Daily Links 8/28/2012: News from VMworld

Unisys Rolls Out Updated Private Cloud Solution (CRN)

Devon IT Selected By Acer As Software Provider For Its New Line Of Thin Client Solutions (Press Release)

VMworld shows a VMware in flux (Gigaom)



Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing (New York Times)

Time Warner Cable Boosts New York Speeds as Google Project Looms (Bloomberg)
Don't really consider this comparable to Google Fiber, as that project is consumer-oriented and TWC's is business-oriented. Comcast has done a couple of limited buildouts like this in small parts of certain cities (Boston, Seattle, I believe), but don't know if they have anything planned for Philly.

Comcast's ThePlatform Opens Window On Video Storefronts
Commerce Extension for MPX Enables Multiscreen Transactional Content Purchases (Multichannel News)

ESPN shells out $5.6 billion to keep Major League Baseball (LA Times: Company Town)
Double ESPN's previous deal per annum. We (consumers) will pick up most of the tab through ever increasing cable prices. NBC still looking to get foot in MLB door.

Takeaways from three years of angel investing (Gabriel Weinberg's Blog)

Daily Links 9/8/2011: DreamIt Ventures launches Fall 2011 Philadelphia Class

DreamIt Ventures Launches Its Fall 2011 Philadelphia Class (TechCrunch)

CSC ‘in last leg' of AppLabs buy-out talks (Hindu Business Line)

Rick Sherlund Is Back! Analyst Likes MSFT, ORCL, CRM, SAP (Forbes: The Tech Trade)

IT pros heading to SAP TechEd 2011 packing questions for vendor (SearchSAP.com)

Dell’s golden opportunity isn’t in servers (Gigaom)

Infonetics Research: Pace overtakes Motorola in pay-TV set-top box (STB) market in 2Q11; STB market to peak in 2011 (Marketwire)

Comcast's thePlatform notches TV Everywhere deal with Liberty Global (CED Magazine)

TruePosition Acquires Intellectual Property from Rosum (Business Wire)
Buying for product development, or just adding to patent portfolio?

Philly tech, U-City to Old City (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
On Vuzit's Christopher Cera.

"It was a dumb idea": newspaper chain fires copyright troll Righthaven
(Ars Technica)
John Paton, on taking over as MediaNews CEO, makes decision.




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News from The Cable Show: 6/15/2011

Okay, Okay, Maybe Netflix Is a Problem for Cable After All (All Things Digital)

@ Cable Show: Netflix And Hulu On Cable Set Tops? (paidContent)

@ Cable Show: Comcast’s Roberts Shows Off 1Gbps Potential (paidContent)

Comcast likely to show off gigabit cable broadband (Gigaom)

What You Need to Know About Comcast Xcalibur (Zatz Not Funny)

NBC Chairman Robert Greenblatt Shares His Plan to Rebuild the Network (Exclusive Q&A) (Hollywood Reporter)

How thePlatform Fits in Xfinity (Interview: Light Reading Cable)

Comcast To Stage Network DVR Trial
MSO Plans Small Trial of Technology Later This Year (Multichannel News)

Motorola Hooks Up With Honeywell For Home Security
Joint Solution to Combine 4Home Systems With Honeywell Alarm Panel Hardware (Multichannel News)


The Cable Show 2011: Genachowski: Broadband Adoption 'Just Not Good Enough'
Praises cable for deployment and adoption efforts to date, but wants more (Broadcasting & Cable)



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Daily Links 4/8/2011: Comcast Picks Microsoft To Stream 'TV Everywhere'

Comcast Picks Microsoft To Stream 'TV Everywhere'
MSO's ThePlatform Integrates Microsoft PlayReady, IIS Smooth Streaming Into Video Management System (Multichannel News)

Viacom: Cablevision Has 'Seized' Rights It Does Not Have With iPad App
Notice to MSO Comes After Time Warner Cable and Viacom Trade Lawsuits Over Similar Tablet Service (Multichannel News)

Moto Medios Goes Social (Light Reading Cable)

Competition creator? FCC forces "data roaming" on reluctant carriers (Ars Technica)

House passes measure to repeal net neutrality (The Hill)

Farzad Mostashari named new head of ONC (Modern Healthcare)

Dell to spend $1B on cloud services this year
And IBM will support SAP in the cloud (Computerworld)

Oracle to Acquire Datanomic
Data quality provider adds risk and compliance features to Oracle's data management system
(Information Management)

Innovator: Jennifer Pahlka
The founder of Code for America is bringing programmers and cash-strapped cities together to give government services a boost (Business Week)



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Daily Links 3/22/2011: Verizon Wireless CEO says no interest in Sprint

Cable Could Lose Wireless Bargaining Chip (Light Reading Cable)

Verizon Wireless CEO says no interest in Sprint deal (Reuters via Yahoo News)

Sprint 'Concerned' About AT&T-T-Mobile Deal, Verizon Will 'Be Watching' (PC Magazine)

Sprint Plans Appeal to Congress to Halt AT&T-T-Mobile Deal (Bloomberg)

Mother and Child Reunion … Or Not (Knowledge@Wharton)

appMobi Releases Mobile Web Services Creating Most Comprehensive Mobile App Ecosystem Available (PR Newswire)

NJ Senate puts telecommunications bill on hold (Asbury Park Press)

thePlatform Squelches Buyout Rumor (Light Reading Cable)

NBCU Refines Integrated Media Division With Promotions (paidContent)

Open Angel Forum Philadelphia's First Six Startups (Tedesco's Two Cents)

Cadient Group Expands and Diversifies Client Portfolio (Business Wire)

Half of SAP users 'dissatisfied' with system performance
Is it the software or the infrastructure to blame? (Computerworld UK)

5 Ways Retailers Are Winning Big With Facebook Commerce (Mashable)
One of the examples given is Philly startup Kembrel.



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Daily Links 2/24/2011: Osage University Partners Closes $100 Million Debut Venture Capital Fund

InterDigital Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Financial Results
Full Year Revenue of $394.5 million Increased 33 Percent Over 2009 (Business Wire)
InterDigital Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know (Motley Fool)

SAP Asks Court to Reduce Oracle Award or Set New Trial (Bloomberg)

Oracle to SAP: How’s This for Grossly Excessive–We Want Another Half-Billion in Damages (All Things Digital: Digital Daily)
Ellison's typical return shot.


SAP wants racketeering claims thrown out (Computerworld)
In Marin County case.

Salesforce.com: Strong fourth quarter, light earnings outlook, $2 billion revenue mark in sight
(ZDNet Blogs)


Osage University Partners Closes $100 Million Debut Venture Capital Fund, Affiliates With Leading Universities (Marketwire)

Comcast Unit Shares Cisco's Video Spotlight (Light Reading Cable)

Sprint, Falcone’s LightSquared Said to Discuss Network Deal (Bloomberg)

Sage Payment Solutions Acquires Small Merchant Portfolio From Heartland Payment Systems (Marketwire)

New Console Digital Developer Play Eternal Founded In Philly (Gamasutra)



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Daily Links 8/3/2010: NetSuite slams SAP Business ByDesign

Pre-Launch Business Plans Are Always Wrong (Redeye VC via Silicon Alley Insider)

thePlatform Gives Content Owners More Control (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast Saves Y-Combinator Startup Fanvibe From Obscurity (Silicon Alley Insider)

Comcast-NBCU: View From the Top (Multichannel News)

FCC, Carriers Close To Largely Empty Neutrality Agreement (Broadband Reports)

A Content War on Three Fronts: Retrans, TV Everywhere and Tru2way
(Motorola Home Blog: Media Experiences 2 Go)

SAP Furthers SaaS Push With New Business ByDesign Release (Channel Web)

NetSuite slams SAP Business ByDesign (ZDNet Blogs)

Exclaim Mobility Acquires Mobicious
(Business Wire)
Exclaim Mobility, which is based in Princeton and operates mobile photo and video sharing service Pictavision, is backed with $7 million from Edison Ventures and Sycamore Ventures. The company says it is profitable.
Mobicious, which is based in Massachusetts, had raised $9 million and has 1.1 million registered users but couldn't raise more cash, Mass High Tech reports.

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter 2010 (Business Wire)
Revenue up 14%.


Vishay Q2 tops Street, sees strong Q3 revenue (Reuters)

Vishay Precision Group Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results (Business Wire)
First financial report since being spun off as an independent company from Vishay Intertechnology.

WellPoint: Mobile heart monitor is “experimental” (Mobile Health News)




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Daily Links 6/23/2010: Evolved Capital launches beta app targeting Venture Capital Ecosystem

Comcast's ThePlatform Reaches For IP-Connected TV Devices
Integrates With Over-the-Top Services From TiVo, Roku, LG, Boxee, Others (Multichannel News)

Parties still far apart in US Internet talks-source
* More talks scheduled for Wednesday (Reuters)

FCC Takes Beating Over Closed Door Net Neutrality Meeting
Transparency and documentation is either important -- or it isn't. (Broadband Reports)

Fitch cuts rating on Liberty Media unit (Associated Press via Google News)

SAP Labs Is Hiring Up to 300 in Palo Alto (eWeek Blogs)

SAP's McDermott Sees No Big Acquisitions After Sybase (Bloomberg)
Doesn't quite jibe with what co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said in prepared remarks for the SAP annual meeting a couple of weeks ago.

SAP value engineering services aim to boost SAP ROI (SearchSAP.com)

Evolved Capital Beta Launch Targets Venture Capital Ecosystem (Marketwire)


Verizon tests 10 Gbps to the home via FiOS (ZDNet Blogs)
Using Motorola's 10 Gbps GPON solution.

SAS Preps In-memory Analytic Grids (PC World)
Focusing on vertical solutions.

Startups replacing summer jobs for students (Reuters)




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Daily Links 3/4/2010: Urban Outfitters' earnings jump 92%

Comcast's thePlatform Posts To Social Nets
Video Management System Provides Hooks into 10 Social Media Sites (Multichannel News)

Analyst talks Comcast-NBC Uni deal
Moffet: 'We don't like the deal, but we do like the stock' (Hollywood Reporter)

4A's: What's Delaying Ad Addressability?
Such platforms allow advertisers to target specific regions, zones, even individual households (Adweek)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software Development Firm Avencia Incorporated Announces New Company Name – Azavea Inc
(Business Wire)

Urban Outfitters Reports Q4 Earnings Jump 92% (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

New Customers Fuel BravoSolution Growth in Challenging Year
Spend management vendor outpaces market to reach $71 Million in 2009 revenue (Business
Wire)

Dot-Mobi Gets New Owner, New Life Still In Doubt (MediaPost: MoBlog)
Top level domain acquired by Ireland-based Afilias, which has its US headquarters in Horsham.

DreamIt Recruiting New Class of Startups (Center Networks)

SAP - The Message Back on Target
(ZDNet Blogs)

Semiannual PostgreSQL User Conference - PG East 2010 - Adds Impressive Line-up of Speakers to Conference Roster (PR Newswire)


SunGard adds EMC Data Domain deduplication to Secure2Disk cloud data backup service (SearchDataBackup.com)


Acurian Generates over 50% of Clinical Trial Patient Referrals from Proprietary Relationships with Online Health Networks & Social Media Platforms (Business Wire)

New Lehigh institute will coordinate business efforts (Allentown Morning Call)




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