Verizon Agrees to Buy Alltel for $28.1 Billion (New York Times)

Private Equity Firm Buys Web Host, HostMySite (TopHosts.com)

HostMySite.com Web Hosting Company, Premieres New Website (The Hosting News)

Interview: Lem Lloyd, VP, Yahoo’s Newspaper Consortium: Reticent On Results, But Wait For AMP (paidContent)
Philadelphia Media Holdings is a key member of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium. Lloyd says that most of the Consortium's success to data has come from HotJobs. Ironically, though, Philly.com doesn't use HotJobs. It uses Monster, which hasn't been
faring too well recently.

PMH negotiating with lenders (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
In "technical default".

Comcast planning super-fast Internet speeds in most markets (Associated Press via Delaware Online)

Optium Corporation Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results
Record Revenues of $45 Million Driven by High-Growth Product Lines and Customer Diversification (Prime Newswire)

Optical Component Market Consolidation – Part I (Seeking Alpha)

Nokia to use IDCC products in future? (Wireless Industry Analyst)

Nokia/Navteq approval assured, no EU charge-sources (Reuters)
Navteq owns Traffic.com

Bensalem firm earns chance at contracts (phillyBurbs.com)

Probaris Wins FIPS-201 Credentialing Contract With Patent and Trademark Office for HSPD-12 Compliance (Marketwire)

Mikros Systems Awarded a Navy Seaport-Enhanced (Seaport-e) Contract
(PRNewswire)

The Web's global reach translates into a business
MTM LinguaSoft will speak the language of your pages (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Pennsylvania DCED Official Says Expanded Bethlehem Facility Will Create Jobs (PRNewswire)

Windows veteran jumps to second Silverlight (The Register UK)

ECRI Institute's Alert and Recall Management System Expands Effectiveness with New Content and Filters (PRNewswire)

SAP Ventures plans to invest in India (Business Standard of India)

SAP may pick up 15% stake in Newgen (Economic Times of India)

SAP India - 'Jewel in the Crown' (CXOtoday)
I'm wondering out loud whether this my have been a bit of a faux paus on Mr. McDermott's part. "Jewel in the Crown" was the
phrase the British used to refer to the importance of India to the British Empire. I doubt the Indian people want their relationship to SAP compared to their relationship to the British Empire.

VCs prefer IPOs even as bourses turn cheap (livemint.com)
Mentions AppLabs as an IPO possiblity.

Some 'angel' investors do answer startup prayers (Newark Star-Ledger)


ARPANet architect: bring "fairness" to traffic management (ars technica)

CNBC: Verizon Wireless in talks to buy Alltel Communications for $27B (Associated Press via CNN Money)

ipCapital Group and Intellisophic, Inc. Announce Strategic Alliance (BusinessWire)

Dataram Reports Fiscal 2008 Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Financial Results
Company Reports Fourth Quarter Net Earnings of $0.05 Per Share (BusinessWire)

OATSystems Selected for Production RFID Implementation; RFID Solution to Be Integrated With SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure Platform (BusinessWire)
To be deployed at Cephalon.

QVC Recalls Tomato Planters (Consumer Affairs)

Police search for 2 men who fled shooting in Comcast van (Associated Press via CNN Money)

Pa. software company sues over Howard Stern's Web site (Associated Press
via York Daily Record)

The Insider: Funding for Entrepreneurs – Philly’s Assets are the Numbers
(Innovation Philadelphia Blog)

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)