Verizon, Google getting chummy on mobile search? (ZDNet Blogs)

TV news anchor admits to hacking, leaking colleague's e-mail
Philadelphia's Mendte pleads guilty to accessing a protected computer (Computerworld)

Drop the ball, ING Direct tells PNC
Wilmington-based direct bank sues over VirtualWallet (Delaware Business Ledger)

Gemalto's Smart Card Trick (Forbes)

Hot Neuron's Clustify Document Clustering Software Named a Trend-Setting Product by KMWorld (BusinessWire)

Sessions planned for tech-firm funding (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Sandvine: We're Fine (Light Reading:
Cable Digital News)

Lockheed Martin Interruption Technology Makes Debut on USS Sterett (PRNewswire)

Get Schooled in Business: Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs (Phillypreneurs)

CRM magazine Announces Winners of 2008 CRM Market Awards (BusinessWire)

Time for Code Camp 2008.3 - Oct 11, 2008 (Schwammy Says...)

SAP's Hopp Gives Hoffenheim Chance in German Soccer Big League (Bloomberg)




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The Inc. 5000 for 2008 is out. While I don't put too much stock in these lists because short-term revenue growth can be influenced by a lot of things (such as one contract) that are not necessarily indicative of longer-term success, they are nonetheless useful for benchmarking the progress of known companies and identifying others that may not have previously been on the radar.
The Philly Metro Top 100 features NeatReceipts as number one, with revenues of over $11.7 million. It will be interesting to see what they do this year now that they have entered the Mac universe.
Another company that could be on this list is ProfitPoint, a provider of gift and loyalty card services, which ranked 59th nationally in revenue growth rate.
Although listed as being in Tennessee, ProfitPoint apparently has its headquarters in Clifton Heights.
Here also are links to all companies listed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.



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Nanospheres moving faster than light? (ZDNet Blogs)
Research done at UPenn.

Business Outlook Survey, August 2008 (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Comcast To Bring Web-Style 'Widgets' To TV With Intel
MSO Will Integrate The Intel-Yahoo Widget Channel Framework With CableLabs' Tru2way (Multichannel News)
Intel, Yahoo, Comcast to partner on widgets for live TV (BetaNews)

Comcast Says No New Traffic Management Plan Yet (IDG News Service via New York Times)

Verizon: we need freedom to delay P2P traffic when necessary (ars technica)

Philly Guild to Members: More Pain on the Way (Editor & Publisher)

Gemalto Shares Surge as Profit Doubles on Phone Cards (Bloomberg)
Gemalto was formed by the merger of Montgomery County's Gemplus with Axalto in 2006.

IAC, Spinoffs Mainly Higher As Breakup Becomes Official (Dow Jones NewsWires via CNN Money)
It will be interesting to see what happens to Home Shopping Network (HSNIV) now that it is publically traded, after Malone and Diller sparred so much over its value. It is now trading at $12.61, giving it a market value of about $700 million.That seems to me to be a good bit less than what Diller thought it was worth.

Parexel COO on ClinPhone (ClinPage)
ClinPhone's US headquaters were in East Windsor, NJ before its merger with Paraxel.

More tidbits on Siemens Medical layoffs (HISTalk Blog)

Aria Systems Wins CRM Magazine's 2008 "Rising Star" CRM Market Award (Marketwire)

Brand Yourself! Viddler’s new customizable player (The
Viddler Spotlight)

LEGO Store opening in King of Prussia (geekadephia)



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FCC finalizes Comcast's filtering penalties (CNET
News)
Comcast's Diet For Bandwidth Hogs: A 20-Minute Timeout (CMCSA) (Silicon Alley Insider)

Intel, Yahoo Unveil Partnership to Redesign HDTVs (PC Magazine)

Comcast to Work with Intel to Bring Interactive Applications to the TV
Comcast First Service Provider to Embrace Widget Channel Framework (BusinessWire)

I.B.M. Ups Its Bet on Business Recovery Services (New YorkTimes-free registration)

Workday: The Next Software Power?
PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield is building another software upstart that is attracting a lot of attention (Business Week)


Salesforce.com acquires InStranet, adds knowledge management to CRM suite (SearchCRM.com)
Salesforce.com Profit Doubles; Forecast Falls Short (Bloomberg)

Virtus Partners Becomes Anexinet
Name Change Supports Recent Merger of Two Philadelphia-based Information Technology Providers (PRWeb)

Local M&A deals slow 4%, nationally they tumble 19% (Philadelphia Business Journal)

MDA To Combine DataQuick® and MindBox® with Lending Solutions (BusinessWire)

Gannett eliminates N.J. jobs (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

Air Products' Skychain Inventory Monitoring Technology Helps Customers Offset Soaring Delivery Costs (PRNewswire)

What’s future proofing worth? Analyzing the Verizon FiOS bet (ZDNet
Blogs)

Enterprise Support reveals a continental divide among SAP user groups (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

SAP, Wipro launch ready-to-use ERP solution for mid-market cos( Economic Times of India)


Innovative Solutions & Support Revises Financial Targets for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2008
(BusinessWire)

Boomi.com - On Demand Integration - First Impressions (Zodeno.com)

Magazine Names Drexel's Campus Ugliest in the Nation (KYW NewsRadio)



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A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake? (New York Times-free registration)
On FiOS.
A Bear Speaks: Why Verizon’s Pricey FiOS Bet Won’t Pay Off (New York Times-free registration)

Clearwire Expects Finished Sprint Deal By Year's End
Assuming regulators and AT&T don't get in the way... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast, DirecTV Play HD Numbers Game (Wired Blogs)

Gannett Orders Its TV Stations To Promote Its Mommy Sites, Now (Silicon Alley Insider)
Both major Gannett papers in the area have "Mom" sites: the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill and the Wilmington News Journal.

ING Direct Expands its 'Banking Barista' Model (Brand Week)

City of Philadelphia Receives Prestigious President’s Award at ESRI’s 2008 User Conference (GISuser.com)

City would restrict cell-phone use by drivers (Philadelphia Daily News)

New Jersey Transit Deploys Saaspoint Mobile Field Scheduler via Salesforce.com’s App Exchange (BusinessWire)

Does position equal power? (Computerworld
Blogs)
Another look at the Downingtown School District's decision to hire a CIO.

Three SAP Vice Presidents Sue Company For Disguised Dismissal (China Tech News)
Don't know quite what to make of this story. Not the way they do things in Walldorf.

BI and Performance Management Evolve at SAP-Business Objects (Intelligent Enterprise)

SAP acquisition opens up world of opportunities for Business Objects, according to execs (SearchDataManagement.com)

Unisys To Manage Republican National Convention IT Services (Information Week)
What could possibly go wrong?

Breakaway Technologies Wins Cognos' Sales Excellence Award (PRNewswire)

NetQuest Launches First 10 Gigabit Test and Monitoring Access Solution to Optimize Tool Port Usage for Service Providers (BusinessWire)



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Cable boxes vexing residents
(phillyBurbs.com)

GSI Preps Services Push (AD Week)

iStreet Solutions, an SAP(R) Certified Hosting Partner, Accelerates Its Business Expansion with Data Center and Disaster Recovery Solutions
(PRNewswire)

Don't let Vishay offer distract you, International Rectifier tells employees (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Rich clickings for myYearbook founder (TimesOnline UK)

Regulations and risk will oblige banks to spend on IT (Financial Times UK)

Accenture bets big on pharma offshoring with end-to-end services (Financial Express India)

Qwest, Fiberlink deliver all-access remote endpoint security (Telecommunications Magazine)

Lockheed Martin Develops Context-Aware Computing for Intelligence Analysts
(PRNewswire)

Comcast’s blazing fast Internet is half the speed of DSL
(TG Daily)

Green from Green: Rising Energy Costs May be Good News for 'Clean Tech' Firms -- and Their Investors (Knowledge@Wharton)


Who Makes What: GPON Equipment (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Missionomics Releases CircleDog
Now Available: The World’s First ‘Uncomplicated’ Customer Management Software (BusinessWire)

Officials add tech chief to district staff (Daily Local
News)



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Can Comcast Deliver TV 2.0?
Inside the cable giant’s plan to marry television and the Internet (Multichannel News)

MSOs Admit To Tracking Consumers’ Online Activity
Cable One, Bresnan and Others Have Tested 'Tailored Ads' (Multichannel News)

Int'l Rectifier Finds Something Vishay In $1.5B Bid (Forbes)
Update: International Rectifier to make no immediate response to Vishay's $1.6 billion bid
(EE Times)

Phila. high-rise ruckus sign of the times (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Great news for MicroStation users - the Luxology announcement (BE Communities: On the Platform)

Strohl/Sungard Update (JAY BABEL WEBLOG)

Siemens Medical Solutions Layoff Rumors (HIS Talk)



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People News



Evan Malone joins Liberty Media board
(Denver Business Journal)

ESPRiT Consulting Appoints Alex Collevecchio as President of ESPRiT Consulting USA (BusinessWire via MarketWatch)

Rodale Promotes Prevention Editor-in-Chief Liz Vaccariello to Senior Vice President (BusinessWire via Philly.com)

MRO Corp. Promotes John Walton to Vice President of Client Relations (BusinessWire)

Career Management/Exec Search Consultant Elva Bankins Joins Kelleher Associates as Senior Partner (MMD Newswire.com)



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Siemens Medical Solutions to lay off 350 (Daily Local News)



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Vishay offers $1.6 billion for International Rectifier (Reuters)
Vishay offers to swallow International Rectifier for $1.6B (Tech Condfidential: The Deal)

HighPoint Solutions Acquires Aptiv Technology Partners (PRNewswire)

Dayak.com raises $1.2 million from area venture firms (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

HCSC Acquisition of MEDecision Supports Insurer's Strategy to Improve Health, Reduce Costs
(PRNewswire)

VoxWare Customers are Speechless (CIO.com)
VoxWare is based in Lawrenceville.

SAP CRM customers taking new application off the shelf
(SearchCRM.com)

SAP wrap and transparency points (ZDNet Blogs)

Comcast boasts service boosts
New technologies designed to benefit customers — and technicians
(Lancaster Intelligencer Journal)

Sanders: Free Comcast box doesn't cut it (Rutland Herald)



Explanation and Apology From Dick’s Sporting Goods ((The Unofficial Redskins Blog)
A big mistake by GSI Commerce.

Now Sun has a social network server, too (CNET
News)

Feds Want Berwyn Businessman Held Without Bail For Trading With Iran (KYW NewsRadio)

Astea Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results (PRNewswire)

Commodities costs curtail profits at SL Industries (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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