Where SAP is going (SearchSAP.com: SAP
Watch)

SAP aims to make upgrades easier; Rolls out enhancement packages; Touts analytics (ZDNet Blogs)

Business Objects brings BI to business (SearchSAP.com)

USA Technologies Announces Third Successive Record Fiscal Quarter
Revenue Up 58%, Gross Profit Up 182% -- Driven by Increases in Product Sales, License and Transaction Fees (BusinessWire)

Health Market Science expands in Liberty Property building (Philadelphia Business Journal)

CableLabs® Announces New Tru2way™ Retail Host Device License Agreement
Samsung Electronics First to Sign Up (BusinessWire)

Comcast's 30-to-1 Odds (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)


TV Guide shuffles top editor posts (Associated Press via Philly.com)
TV Guide still employs 1600 in Radnor.

Newspapers struggle to retain readership (Daily Local News)

Blue Ridge Communications Selects InGrid Home Security (BusinessWire via Broadcast Newsroom)
Expect more cable tie-ups for InGrid in the future.

Primavera(R) Pertmaster Advances State-of-the-Art Scheduling With Relationship-Driven Critical Path Method (RD-CPM(TM)) (PRNewswire)

Automated Financial Systems (AFS) Delivers the Banking Industry’s First Basel II Segment Upgrade for Lending (BusinessWire)

Taleo to Acquire Vurv Technology for US $129 Million (TechFinance)
I reported Friday on a rumor that SAP had been in discussions about buying Vurv. This also has implications for
Kenexa.

SaaS benefits starting to outweigh risks for some (Computerworld)

Pennsylvania a Leader in Creating Jobs Through Foreign Direct Investment, DCED Secretary Says (PRNewswire)

Secrets Are Finally Revealed
Since going public almost three years ago, Kenexa has been roundly criticized for not revealing more about its business. Wall Street calls that "transparency"; we call it honesty. All that finally changed last month. (Human Resource Executive Online)

SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought Yahoo (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Teams With HP, IBM For Business Software Appliances (Information Week)

Rimini Street Will Now Offer Maintenance Support for SAP's R/3 Products (CIO.com)

eResearchTechnology Reports First Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire)

Lancaster Co. firm to pay $9.5M for obstruction (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Heartland Payment Sys. to buy Alliance Data Sys.'s network services business (Thomson Financial via Forbes)


QVC shops for ideas for future sales (USA Today)

Comcast Answers the Competitive Call (Motley Fool)

Comcast WiMax Deal Could Come Next Week (Broadband Reports)

Rumor: Deutsche Telekom Considering Sprint Purchase
A move that would give the German carrier a majority of the U.S. wireless market (Broadband Reports)

InfoLogix Acquires Delta Health Systems; Adds Strategic Cost Management Consulting Services at the Executive Level (PRNewswire)

InfoLogix Completes $25 Million Senior Debt Financing (PRNewswire)


invivodata And ClinPhone Announce Exclusive Global Partnership For ePRO Solutions (Pharmaceutical Online)

SunGard Availability Services Announces Strategic Partnership With VMware (PRNewswire)

InterDigital® Signs Both Asustek And Pegatron to Worldwide 2G And 3G Patent License Agreements (BusinessWire)

2 info-tech firms say merger is equal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Journal Register no longer public, will not file with SEC (phillyBurbs.com)

Yoh Developing the Yoh Exchange, Helping Companies Accelerate Talent Acquisition and Decrease Costs
Expands relationship with SAP through new agreement (BusinessWire)

Library Technology Veteran Lamar Jackson Appointed President and CEO of Bibliotheca Incorporated USA (openPR.com)

Safeguard Needs More Than The Help Of A Saint (Forbes)

Grand Theft Philadelphia, courtesy of virtual world GeoSimPhilly (Tech Digest)

American Capital Closing Two Offices (peHUB)
One is Philadelphia.

SAP’s Business ByDesign: Explaining the Delays (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Is Wooing the BlackBerry CRM Crowd
Software giant will natively integrate its business apps into RIMM's BlackBerry. (Internetnews.com)

Controlling the Living Room (New York Times)

Schools of the future, already here
A state initiative has given districts a new style of teaching and learning. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Public Forum on Future of Philly WifFi (philly1.com)

Comcast pins hopes on a mobile future
The cable giant is hoping that a new wireless broadband network will give it a leg up in a tough market. (Fortune)

Comcast buyback paying off (Fortune)


Comcast launches $2 bln debt in two-part sale (Reuters)

Big Ten, Comcast close to agreement
A deal could be announced in 2 to 3 weeks (The State Journal Register)

SAP expects margins to rise in 2009 in spite of Business ByDesign delay (Forbes)

Analysts: Delay to SAP's Saas rollout no surprise (ZDNet UK)

SAP AND RIM USHER IN A NEW ERA FOR ENTERPRISE MOBILITY (SAP Press Release)

Tyco Electronics 2Q EPS narrowly tops Wall St estimates; raises FY guidance (Thomson Financial via Forbes)

TVGuide No More: Macrovision’s Acquisition Of Gemstar Complete; To Be Called Macrovision Solutions
(paidContent.org)

Vurv SAP acquisition (Retail
E-Recruitment Blog)

Honeywell Security buys barcode scanner company
Metrologic Instruments sold to Honeywell by equity firm Francisco Partners (SecurityInfoWatch)

SEDONA and CU ink Extend Partnership to Deliver Marketing Services to Intarsia Customers
(PRNewswire)

Deacom Enhances Document Management System for Manufacturers (BusinessWire)

inTEST Reports First Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire)

Comcast 1Q profit falls, but Internet, phone lifts stock (Associated Press via Google News)

Heartland Payment Systems 1Q earnings rise 27 percent (Associated Press via CNNMoney)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Company Expects Sale of Legacy Partner Companies to Close in May 2008 (BusinessWire)

Primavera(R) Celebrates 25 Years of Helping Customers Achieve Excellence in Project, Program and Portfolio Management (PRNewswire)

Health Market Science Launches Prism Advanced Analytics (b-eye-network)

ActiveStrategy Demonstrates First Enterprise Performance Management Application for iPhone at Client Conference (BusinessWire)

iGuard.org Alters the Face of E-Health: New Web Service Draws 10,000 New Patients Weekly
(PRNewswire)

SAP's profit drops 22%; license sales miss forecast
German business-software giant delays investment in BusinessByDesign (MarketWatch)

Time Warner Splits Cable (Forbes)

Unisys swings to first-quarter loss on weaker US business (Associated Press via Houston Chronicle)

Special Report: Apple's secret iPhone WiMax plans? (9 to 5 Mac)

QVC Goes HD
Shopping Channel Now Available In High-Definition (Multichannel News)

Online Ad Company Marchex Enters Mobile With Pay-Per-Call Service (mocoNews.net)

CDI Q1 revenue lags Wall Street; backs '08 outlook (Reuters)

InfoLogix Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results (PRNewswire via Biloxi Sun Herald)

SunGard is a Founding Member of Banking Industry Architecture Network (SunGard Press Release)

Infragistics Announces TestAdvantage(TM) for Windows(R) Forms (for IBM Rational Functional Tester)
(PRNewswire)

TIBCO BPM Impressions (BPMS Watch)

McKinsey surveys the new software landscape (Rough Type)

21st Century Software Named 'Cool Vendor' by Leading Analyst Firm (PRWeb)

Buchanan Adds Two Intellectual Property Attorneys in Philadelphia (PRNewswire)

Honeywell Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Metrologic Instruments, Innovator of Scanner Technology (PRNewswire)

Vishay swings to 1st-quarter loss on discontinued operations (Associated Press via CNNMoney)

Comcast Boosts Business Class Internet Speeds to 16 Mbps at No Additional Cost for Small- and Medium-Sized Companies Nationwide (BusinessWire)

TimeWarner owners want cable sale; Comcast a buyer? (Philly.com: Philly Deal)

Why Pivot mattered (Fierce IPTV)

Inquirer circulation slips (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Regional Newspapers are Doomed (Portfolio.com)

TVGuide.com’s Strange Ways: To Be Retained By Macrovision? (paidContent.org)

ExpertPlan Acquires Trust Service Company, Inc. (TSCI) (PRWeb)

HMP Communications Holdings Acquires Princeton Media Associates
Significantly Expands Accredited Programs and Provides Entry Into Managed Care (BusinessWire)

Premier Research Group plc and Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. Announce Strategic Partnership
(PRNewswire)

ClinPhone plc Reports Strong Growth with Preliminary Year End Results (PharmaLive)

Case Details Revolution Health's Growth And Future (Online Media Daily)

Review of NJ e-voting approved; won't be in time for election (ars technica)

SAP product woes endanger mid-term targets - paper (Reuters)

Growing customer base boosts Verizon 1Q profit by 9.8 pct (Associated Press via Forbes)

Verizon to Raise Prices, Cut Jobs (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Mathias: It's time for a convergence standard to emerge (Computerworld)
Discusses the importance of InterDigital.

Quaker BioVentures Closes Second Fund with $420 Million in Total Commitments
Fund provides investment capital with focus on Mid-Atlantic life sciences companies (BusinessWire)

Robotic arm uses repetition to rebuild brain pathways (Knoxville New Sentinel)

Ascend Acquisition Corp. and e.PAK Resources (S) Pte. Ltd. Terminate Business Combination
(PRNewswire)

Bio-Imaging Expects Synergies with Phoenix Data Acquisition (Bio-IT World)


CLSI Releases Infobase™ 2008
Searchable CD-ROM of CLSI Standards and Guidelines (BusinessWire)

Ulticom responds to the service-oriented drive
Breaks out of component shell with edge signaling solution (Telecommunications Magazine)

Synygy Continues Upward Trends in Growth and Profitability in Q1
Market Growth and Base of Subscription Revenue Bode Well for 2008 Results (BusinessWire)


Public-television revolutionary
WYBE’s new model offers 5-minute shorts (Philly.com)

Taking a walk in the clouds (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Tour and video of Comcast's new headquarters.

Aegis’s Verklin Moves On, Possibly to ‘Project Canoe’ (Media Buyer Planner)

Interesting job with Comcast:
VP Strategy Planning/Wireless Product Development (Wireless Career)

Oracle v. SAP Legal Fight Gets Messier, Raises Tough Questions About Third-Party Maintenance (CIO.com)

NMC blasts software company's 'negligence'
(Traverse City Record-Eagle)
On SunGard's stolen laptop.

EU puts second Galileo test satellite into orbit (Reuters)

Bethlehem innovators to get awards (PennLive)

Time Warner, Viacom, Comcast profits seen higher (MarketWatch)

Comcast Cares -- But Only About People Like You (TechDirt)

Comcast Networks to Standardize on Sony XDCAM Technology (TV Technology)

NFL Network In IPTV Distro Deal With SES Americom
Satellite Service To Offer Football Programming To Telco TV Providers (Multichannel News)

J:COM Puts Motorola DOCSIS 3.0 Modems in Homes Starting TODAY (Media Experiences 2 Go)

GSI Commerce shares jump after strong 1Q results (Associated Press via Forbes)
Somewhat better than expected, but I'm still not sure GSI has found a viable economic model.

L-3 Communications Q1 profit up, raises 2008 forecast (Reuters)

Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. Announces Record Growth in CDISC Engagements (PRWeb)

Now Hiring Smart People! (Invite Media)

New Publisher GreenScreen Acquires DSI and ZOO, Announces Game (Gamasutra)

VCs Pour On Investments For Open-Source Leaders (Investor's Business Daily)

Is Web 2.0 Disruptive to Databases? (Intelligent Enterprise)

The Franklin Institute Receives Record $4 Million Gift from Biopharmaceutical Leader, Cephalon
Gift to Support Creation of Brain Exhibit (BusinessWire)

Comcast Ramping Up Wireless Ambitions
So much for Roberts not liking the 'quadruple play' (Broadband Reports)


Comcast Seeks Restraining Order Against AT&T (Online Media Daily)

On Top of High Tech (Jewish Exponent)
High Tech ties between Israel and Philadelphia.

Microsoft Launches On-Demand CRM Software into a Crowded Market (CIO.com)

NextWave, From Spectrum to Hard Technology (WAVE) (24/7 Wall St)

Primavera(R) Delivers Superior Integrated Program Management Solution (PRNewswire)

Social Networking: From the Server Side (Dr. Dobbs Portal)
About Ringside Networks of Marlton.

Encoda Launches Latest Version of the M/EDI Information Generator™ at New Jersey Practice (BusinessWire)

Sports Network Web site hacked
(phillyBurbs.com)

How blogs have reinvented Philadelphia Tourism (UTalk Marketing)

Entrepreneurial Activity Remained Strong in 2007 with Major Shifts among Men, Women and Immigrants, Says Kauffman Foundation Study (BusinessWire)
Philadelphia lowest in entrepreneurial activity among major metro areas, according to study.

Rumors of e-vote Fraud in Pennsylania, but Voters Like Machines
(Popular Mechanics)

West Chester film festival opens today (Daily Local News)