Comcast asks court to reverse FCC set-top box rule (Reuters)

What Cloud Computing Really Means (IDG via New York Times)
Discusses Boomi.

Amkor brings its chips back to Phila. for shareholders meeting(Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript (Seeking
Alpha)
Helpful. Reading Safeguard's financial reports is like reading Greek. The company says it is trying to become more transparent.

Microsoft's Vision for Healthcare (eHealth-video)

You couldn’t do this with proprietary software (451 CAOS Theory)
On Marlton startup Ringside Networks.

FiOS’ ‘Free’ and ‘Easy’ Spin on the Digital Transition
Verizon uses clever promotional catchwords to say: ‘No more analog TV.’ (Cable360)

PeerView Completes Acquisition of Veritas Clinical Trial Register™
PeerView Expands Its Suite of Medical Publishing Solutions with Acquisition of the Leading Clinical Trial Register Application (BusinessWire)

Inverness Graham invests in B&B Electronics (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Discover, Diners Club under 1 roof
Company gains international status (Wilmington News Journal)

Alternative Technology to Offer Gemalto's Web-based Authentication Device Administration (Smart Card Alliance)

QVC Goes '2D' With Mobile Phone Test
Technology Uses Icons To Point Wireless Users To Content (Multichannel News)

Turns Out New Jersey E-Voting Problems Even Worse Than Originally Thought (Techdirt)

TargetRx Completes $9.6M Financing Round (BusinessWire)

Plattner vs. Benioff: Who Is Looking to Buy Salesforce? (eWEEK: Enterprise Apps)
More details on this interesting debate.

SAP’s unexpected infrastructure investment (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

What SunGard Has Wrought
(New York Times: DealBook)

Rohm and Haas buys Gracel Display (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)

Rohm & Haas Swaps Korea For Harvard (Forbes)

Journal Register Company Hires Lazard Freres as Its Financial Advisor (Marketwire)

Verizon To Start Shutting Down FiOS TV Analog Channels
Regional Change To All-Digital Starts In New York April 21 (Multichannel News)

Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point) (TechCrunch)
I doubt you or I would get that much attention.

Still No Grand Plan For Going Mobile
Cable Operators Have Yet To Fund WiMax Joint Venture (Multichannel News)


DSG opening subsidiary in India (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SEI Announces Distribution Agreement in Mainland China (PRNewswire)

Discover Financial Services to Acquire Diners Club International Network (Payments News)

The future of SaaS billing (ZDNet Blogs)
Profiles Media's Aria Systems.

The Real World Online' Comes to San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia at EveryScape.com (PRNewswire)

Project Management Keeps IT From Being A Victim Of Success
(Information Week)

Podcast: Deep Dive into Real-Time Traffic and Location-based Advertising on Mobile Handsets (Directions Magazine)

Safend Announces Record Results for 2007 and Q1 2008 in Endpoint Data Leakage Protection (BusinessWire)

Roska Makes Strategic Acquisition of Mueller & Wister (BusinessWire)

Aiming to shape the "connected home" (Denver Post)

Fiber Awash In War of Words
Verizon, Cable Operators Spar Over Claims (Multichannel News)

Verizon reveals plans for airwaves
It says it will use the spectrum won in an FCC auction to speed up wireless Internet. (Los Angeles Times)

AT&T Plans Fast 4G Wireless Rollout (Information Week)

Comcast: customers face Internet problems (Wilmington News Journal)

Readying For Another Round
Diller's Win In Court Leaves Liberty Media Mulling Over Its Next Move (Multichannel News)

Who Are the New 3G Performance Leaders? (Seeking Alpha)

Walt Mossberg promises 3G iPhone in 60 days (Engadget)

Penn Engineering Awarded $7.5 Million to Advance Emerging Field of Network Science (UPenn)
Fascinating stuff. The earlier releases I had seen made it sound as if this grant was targeted more specifically towards
robotic applications, though this description seems a little broader.

Benioff v. Plattner: let history decide (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

SAP Rises as Chiefs See Higher Margins, Repeat Goals (Bloomberg)

Newspaper Chain Hires Adviser as It Weighs Restructuring (New York Times-free subscription)
On Journal Register.

Verizon, AT&T Plan Next-Gen Wireless Networks, Google Plans To Watch (Silicon Alley Insider)

Comcast and Starcom MediaVest Group Expand Addressable Advertising Trial to Baltimore
Initial Trial Results Reveal Addressable Ads Delivered 56% More Efficiency and 38% More Effectiveness for Marketers (PRNewswire)
Reported here on Sunday.

On Comcast's customer service problems(Philly.com: Philadelphia Business Today-video)

Motorola to Lay Off 2,600 More Employees
Cutbacks Result In $104 Million Charge For First Quarter (Multichannel News)
May include cuts in Horsham.

Voices of Innovation: A talk with entrepreneur Greg Olsen (NJ.com-video)

CSC and Oracle in retail banking combination (Finextra)

An Enterprising Approach to RFID
OATSystems' new platform scales RFID deployments across larger businesses. (eWEEK)

Innovative Solutions & Support Expands Functionality on Eclipse 500® Flight Deck (BusinessWire)

Governor Rendell Says New Investments Helping PA Improve Its Economy (PRNewswire)
Announcement includes additional funds for DreamIT Ventures.

NWCT Event: Strategic Portfolio Management (PR.com)

Report says federal planning key to prosperous Phila. (Phiadelphia Business Journal)
"Federal Planning" is an oxymoron. Not surprising the Brookings Institution would come up with something like this. I don't know about the rest of the state, but from what I see I think the Philly area is doing fairly well without a "comprehensive federal master plan".

See the report here.

Comcast Enters the Wideband Era (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)

U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin Team Celebrates Success of GPS IIR Program as Final Satellite is Readied for Shipment to Cape Canaveral for June Launch
Satellite Includes Demonstration Payload for New Third Civil Signal (PRNewswire)
The critical next-generation GPS contract is expected to be awarded in the next few months.

SAP wants to influence the influencers (SearchITChannel.com)
By paying them a cut of the action.

Liberty Media increases stake in DirecTV to 48 percent (San Jose Mercury News)

Take That, Google! MapQuest Snags OnStar Deal (GigaOM)
MapQuest, partially based in Lancaster, has been making some very aggressive moves lately to fight back against Google Maps.


EPAM Systems Buys Two (Private Equity
Hub)
EPAM is based in Lawrenceville.

University City Science Center Hosts DreamIt Ventures (BusinessWire)

N.J., Pa. among top 10 states for high-tech jobs (Philadephia Business Journal)

Coleman Research Group Acquires Endowment Capital Group's Clio Research Management Software (Marketwire)

CRM manager Continues Rapid Growth
Revenues from Salesforce.com Consulting Services Almost Quadruple (PRNewswire)

Markell, Carney cite business goals
State treasurer hopes to be 'small business governor;' Lt. Gov. stresses his 'economic development' work (Wilmington
News Journal)


Bentley Wins FIATECH CETI Award
Jury Recognizes Bentley for Collaboration on FIATECH’s ‘Accelerating the Deployment of the ISO 15926’ Project
(BusinessWire)

TMX Communications Named IAC Agency of the Year for Unprecedented Fourth Consecutive Year (PRNewswire)

Keane Business Risk Management Solutions Launches SCORE 3.3
Enhancements improve supervision of enterprise governance, risk and compliance management (BusinessWire)

NYSE Warns Journal Register on Delisting
Journal Register Faces NYSE Delisting for Failing to Meet Minimum Stock Price Requirements (Associated Press via
CNNMoney)
Watch out when those penny stock salespersons call pitching Journal Register.

Unisys Names James M. Geiger as Managing Partner, Department of Defense, in Federal Systems Business (BusinessWire)

Buccinis buy ex-MBNA HQ (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

WorldGate inks Ojo contract (phillyBurbs.com)
WorldGate survives to fight another day, I guess.

SAP names Leo Apotheker as co-CEO UPDATE (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)
No surprises.

Comcast plans faster Net speeds
(Associated Press via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Starting in Twin Cities tomorrow.

Kenexa Acquires Quorum International -- Global Recruitment Process Outsourcing Provider (Marketwire via CNNMoney)

Traffic reports for your cell phone (Network World)
New offering from Traffic.com

Pete Distler joins Smarter Agent as President of the Smarter Agent Media Network (Smarter Agent Blog)

Synygy India targets pharma sector (Sify.com)

AXIS Goes Live as AdminServer’s First P&C Client (Insurance & Technology)

Bentley Announces Strategic Initiative to Help Sustain Bridge Infrastructure Through Bridge Information Modeling (BusinessWire)

TruePosition to use hybrid approach for greater E-911 accuracy (RCR Wireless News)

Who Will Buy Sirius (SIRI): If It Has To Be Sold?
(24/7 Wall Street)
Mentions Comcast as a possible, though unlikely, buyer.

ClinPhone Eliminates Common Integration Headaches with Innovative Combined EDC-IVR Solution (PharmiWeb)

Report: Sprint Nextel delays WiMax commercial launch (Kansas City Business Journal)

Korea's WiBro to Debut in U.S. This Month (chosun.com)
I'm not sure how the two articles above square with each other. Perhaps there will be a slowdown until the Cable participation
(Comcast et al) is worked out.

Remark Web Survey(R) 4.0 Combines Ease of Use and Powerful Functionality (PRNewswire)

NRI FORMS ASERDIV TO PROVIDE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT (Press Release)

Xbox Moron Covered on Fox News
(Gaming Today)

The UNfunded (Redeye VC)

TruePosition

About a week ago I posted this article on a decision by the DC Appeals Court to stay a ruling by the FCC requiring more stringent accuracy requirements for mobile phone E911 services. I suggested that this position might not be beneficial to Berwyn-based TruePosition, since its cell tower triangulation methodology seemed to most closely adhere to the standards the FCC was trying to impose.
Anyway, TruePosition today issued a press release to coincide with CTIA in Las Vegas announcing its new "hybrid" solution to E911, involving the use of both cell tower triangulation and GPS identification, sometimes in the same area, if I understand it correctly. It sounds as if they are positioning the hybrid solution as going far beyond E911, toward more sophisticated commercial location-based services (LBS).
TruePosition also announced some significant promotions, and released its "Seven Key Drivers for LBS Success" .

Typefi Moving to Area

Reports from the Australian media say that Australian publishing software firm Typefi is moving its international headquarters from California to the Philadelphia area, partly because of incentives and tax breaks and also to be closer to major customers. Where exactly it will be located is not known.

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2007 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Treasury wants 'heart monitor' tech link to financial services firms
Big changes, big spending possible (Computerworld)
Could be a big opportunity for Sungard, perhaps some other area firms.

EDC & IMAGING COMBINATION
Bio-Imaging, PDS Seek More Size (ClinPage)

Ulticom's nSignia ePASS Unites Carriers and Content Providers with the Long Tail of Wireless Web Services (PRNewswire via FoxBusiness)

Waste Management versus SAP: Allegations and details (SAP Watch: SearchSAP.com)


BlueCat Networks Announces Continued Expansion into the U.S. Market; Looks to Build Local Sales, Engineering and Professional Services Expertise (BusinessWire)
Canadian firm opens new US headquarters in Allentown.

Developers Benefit from New Release of XBinder (PRNewswire)

MapQuest Debuts Traffic Data Features (Mashable)

Gloucester County, NJ puts wireless plans on hold (MuniWireless)

Temple Fox School’s Eighth Annual IT Awards Honor Cristóbal Conde of SunGard, Matthew Mullenweg of Automattic, Inc. and Joe Weiss of Electronic Ink (BusinessWire)

College Fanz Sports Network Announces Successful Close of Series A Round Private Placement
ESPN Founder making waves with his sports social network (BusinessWire)

mindSHIFT Expands Market Reach with the Acquisition of Collaboration Online, Limited Company (PRNewswire)

Coates Analytics Goes with Altosoft as Platform for Advanced Financial Analytics Service (BusinessWire)

Altosoft Introduces Altosoft Insight 3.0, Unveiling New Reporting Module, New Process Analysis Features, and Industry’s First Second-Generation In-Memory Business Intelligence Architecture (BusinessWire)

Franklin Update (PRNewswire)
Franklin extends agreement with Seiko.