ICG Announces Execution of Merger Agreement between Creditex and IntercontinentalExchange (BusinessWire)

SAP's Kagermann says profitability is top priority (Reuters)

SAP’s services dilemma: Ecosystem versus opportunity (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

SAP EMEA Sapphire: planning for performance management (ovum)


Comcast Begins Testing 'Protocol Agnostic' Network Management
Leaked memo identifies Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and Warrenton, Virginia tests (Broadband Reports)

Time Warner Cable To Test Metered Internet Access
Time Warner Cable may start charging customers $1 for each gigabyte of content they download from the Internet over a specified allotment. (Information Week)

Social Networking Is No IT Fad
Ringside Networks' Bob Bickel brings customers closer with social-networking technologies. (Redmond Magazine)

Alfresco and Ringside (ecmarchitect.com)

Gates: Silverlight 2 Beta 2 this week, IE8 Beta 2 in August (ars technica)

Infragistics Releases Silverlight 2 UI Components (Dr. Dobb's Portal)

Philadelphia CIOs Report on Third-Quarter Hiring Outlook
Survey Measures Hiring Optimism Among Local Technology Executives (PRNewswire)

Innotap Selects Aleri to Power Real-Time Decision Lifecycle Management Product for Energy Traders (BusinessWire)

InGrid Alarm Hits Crutchfield’s (TWICE)
InGrid expands into a new channel.

Graphing Social Patterns East (A VC)

$13 Million in New Contracts Awarded to WPCS (PRNewswire)

Clickability Wins Award As Best CMS
(Information Week)
Philly.com uses Clickability as its content management platform.

Operators, Vendors Accuse Patent Firm Of Modem 'Sham'
Cable Industry Argues That Rembrandt’s DOCSIS Gear Is Legal Ploy (Multichannel News)

Evolve IP Acquires Lyrio IP Technology Solutions (BusinessWire)

Verizon FiOS tech heading to enterprises
Claims new high-speed optical networks slash floor space, electricity needs (Network World)

FIOS TV has a flaw that's a universal one (Delaware Online)

Can Anything Replace My Old Reliable Friend? (New York Times)
On VoIP and Comcast.

Google To Launch Large Scale Geo-Services (TechCrunch)

The New iPhone’s New Winner (GigaOM)

Five Questions (Plus One) About TRF and the New Version of PolicyMap (Directions Magazine)

Microsoft Dynamics AX looking more like SAP? (ZDNet Blogs)

This One Really Matters! (Human Resource Executive Online)
On Taleo's acquisition of Vurv.

Could Nextel network spin-off to new Clearwire WiMax venture? (sprint connection)

EMS Moves Headquarters to Oaklands Corporate Center (BusinessWire)

University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) extends Radianse real-time location system across Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (BusinessWire)

Penn to Build Largest Academic Motion-Capture Studio in Region (Research at Penn)

Introducing A New Search Engine


Today I am launching a new custom search engine, PhillyTech Search. It should be much more useful than the rudimentary thing I had out there before, and I hope you’ll try it out.
The search engine covers large and small tech companies, venture capital firms, industry and trade associations, user groups, government resources, academic institutions and research centers, news and information resources, and support services that tech companies need. It is fairly comprehnsive in terms of coverage, and I will continue to expand it on an ongoing basis.
There are some limitations to the capabilities of Google Custom Search, which I am using. There are ways to tweak some of these things, and I’ll also look at finding a more robust search engine to use in the future. But for now, I think this is a good starting point.

If you can’t find your site or some other site you think should be in there, please let me know. And any suggestions or comments would be welcomed.
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Onstream To Buy IPTV Firm Narrowstep
Internet-Video Services Deal Worth Up To $19 Million (Multichannel News)
NarrowStep is based in Princeton.


Sapiens, Millbrook and IBM to Offer On Demand Business Intelligence to Small and Mid-Sized Insurance Carriers (PRWeb)
Millbrook Inc. is based in Exton.

Del. is tops in 'State of the Internet'
Big network backbones serving large cities nearby give state plenty of bandwidth, fiber optics (Wilmington News Journal)

Roberts Clearer on Clearwire Strategy
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Time Warner Cable to Offer Web to TV Link (New York Times)

Samsung multi-sources 3G now (Wireless Industry Analyst)
Implications for InterDigital.

Microsoft Raises Bar for Fostering a Diverse IT Industry with Changing Face of IT Campaign (WebWire)

Cell phones yield key clues for investigators (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Billboards That Look Back (New York Times)

New Twist for Double Helix (mrweb)

Wrapping up on BE Conference 2008:

Speculation: Autodesk to Buy Bentley Systems? (WorldCad Access)

Busy week at Bentley (Extranet Evolution)

Bentley Staking Position as an Advocate for Sustainable Infrastructure (Directions Magazine: All Points Blog)

Bentley Releases Bentley Water V8 XM Edition (Bentley Systems Press Release)

Bentley Announces Winners of 2008 BE Awards of Excellence (Bentley Systems Press Release)

Comcast targets the small-business market (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast Tries to Break Some Windows (New York Times Blogs)

Comcast Hijackers Say They Warned the Company First (Wired Blogs)

Rumors of the Death of the Set-Top… (Media Experiences 2 GO-a Motorola blog)

Survey: Phila. businesses have high hopes for Nutter administration (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Challenges Adding Up For SAP (Investor's Business Daily)

SAP denies Gartner report that its GRC solutions are incomplete (SearchSAP.com)


Checkpoint Systems, Inc. to Centralize Product Leadership
Global Product Lines will now be Managed from Madrid, Spain
Corporate Headquarters to Remain in Thorofare, NJ
Position of Chief Information Officer Created (BusinessWire)

Start-ups get a leg up
Two local businesses receive $150,000 each in low-interest loans from tech agency. (Allentown Morning Call)

Reading firm gets $68M flight simulation contract PHiladelphia Inquirer)

Comcast Interactive Media: Profitability On Track In ‘08; More Purchases Ahead (paidContent)

Comcast's Roberts on Plaxo and future deals (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Comcast’s Nostalgic Hack (Wall Street
Journal Blogs)

Safeguard Scientifics Appoints Stephen Zarrilli Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (BusinessWire)


Redlasso Responds to National Broadcast Content Providers’ Cease and Desist Demand
Veteran Broadcast Executive Michael Jordan Joins Redlasso as Senior Advisor (BusinessWire)
I'm not sure if even Michael Jordan can pull this one out.

Quality Systems director concerned with governance (Associated Press via Forbes)
Quality Systems is the parent of NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham. This battle has been going on for years
now. I don't know how much of it is based on substance. On the face of it, the company seems to perform fairly well. See Google Finance for more about Quality.

Towards the Social Web: Ringside Seats for the Social Big Bang (CMSWire)

HxTechnologies offers integrated service on Google Health platform (Hx Technologies Press Release)

Boomi brings another piece of Salesforce to Europe (Salesforce Times)

Decoding SAP’s strategy rhetoric (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Fiberlink Grows Global Wi-Fi Footprint by 19% by Signing Up with Deutsche Telekom North America; Includes T-Mobile in Europe (Fiberlink Communications Press Release)

After hacking incident, Downingtown hosts cyber session (Philadelphia Inquirer)

DCED Seeking PA IT/Electronics Companies for Largest Trade Show in Asia This Fall
(PRNewswire)

More news from BE Conference 2008 (Bentley Systems) in Baltimore:


Why In The World Was Carl Bass Scheduled to Tele-Appear at the Bentley Conference? (AECnews.com)

Bentley Announces ISO 15926-Based Bentley OpenPlant PDx Manager (Bentley Systems Press Release)

Bentley Introduces Comprehensive New Geospatial Product Portfolio With Powerful GIS Capabilities (Bentley Systems Press Release)

Bentley’s Communications Products Help Hellas Online Speed Delivery of 450-Kilometer Fiber Network in Athens (BusinessWire)

Local dignitaries expected for grand opening of $2.5 million expansion designed to attract new movie projects to Philadelphia area(Shoot Publicity Wire)

Hendricks to leave Unisys for EDS (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Agreement may mean end of cable set-top boxes
Agreement between cable industry, Sony, may be beginning of the end for set-top boxes (Associated Press via CNN Money)

Visible World, a targeted cable advertiser, raises $25M (VentureBeat)
Comcast Interactive Capital participated in the round. Sounds like another piece of Project Canoe.

Bentley Acquires Common Point to Mainstream Construction Simulation (Bentley Systems Press Release)

Bentley Announces Release of May 2008 Annual Report (Bentley Systems Press Release)
Revenue reaches $450 Million.

Ad agency Neiman Group makes some noise on its arrival (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Web Shopping 2.0: GSI Commerce Implements New Social Navigation Feature to Amplify the Voice of the Customer (PRNewswire)

The Last Supper (Reuters Blog)
Celebrating the end of the independent Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

TAGSYS Announces New High Performance RFID Systems for Textile Services (BusinessWire)

Lincoln unveils online illustration solution (FT Advisor)

Cordys to beef up North American ops with new industry-centric president (BPM in Action)

Objective Systems' ASN.1 Tools Selected by Symbian (PRNewswire)

Sony, cable firms act to eliminate set-top boxes
Pact with operators sets new standard for plug-and-play TVs, devices (MarketWatch)

Deal round-up: Ben bucks; Viet Rohm; Virtua builds (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
On latest disbursement of Ben Franklin funding.

Wal-Mart’s confused SAP strategy (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Review: SAPPHIRE 2008 - A new star is born in the BPM Galaxy…
(ARRIS BPM Blog)

Jon Reed Interviews David Foote on SAP Skills Trends (JonERP.com)

Guys on fast-track to business success (Metro Philadelphia)

Looking for great leadership teams
Ben Franklin speaker talks about business talent. Four awards given. (Allentown Morning Call)

ING looks to help customers secure online transactions
It's now offering a security software tool from Trusteer (Computerworld)
ING Direct USA is based in Wilmington.

A Wall Street quest falters
Initiative to be a backup data center for financial companies shows little progress. (Allentown Morning Call)

Chasing the Interactive Ad(vantage)
Is cable on the cusp of turning targeted TV spots into a real business? (Multichannel News)

Young Joins Diversified Search Ray & Berndtson To Head Technology Group (BusinessWire)

Shunra Software Announces New Chief Technology Officer as Company Expands Application Performance and Analysis Portfolio (BusinessWire)

Deacom Launches ERP Software Training Program
Deacom University Offers In-Depth Knowledge of Specific Functions of ERP System (BusinessWire)

Boomi and StrikeIron Partner to Accelerate SaaS Adoption by Enabling Seamless Integration of Web Services (BusinessWire)

Torex Picks Astea Lifecycle Management App, Alliance (TMCnet)