Fitch Upgrades SunGard Data Systems' IDR to 'B+'; Outlook Stable (BusinessWire)


Penn National says takeover deal terminated (Reuters)

SAP CEO sees no impact on market share of Oracle acquisitions (Thomson Financial via Forbes)

The ING Direct Story (Payments News)
ING Direct USA is based in Wilmington.

Philadelphia papers appoints team to study consolidation of some functions (Associated Press via phillyBurbs.com)
The two papers aren't even on the same computer system.

Comcast restructuring eliminates a division (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comcast Expands SDV Test Pool (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Testing in Cherry Hill.

Voters not gettin' what they paid for (Philadelphia Daily News)

Penn robots go viral (Penn Current)

What's the News in Your Neighborhood? (Fun With Networking)

Amazon's Misfit Toys: How E-Tailer Lost Ally (Investor's Business Daily)
How Amazon's loss became GSI Commerce's gain.

Awkward Moments and Serendipity
(the cornice)


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Nokia, InterDigital settle some IP disputes (EE Times)

EU Approves Nokia's $8.1 Billion Acquisition Of Navteq (Information Week)
Navteq owns Traffic.com of Wayne.

SunGard buys Ireland's Delphi Technologies (Finextra)

Unlimited Wireless Carrier MetroPCS Launches Service in Greater Philadelphia Region (BusinessWire)

Comcast Invests In Mobile WiMax Startup
MSO Takes Stake In Stealth-Mode Wireless Broadband Firm Cartiza Networks (Multichannel News)

CBaySystems says facing U.S. suit to halt sale of Philips stake in MedQuist (Thomson Financial via Forbes)

Technitrol slashes Q2 expectations (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SAP CRM trounces Oracle, Salesforce.com (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)
I would have some questions about how CRM is defined for the purposes of this analysis.

Top 20 supply chain management software suppliers (Modern Materials Handling)

Dynasil Completes $20 Million Acquisition of RMD Instruments (BusinessWire)

MedAvante Raises $20 Million (Private Equity Hub)

ClinPhone and Cytel - A New Partnership Delivering Complete Solutions for Adaptive Clinical Trials (PharmaLive)

Medco, Wal-Mart Merge Digital Prescription Networks (Bloomberg)



Francisco Completes Metrologic Sale (Private Equity Hub)

Retailers Go IP Geotargeting - Turning Internet Clients into Foot Traffic and More (Directions Magazine)
On GSI Commerce.

Seven Minutes To Millions
How to woo venture capital investors during a short presentation. (Forbes: Video)
From Early Stage East in Wilmington.

URMC and Power Line Systems Team to Integrate URMC’s Intelligence-based, Risk Management Solution with PLS-CADD
(BusinessWire)


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On-Demand Software Integration Startup Boomi Raises $4 Million (TechCrunch)

Entercom Partners with FlyTunes to Deliver Mobile Radio Streams (PRNewswire)

FlyTunes expands to terrestrial radio: Regular radio on your iPhone (CrunchGear)

Ringside Networks and the real open social (Inforworld Blogs)

Ahmed Hussein Discloses His Nomination of Six Director Candidates for the Quality Systems Board (Marketwire via CNN Money)

Can SAP's reach help it weather the U.S. economic storm? (Network World)

SAP names new EMEA, Latin America heads (Network World)

Venture capital-backed IPOs are DOA: survey (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Phila. information officer stepping down (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Finisar and Optium Announce Early Termination of Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Waiting Period for Proposed Merger (Prime Newswire)

RecycleBank Expands Service to the Midwest (BusinessWire)

Comcast, NBC, Universal McCann Embrace New Business Models, say Leaders (Huffington Post)

Lionsgate Lands DVD Distribution Rights to E!, Style Shows
Indie Studio Secures First-Look Deal With ComcastFor Home Entertainment (Multichannel News)

Barcode Systems to Reduce Hospital Drug Errors Not Foolproof (MedPage Today)

CIGNA Creating a Virtual Health Care Community (BusinessWire)

Wharton School Announces $1 Million Gift from Arthur and Dahlia Bilger to Launch Wharton Interactive Media Initiative (Wharton
Facts)

Mom's best friend (phillyBurbs.com)



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QlikTech Names Bob Langer President of Americas Region (BusinessWire)

Bentley Expands Building Energy Analysis Software Portfolio Through New Exclusive Worldwide Agreement (BusinessWire)

Quintiles says it will not bid for ClinPhone (Reuters)
ClinPhone's US headquarters are in East Windsor, NJ.

Cherry Hill starts cashing in on recycling (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Phila. CIO stepping down (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Unisys loses U.S. security agency contract (Reuters)

Mr Chetan Shah, Managing Director of Synygy India Pvt. Ltd (India Infoline)
Synygy has over 500 employees? I didn't know they were that big.

Shunra Software Expands its Asia Pacific Region Operations with New Office and Regional VP (BusinessWire)

Using Linux to get around Comcast’s BitTorrent throttling (CrunchGear)


Cadient Group President and CEO, Stephen Wray, Named 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) in Greater Philadelphia Region (PRNewswire)

5 Dynamic Dividend Stocks (Motley Fool)
On Quality Systems.


NextGen Healthcare Expands Its Relationship With Banner Health
Large non-profit health system executes one of the largest agreements in NextGen Healthcare’s history (BusinessWire)

NEAT Receipts Selects Symphony Services for Global Product Engineering (BusinessWire)

Radiant Systems Selected as Exclusive Point of Sale Provider for Wawa Inc. (BusinessWire)

Aqua America Selects ESRI ArcGIS Server To Maximize Information Access (Wireless Workforce
Online)

3D Markets in recruitment drive (Finextra)

InGrid Expands Digital Wireless Home Security Product Suite (BusinessWire)


$100M to American Competitiveness Institute for Benchmarking (Defense Industry Daily)


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Verizon presses Vodafone to sell out of venture (Financial Times)

U.S. court upholds new FCC video franchising rules (Reuters)

Comcast's goal: Integrate the screens (CNET WebWare)

SCTE '08 Cable-Tech Expo Attendance Exceeds 2007 (Mediacaster)

Murdoch Bids to Take NDS Private
News Corp. orchestrates $60-per-share buyout bid for majority-owned TV set-top software company NDS Group (Broadcasting & Cable)

AdSend Meetings Explain Change from AP Satellite to Internet (Editor & Publisher)

Comcast wall is TV writ large (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Princeton to start publishing Kindle-edition textbooks (Engadget)

Man arrested for anti-cop YouTube clip (Philadelphia Daily News)

"User 927," explores darker side of online search. (Associated Press via Louisville Courier-Journal)
Production recently ended in Philadelphia.

NTLB, Fresh, GST win Design Challenge (The Triangle/Drexel)



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People in the News


Backe Creates Standard Bearer Role for Digital Brand Marketing (PharmaLive)

Electronic Inks Names David Rode Chief Operations Officer (Philly Ad Club)

QVC named Anil Jagtiana Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and New Business Development. He was previously at
Hallmark.


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The Inquirer (actually, I guess, Philly.com) has released its 2008 edition of "The Top 100 Businesses in the Philadelphia Region". Its a valuable resource with lots of useful information. It also features profiles of SunGard CEO Cris Conde and Comcast's Cathy Avgiris, who heads up the company's rapidly growing digital voice service.


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All-digital cable move may spark viewer ire (USA Today)

Comcast all-digital in 3 years, to push HD/Internet (Electronista)

DOCSIS 3.0 Deployments-Shades of Gray (xchange)

Verizon's fiber guru talks strategy (CNET News Blog)

Oracle damages in SAP case could top $1 bln: filing (Reuters)

Oracle-SAP lawsuit update: Why Oracle won’t get its $1b (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Inquirer, Daily News may share
newsroom jobs (Associated Press via philyBurbs.com)

The Yahoo Watch
(Recovering Journalist)
About Yahoo's Newspaper Consortium, of which Philadelphia Media Holdings is a key member.

Theo Kremers Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Lithium Technology Corporation
(PRNewswire)
Lithium also to discontinue its flat cell production in Plymouth Meeting.

Volatility for Quality Systems (iStockAnalyst)
Still haven't found any more info about the circumstances under which Quality's CEO resigned earlier in the week. This note
doesn't mention anything about it.

Ernst & Young Recognizes Primavera(R) CEO as Entrepreneur Of The Year for Greater Philadelphia (PRNewswire)

COMSYS Announces Rebranding of Process Solutions Group
TAPFIN Process Solutions to Offer Complete Workforce Fulfillment and Management Services (BusinessWire)
T. Williams Consulting of Audubon, which was acquired by COMSYS last year, is now part of TAPFIN.


Thermo Fisher Scientific Partners with NextDocs to Offer Comprehensive Enterprise Document Management and Workflow Solutions for the Laboratory (ThomasNet)
NextDocs is based in King of Prussia.

ZipClaims.com and InstaMed® Enhance Medical Billing for Millions of Practitioners (BusinessWire)
InstaMed is based in Philadelphia.


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UPenn Named 6th Best Place to Work in IT by Computerworld

Computerworld has released its 2008 list of the "100 Best Places to Work in IT". Area companies and institutions named are SEI Investments (43), Temple University (53), the University of Pennsylvania (6), and Automotive Resources International (99).
Others of area interest include SAS Institute (5), Verizon Wireless (27), Penn National Insurance (62), Exelon (70), Discover Financial Services (73), Aetna (78) and Boeing (85).


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Electronic health-record standards agreed (Reuters)

SAP agrees to pay $83.3 million in settlement with i2 Technologies (Associated Press via Forbes)

SAP sticks its head in the ground (InfoWorld: Tech's Bottom Line)

Oracle Profit Advances 27%, Fueled by Acquisitions (Bloomberg)

Comcast gets spectrum for WiMAX femtocells, wireless services (ars technica)

NFL Network offered stake for broadcast rights (Philadelphia Inquirer)


Comcast and Cisco Announce Successful Live Network Demonstration of the World’s First 100GE Router Interface
(BusinessWire)

Comcast Picks DTA Partners
Source: MSO Plans To Order 6 Million Digital-to-Analog Converters In 2008 (Multichannel News)

Great News: IDS Scheer Joins The Open Group! (IDS Scheer: ARIS BPM Blog)

PA Venture Capital Initiatives To Spur Growth In Young Technology Companies, Gov. Rendell Says (PRNewswire)

Business Beat: Playing the phone market (Metro Philadelphia)
On startup PhindMe.

WRDS at 15: Growing Global Subscriber Base Fuels Expansion for Wharton Research Data Services (Technology at Wharton)

East Whiteland company amends credit facility (Daily Local News)
Vishay Intertechnology.

MetroPCS lures Sprint, Verizon subs with ‘bring your phone’ (Telephony Online)
Launching in Philadelphia in the fall.

Miner3D 7.1: Raising the Bar for Visual OLAP (PRNewswire)

Comcast Interactive: Movies.com Won't Be Our Last Deal (Silicon Alley Insider)

SCTE: Comcast’s Burke Stresses Video Reliability (Multichannel News)


Heartland Payment Systems Signs Merchant Acquiring Agreement with Discover Financial Services (BusinessWire)

Pfizer Launches Major Agency Review, Denies Consolidation (Advertising Age)

QlikTech and Kalido team up (IT Week)

Lack of RFID standards leads to media panic (ZDNet)

NetSpend Funds Aid Start-Ups (Wall Street Journal)
More on Sapphire Mobile Systems leaving town.

Motorola Enhances Digital Addressable Controller – New Software Release Simplifies Secured Access Control (WebWire)

Oracle on the Move
(Insurance & Technology)


Checkpoint Acquires Successful RFID Startup OatSystems (Information Week)


Zillow Extends Selling Tools to Newspaper Partners (Editor & Publisher)
The Inquirer to be one of the first to roll it out.

Tapping the Community Pool
Online communities let you see what's on your customers' minds. (Inc.)
Discusses NeatRecieipts.



Forum explores Philly WiFi Digital Inclusion system (Weekly Press)

Codima Inc. (OTC:CDMA) Enters New Era - Elects Board Members And Appoints CEO (BusinessWire)


Rigas Senences Cut (Associated Press via Philly.com)

Spot cable shop woos pharma advertisers with VOD channel (Medical Marketing & Media)

J.J. Manion Jr., 60, financial officer (Philadelphia Inquirer)