Making waves on Wall Street (phillyBurbs.com)
On New Hope startup 3D Markets.

InterDigital® SlimChip™ Modem Platform Selected by Mobile Broadband Module Company (BusinessWire)

Reinventing a Giant, Part 2: The New SAP (CRM Buyer)

SAP finds a defender of discipline (Financial Times)


Alleged SAP partner arrested: Beware of fraud in the ecosystem (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Comcast SportsNet chief talks strategy (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast, Big Ten Network close to deal, report says (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Web site hosting company to add jobs (Wilmington News Journal)

Local IT company grows (phillyBurbs.com)

Ballard Acquires Atlanta IP Group (BusinessWire)

Convenience, LCB-style.
Vending-machine idea appalls wine crowd (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SunGard Extends Trading Connectivity in Asia-Pacific (PRNewswire)

Verizon Extends FiOS to SMBs (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)


To fund a PowerPoint: Bucking the trend, some VCs still target early-stage startups (The Deal.com)
Profiles First Round Capital, among others.

Pearl Software's Desktop, Mobile Laptop, Hosted and Thin-Client Web Filtering Solutions are Now Available on GSA Schedule (PRWeb)

Top Executives To Take Cable-Tec Stage
Cable Chiefs Will Convene In Philadelphia For SCTE Conference (Multichannel News)

Cover Story: Can David Verklin Set Cable's Next Generation Of TV Advertising?
The Canoe CEO Says He's Ready To Help The Six Largest MSOs Paddle Together (Multichannel News)

Tax break could move major firm to Phila. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Navteq charting a future in phones
Mapmaker aims to tap input from Nokia users (Chicago Tribune)
Navteq owns locally based Traffic.com

Drexel University Online Students Break Ground As the First to Defend "Real World" Degrees in Second Life (PRWeb)

Mid-Atlantic Capital Alliance honors award winners (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Salganik finds new avenues for social research online
(Princeton Weekly Bulletin)

Citywide wireless network: Take II (Young Philly Politics)
Public forum on the 18th at Temple. I thought the inclusion of the Google Wireless guy on the panel was kind of interesting.

Executive Changes


TMG Health Names New Chief Information Officer (PRNewswire)

Najarian to Oversee Digital Side at Trio of Comcast Networks (TVWeek)

AVENUE A | RAZORFISH Promotes Horan, Hunter and Tuleya (Philly Ad Club)

BC Group Hires Markley as Digital Strategist (Phiily Ad Club)

Garfield Group Names Digitas Exec Dean Whitney as President of Boston-based Interactive Division Garfield Group Interactive (PRNewswire)

NetSuite aims at SAP with manufacturing edition (Network World)

Léo Apotheker: A dissenting view (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Prime Times (Project@Work-free subscription)
On the history and future of Primavera Systems.

Parexel to buy UK clinical tech firm ClinPhone
(Associated Press via Forbes)
ClinPhone's US headquarters is in East Windsor, NJ.

iPhone setback sinks Synchronoss (Newark Star-Ledger)
Most of Synchronoss' operations are moving to Bethlehem. See article here

Herley Reports Third Quarter Results (PRNewswire)

Early Stage East to vet 21 start-ups (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Early Stage East (The Bulletin)

Citywide WI-Fi for free? (Metro Philadelphia)

Revealed: The Tru2way MOU (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

SuiteLinq™ to Partner with Superclick for In-Room Hospitality Technology Product Development (BusinessWire)

Bike accident kills Comcast executive (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

AMETEK Acquires Vision Research (BusinessWire)

Stanley Works Buying Sonitrol (Private
Equity Hub)

Comcast Increases Upstream Speeds for Its High-Speed Internet Customers for No Additional Charge
Upstream Speed to Nearly Triple for Performance Customers and More Than Double for Performance Plus Customers (BusinessWire)

MedQuist settles case, appoints interim CEO (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Philadelphia Races to Find New ''Wi-Fi'' Provider (KYW News Radio)

Municipal Wi-Fi isn't dead yet
(Maketplace: Audio)
On more successful, realistic Wi-Fi ventures in Santa Monica and other cities.

Redlasso: Let's Hope Some Retired Studio Bigs Can Save Us (Silicon Alley Insider)

Online medical records offer convenience, may limit privacy (USA Today)

Flipping through the options on health records sites (USA Today)
Mentions MEDecision.

Moto to cut jobs from R&D unit (RCR Wireless News)

SAP's Product Communities: Taking Cues From Open Source
(CRM Buyer)

SunGard Launches New Compliance Dashboard (Wall Street & Technology)

NSX to Use SunGard’s Brass Liquidity Services for Execution and Clearing (SunGard Press Release)

Wachovia buys Del. Web hosting company
Glasgow's HostMySite founded in 1997 (Wilmington News Journal)

GSI Commerce closing Tenn. distribution center (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Shout Out to Ignite Philly Coordinators (100khouse.com)

IPO FILING: Mistras Group, Inc. (24/7 Wall St)
The Mistras Group is based in Princeton Junction.

SAP's Bill McDermott: The Future of Enterprise Software (Knowledge@Wharton)

Redlasso Hires Ex-Studio Execs To Ease Infringement Negotiations (TechCrunch)

Federal Reserve Board Beige Book: Philadelphia, June 2008 (Federal Reserve Board)

Quality Systems 4Q earnings rise 32 percent
(Associated Press via Forbes)
Quality Systems owns NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham.

'Wireless Philadelphia'' Project Could Be Back Online (KYW News Radio)
Rather vague.

Fresh off the Wire
A local group is the latest to express interest in our failed wireless network. (Philadelphia Weekly)

Discover seeks $6 bln in case vs Visa, MasterCard (Reuters)

CIBER and Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Complete Third and Final Phase of $58 Million IT Project on Time and on Budget (PRNewswire)

Andrews cites benefits of earmarks (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

Avencia Develops Connect211.org to Geographically Search for Social Services (GISuser.com)

Technologicology Special Report: IgnitePhilly, Tonight! (Philebrity)

Report: The Top Five Supply Chain Management Vendors (CIO.com)

Encorium Group, Inc. Announces Signing of Letter of Intent to Combine with Linkcon; Expected Expansion Will Create Global CRO (BusinessWire)

Encorium Group, Inc. Announces Signing of Letter of Intent to Acquire Prologue Research International, Inc. (BusinessWire)


Business intelligence: Only the tip of the iceberg (MyCustomer.com)
By QlikTech exec.

U.S. cable ad venture hires ex-Aegis chief - WSJ (Reuters)

Verklin Picked as Cable's Canoe Captain (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

More Firms Go the Way of Tru2way (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Initial Tru2Way Tests a 'Disaster' (Broadband Reports)

Verizon’s FiOS Buildout Could Top Original Estimates
MDUs May Help Telco Top 18 Million-Home Target By End Of 2010 (Multichannel News)

iPhone 3G - $199 wins my support (UPDATED) (Wireless Industry Analyst)

Lenfest comes to Tectonics' rescue
(phillyBurbs.com)

GSI Commerce opens Shepherdsville distribution center
Facility is e-commerce firm's second in Cedar Grove Business Park, third in area (Louisville Business Journal)

InterComponentWare Establishes ICW Labs (PRNewswire)

Carlson Software and Rajant Corporation Announce Partnership to Deliver Mining and Construction Solutions (BusinessWire)

Marchex Takes On Google With Text Ad Network (MediaPost: Online Media Daily)

Ignite Philly Tomorrow Night (O'Reilly Radar)

Sarnoff Selected To Provide Advanced Camera Tracking Technology For U.S. Marines Training (BusinessWire)

QSGI Secures $10M Senior Credit Facility (NJBIZ.com)

Ascensus’ New Participant Website Offers an Improved User Experience (BusinessWire via Philly.com)

WWDC: Apple slashes prices for 3G iPhone, shipping in July (Macworld)
I'm still trying to find out more about InterDigital's role in the new iPhone.

Reinventing a Giant, Part 1: SAP's Transformation (E-Commerce Times)

Nation's tallest sustainable skyscraper rises 975 feet (Consulting-Specifying Engineer)

Passport Health Completes $144 Million Financing (BusinessWire)

Kaiser Backs Microsoft Patient-Data Plan (New York Times)

CapMed Connects Its Award-Winning Personal Health Record Technology with Microsoft HealthVault
Strategic relationship with Microsoft helps ensure that consumers’ critical health information is available when and where it is needed most (BusinessWire)

myYearbook Named Third Largest Social Network in the U.S.
426 Percent Year Over Year Growth Shows Closed Platforms May Be the Answer (BusinessWire)

Technitrol’s Electronic Components Plant in Mianyang, China is Back On Line (BusinessWire)

Makeover artist: Face to Face with Sandy Frucher
Sandy Frucher was unable to close the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, so he transformed it (Pensions & Investments)

Franklin Electronic Publishers Reports Strong Year on Year Results (PRNewswire via MSN Money)
But lays off 10% of staff.

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Results
(PRNewswire)

Philly False Airline Ads Draw High Responses, Ethics Concerns (Editor & Publisher)

AGI Analysis Software Supports NASA's GLAST Mission (PRNewswire)

AOL’s Platform-A and Its Behavioral Targeting Solution, TACODA, Join PointRoll Included Program (BusinessWire)

Socially insecure in Downingtown
SCHOOL DISTRICT’S ILL-FATED USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS BAFFLING TO COMPUTER EXPERTS ELSEWHERE (Daily Local News)

Comcast Filings Hint At Video Gadgets
Operator Seeks Trademarks For 'AnyReach' Handheld Player and 'XtraScreen' PC Device (Multichannel News)

Customers cry fraud over Comcast P2P meddling in new lawsuit (ars technica)

Reactions Are Mixed On Verizon's Day-Old $28.1 Billion Acquisition Of Alltel (mocoNews.net via Washington Post)

Q&A: Makarand Teje, CEO of AppLabs (Computer Business Review)

WILL INTERDIGITAL AND INFINEON MAKE THE APPLE 3G IPHONE 3G? (DeWitt Capital Management)

Rodale’s Interactive Head Ostroff Leaves; Management Shakeup (paidContent)

Ediscovery profoundly changing lawyering
But some say rules for e-mail and other digital data don't serve justice. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Off the Field, Phil's Durbin Starts an Internet Business (KYW News Radio)

Executive Hirings and Promotions:


Former CNN Exec Goes To Comcast (mediabistro)

Comcast Entertainment Adds Pair Of Research Gurus (Multichannel News)

Rosenthal Leads Digital Content At Entercom

Precyse Solutions Appoints James Matas as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(PRNewswire)

IntegriChain Appoints John Bailye to Its Board of Directors (PRNewswire)

Scopus Hires Cable Vet (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Roska Digital Taps 'Mr. Interactive' to Help Agency Reach Next Level (BusinessWire)

Global Creative Leader Drawn to Vox Medica’s New Vision Ross Thomson Joins Vox Medica as EVP, Chief Ideation Officer (PharmaLive)

Alltel: A Boon for Verizon Wireless
The merger would let Verizon Wireless overtake AT&T as the No. 1 cellular provider. But what would its 80 million customers gain? (Business Week)

Owner of Philly Papers Blames Leak For Interest Payment Story (Editor & Publisher)

Phila. newspapers run ads about fake airline Derrie-Air (Associated Press via Google News)


InterDigital Executives Review Key Accomplishments and Strategic Objectives at 2008 Annual Shareholder Meeting (BusinessWire)
"Will announce a design win in the first half of 2008" for SlimChip. The SlimChip is not expected to be part of iPhone 3G, so
this is probably something else. Other InterDigital technology will play a key role in the new iPhone, most observers think.

News Corp. Sells Its 19% Stake In Macrovision (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Not one of Murdoch's better investments. This is the end result of his acquisition of Triangle Publications.

Lockheed Martin Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System Destroys Ballistic Missile in Terminal Phase (PRNewswire)

Ignite Philly offers rapid-fire pitching (Philadelphia Business Journal)

C&D fiscal 1st-quarter profit beats predictions (Associated Press via CNN Money)

Motorola, Cisco Steering Cable’s DCAS Project
Vendors Now Performing Most Work That Was Handled By PolyCipher JV (Multichannel News)

SAP fails to settle with Oracle
(SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Sandy Wax - President of PBS Sprout Kids (fun Play Dates)

Unisys Wants Sign On Liberty Two (Philadelphia Will Do)

Suit: Protest check to Comcast makes Internet rounds (Associated Press via Philly.com)