Named 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) in Greater Philadelphia Region (PRNewswire)

5 Dynamic Dividend Stocks (Motley Fool)
On Quality Systems.


NextGen Healthcare Expands Its Relationship With Banner Health
Large non-profit health system executes one of the largest agreements in NextGen Healthcare’s history (BusinessWire)

NEAT Receipts Selects Symphony Services for Global Product Engineering (BusinessWire)

Radiant Systems Selected as Exclusive Point of Sale Provider for Wawa Inc. (BusinessWire)

Aqua America Selects ESRI ArcGIS Server To Maximize Information Access (Wireless Workforce
Online)

3D Markets in recruitment drive (Finextra)

InGrid Expands Digital Wireless Home Security Product Suite (BusinessWire)


$100M to American Competitiveness Institute for Benchmarking (Defense Industry Daily)


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Verizon presses Vodafone to sell out of venture (Financial Times)

U.S. court upholds new FCC video franchising rules (Reuters)

Comcast's goal: Integrate the screens (CNET WebWare)

SCTE '08 Cable-Tech Expo Attendance Exceeds 2007 (Mediacaster)

Murdoch Bids to Take NDS Private
News Corp. orchestrates $60-per-share buyout bid for majority-owned TV set-top software company NDS Group (Broadcasting & Cable)

AdSend Meetings Explain Change from AP Satellite to Internet (Editor & Publisher)

Comcast wall is TV writ large (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Princeton to start publishing Kindle-edition textbooks (Engadget)

Man arrested for anti-cop YouTube clip (Philadelphia Daily News)

"User 927," explores darker side of online search. (Associated Press via Louisville Courier-Journal)
Production recently ended in Philadelphia.

NTLB, Fresh, GST win Design Challenge (The Triangle/Drexel)



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People in the News


Backe Creates Standard Bearer Role for Digital Brand Marketing (PharmaLive)

Electronic Inks Names David Rode Chief Operations Officer (Philly Ad Club)

QVC named Anil Jagtiana Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and New Business Development. He was previously at
Hallmark.


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The Inquirer (actually, I guess, Philly.com) has released its 2008 edition of "The Top 100 Businesses in the Philadelphia Region". Its a valuable resource with lots of useful information. It also features profiles of SunGard CEO Cris Conde and Comcast's Cathy Avgiris, who heads up the company's rapidly growing digital voice service.


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All-digital cable move may spark viewer ire (USA Today)

Comcast all-digital in 3 years, to push HD/Internet (Electronista)

DOCSIS 3.0 Deployments-Shades of Gray (xchange)

Verizon's fiber guru talks strategy (CNET News Blog)

Oracle damages in SAP case could top $1 bln: filing (Reuters)

Oracle-SAP lawsuit update: Why Oracle won’t get its $1b (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Inquirer, Daily News may share
newsroom jobs (Associated Press via philyBurbs.com)

The Yahoo Watch
(Recovering Journalist)
About Yahoo's Newspaper Consortium, of which Philadelphia Media Holdings is a key member.

Theo Kremers Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Lithium Technology Corporation
(PRNewswire)
Lithium also to discontinue its flat cell production in Plymouth Meeting.

Volatility for Quality Systems (iStockAnalyst)
Still haven't found any more info about the circumstances under which Quality's CEO resigned earlier in the week. This note
doesn't mention anything about it.

Ernst & Young Recognizes Primavera(R) CEO as Entrepreneur Of The Year for Greater Philadelphia (PRNewswire)

COMSYS Announces Rebranding of Process Solutions Group
TAPFIN Process Solutions to Offer Complete Workforce Fulfillment and Management Services (BusinessWire)
T. Williams Consulting of Audubon, which was acquired by COMSYS last year, is now part of TAPFIN.


Thermo Fisher Scientific Partners with NextDocs to Offer Comprehensive Enterprise Document Management and Workflow Solutions for the Laboratory (ThomasNet)
NextDocs is based in King of Prussia.

ZipClaims.com and InstaMed® Enhance Medical Billing for Millions of Practitioners (BusinessWire)
InstaMed is based in Philadelphia.


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UPenn Named 6th Best Place to Work in IT by Computerworld

Computerworld has released its 2008 list of the "100 Best Places to Work in IT". Area companies and institutions named are SEI Investments (43), Temple University (53), the University of Pennsylvania (6), and Automotive Resources International (99).
Others of area interest include SAS Institute (5), Verizon Wireless (27), Penn National Insurance (62), Exelon (70), Discover Financial Services (73), Aetna (78) and Boeing (85).


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Electronic health-record standards agreed (Reuters)

SAP agrees to pay $83.3 million in settlement with i2 Technologies (Associated Press via Forbes)

SAP sticks its head in the ground (InfoWorld: Tech's Bottom Line)

Oracle Profit Advances 27%, Fueled by Acquisitions (Bloomberg)

Comcast gets spectrum for WiMAX femtocells, wireless services (ars technica)

NFL Network offered stake for broadcast rights (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Comcast and Cisco Announce Successful Live Network Demonstration of the World’s First 100GE Router Interface
(BusinessWire)

Comcast Picks DTA Partners
Source: MSO Plans To Order 6 Million Digital-to-Analog Converters In 2008 (Multichannel News)

Great News: IDS Scheer Joins The Open Group! (IDS Scheer: ARIS BPM Blog)

PA Venture Capital Initiatives To Spur Growth In Young Technology Companies, Gov. Rendell Says (PRNewswire)

Business Beat: Playing the phone market (Metro Philadelphia)
On startup PhindMe.

WRDS at 15: Growing Global Subscriber Base Fuels Expansion for Wharton Research Data Services (Technology at Wharton)

East Whiteland company amends credit facility (Daily Local News)
Vishay Intertechnology.

MetroPCS lures Sprint, Verizon subs with ‘bring your phone’ (Telephony Online)
Launching in Philadelphia in the fall.

Miner3D 7.1: Raising the Bar for Visual OLAP (PRNewswire)

Comcast Interactive: Movies.com Won't Be Our Last Deal (Silicon Alley Insider)

SCTE: Comcast’s Burke Stresses Video Reliability (Multichannel News)


Heartland Payment Systems Signs Merchant Acquiring Agreement with Discover Financial Services (BusinessWire)

Pfizer Launches Major Agency Review, Denies Consolidation (Advertising Age)

QlikTech and Kalido team up (IT Week)

Lack of RFID standards leads to media panic (ZDNet)

NetSpend Funds Aid Start-Ups (Wall Street Journal)
More on Sapphire Mobile Systems leaving town.

Motorola Enhances Digital Addressable Controller – New Software Release Simplifies Secured Access Control (WebWire)

Oracle on the Move
(Insurance & Technology)


Checkpoint Acquires Successful RFID Startup OatSystems (Information Week)


Zillow Extends Selling Tools to Newspaper Partners (Editor & Publisher)
The Inquirer to be one of the first to roll it out.

Tapping the Community Pool
Online communities let you see what's on your customers' minds. (Inc.)
Discusses NeatRecieipts.



Forum explores Philly WiFi Digital Inclusion system (Weekly Press)

Codima Inc. (OTC:CDMA) Enters New Era - Elects Board Members And Appoints CEO (BusinessWire)


Rigas Senences Cut (Associated Press via Philly.com)

Spot cable shop woos pharma advertisers with VOD channel (Medical Marketing & Media)

J.J. Manion Jr., 60, financial officer (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Quality Systems Reports Resignation of Its President and Chief Executive Officer Effective August 16, 2008 (BusinessWire)
Quality Systems' major division is NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham, which is a very substantial business.
Obviously, something is up with this resignation. A dissident director has been fighting the CEO for at least a couple of years. Don't know if that has anything to do with it.

Quality Systems stock falls after CEO's resignation (Associated Press via Forbes)

CBS3 fires Mendte (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Checkpoint Systems Acquires RFID Software Company OATSystems (RFID Journal)
More detailed information on acquisition announced yesterday. OATSystems is a real innovator in the RFID space. Its technology allows companies to collect and analyze more detailed information using RFID. The acquisition may also help Checkpoint to expand into vertical markets it hasn't traditionally been in. No word on the price, but I'm guessing it was at least $100 million.

Can and Should RedLasso Survive? (Zatz Not Funny!)

SAP exec discusses Imagineering, the future of development (SearchSAP.com)

SAP chief: Big software isn't going away (CNET News Blog)


Are SAP Business ByDesign customers happy with their choice? (SearchSAP.com)


Motorola Gains DOCSIS 3.0(R) Certification in First CableLabs(R) Wave to Include Digital Voice Modems
(PRNewswire)

Motorola Gets ‘Deeper’ On Fiber
Vendor Expands Broadband Access Network Portfolio For Cable (Multichannel News)

Commcast Videowall, philadelphia
(media architecture group)

The Death of Stealth Mode (Redeye VC)

Revisiting Cybercities (Phiily.com:
Philly Deals)

Boomi Teams With Taleo to Simplify and Accelerate SaaS Integration for On-Demand Talent Management Solution (Marketwire)

Red Hat’s other open source management project (451 CAOS Theory)

PHR Task Force Appointed
(eHealth)

Oracle Forms Health And Sciences Business Unit (Information Week)
When Oracle starts focusing on a specific vertical market, it means acquisitions are sure to follow. It would not be
surprising to see them focus on a few Philly area companies, such as Quality Systems' NextGen Healthcare Information Systems
(see above) or Octagon Research Solutions.

Checkpoint to Acquire OATSystems (Associated
Press via Forbes)

Vertex® Acquires Leading Global Tax Accounting Solution (BusinessWire)

Comcast Owned Fandango Buys Movies.com From Disney (paidContent)

Comcast To Deploy Femtocells
To ease congestion and costs of WiMax offerings... (Broadband Reports)

MPOWER Ventures Funds Sapphire Mobile Systems, Rebrands as MPOWER Mobile
(PRNewswire)
Moving headquarters to Austin.

NewSpring Capital thrives in unlikely environment (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Oracle Makes Another Insurance Software Buy (PC World)
Follows acquisition of Chester's AdminServer.

Kenexa Launches New Customer Service Simulation Platform to Predict Job Performance (Marketwire via CNNMoney)

Google, Salesforce Expand Integration Of Cloud Computing Platforms (Intelligent Enterprise)


Temple University to Deploy Meru Wireless LAN Across Eight Campuses in Philadelphia Area (BusinessWire)

SEPTA: New fare tech by spring (Metro Philadelphia)

FreshDirect Selects AirClic to Mobilize Its Grocery Delivery Process
( PRNewswire)

PDS Announces Vista HRMS(R) (PRNewswire)

Another reason to hate Phila.'s business privilege tax (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

"Transformers" Sequel Brings Movie Studio to Wanamaker Bldg.
DreamWorks Pictures Leases 15,000 SF as Movie Production Rolls into Philadelphia (CoStar Group)

Venture capitalists reflect a market where there's no more easy money (Wilmington News Journal)

More on Unisys's Attempt to Place Signs on Two Liberty
Place (Associated Press via Fort Mills Times)

NFL Network in talks with ESPN (Philadelphia Inquirer)


US FCC sides with cable in dispute with Verizon (Reuters)

Software giant SAP to invest more money in Canada, co-CEO Kagermann says (The Canadian Press)

Event Objects Announces Open Attendee Trade Show Registration Platform (Free-Press-Release.com)
New startup sighting. They do have a web site at http://www.eventobjects.com.
It is little more than a shell, but it does offer ways to access the company by mail.

Report: NYPD's cops can learn from video simulators (Newsday)
Mentions Environmental Tectonics as a possiblity.

The School of the Future in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (NextGenWeb)

People in the News

The Judge Group Hires Industry Expert to Head Growing SAP Practice (Press Release)

Dr. Rainer Feinen to Fill New Post (PRNewswire)

TruePosition Expands Business Operations Department by Appointing Dominic Li as Vice President of Marketing and Portfolio Management (BusinessWire)

Lockheed Martin Program Director Inducted Into GPS Hall of Fame (PRNewswire)

Kris Herrin Joins Heartland Payment Systems as Chief Security Officer (BusinessWire)

PEOPLE: Checkpoint names Powers to VP post (Cherry Hill
Courier-Post)

Alycia Lane sues KYW-TV (Philadelphia Inquirer)
I sometimes wonder whether CBS somehow concocted this entire affair as sort of an ongoing "virtual reality show".

Comcast deal covers basics (Indianapolis Star)

Five-Year Plan Bears Fruit for SAP
Software projects in the works with VMware and others. (InternetNews.com)


SAP in the Middle East (Business Week: GlobeSpotting)

Sun Chemical rolls out project management software (IT PRO)
Sun Chemical is using GenSight, whose US headquarters is in Doylestown, as its project management platform.

Gartner says BI market dominated by mega-vendors (IT Week)
Discusses QlikTech's gain in market share.

FCC To Verizon: Don't Talk Voice Customers Out Of Switching To Cable (information Week)

Cable ads attacking Verizon confuse consumers
(Associated Press via Centre Daily Times)
I've seen some of these ads, and they are absolutely, deliberately misleading.

ClearPoint Announces $12Million of New Capital (PRNewswire)

Vector180 LLC. Partners with ClearPoint Technology Group, LLC.
(PR.com)
As far as I can determine, there is no relationship between this ClearPoint and the one mentioned above.

InstaMed(R) Announces Release of Healthcare Payments White Paper for Payers (PRNewswire via Forbes)
InstaMed is based in Philadelphia.

Assembly Opens In Philadelphia, PA (Shoot)

Speed Dating, VC-Style (Forbes: Boost Your Business Blog)
On Early Stage East.

ICP Firefly of Australia Selects Online Provantis Preclinical System (BusinessWire)

I-many Releases New Versions of the I-many Contract Management and Demand Management Software Suites for Life Sciences (BusinessWire)

Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health Records (New York Times)

Comcast, Big Ten Network Reach Broad Multimedia Agreement for Big Ten Network Content (BusinessWire)


Microsoft NavicGates Television -- Again, Acquires Leading Addressable TV Ad Firm (Online Media Daily)

Three Comcast Networks to HD
The Golf Channel, Versus, E! Entertainment Television to Launch in HD by Year-End (Broadcasting & Cable)

Expo's Philadelphia Freedom
Soak in a Little History; Soak Up a Little Cheese Steak (Cable360)

Gartner Says Worldwide Business Intelligence Platform Market Grew 13 Per Cent in 2007 (life PR)

SAP to buy manufacturing execution software company (SearchSAP.com)
More details on deal announced Tuesday.

Werner on Traffic.com "monopoly" and Mineta and Trimble Ethics Concern(Directions Magazine: All Points Blog)

Sprint Nextel, Verizon execs duel on NXTcomm08 stage (RCR Wireless News)

By the Numbers: Top Ten U.S. Wireless Service Providers (RCR Wireless News)

Microsoft's BizTalk gets a dose of modeling smarts
IDS Scheer is integrating its ARIS modeling platform with Microsoft's BizTalk Server (itbusiness)

Philly Fed Firms Continue to See Decrease in Business Activity (PRNewswire)
Philly Fed's June Business Outlook Survey.

The Insider: Entrepreneurial Education: Priming Students to ‘Think Creatively and Innovate’ (Innovation Philadelphia Blog)

Universal Display Corporation Reviews Company and OLED Industry Progress at 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (BusinessWire)

Octagon Previews Viewpoint Quantum Company to Promote Accelerated Publishing at DIA Annual Meeting (PharmaLive)

Portico Systems Enhances Industry’s First Integrated Provider Management Solution (BusinessWire)

ParagonRx Licenses Ethidium Technology for Next-Generation Physician Information Exchange Network (WebWire)

MEDecision to be Acquired by Health Care Service Corporation (BusinessWire)

MEDecision to be bought by insurer for $121 mln (Reuters)

NAC Provides Details On Wi-Fi Network Acquisition in Philadelphia (BusinessWire)

Guest commentary: After the Rising, Whither Goes Philly Wireless? (MuniWireless)

Verizon to boost FiOS Internet speeds (Reuters)

Carriers look to next US administration (Network World)

Sprint overcoming WiMax delays (Kansas City Star:
sprint connection)
To launch in Baltimore in September. This initiative is totally separate from the Cleawire/Sprint WiMax joint venture that
Comcast has invested in. It is unclear how the two will co-exist in the future.
(Note: Actually, what I said above isn't quite correct. All Sprint WiMax activities will become part of the combined Sprint/Clearwire WiMax entity.)

Microsoft Outbid Canoe Operators For Navic: Source
Software Giant Said To Have Paid $230 Million for Interactive Advertising Firm (Multichannel News)

Most popular SAP skills (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Ground-Breaking Projects Emerging From SAP Co-Innovation Lab Address Today's Pressing Business Challenges (PRNewswire)

HighPoint Solutions Signs Deal to Implement Model N Managed Care and Government Pricing System for Specialty Pharmaceutical Company (PharmaLive)

Investor: Buyers eyeing publisher Journal Register (Associated Press via Forbes)

Akrion Books Multiple Batch-Immersion Systems (PRNewswire)

Scopus Introduces DTV-Downconversion Device
New IRP-3910 Headend Device Aimed at Analog Carriage (Broadcasting & Cable)
Scopus' US operations are based in Princeton.

Voxware Selected by #3 Foodservice Distribution Company in U.S. (BusinessWire)

CMI Launches New Trade Advertising Campaign (PharmaLive)

Web 2.0 and City Hall: What's a local government to do? (Computerworld)
Report from the Pennsylvania Digital Government Summit in Harrisburg.

Free WiFi will remain in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Philadelphia Wi-Fi network saved (Computerworld)

SAP to buy small U.S. manufacturing software maker (Reuters)

2D and 3D visualisation to transform SAP PLM environment (Manufacturing Computer Solutions)

Verticals onDemand Secures $4 Million of Financing from Emergence Capital Partners (BusinessWire)
Verticals onDemand is based in California, but does much of its business in the Philadelphia area.

Verticals OnDemand: Helping you find reasons to pitch your boss on Tablet PCs (Salesforce Times)

Parexel, Quintiles vie for ClinPhone (Pharma Times)

Philly's First Ignite was a Smash (O'Reilly Radar)

New Tools, New Rules
(Intelligent Enterprise)
On QlikTech.

Big profits for PEs who bought Sonitrol from Tyco, sold to Stanley (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Tribune, MediaNews May Wind Up in Default as Ad Sales Evaporate (Bloomberg)
Discusses Philadelphia Media Holdings and Journal Register.

Comcast Center hosts integrated 10-million pixel LED display
The world's largest 4 mm LED wall has been installed in The Comcast Experience in Philadelphia, where it blends seamlessly with the architecture (LEDs Magazine)

IDS Scheer Announces Successful Integration of ARIS Platform and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (PRWeb)

Zuora and Boomi Partner to Deliver Integrated SaaS Billing On Demand (Marketwiire)

DHS Selects SightLogix, Cisco Systems, Panasonic Surveillance Package for CEDAP Award
(PRNewswire)

City wireless network to be rescued, sources say (Philadelphia Inquirer)
We will see.

Making waves on Wall Street (phillyBurbs.com)
On New Hope startup 3D Markets.

InterDigital® SlimChip™ Modem Platform Selected by Mobile Broadband Module Company (BusinessWire)

Reinventing a Giant, Part 2: The New SAP (CRM Buyer)

SAP finds a defender of discipline (Financial Times)


Alleged SAP partner arrested: Beware of fraud in the ecosystem (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Comcast SportsNet chief talks strategy (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast, Big Ten Network close to deal, report says (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Web site hosting company to add jobs (Wilmington News Journal)

Local IT company grows (phillyBurbs.com)

Ballard Acquires Atlanta IP Group (BusinessWire)

Convenience, LCB-style.
Vending-machine idea appalls wine crowd (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SunGard Extends Trading Connectivity in Asia-Pacific (PRNewswire)

Verizon Extends FiOS to SMBs (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)


To fund a PowerPoint: Bucking the trend, some VCs still target early-stage startups (The Deal.com)
Profiles First Round Capital, among others.

Pearl Software's Desktop, Mobile Laptop, Hosted and Thin-Client Web Filtering Solutions are Now Available on GSA Schedule (PRWeb)

Top Executives To Take Cable-Tec Stage
Cable Chiefs Will Convene In Philadelphia For SCTE Conference (Multichannel News)

Cover Story: Can David Verklin Set Cable's Next Generation Of TV Advertising?
The Canoe CEO Says He's Ready To Help The Six Largest MSOs Paddle Together (Multichannel News)

Tax break could move major firm to Phila. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Navteq charting a future in phones
Mapmaker aims to tap input from Nokia users (Chicago Tribune)
Navteq owns locally based Traffic.com

Drexel University Online Students Break Ground As the First to Defend "Real World" Degrees in Second Life (PRWeb)

Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance honors award winners (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Salganik finds new avenues for social research online
(Princeton Weekly Bulletin)

Citywide wireless network: Take II (Young Philly Politics)
Public forum on the 18th at Temple. I thought the inclusion of the Google Wireless guy on the panel was kind of interesting.

Executive Changes


TMG Health Names New Chief Information Officer (PRNewswire)

Najarian to Oversee Digital Side at Trio of Comcast Networks (TVWeek)

AVENUE A | RAZORFISH Promotes Horan, Hunter and Tuleya (Philly Ad Club)

BC Group Hires Markley as Digital Strategist (Phiily Ad Club)

Garfield Group Names Digitas Exec Dean Whitney as President of Boston-based Interactive Division Garfield Group Interactive (PRNewswire)

NetSuite aims at SAP with manufacturing edition (Network World)

Léo Apotheker: A dissenting view (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Prime Times (Project@Work-free subscription)
On the history and future of Primavera Systems.

Parexel to buy UK clinical tech firm ClinPhone
(Associated Press via Forbes)
ClinPhone's US headquarters is in East Windsor, NJ.

iPhone setback sinks Synchronoss (Newark Star-Ledger)
Most of Synchronoss' operations are moving to Bethlehem. See article here

Herley Reports Third Quarter Results (PRNewswire)

Early Stage East to vet 21 start-ups (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Early Stage East (The Bulletin)

Citywide WI-Fi for free? (Metro Philadelphia)

Revealed: The Tru2way MOU (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

SuiteLinq™ to Partner with Superclick for In-Room Hospitality Technology Product Development (BusinessWire)

Bike accident kills Comcast executive (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

AMETEK Acquires Vision Research (BusinessWire)

Stanley Works Buying Sonitrol (Private
Equity Hub)

Comcast Increases Upstream Speeds for Its High-Speed Internet Customers for No Additional Charge
Upstream Speed to Nearly Triple for Performance Customers and More Than Double for Performance Plus Customers (BusinessWire)

MedQuist settles case, appoints interim CEO (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Philadelphia Races to Find New ''Wi-Fi'' Provider (KYW News Radio)

Municipal Wi-Fi isn't dead yet
(Maketplace: Audio)
On more successful, realistic Wi-Fi ventures in Santa Monica and other cities.

Redlasso: Let's Hope Some Retired Studio Bigs Can Save Us (Silicon Alley Insider)

Online medical records offer convenience, may limit privacy (USA Today)

Flipping through the options on health records sites (USA Today)
Mentions MEDecision.

Moto to cut jobs from R&D unit (RCR Wireless News)

SAP's Product Communities: Taking Cues From Open Source
(CRM Buyer)

SunGard Launches New Compliance Dashboard (Wall Street & Technology)

NSX to Use SunGard’s Brass Liquidity Services for Execution and Clearing (SunGard Press Release)

Wachovia buys Del. Web hosting company
Glasgow's HostMySite founded in 1997 (Wilmington News Journal)

GSI Commerce closing Tenn. distribution center (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Shout Out to Ignite Philly Coordinators (100khouse.com)

IPO FILING: Mistras Group, Inc. (24/7 Wall St)
The Mistras Group is based in Princeton Junction.

SAP's Bill McDermott: The Future of Enterprise Software (Knowledge@Wharton)

Redlasso Hires Ex-Studio Execs To Ease Infringement Negotiations (TechCrunch)

Federal Reserve Board Beige Book: Philadelphia, June 2008 (Federal Reserve Board)

Quality Systems 4Q earnings rise 32 percent
(Associated Press via Forbes)
Quality Systems owns NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham.

'Wireless Philadelphia'' Project Could Be Back Online (KYW News Radio)
Rather vague.

Fresh off the Wire
A local group is the latest to express interest in our failed wireless network. (Philadelphia Weekly)

Discover seeks $6 bln in case vs Visa, MasterCard (Reuters)

CIBER and Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Complete Third and Final Phase of $58 Million IT Project on Time and on Budget (PRNewswire)

Andrews cites benefits of earmarks (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

Avencia Develops Connect211.org to Geographically Search for Social Services (GISuser.com)

Technologicology Special Report: IgnitePhilly, Tonight! (Philebrity)

Report: The Top Five Supply Chain Management Vendors (CIO.com)

Encorium Group, Inc. Announces Signing of Letter of Intent to Combine with Linkcon; Expected Expansion Will Create Global CRO (BusinessWire)

Encorium Group, Inc. Announces Signing of Letter of Intent to Acquire Prologue Research International, Inc. (BusinessWire)


Business intelligence: Only the tip of the iceberg (MyCustomer.com)
By QlikTech exec.

U.S. cable ad venture hires ex-Aegis chief - WSJ (Reuters)

Verklin Picked as Cable's Canoe Captain (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

More Firms Go the Way of Tru2way (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Initial Tru2Way Tests a 'Disaster' (Broadband Reports)

Verizon’s FiOS Buildout Could Top Original Estimates
MDUs May Help Telco Top 18 Million-Home Target By End Of 2010 (Multichannel News)

iPhone 3G - $199 wins my support (UPDATED) (Wireless Industry Analyst)

Lenfest comes to Tectonics' rescue
(phillyBurbs.com)

GSI Commerce opens Shepherdsville distribution center
Facility is e-commerce firm's second in Cedar Grove Business Park, third in area (Louisville Business Journal)

InterComponentWare Establishes ICW Labs (PRNewswire)

Carlson Software and Rajant Corporation Announce Partnership to Deliver Mining and Construction Solutions (BusinessWire)

Marchex Takes On Google With Text Ad Network (MediaPost: Online Media Daily)

Ignite Philly Tomorrow Night (O'Reilly Radar)

Sarnoff Selected To Provide Advanced Camera Tracking Technology For U.S. Marines Training (BusinessWire)

QSGI Secures $10M Senior Credit Facility (NJBIZ.com)

Ascensus’ New Participant Website Offers an Improved User Experience (BusinessWire via Philly.com)

WWDC: Apple slashes prices for 3G iPhone, shipping in July (Macworld)
I'm still trying to find out more about InterDigital's role in the new iPhone.

Reinventing a Giant, Part 1: SAP's Transformation (E-Commerce Times)

Nation's tallest sustainable skyscraper rises 975 feet (Consulting-Specifying Engineer)

Passport Health Completes $144 Million Financing (BusinessWire)

Kaiser Backs Microsoft Patient-Data Plan (New York Times)

CapMed Connects Its Award-Winning Personal Health Record Technology with Microsoft HealthVault
Strategic relationship with Microsoft helps ensure that consumers’ critical health information is available when and where it is needed most (BusinessWire)

myYearbook Named Third Largest Social Network in the U.S.
426 Percent Year Over Year Growth Shows Closed Platforms May Be the Answer (BusinessWire)

Technitrol’s Electronic Components Plant in Mianyang, China is Back On Line (BusinessWire)

Makeover artist: Face to Face with Sandy Frucher
Sandy Frucher was unable to close the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, so he transformed it (Pensions & Investments)

Franklin Electronic Publishers Reports Strong Year on Year Results (PRNewswire via MSN Money)
But lays off 10% of staff.

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Results
(PRNewswire)

Philly False Airline Ads Draw High Responses, Ethics Concerns (Editor & Publisher)

AGI Analysis Software Supports NASA's GLAST Mission (PRNewswire)

AOL’s Platform-A and Its Behavioral Targeting Solution, TACODA, Join PointRoll Included Program (BusinessWire)

Socially insecure in Downingtown
SCHOOL DISTRICT’S ILL-FATED USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS BAFFLING TO COMPUTER EXPERTS ELSEWHERE (Daily Local News)

Comcast Filings Hint At Video Gadgets
Operator Seeks Trademarks For 'AnyReach' Handheld Player and 'XtraScreen' PC Device (Multichannel News)

Customers cry fraud over Comcast P2P meddling in new lawsuit (ars technica)

Reactions Are Mixed On Verizon's Day-Old $28.1 Billion Acquisition Of Alltel (mocoNews.net via Washington Post)

Q&A: Makarand Teje, CEO of AppLabs (Computer Business Review)

WILL INTERDIGITAL AND INFINEON MAKE THE APPLE 3G IPHONE 3G? (DeWitt Capital Management)

Rodale’s Interactive Head Ostroff Leaves; Management Shakeup (paidContent)

Ediscovery profoundly changing lawyering
But some say rules for e-mail and other digital data don't serve justice. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Off the Field, Phil's Durbin Starts an Internet Business (KYW News Radio)

Executive Hirings and Promotions:


Former CNN Exec Goes To Comcast (mediabistro)

Comcast Entertainment Adds Pair Of Research Gurus (Multichannel News)

Rosenthal Leads Digital Content At Entercom

Precyse Solutions Appoints James Matas as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(PRNewswire)

IntegriChain Appoints John Bailye to Its Board of Directors (PRNewswire)

Scopus Hires Cable Vet (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Roska Digital Taps 'Mr. Interactive' to Help Agency Reach Next Level (BusinessWire)

Global Creative Leader Drawn to Vox Medica’s New Vision Ross Thomson Joins Vox Medica as EVP, Chief Ideation Officer (PharmaLive)

Alltel: A Boon for Verizon Wireless
The merger would let Verizon Wireless overtake AT&T as the No. 1 cellular provider. But what would its 80 million customers gain? (Business Week)

Owner of Philly Papers Blames Leak For Interest Payment Story (Editor & Publisher)

Phila. newspapers run ads about fake airline Derrie-Air (Associated Press via Google News)


InterDigital Executives Review Key Accomplishments and Strategic Objectives at 2008 Annual Shareholder Meeting (BusinessWire)
"Will announce a design win in the first half of 2008" for SlimChip. The SlimChip is not expected to be part of iPhone 3G, so
this is probably something else. Other InterDigital technology will play a key role in the new iPhone, most observers think.

News Corp. Sells Its 19% Stake In Macrovision (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Not one of Murdoch's better investments. This is the end result of his acquisition of Triangle Publications.

Lockheed Martin Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System Destroys Ballistic Missile in Terminal Phase (PRNewswire)

Ignite Philly offers rapid-fire pitching (Philadelphia Business Journal)

C&D fiscal 1st-quarter profit beats predictions (Associated Press via CNN Money)

Motorola, Cisco Steering Cable’s DCAS Project
Vendors Now Performing Most Work That Was Handled By PolyCipher JV (Multichannel News)

SAP fails to settle with Oracle
(SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Sandy Wax - President of PBS Sprout Kids (fun Play Dates)

Unisys Wants Sign On Liberty Two (Philadelphia Will Do)

Suit: Protest check to Comcast makes Internet rounds (Associated Press via Philly.com)

More on Philadelphia Media Holdings' debt problems:

Owner of Philly's 2 dailies misses debt payment
Owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News misses debt payment, seeks relief from lenders (Associated Press via
CNN Money)

Verizon Agrees to Buy Alltel for $28.1 Billion (New York Times)

Private Equity Firm Buys Web Host, HostMySite (TopHosts.com)

HostMySite.com Web Hosting Company, Premieres New Website (The Hosting News)

Interview: Lem Lloyd, VP, Yahoo’s Newspaper Consortium: Reticent On Results, But Wait For AMP (paidContent)
Philadelphia Media Holdings is a key member of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium. Lloyd says that most of the Consortium's success to data has come from HotJobs. Ironically, though, Philly.com doesn't use HotJobs. It uses Monster, which hasn't been
faring too well recently.

PMH negotiating with lenders (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
In "technical default".

Comcast planning super-fast Internet speeds in most markets (Associated Press via Delaware Online)

Optium Corporation Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results
Record Revenues of $45 Million Driven by High-Growth Product Lines and Customer Diversification (Prime Newswire)

Optical Component Market Consolidation – Part I (Seeking Alpha)

Nokia to use IDCC products in future? (Wireless Industry Analyst)

Nokia/Navteq approval assured, no EU charge-sources (Reuters)
Navteq owns Traffic.com

Bensalem firm earns chance at contracts (phillyBurbs.com)

Probaris Wins FIPS-201 Credentialing Contract With Patent and Trademark Office for HSPD-12 Compliance (Marketwire)

Mikros Systems Awarded a Navy Seaport-Enhanced (Seaport-e) Contract
(PRNewswire)

The Web's global reach translates into a business
MTM LinguaSoft will speak the language of your pages (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Pennsylvania DCED Official Says Expanded Bethlehem Facility Will Create Jobs (PRNewswire)

Windows veteran jumps to second Silverlight (The Register UK)

ECRI Institute's Alert and Recall Management System Expands Effectiveness with New Content and Filters (PRNewswire)

SAP Ventures plans to invest in India (Business Standard of India)

SAP may pick up 15% stake in Newgen (Economic Times of India)

SAP India - 'Jewel in the Crown' (CXOtoday)
I'm wondering out loud whether this my have been a bit of a faux paus on Mr. McDermott's part. "Jewel in the Crown" was the
phrase the British used to refer to the importance of India to the British Empire. I doubt the Indian people want their relationship to SAP compared to their relationship to the British Empire.

VCs prefer IPOs even as bourses turn cheap (livemint.com)
Mentions AppLabs as an IPO possiblity.

Some 'angel' investors do answer startup prayers (Newark Star-Ledger)


ARPANet architect: bring "fairness" to traffic management (ars technica)

CNBC: Verizon Wireless in talks to buy Alltel Communications for $27B (Associated Press via CNN Money)

ipCapital Group and Intellisophic, Inc. Announce Strategic Alliance (BusinessWire)

Dataram Reports Fiscal 2008 Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Financial Results
Company Reports Fourth Quarter Net Earnings of $0.05 Per Share (BusinessWire)

OATSystems Selected for Production RFID Implementation; RFID Solution to Be Integrated With SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure Platform (BusinessWire)
To be deployed at Cephalon.

QVC Recalls Tomato Planters (Consumer Affairs)

Police search for 2 men who fled shooting in Comcast van (Associated Press via CNN Money)

Pa. software company sues over Howard Stern's Web site (Associated Press
via York Daily Record)

The Insider: Funding for Entrepreneurs – Philly’s Assets are the Numbers
(Innovation Philadelphia Blog)

ICG Announces Execution of Merger Agreement between Creditex and IntercontinentalExchange (BusinessWire)

SAP's Kagermann says profitability is top priority (Reuters)

SAP’s services dilemma: Ecosystem versus opportunity (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

SAP EMEA Sapphire: planning for performance management (ovum)


Comcast Begins Testing 'Protocol Agnostic' Network Management
Leaked memo identifies Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and Warrenton, Virginia tests (Broadband Reports)

Time Warner Cable To Test Metered Internet Access
Time Warner Cable may start charging customers $1 for each gigabyte of content they download from the Internet over a specified allotment. (Information Week)

Social Networking Is No IT Fad
Ringside Networks' Bob Bickel brings customers closer with social-networking technologies. (Redmond Magazine)

Alfresco and Ringside (ecmarchitect.com)

Gates: Silverlight 2 Beta 2 this week, IE8 Beta 2 in August (ars technica)

Infragistics Releases Silverlight 2 UI Components (Dr. Dobb's Portal)

Philadelphia CIOs Report on Third-Quarter Hiring Outlook
Survey Measures Hiring Optimism Among Local Technology Executives (PRNewswire)

Innotap Selects Aleri to Power Real-Time Decision Lifecycle Management Product for Energy Traders (BusinessWire)

InGrid Alarm Hits Crutchfield’s (TWICE)
InGrid expands into a new channel.

Graphing Social Patterns East (A VC)

$13 Million in New Contracts Awarded to WPCS (PRNewswire)

Clickability Wins Award As Best CMS
(Information Week)
Philly.com uses Clickability as its content management platform.

Operators, Vendors Accuse Patent Firm Of Modem 'Sham'
Cable Industry Argues That Rembrandt’s DOCSIS Gear Is Legal Ploy (Multichannel News)

Evolve IP Acquires Lyrio IP Technology Solutions (BusinessWire)

Verizon FiOS tech heading to enterprises
Claims new high-speed optical networks slash floor space, electricity needs (Network World)

FIOS TV has a flaw that's a universal one (Delaware Online)

Can Anything Replace My Old Reliable Friend? (New York Times)
On VoIP and Comcast.

Google To Launch Large Scale Geo-Services (TechCrunch)

The New iPhone’s New Winner (GigaOM)

Five Questions (Plus One) About TRF and the New Version of PolicyMap (Directions Magazine)

Microsoft Dynamics AX looking more like SAP? (ZDNet Blogs)

This One Really Matters! (Human Resource Executive Online)
On Taleo's acquisition of Vurv.

Could Nextel network spin-off to new Clearwire WiMax venture? (sprint connection)

EMS Moves Headquarters to Oaklands Corporate Center (BusinessWire)

University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) extends Radianse real-time location system across Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (BusinessWire)

Penn to Build Largest Academic Motion-Capture Studio in Region (Research at Penn)