Unisys, activist shareholder in talks; deadline postponed (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Ametek posts higher fourth-quarter profit (Reuters)

Motorola Posts 84% Drop In 4Q Net, Sees 1Q Loss (Dow Jones via CNNMoney)

High-tech hunt reaches for fans (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Entercom signs up for new ratings system (Associated Press via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Comcast: A CEO in the Crosshairs (Motley Fool)

BI Chaos Escalates with SAP-Business Objects Combination (Intelligent Enterprise Blog)

Guavagarage.com: New Online Music Community Web Site Revolutionizing the Industry (PRWeb)

Comcast, FCC at odds over policy
Cable giant: New rules stifle growth, help rivals
(Times of Trenton)


In strategic shift, Comcast, TiVo team up
Move is 1st step toward a more open platform (Boston Globe)


Bentley Acquires Hevacomp, Ltd., Expanding Portfolio of Software to Improve Performance of Buildings (BusinessWire)

AT&T Announces Hosting Agreement With SAP America; Named a Preferred SAP(R) Hosting Provider (PRNewswire)

New open source venture funding and the importance of SAP Ventures and Intel Capital (CNET Blogs)

Wipro Launches Factory-like Approach to Design and Implementation Services for SAP® Interactive Forms by Adobe (TechWhack)

Verizon to move workers into Chinatown building (Philadelphia Inquirer)

IT firm lands U.S. port deal (Halifax Chronicle Herald)
Nova Scotia firm to redo IT systems for Philadelphia-area ports.

Siemens’s Prosperity Doesn’t Obscure Bribery Scandal (New York Times)

The creative slice of economic pie (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Shooters Post & Transfer Installs BrightDrive to Provide Media Sharing Infrastructure for all DI and Digital Film Processes (Broadcastnewswroom.com)

Heartland Payment Systems and American Express Sign Merchant Sales and Servicing Agreement (Centre Daily Times)

SEI Introduces Private Client Models to Banking Market (PRNewswire)

PhillyBurbs.com, Two Other Calkins Sites Join Real Cities Network (PR Newswire)

Thomson Scientific Tagging Researchers: ResearcherID.com (Information Today)


Penn State Great Valley Program Examines Hot Technology Careers (BusinessWire)

MEDecision Introduces Alineo(TM) Collaborative Health Care Management Solution (Centre Daily Times)

Just a phone call away (phillyBurbs.com)

IBM and SAP to develop joint software (Reuters)
Will integrate Lotus Notes with SAP business applications.


Makarand Teje: Taking the reigns
New AppLabs president, COO relishes challenge (IndUS Business Journal)

Big year for venture capital (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The quarterly MoneyTree survey is out.

Camden becomes a player in a surprising industry: defense (Associated Press via Newsday)

NeatReceipts for Mac Scans, Reads, and Organizes Receipts (MacRumors.com)

Herley CEO's bonus gets bigger (Lancaster New Era)

Verizon Launches New Interactive Media Guide (TMCnet)

With Comcast Under Fire, Vuze Enjoys Growth Surge (Information Week)


Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau Launches First-Ever Web Sites in Japanese and Chinese (BusinessWire)


Maxwell Systems Launches Estimation Logistics 7.3 (BusinessWire)

1&1 Internet Debuts Anniversary Specials (HostingTech.com)

The earlier the better... (Redeye VC)
Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital updates his investment philosophy: Its staying the same.


Philadelphia buoyant after completing water billing system (Computerworld)


Hoping for movie magic to save Norristown (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Shooters' DIVE makes a splash (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Hecklers delay speech; Carlyle CEO notes private-equity ‘purgatory’ (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Wharton Venture Capital conference: NEA's Dick Kramlich (Dealscape)

Urban Outfitters to Buy Nursery to Start New Chain (Bloomberg)

Sprint’s Customer Erosion Prompts Cutbacks (New York Times)


SAP Doesn't See Economy Crimping Sales, Chief Kagermann Says (Bloomberg)

SAP and Oracle's middleware battle heats up (searchSAP.com)

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Ain't Going Nowhere (Wired Blogs)

Major shareholder seeks ouster of Comcast CEO to improve returns (Associated Press via phillyBurbs.com)

InterDigital Appoints Lawrence Shay President of Patent Licensing (ad-hoc-news)

Institutional Shareholder Seeks
Ouster of Comcast CEO Roberts (Barron's)
Comcast called a "Comcastrophe" over the past decade.

Federal Reserve "Beigebook" Report for Philadelphia, January 08. (The Federal Reserve Board)

Philadelphia Region Business Outlook Survey January 2008 (Philadelphia Fed)


Facebook Up, But MySpace Still Leads By A Very, Very, Very Long Way (TechCrunch)
New Hope-based MyYearbook.com increased its traffic by over 400% year-to-year, according to Hitwise.

Philadelphia-Area Tech Leaders Launch DreamIt Ventures and Call for Funding Applications (BusinessWire)


Greater Philadelphia Is a Hotbed of Life Sciences and Biomedical Discovery
The Scientist Magazine Finds That It's the Connections That Make the Area Cool (Marketwire)

Experts Like Boomi’s Integration-As-Service Offering (ITBusinessEdge)

Social network ad analytics company Invite Media raises angel round (VentureBeat)
More details on Philadelphia venture backed by First Round Capital


SAP to win significantly more business clients due to Business Objects takeover
(Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)
In the opinion of its CEO, anyway.


SAP skills to have for 2008 and beyond (SearchSAP.com)


FiOS 'TV 2.0' Hits Jersey, Philly
Staggered rollout of GUI upgrade continues... (Broadband Reports)


A New Networking Site Dedicated to Web Analytics Launches (PRWeb)

Callidus Software Announces Strategic Agreement With IMS Health (Marketwire via CNNMoney)

SleepEx splits from Pro-Tech (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Arthur Warady Joins eMergent Benefit Solutions, LLC, as EVP of Technology (PRWeb)

The new look of sports news (phillyBurbs.com)

SAP, Business Objects announce first joint products (InfoWorld)

Oracle Snatches BEA for $8.5B (Red Herring)

Sun to Buy MySQL for $1 Billion (Associated Press via New York Times)


SAP Americas Announces Small and Midsize (SME) Partner Award Winners at 2008 North American Partner Meeting (PRNewswire via CNNMoney)

5 business process and application trends for 2008 (NetworkWorld)

Why I hate Comcast (Computerworld Blogs)

Sales up, losses widen for Tectonics (phillyBurbs.com)

Scala Announces Record Sales and EBITDA for 2007 (PRWeb)

BlueStar to Distribute New Elo TouchSystems 17-in. LCD Touchmonitor from Tyco Electronics
(Press Release)


Foxwoods Resort Casino selects WPCS to provide wireless communications network (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)


Elsevier Acquires MEDai, Leading Provider of Healthcare Predictive Analytics and Data Mining Solutions (BusinessWire)


Krames Acquires wired.MD, Inc. and Library of over 415 Patient Education Videos
(BusinessWire)

Information Technology Expert Appointed to Penn.'s Office of Administration (Government Technology)


Basic Tools for Public Health (medGadget)

uwishunu(TM) Launches New Web Series Featuring Philadelphia Artists, Chefs and Nightlife (PRNewswire)

FCC Asks Comcast About Internet Filter (Associated Press via Google News)


CES: Comcast’s Roberts On The Road Map And Improving Customer Service; More On Fancast (paidContent.org)


New telecom firm draws big investors (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Few companies fully use their SAP software (ComputerWeekly.com)


QVC Expands Online Community to Full Social Networking Site With LiveWorld as Services Provider (BusinessWire)

ImpactRx buys Paragon Research (Philadelphia Business Journal)

IMS Health Buys RMBC Pharm Consultant (Kommersant)


HostMySite Web Host, Manages Presidential Campaign Website, for Mike Huckabee (The Hostings News)

Rapid Growth Prompts Important Changes in PointRoll Executive Team (PRNewswire)

Verticalnet shareholders OK sale to BravoSolution (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Internet Tech Channel CunningTV to Provide Coverage of MacWorld Keynote (prMac.com)

Government Awards Passport Card Deals
General Dynamics, Unisys Win Government Contracts for Work on Passport Card (Associated Press via CNNMoney)


EGT And WeiTel Form Strategic Alliance (BusinessWire)


SuiteLinqTM Unveils Enhanced Interactive Solution for Hospitality Industry (BusinessWire)

Report: Metro newspaper for sale (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Listening to doctors and patients talk
A Fort Washington firm offers health-care clients a chance to hear what they say to one another. (Philadelphia Inquirer)


DIY security hits its market (Philadelphia Business Journal)
About InGrid Inc.


SAP shares up on solid Q4 results (Reuters)

IDS Scheer Signs a Memorandum of Understanding with SAP America to Become an “Early Partner” for SAP Business ByDesign (BusinessWire)


SocNet Advertising Firm Invite Media Raises Seed Round (alarm:clock)
Philadelphia-based venture backed by First Round Capital

The Super-Thin Star of a New TV Screen (NJBIZ.com)
On Universal Display


GSI Commerce gets $75M secured credit line (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)

InterDigital Signs Giant Electronics to Worldwide 2G and 3G Patent License Agreement (BusinessWire)

FiOS tops satisfaction survey; worth moving for? (ars technica)

Department stores to use Wayne firm’s weather forecasts (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Weintraub Telecomm to buy Jensen Communications (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Temple University Selects SunGard Higher Education to Help Create a New Unified Digital Campus (BusinessWire)

2008 eCTD Train Wreck? (ClinPage)

MedRisk, Inc. Receives URAC Workers’ Compensation Utilization Management Accreditation (BusinessWire)

What's playing at the library? (Philadelphia Daily News)

Card programs evolve to meet student desire for off campus use and phone-based transactions (CR80 News)
About Heartland Payment Systems.

BioMedExperts Searches for Researchers (Red Herring)
Competition for Philadelphia-based Biowizard?

The People Vs. Comcast (Forbes)

Comcast 'Gets It' (LightReading: Cable Digital News)

Shareholder boosts Comcast stake (Associated Press via Business Week)


Swiss Temenos jumps on buyback, talk of SAP bid (Reuters)


Oracle may put a price on business processes (SearchOracle.com)


Siemens' divestments and acquisitions will not be as large as 'recently' - CEO
(Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)

Liberty Media Buys 14 Million Additional Shares Of InterActiveCorp (Dow Jones)


14th Annual Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Conference (BusinessWire via
PR-inside.com)


Students to experience entrepreneurialism at ideablob* University (BusinessWire via Philly.com)

GSI Commerce shares rise after upgrade (Associated Press via MSN Money)

Ikon lowers earnings guidance; shares tumble (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Cricket Communications adding 170 jobs (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Economic outlooks differ at Phila. chamber event (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Company devises better online rebates (Wilmington News Journal)

Citi Media: Dennis Strigl, President & COO, Verizon Communications: Limits On Faster FiOS Rollout (paidContent.org)

Inverness Graham Investments Closes $100 Million Transaction with New Investors (PRNewsire via SunHerald.com)


Americas' SAP Users' Group Names COO, CMO (BusinessWire via Reuters)


SEI Selects Ascensus to Provide Retirement Plan Recordkeeping and Administrative Services with Full Fee Transparency (BusinessWire)

GARTNER: Strong Growth in Business Intelligence Decline as Market Flux Continues (Kauppalehti Online)


Sivoo Unveils 'CEDR' Technology Platform (PRNewswire via Earthtimes.org)

USA Technologies & Coinmach Launch eSuds Credit(TM) Solution for Commercial Laundry Industry
(BusinessWire via Raleigh News & Observer)

Roberts takes center stage
The Comcast chief touted innovations; not all were wowed. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast CFO is optimistic on 2008 growth (Business Week)

The FCC examines Comcast's traffic-blocking plan (Salon.com)

Technitrol agrees to buy Sonion A/S in $385M cash deal (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)

Matrix, Tyco, Nap Info begin undersea fibre-optic system (Digital Media Asia)


Ready for Business
Turning technology into enterprises is task of new Science Center chief. (Philadelphia Inquirer)


eHealth organization picks leaders (PennLive.com)


Accessible Archives, Inc. Adds Federated Search Capability (PRNewswire)

SocketLabs Introduces New Email Delivery Server for Windows (PRWEB)


InterDigital and SK Telecom Extend Collaboration to Develop Mobile Wireless Handover... (BusinessWire via Reuters)