So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know (ZDNet Blogs)
Panel discussion from Wharton Business Technology Conference yesterday.
Salesforce.com sees Microsoft Azure as validating SaaS (Network World)
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Panel discussion from Wharton Business Technology Conference yesterday.
Salesforce.com sees Microsoft Azure as validating SaaS (Network World)
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eResearch Technology Down 25%
As the Dow closed just above 7,000 today, major area tech stocks held steady, with the exception of eResearch Technology (now apparently renamed ERT by some branding genius). ERT was down 25% today, and was down as much as 30% earlier in the day, after reporting sharply slowing revenue growth and reduced guidance for 2009 yesterday. The Philadelphia company provides cardiology-related IT systems and services
Jerry Jones In Town
What was Cowboys owner Jerry Jones doing in Philly on Wednesday? Not trying to unload Terrell Owens back to the Eagles.
Jones, who is the Chairman of the league’s NFL Network committee, was here with Patriots owner Robert Kraft for a meeting at the Comcast Center, presumably regarding the ongoing negotiations over the future relationship between Comcast and the NFL Network. No word on whether the meeting was productive.
Top 30 Innovations Of The Last 30 Years (Knowledge@Wharton via Forbes)
The Top 30 Innovations (PBS)
Wall Street 3.0 (Internet Retailer)
Tyco Electronics ordered to keep shipping to Visteon (Associated Press via Forbes)
Will Internet TV Charge Ahead?
Study Suggests Some Will Pay For Cable Content Online (Multichannel News)
VOD chief: Comcast will survive in face of TV.com, Hulu (ZDNet
Blogs)
InterDigital Signs Global Wireless to Worldwide 2G and 3G Patent License Agreement (Business Wire)
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Updatet on CardioNet Management Changes
A few weeks ago I reported on the somewhat surprising departure of CardioNet CEO Arie Cohen and the start of the search for a new one. Apparently, Chairman & Acting CEO Randy Thurman has quickly found the right replacement: himself (see yesterday's press release).
My guess is this result was preordained, and had little to do with Mr. Cohen's level of competency..
Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results (Business Wire)
7 venture firms form group to confront common issues (Philadelphia Business Journal)
CDI Corp posts Q4 profit below market estimates (Reuters)
ERT Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results (PR Newswire via MSN Money)
Virgin Trains in race to realise Barack Obama's high-speed rail system (Times Online)
May bid on possible Boston to Washington route.
SAP's CTO shares his vision for SAP's product roadmap (SearchSAP.com)
Unisys Technology Center Sells for $19.5M
Unisys will Leaseback 50% of the Buildings (CoStar Group)
U.S. Internet firms defend tighter Web management (Reuters)
Cash-rich Comcast won't buy anything crazy: analysts (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
Canoe Makes Progress with EBIF (Media Experiences 2 Go)
Lockheed Martin Invests in Smart Grid Research and Development at Penn State University
(PR Newswire)
Rethinking CEO Salaries
Pay-for-performance structures are enjoying a resurgence. (Entrepreneur Magazine)
Highlights CRM software firm Mission Research of Lancaster.
West Philly non-profit's software bridging generational, cultural gaps (Keystone Edge)
Quote of the day:
"We are in a freaking depression!" said one exasperated Philadelphia-area Microsoft partner. "Ninety percent of my customers have not yet moved to Office 2007. Who cares about Office 14 or Exchange 14?"
VARs, IT shops in no rush for new Microsoft desktop (SearchITChannel.com)
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Liberty Media Reports Results for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2008 (PR Newswire)
QVC revenue declines 8% in fourth quarter.
U.S. web sales rise, but total sales drop in 2008 for QVC (Internet Retailer)
Internet Capital Group Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results for 2008 (Business Wire)
Salesforce Hits $1 Billion Dollars In Annual Revenues (TechCrunch)
Kulicke and Soffa (KLIC) to Cut 215 Employees from Workforce; Sees Annual Savings of $12.4M (StreetInsider.com)
Rob Enslin Named President of SAP North America (PR Newswire)
SAP CTO: Coghead's engineers will help solve SaaS integration problems (SearchSAP.com)
Phila. fine-arts scene goes where youth are
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter are hot spots for tapping the online social-network crowd. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
HashCache
Vivek Pai's new method for storing Web content could make Internet access more affordable around the world. (MIT
Technology Review)
Princeton professor's research highlighted among MIT Technology Review's 10 emerging technologies for 2009.
Looking Beyond Docsis 3.0 (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)
Wolters Kluwer profits down 3 percent in 2H 2008 (Associated Press via Forbes)
Wolters Kluwer Health is based in Conshohocken.
Entercom 4Q Revenues Drop 14% (MediaPost: Media Daily News)
Scala Launches Six Initiatives to Lower the Barrier to Entry for New Digital Signage Customers (PR Web)
Locust Walk Partners Launches (PE Hub)
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Do Lenders Want Tierney Out?
That's what it sounds like in this article.
Details, timeline emerge in Phila. Newspapers bankruptcy (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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ENTERCOM REVENUES DIP IN Q4 (Radio Ink)
Heartland Payment Systems Reports Fourth Quarter Earnings of $0.21 Per Diluted Share
Net Revenue Up 31% as Total Transaction Processing Volume Rises 23% (Business Wire)
Heartland Payment gives full-year earnings outlook, cuts dividend (Associated Press via Forbes)
Inquirer's owner begins court odyssey
Bankruptcy hearing to start long process of restructuring. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
U.S. cable, programmers set for Web TV by summer (Reuters)
A Canoe Venues Commentary: Less Booty for More Bounty (MediaPost: TV Board)
TR10: $100 Genome
Han Cao has designed a nanofluidic chip that could lower DNA sequencing costs dramatically. (MIT Technology Review)
BioNanomatrix highlighted among "10 Emerging Technologies" for 2009 by MIT Technology Review.
Instem Announces $2.6 Million Stimulus Package for PreClinical IT Market
Investment Aimed at New Users of Provantis™ Served over the Web – Applications To Be Accepted Through July 31, 2009
(Business Wire)
AGI Software Incorporates Microsoft Virtual Earth Platform (PR Newswire)
GenSight Advances Project Portfolio Management with Custom Interactive Charting (PR Newswire)
Coghead’s demise highlights PaaS lock-out risk (ZDNet Blogs)
No settlement in Oracle-SAP lawsuit (IDG via New York Times)
BI Vendor QlikTech Celebrates Success (IT
Jungle)
Supply Chain Consultants and MÖBIUS Form Partnership to Jointly Develop Multi-Echelon Inventory Software Solution (Business Wire)
The health ID piranhas attack (ZDNet Healthcare)
Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt to Speak at University of Pennsylvania’s 253rd Commencement (University of Pennsylvania)
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Technitrol Announces Credit Amendment and 1H09 Outlook, Explores Options to Significantly Reduce Debt (Business Wire)
Bentley’s “Be Employable” Initiative Provides Free Software and Training to Help Sustain Infrastructure Professions (Business Wire)
SAP Revs up College Recruiting Effort With New Site (PC World)
Infosys identifies European SAP firms as potential targets (Economic Times of India)
Software Faceoff
SAP Takes Aim at DoD Work - and Rival Oracle (Defense News)
What Economic Meltdown? (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
LTE-WiMAX contest winner could be HSPA+ for now (Network World)
Microsoft's Razorfish taps Rackspace for cloud hosting
Decided not to wait for Microsoft's own Azure service (ComputerWorld)
Devon IT Announces Comprehensive New Thin Client Solutions orderable from IBM (Business Wire)
New University Has STEM Education Mission (PR Newswire)
Biggest Creditor in Journal Register Bankruptcy Won $4 Million Suit (Editor & Publisher)
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Philadelphia Newspapers Seeking Bankruptcy
Philadelphia Newspapers Seeking Bankruptcy (New York Times)
Philadelphia Inquirer’s Bankruptcy Costs Owners Group (Bloomberg)
Tierney on Bankruptcy Filing (Podcast: Philly.com)
The Philadelphia Story's Latest Chapter: 11 (Recovering Journalist)
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Blame It On SAP ?
Yesterday I ran a piece on the State of California pulling the plug on a major SAP implementation after pouring $25 million into it.
Today there is a detailed article by the Marin Independent Journal about an entirely different SAP project in California (for San Marin County) that has cost $18.6 million so far and still has major kinks to work out. Officials seem to suggest that much of the blame in this case belongs with Deloitte. The article is worth reading as it goes into considerable depth and gives a detailed breakdown of project costs.
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SCTE’s CEO Thinks Business (Multichannel News)
The SCTE is based in Exton.
Redesigned web site is first step in NutriSystem’s new e-commerce strategy (Internet Retailer)
With stimulus help, physicians get wired (Wilmington News Journal)
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People News 2/22/09
Ken Citron Promoted to Chief Information Officer and EVP, Publishing Operations for Rodale (Business Wire)
EXPERIENCED SAP PLAYER TAKES LEAD TO FURTHER EVOLVE REGIONAL SME BUSINESS (SAP Press Release)
McClellan Upped At Comcast Entertainment Group
Cyndi McClellan tapped as executive VP of program strategy and research (Broadcasting & Cable)
Janney Continues Research Expansion with the Hiring of Goldman Sachs Analyst (Business Wire)
Mikros Systems Corporation Announces Executive Promotions (PR Newswire)
Lightwave Logic, Inc. Announces the Addition of Anthony J. Cocuzza, PhD to its Technology Team (PR Newswire)
DCG Enhances Capabilities with Addition of Senior Staff Member (Company Press Release)
ePharmaSolutions Adds Several Industry Clinicians to its Rater Certification and Data Monitoring Department (PR Newswire)
CONNEXION Healthcare Announces New Hires for 2009 (PR Newswire)
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Journal Register Co goes Chapter 11
Journal Register Co seeks bankruptcy protection (Reuters)
Journal Register Company Files for Chapter 11 to Implement Pre-Negotiated Debt Restructuring; Expects Normal Operations to Continue Uninterupted (Journal Register Press Release)
Journal Register is based in Yardley. This was inevitable.
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First Round Raises Annex Fund
First Round Capital has closed on $9.74 million of a planned $15 million for an annex fund, Venture Wire reports. First Round Capital 2007 Annex Fund LP is to supplement the firm's previous angel funding, not its most recent venture fund, the $125 million First Round Capital II LP, according to Josh Kopelman.
Investors in the annex fund include Comcast Interactive Capital.
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Don’t Count Out Cable Online (New York Times: Bits)
Another High-Profile SAP Failure: State Of California (Silicon Alley Insider: The Business Insider)
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SAP Acquires Coghead’s Technology As It Looks Towards The Cloud (TechCrunch)
SAP snags Coghead (ZDNet Blogs)
Comcast: Canoe to Stay Afloat in '09 (AD Week)
The Cable Companies' Evil Plan To Take Down Hulu (Silicon Alley Insider: The Business Insider)
Pennsylvania PERS Gets Denominated
(PE Hub)
GiftCards.com Announces Acquisition of Swapagift.com
(PR Newswire)
Swapagift.com is based in Langhorne.
Waiting on a health IT czar (ZDNet Healthcare)
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Will Implement Technology Designed to Improve Patient Care
Inpatient and Outpatient Facilities Will Use the Cerner Millennium Healthcare Computing Platform (Globe Newswire)
The Scott Partnership introduces ERT Inc.
The Philadelphia-based company unveils its dynamic new identity and commits to 'Getting It Done, Right'. (PharmaLive)
eResearchTechnology gets a new name.
David and Gooliath: How a Philly Startup took on Google and lived to tell about it. (Phillypreneurs)
Click Equations Paid Search Platform (Podcast: Webmaster Radio.fm)
ISGN ADDS ENHANCEMENTS TO LENSTAR DEFAULT NETWORK (Mortgage Orb)
ISGN is based in Bensalem.
Jason Roberts LLC Now Certified in Run SAP® Methodology (PR Web)
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SunGard 2008 Earnings Release
SunGard Announces 2008 Results (Business Wire)
Not bad at all, considering the fourth quarter meltdown of financial services companies and markets.
Listen to SunGard Conference Call.
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February 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Philadelphia Federal Reserve)
SAP denies shelving Business By Design software (Reuters)
SAP BI roadmap one year later: How's Business Objects working out for SAP BI customers? (SearchSAP.com)
Could the recession be good for enterprise software? (IDG via New York Times)
Will health IT be Obama version of the Iraq War (ZDNet Healthcare)
HITECH Act & EMR Sales (Chilmark Research)
Comcast Puts the Pedal to the Metal: Announces New 65% Benchmark to Roll Out Wideband High-Speed Internet Se (Business Wire)
NFL Escalates Comcast Fight With Beefed-Up Washington Lobbying (Bloomberg)
What's Behind the Drive for Clean Tech?
(Knowledge@Wharton)
Elsevier Posts Strong 2008 Results, But Pharma Segment a Drag (Health Content Advisors)
Elsevier Health is based in Philadelphia.
Submetering Leader E-Mon, LLC Moves to Larger Location (Business Wire)
Portico Systems Reports Another Year of Growth
Integrated Provider Management Solutions Enable Health Plan to Increase Efficiency and Lower Costs (Business Wire)
1&1 Internet Inc. Surpasses Yahoo (PR Web)
Vuzit Launches Web Service APIs
(Vuzit Blog)
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Comcast’s Profit Exceeds Estimates; Dividend Raised (Bloomberg)
Earnings Call: Comcast Will Invest In Digital During 2009; Area of Growth (paidContent)
Comcast: No Guidance, No Buyback (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Verizon Wireless picks vendors for new network (Associated Press via Google News)
Verizon to roll out LTE in two U.S. cities this year (Computerworld)
Clearwire Gets Snippy Over Verizon’s LTE Announcement (xchange Magazine)
Lawsuit Says Google Was Unfair to Rival Site (New York Times)
Princeton computer scientists guide Internet transparency project (News at Princeton)
SunGard opens third Center City data center (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
SEI Investments lays off employees, cuts expenses (Philadelphia Business Journal)
SAP Says Infor's Customers and Partners Are Migrating to SAP (IT Jungle)
Bearing Point files for Ch.11 protection (ZDNet Blogs)
Satellite Crash: Who's to Blame? (Space.com)
Humanistic Robotics chooses Bucks (Bucks County Courier Times)
Voxware Reports Second Quarter Results for Fiscal 2009 (Business Wire)
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Oracle's Acquisition Strategy
The Wall Street Journal today ran an interesting piece on Oracle's acquisition strategy, and how it continues to acquire in the midst of the current economic downturn. Oracle's stock has held up well and that gives them an excellent currency to use in what is a buyer's market. Oracle's efforts are described as being targeted primarily toward strengthening its competitive position versus SAP in the enterprise application market.
Of local note, the article gives an acquisition price for Chester-based AdminServer: $100 million plus incentives. The insurance software company was estimated to be generating about $40 million in annual revenues. No price is available yet on the Primavera Systems acquisition.
A direct link to the article won't do much good unless you are a paid WSJ subscriber, but you should be able to find it by going to Google News and searching on Oracle.
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Surging Growth of QlikTech Defies Recession; Outpaces Business Intelligence Incumbents Oracle (Hyperion), IBM (Cognos), SAP (Business Objects) and Microsoft
QlikTech Drives 50% Revenue Growth to $120 Million; Marks New Era in BI with Rapid Time to Value (PR Web)
Comcast Investors Clamor for More Cash After Dividend (Bloomberg)
Earnings Preview: Comcast faces challenging 4Q (Associated Press via Google News)
Liberty Throws Sirius a $530 Million Lifeline
A last-minute deal with Liberty Media saves the floundering satellite radio company Sirius XM from bankruptcy or acquisition (Business Week)
PhillyDeals: Stimulus has billions for health technology (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
HITECH Act: Medicaid Reimbursement Plan (Chilmark Research)
Consensus From Contradiction: A Clear Case for Reform Plus Health IT (iHealthBeat)
CardioNet, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Alcatel, Ericsson seen as Verizon upgrade vendors (Reuters)
Motorola a question mark.
Technology companies try to strike gold
Firms hope to find big idea (Centre Daily Times)
On the startup scene in Happy Valley.
Feminizing the field of computer science (Daily Pennsylvanian)
SAS Warms to Open-Source One Letter at a Time (New York Times: Bits)
InterDigital Showcases Integrated SlimChip HSPA Modem on the Texas Instruments Advanced OMAP 3 Development Platform
Device Running Android on a Live 3G Network at Mobile World Congress (Business Wire)
Dynasil Announces First Quarter 2009 Results (Business Wire)
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HITECH Act: Reimbursement Schedule a Challenge (Chilmark Research)
Stimulus 1st step in Obama's broadband goals: aide (Reuters)
ING offered public money to expand (Wilmington News Journal)
Business ByDesign's role at Sapphire unclear (IT World)
SAP: Asian Business Faring Better Than Other Regions
(CIO India)
WiMax and LTE Supporters Prepare for Battle (PC World)
Motorola Brings LTE to Life on the Streets of Barcelona (PR Newswire)
Flash 10 coming to a non-Apple smartphone near you in 2010 (ars technica)
Study: Pharma Wants In on Doctors-Only Networks (NJBIZ.com)
‘Viral Nature’ of Drug Marketing
Pharmaceutical companies testing the waters of social networking (NJBIZ.com)
SunGard Announces Formation of Global Trading Business (Bobsguide)
The Berkeley Public Library and RFID-nomics (Berkeley Daily Planert)
Scala Software Powers FASTSIGNS® New Digital Signage Solution (PR Web)
Digital video co Scopus posts profit on eve of takeover (Globes.com)
Scopus has its headquarters for the Americas in Princeton.
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Comcast’s Hot Wheels
The Nation’s First Wideband Customers Are Thrilled (Mostly). Can DOCSIS 3.0 Really Neutralize the Telco Threat? (Multichannel News)
The Story is Where It's @: Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference 2009 (The Green Skeptic)
MapQuest: A Symbol Of Everything That's Gone Wrong (Silicon Alley Insider: The Business Insider)
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People News
Edison Venture Promotes Chris Sugden (PE Hub)
Local man awarded prestigious fellowship (The Phoenix)
Artificial Intelligence Expert Joins
ColdLight (ColdLight Press Release)
MEDecision Names Richard M. Haviland Senior Vice President of Human Resources (Business Wire)
Cadient Group Continues Growth Trend with Key New Hires (PR Newswire)
Canoe Hires Eason As Chief Data Officer
Cable's Advanced-Ad Initiative Taps Capital One Executive To Run Database (Multichannel News)
Comcast Entertainment Group Ups Dolcemaschio to COO (TV Week)
Killian to succeed Toben as Verizon CFO (Reuters)
Resource Planning Expert, Neil Safer, Joins the Jewell & Associates Team (PR Web)
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Privacy Trumps Profit in $19 Billion Health Stimulus (Bloomberg)
Richardson not alone with CDR problems (Santa Fe New Mexican)
SECRECY & FAVORITISM?
A draft report by the Auditor General slams the Rendell administration 's handling of nearly $600 million in tech contracts.
(Harrisburg Patriot-News)
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Twittering Inferno: “Holy Crap. This Is an Actual Fire” (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)
Fire at Philly startup Invite Media
ClickEquations hopes its search software finds customers (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference - Live (Phillypreneurs)
Intelligroup® Reports 2008 Revenue Growth of 8.3% to $157 Million, Operating Income of $11.1 Million and EPS of $0.16 (Business Wire)
Emtec Acquires IT Consulting Company KOAN-IT
Acquisition of Consulting Firm Further Strengthens Emtec’s IT Services and Solutions Portfolio (Business Wire)
NetSuite attacks SAP: hype vs. reality (ZDNet Blogs)
Finisar cuts 200 jobs as revenues slide (Marketwire via Compound Semiconductor Blog)
Finisar acquired Optium Corp of Horsham last year. No word yet on how many cuts might have taken place here.
Senate Passes Stimulus Bill with $19 Billion for Health IT (MedPage Today)
A Health-Tech Monopoly
Another surprise in the stimulus fine print. (Wall Street Journal)
Another major firm buys into Pennsylvania's future (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
Comcast CEO, executives forgo 2009 salary increase (Associated Press via Business Week)
Can Comcast Save TiVo? (NewTeeVee)
SES DELIVERS ANOTHER YEAR OF SOLID GROWTH IN 2008 (Company Press Release)
SES's US unit, SES Americom, is based in Princeton.
Chesco man found guilty of doing business with Iran (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Paul Allen's Charter to file Chapter 11
(Reuters)
SAP: Sell It Now, Says Friedman Billings (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
SAP May Have Business Suite 7, But It’s Still MIA With SaaS (BNET)
Industry 'value scenarios' in SAP Business Suite 7 (Network World)
Old Habits Die Hard: MapQuest Still #1 Mapping Service (Read Write Web)
MapQuest is co-headquartered in Lancaster and Colorado.
PointRoll Expands Mobile Rich Media Advertising Network for the Apple iPhone (PR Newswire)
PointRoll is based in Conshohocken.
Kenexa Q4 profit beats Street; suspends '09 outlook (Reuters)
Mapping Clearwire’s Deployment Using Job Listings (GigaOM)
Linux-ready 3G modules target netbooks, MIDs
(LinuxDevices.com)
Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores
(ZDNet Blogs)
Medical Research 2.0 (Redeye VC)
AGI Animations Portraying Iridium/Cosmos Satellite Collision Available (PR Newswire)
Princeton U. students expand 'Goodcrush' website (Newark Star-Ledger)
Plaudits go to Phillyskyline.com (USA Today)
'Inquirer' Bailout Talks Raise More Questions
Publisher, Governor Make Conflicting Statements (The Bulletin)
Princeton Fulfillment Solutions Acquires M&B Technologies
New Combined Entity Will Deliver eBusiness Services to the Marketplace (Business Wire)
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GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2008 Year and Fourth Quarter Operating Results (PR Newswire via CNN Money)
Kenexa Announces Preliminary Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 (Business Wire)
Alloy, SAP's duet with IBM, holds promise, analysts say (SearchSAP.com)
Bio-Imaging Technologies Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2008 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Comcast Property Sees 92% Success Rate With New OpenID Method (Read Write Web)
Clearwire Funding Gap May Put Backers’ Plans on Hold (Bloomberg)
Web site: More than 150 banks affected by Heartland data breach thus far (Computerworld)
Motorola Ships 1,000 High-Density Downstream Modules to Cable Operators Worldwide, Expanding Personalized Media Experiences
(PR Newswire)
IT Infrastructure Slideshow:
How Technology Sped Minnesota Bridge's Rebirth (eWeek)
King of Prussia-based Guggenheim Venture Partners Announce Sale of Bethlehem-based CICLON Semiconductor Device Corp. to Texas Instruments (PR Newswire)
InvestorForce Announces a Year of Record Growth in 2008 (Business Wire)
TelVue Corporation Launches WEBUS Inside(tm)
Software Release Enables the Complete Integration of Digital Broadcast Servers With a Multi-User Community Bulletin Board System (Globe Newswire)
The story behind Viddler’s new navigation (Viddler Blog)
Morning Call lays off at least 22 (Allentown Morning Call)
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Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey (Bloomberg)
Will health IT push back against populist Luddism? (ZDNet)
Electronic Health Records: How to Spend the Money Wisely (New York Times: Bits)
Lobbying War Ensues Over Digital Health Data
Congress Weighs Impact On Industry, Patients (Washington Post)
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Unisys posts 4Q loss of $58 million on charges
(Associated Press via Forbes)
S&P cuts Unisys rating further into junk (Associated Press via MSN Money)
Vishay posts Q4 loss on charges, lower rev; shares fall (Reuters)
Verizon: LTE vendors need to deliver in 2009 (Muni Wireless)
Comcast sued by customer over set-top box requirement (Bloomberg via Contra Costa Times)
Comcast super bowl porn incident now with FBI (Fox 11 News)
Cable and Fiber-to-the-Home
(Media Experience 2 Go)
Senate negotiations may drop healthcare IT grant funding from $5B to $3B (Healthcare IT News)
Safeguard Secures Silicon Valley Bank Credit Agreement (Business Wire)
IBM Strikes Back At SAP, Embraces Rival Lawson (Silicon Alley Insider)
NetSuite fourth quarter better than expected (ZDNet Blogs)
Top Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Dailies Now Sharing Content (Editor & Publisher)
Rebuilding America's Job Machine
Industrial policy isn't dead. It's thriving in the states—and may be the start of a U.S. comeback strategy (Business Week)
Dicusses Pennsylvania and Ben Franklin Technology Partners.
Milestone Partners Raises Third Fund
(PE Hub)
Shunra Announces Continued Year over Year Growth in 2008, Finishing Year with Ninth Record Quarter (PR Newswire)
MetroCast Selects RCN Metro Solution to Expand Its Reach From Connecticut to New Hampshire, Reduces Internet Interconnection Costs and Increases Capacity
Marketwire via CNN Money)
MetroCast is a subsidiary of Frazer, PA based Harron Communications.
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Pharma Week
This could be called "Pharma Week" in Philadelphia. In town are the ePharma Summit at the Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing, the Clinical Trials Conference at Loews, the DIA Conference for Electronic Data Management at the Downtown Marriot, and Pharmaceutical Managed Markets Insights & Marketing for the Pharmaceutical Industry, also at the Loews. There may be a couple of smaller conferences I"m missing, as well.
Philly area Healthcare IT vendors are probably very busy giving demos or presentations, or meeting with clients and potential clients.There is also bound to be plenty of conversation about the prospects for further consolidation in Pharma in the wake of the Pfizer/Wyeth deal, as well as the implications of Obama administration policy towards Healthcare and Healthcare IT.
While Healthcare IT proponents are generally enthusiastic about the $20 billion directed towards it in the stimulus bill, I would be wary about the extent to which provisions of the bill may centralize control of a National Healthcare IT architecture at the Federal level. That could be a recipe for disaster.
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Shell Seeks Organic Growth Within The Comcast Programming Group (Multichannel News: Video)
Comcast Serves Up Local Sports Fans
(New York Times)
Moody's says may upgrade Comcast (Reuters)
Comcast's Net-Video Unit Offers Bandwidth Price Breaks
ThePlatform Offers Pre-negotiated Bandwidth, Storage Rates (Multichannel News)
Rohm & Haas 4Q Net Dives 82% On Charges, Weak Demand (Dow Jones via CNN Money)
USA Technologies Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2009 Results (Business Wire)
CDI cuts Q4 outlook (Reuters)
Roche CIO on SAP, consultants, certification, and system integrators (ZDNet Blogs)
Is AlcaLu's FiOS Share Slipping? (Light Reading)
Motorola may stand to gain.
Time Warner Cable Explores Fiber To The Home
Issues RFI for next-gen FTTH technologies for new developments... (Broadband Reports)
People at Proxus stand at the ready
HR provider employs simple technique: Hands-on service (Philadelphia Business Journal)
ClickEquations Paid Search Platform - The Feb ‘09 Release (ClickEquations Blog)
Philly skyscraper project battles cloudy economy (Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News)
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People News
Ex-Comcast Exec Doyle Joins RCH Cable Board
Former Comcast Division Chief to ‘Create New Initiatives' at RCH (Multichannel News)
SpringSource Expands Executive Team with New Vice President of Product Management
Former Red Hat/JBoss Executive to Head Product Management for Leading Enterprise Open Source Java Software Company
(Business Wire)
ISA Consulting to Expand Services Internationally
With a leading presence in the United States, ISA Consulting seeks to bring its expertise to new clients in its new Toronto office
(Business Wire)
Cubist Media Group Adds Business Development Director Roger Baker (Philly Ad Club News)
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Rohm Says Dow Has ‘Resources’ to Complete Merger (Bloomberg)
Microsoft's Razorfish Cuts Another 70 (Silicon Alley Insider)
No indication of any cuts in Philly, which has been relatively unaffected by the slump due to the strength of the interactive
pharma marketing business.
Digitas Health Named Medical Marketing & Media's All-Star Agency of Year (Philly Ad Club News)
Cities Not Interested in Comms Funding (Dispatch Magazine)
Philadelphia led all the cities with $150 million in public safety communications requests.
Penn Study Shows How Electronic Medical Records Can Be Used to Test Drug Efficacy (insciences.org)
What I Learned At Davos: How Networking And Feedback Loops Can Make A Better World
(TechCrunch)
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Quick Poll: Many Smaller Banks Hit By Heartland Breach (Washington Post: Security Fix)
Designer melds fashion, electronics
(Associated Press via Wenatchee World)
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IDS Scheer publishes figures for fiscal 2008 and creates basis in 2009 for future growth (Ad Hoc News)
Three Top Salesforce.com Execs Depart, Including President (Silicon Alley Insider)
SAP: HP Consultants Know What They're Doing, IBM And Accenture Don't (Silicon Alley Insider)
View from the Top - Leo Apotheker, co-chief executive of SAP (Financial Times)
Comcast Widens Wideband Footprint
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Verizon wins Phila. franchise (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Dow-Rohm merger standoff takes heated turn (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Looking For Visionary Entrepreneurs
An Interview With Steve Barsh And David Bookspan Of DreamIt (The Bulletin)
Inside The Deal: Advanta's Kassar gives small businesses a hand (The Deal: Dealscape)
Usually, when a company cuts 1/3 of its employees, the "Chief Innovation Officer" is one of the first to go.
State opens probe of Ticketmaster concert sales (NorthJersey.com)
Mobile Marketing Solution Debuts (PR Web)
OES to Provide NYSE Euronext Members a CMS to CCG Conversion Solution (Business Wire)
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SAP’s Apotheker takes on shoddy consultants, certifications (ZDNet
Blogs)
SAP Launches "Business Suite 7" - Are Customers Buying it? (Feeding the SAP Ecosystem)
SAP’s goose gander theory (ZDNet Blogs)
Philly Council OKs Verizon FiOS TV
Mayor Nutter Must Sign 15-Year Franchise Agreement Into Law Before Telco Can Compete In Comcast's Backyard (Multichannel News)
Satyam board appoints management, raises funds (Network World)
Urban Outfitters 4Q same-store sales dip 1 percent (Associated Press via Forbes)
IMS Health sharply boosts Q4 profit on cost cuts,
as revenues decline (Associated Press via Forbes)
Big Rohm investor urges Dow to get moving (Philadelphia Inquirer)
They, robot
Lockheed Martin engineers worked with students for a regional competition. (Burlington County Times)
The Technology Collaborative Releases New Request for Proposals Plans $1.5M in Grants to PA-based Companies and Universities (PR Web)
Stu Bykofsky: Newspapers must end the free online lunch (Philadelphia Daily News)
Franklin Electronic Publishers Reports Profitable Third Quarter Results (PR Newswire)
Author Gladwell marks nonprofit's anniversary (Philadelphia Inquirer)
AP Claims Shepard Fairey's Obama Poster Infringes on Copyright
(Photo District News)
IBM, Google Health Aim to Blow Medical Records Wide Open (Read Write Web)
Usability Study Compares Google Health & HealthVault (Chilmark Research)
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SAP launches Business Suite 7 (Network World)
SAP BusinessSuite 7: Twittery clouds? (ZDNet Blogs)
SAP launches biggest software upgrade in 3 years (Reuters)
U.S. Army tries out Salesforce.com in recruiting (Computerworld)
In Second Vote, House Delays Digital TV Transition (Washington Post)
Self-Help for Startups
Ultra Light Startups is giving entrepreneurs—many of them newly laid-off employees—a chance to test their pitches on an audience of their peers (Business Week)
An idea for Philly? I know there are a couple of things here somewhat like this, but not in this particular format I believe.
InterDigital Unveils SlimChip Embedded HSPA Modules for Fast-Growing Smartphone, MID, and UMPC Markets (Business Wire)
SAS Achieves Record Revenue: $2.26 Billion in 2008 (Business Wire)
InfoLogix Has Record Revenue in 2008 and Unveils 2009 Strategic Plan
Continued Strategic Focus On Healthcare and SAP Mobility Markets Projected to Drive Double-Digit Organic Revenue Growth, Profitability in 2H 2009 (Globe Newswire)
C&D Technologies Announces Actions to Reduce Costs in Response To Weakening Market Conditions (PR Newswire)
D&E sets sweeping cost cuts
No job cuts for now. (Lancaster Online)
TWC in '09: Job Cuts, WiMax & Wideband (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Emerald Asset Management Holds Annual Investment Forum (Business Wire)
Longview Solutions Positioned in 'Visionaries' Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites by Leading Analyst Firm Evaluation based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute (PR Web)
Constar Unveils i-Design™ Automated Package Development Process at The Packaging Conference
A package that traditionally requires 40 hours to create, Constar's i-Design™ does in minutes (Business Wire)
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Motorola Forecasts Wider Loss, Suspends Dividend (Bloomberg)
Motorola Posts $4.3B Quarterly Loss, Replaces CFO
Service Provider Unit Sales Dip 5, But Operating Earnings Up Year-on-Year (Multichannel News)
Dow says Rohm agreement not binding at this point (Reuters)
Rohm and Haas Company Provides Statement on Merger with Dow (Business Wire)
Comcast Offers $10 Credit After Super Bowl Porn Blunder
Operator's Tucson System Continues to Investigate Possible 'Malicious Act' (Multichannel News)
Comcast defends itself against FCC's VoIP probe (ars technica)
Cable Providers Scoff at Obama’s Plan to Get Every Child Online (Bloomberg)
Angels Flee From Tech Start-Ups (New York Times)
Phanfare's Photon: The Best Photo App for the iPhone Yet? (Read Write Web)
Phanfare is based in Princeton.
InterDigital Gets First Samsung Payment, Ends Suit (xchange Magazine)
SAP, Oracle Dueling Over 'smart' Energy Metering (PC World)
PwC + BearingPoint? (Feeding
the SAP Ecosystem)
A Silver Lining in E-Commerce
(Wall Street Journal: Digits)
PharmaNet agrees to be bought by private equity firm (Reuters)
Portfolio software big on ROI: study (Computer Business Review)
Sarnoff Awarded U.S. Marine Corps War Fighting Laboratory Contract To Demonstrate Advanced 360 Degree Camera System
(Business Wire)
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Comcast Broadcasts Porn Clip During Super Bowl (Information Week)
SAP, Other IT Vendors Embrace Energy Efficiencies (eWeek)
PHRs are operating systems (ZDNet Healthcare)
Vuzit Announces Additional Angel Funding (Center
Networks)
It’s The Network: Penn Researchers Examine Behavior, Consensus Building Influenced By Network Structure (U Penn Press Release)
Agile world’s a stage (Software Development Times)
High Performance, Low-Cost VoIP Chips Address Critical Performance Issues Such as Echo, Latency, and Packet Loss (PR Newswire)
Comcast Likes Real-Time Network Data (Cable360: Communications Technology)
On SevOne of Newark DE.
Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Receipt of Contract From United States Navy Valued at $19 Million (PR Newswire)
Wilmington Trust reports 2008 loss
Dreadful 4th quarter puts bank in red by $23.6 million for the entire year (Wilmington News Journal)
Rodale Selects Convergys’ Relationship Management Solutions to Drive Superior Customer Experience (Business Wire)
Is There a Single Engagement Metric? Not Quite Say Wharton Profs. Eric Bradlow and Pete Fader (Wharton Facts)
Ben Franklin Technology Partners and iBridge(SM) Network Team Up for Advanced Research Collaboration
Seven Leading Pennsylvania Universities to Share Innovations and Best Practices (PR Newswire)
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1978 CALLED. IT WANTS ITS NEWSPAPER BACK (Philadelphia Magazine)
Pa. governor arranged meeting on newspapers' debt (Associated Press via Lehigh Valley Live)
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Internet Capital Group’s Doug Alexander Named President (Business Wire)
Comcast Names Kenneth J. Carrig Executive Vice President of Human Resources for Comcast Cable (Business Wire)
SCO Logistics Names New Executives to Leadership Team, Announces Record Revenues
(PR Newswire)
The Keane Organization Appoints Thomas J. Morgan as Chief Sales & Marketing Officer (Business Wire)
Falcon Capital Partners Announces New Venture Partner
Business and Technology Veteran Joins Falcon to Further Expand into Software and IT Services Market (PR Web)
Ohana Companies Enhances Senior Management Team, Naming Veteran Business Growth Strategist Alex Giacco as President (PR.com)
Cobra Wire and Cable Announces New Chief Executive Officer (PR Newswire)
Soon-Shiong Joins Board of ITA Partners, a Leading Medical Decision-Support Company (Business Wire)
Harmelin Media Promotes 22 Staffers and 3 in Online Division (Philly Ad Club News)
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