Oracle buys AdminServer of Chester (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Lockheed likely to win GPS satellite contract: report (Reuters)

Defense contractors with Phila. ties in $4B deal (Associated Press via Philly.com)

How Bad Is The SAP Talent Shortage? (Information Week)

Cobham to buy M/A-COM ops from Tyco Electronics for $425 mln cash (Thomson Financial via Forbes)

In Pennsylvania, Insurers Pay Primary Care Docs to Do More (Wall Street Journal: Health Blog)

NextGen Healthcare Continues Growth in the California IPA Market
Monarch HealthCare joins other California-based IPAs in selecting NextGen® technology (BusinessWire)

Liberty Settles With Diller, Won't File Appeal To Block IAC Breakup (Silicon Alley Insider)

Sprint: Still a World of Pain
The mobile-phone giant's planned turnaround may involve selling off assets to comply with lenders' agreements (Business Week)

Comcast Elevates Kolb To CMO Of E!, Style
Promotion Also Makes Executive GM Of E! Online (Multichannel News)

New Horizons Reports First Quarter 2008 Results (BusinessWire)

Paragon Technologies Reports 2008 First Quarter Results
(PRNewswire)

Cops helping cops (phillyBurbs.com)

EarthLink closing Philadelphia Wi-Fi network
(Associated Press via Business Week)

Another Municipal Wi-Fi Plan Dies (Portfolio.com)

EarthLink To Kill Philly Wi-Fi. Where's Comcast? (Silicon Alley Insider)

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2008 (BusinessWire)

HP (HPQ) Close To $12-13 Billion Deal For EDS (EDS) (Silicon Alley Insider)

MedQuist Reports First Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire)

RCN Launches InGrid Home Security Services Trial
Offering Will Be Available in Chicago and Philadelphia Metro Areas (BusinessWire)


Operators Feeling Wired As Cable Show Nears
Industry Sanguine Behind Q1 Results, Rising Stock Prices And Wireless Plays (Multichannel News)

Tech File: WiMax offers wider connection, control (San Jose Mercury News)


Motorola Earns CableLabs(R) Approval for DOCSIS(R) 3.0 SURFboard(R) Cable Modems and CMTS (PRNewswire)

Universal Display Isn't Universal -- Yet (Motley Fool)

Comsys says it paid $16.5M in cash for Montco firm (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Jim Ryan Named as CMWare CEO (NJBIZ.com)

MRO Corp. Names Stephen Hynes Interim CEO (BusinessWire)

Dataram Appoints John H. Freeman as President And CEO (BusinessWire)

Sovereign ready to raise $1.5B (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Barcoding Inc. and Apacheta Form Strategic Alliance to Streamline Mobile Field Service and Delivery Operations (PRWeb)

Ben Franklin Tech Partners dedicates building (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Pay Gap Fuels Worker Woes (Wall Street Journal)
Discusses compensation policies at Analytical Graphics.

Innovation Philadelphia to Host Creative Economy Conference May 22nd at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (PRNewswire)

City still looks for Wi-Fi plans (Metro Philadelphia)

Journal Register says risks default by July (Reuters)

The New Philly.com (Recovering Journalist)

Dykstra making business his game
He's a guru of stock picks, and hopes to help pro athletes "keep living the dream." (Philly.com)

Native son on the rise in Delaware
Manheim Township grad Ernie Dianastasis leads effort to foster Delaware entrepreneurs
(Lancaster Online)

HSN retail network chief sets stage for spin-off
(Reuters via The Guardian)
Tie-up with QVC still a possibility.

InGrid partners with cable companies (Security Systems News)

EarthLink to Philly: Run your own WiFi or we’ll shut it down (ars technica)

Will Google and Cable Firms Rejuvenate WiMAX?M (Red Herring)

Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere (ZDNet Blogs)

NFL Network Files Carriage Complaint against Comcast
NFL says cable operator kept network out of reach by putting it on premium tier (Broadcast Newsroom)

Specter remains skeptical
He wants NFL to hear Walsh out (Boston Globe)

Council ponders how to help Phila.'s 'creative economy' (Philly.com: Philly Inc)


Malone Weighs Appeal Of IAC Ruling; Diller Calls It A "Nonevent" (Silicon Alley Insider)

MetroPCS Misses Street On Sales, EPS (PCS) (Silicon Alley Insider)
Launching in Philly in the 4th quarter.

New Method Promises Cheaper RFID Tag Development (RFID Update)

User 927 (John Battelle's Searchblog)

RCM Technologies buys MBH Solutions (Philadelphia Business Journal)

New Release of Sajara® Geographic Digital Asset Management Software Now Supports Scanned Maps (Directions Magazine)


InGrid partners with cable companies (Security Systems News)

Comcast signs 'Internet-on-the-go' deal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Sprint-Clearwire: Comcast's Tom Nagel: 'Full Control' Is 'Significantly Different From Pivot' (mocoNews.net via Washington Post)

Comcast’s Near-Unlimited Bandwidth Limits (New York Times)

SunGard Announces First Quarter 2008 Results (BusinessWire)

Internet Capital Group Announces First Quarter Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Liberty Media Reports Record First Quarter Financial Results (PRNewswire)
QVC revenue up 5%. One thing I didn't realize is that Liberty apparently holds an interest in GSI Commerce.

Universal Display Corporation Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

DuPont, Dainippon to make LEDs (Wilmington News Journal)

SAP Sheds Light on New BPM Tools (PC World)

For-profit HIEs are the answer, entrepreneur says
(Government Health IT)
On HX Technologies.


Penn Center for Computer Graphics Joins SIG to Build Region's Largest Motion-Capture Studio (Media Newswire)

NAVTEQ Traffic Mobile(TM) Powers Verizon Wireless Traffic Application (PRNewswire via Providence Journal)

Wawa Expands Online and Mobile Ordering (QSR Magazine)

SAI 25: The World's Most Valuable Digital Startups (Silicon Alley Insider)
QlikTech makes the list.

InterDigital Rakes In Fresh Cash (Motley Fool)



Co Working (Small & Mighty)

Technology Group Plans Wireless Network (New York Times)

Tech Consortium Bids $14.5B on WiMAX (Red Herring)

Does Comcast Want To Put Bandwidth Hogs On A Diet? Sounds Good To Us (Silicon Alley Insider)

InterDigital® Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Checkpoint Q1 results beat market view; shares jump (Reuters)

Bio-Imaging Technologies Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results (BusinessWire)

Reporter's Notebook: Sapphire Sets Stage For A Different Kind Of SAP (Information Week Blog)

SAP Beefs Up Enterprise Support
More expensive, holistic support with SOA capabilities. (InternetNews.com)

Precyse Solutions Closes Recapitalization Event with Altaris Capital Partners and NewSpring Capital
Liquidity event expected to help company drive future business initiatives (PRNewswire)

Reality Check in Store for New 'TV Guide' Owner (Portfolio.com)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Share Repurchase Program and Proposes Reverse Stock Split (BusinessWire)

High-tech name tags hold agendas, notes, etc. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

PhindMe(R) Locates in a Leading U.S. Center for Entrepreneurship (PRNewswire)

MySpace, Facebook Still On Top
But newcomer makes an appearance (Web Pro News)
myYearbook.com continues to move up.

New CEO for Phila. medical publisher Elsevier (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

The Unboxing of NEAT Receipts for Mac (NeatReceipts Blog)

Comcast, others close to WiMAX deal (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Could be an announcement tomorrow.

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)