Unisys turned down on Center City sign (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Unisys to Reenter Competition for Transportation Security Administration Contract (BusinessWire)
A good news/bad news kind of day for Unisys.


5 Questions About Comcast’s New Bandwidth Throttling Plan (GigaOM)

Google Makes a Stronger Bid for TV Ad Biz
(Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

MGM Seeks Capital 'Enhancements' (Business Week)

SAP CEO Defends Price Hikes as Customers Gripe (InternetNews.com)

SAP Pursues Software’s Holy Grail (Wall Street Journal: Business Technology Blog)

AOL Seeks Directions for a MapQuest Facelift (GigaOM)
MapQuest is partially based in Lancaster.

Proxy advisors back Quality Systems board (Associated Press via MSN Money)
Quality Systems' major business segment is NextGen Healthcare Information Systems of Horsham.

GSI to keep running e-commerce for Dick’s (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Q&A with Susan Callahan of Safend (The Tech Herald)

Global Supply Management Expert BravoSolution Continues Financial Growth with Strong 2008 Start (BusinessWire)


USA Technologies Launches Next Generation, Lower Cost VM2iQ® EnergyMiser® (BusinessWire)

Arrow Electronics Hosts 20th Annual Arrowfest
Coast-to-Coast Technology Exhibition Launches Sept. 4 (BusinessWire)
Coming to Philly on September 4.




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Bits and Pieces



Philadelphia Magazine's Daily Examiner looks at preparations for the next round of cuts that is probably coming at the Inquirer and Daily News. This time, they are going after non-guild management (who needs those guys, anyway?)
Oliver Picher of Fun With Networking reports that another blogphiladelphia conference is in the planning stage, though the details are being more closely guarded than Obama's VP pick was.
Interested in Larry Mendte's post-plea confessional? Here it is, though I don't really care to get into it (Its all Alycia's fault). Way too much information, Larry. Though I'm sure he would fit in fine at WIP.
Chris Stanchak, TickeLeap's founder and CEO, learned a lesson about the value of using Google Alerts, when he found someone advertising for
programmers to create a "clone" of his company's website.
Fwix, a local news and information aggregation site, has expanded its
service to Philadelphia, though I don't see too much content there yet.
Anybody know if there is an iPhone developers meetup or user group in the area? Not that I'm one, just interested and haven't seen anything like that going on.




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Moorestown’s Lockheed Martin packed with secret military projects (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Microsoft Looking to Pawn Razorfish After Short Lived Romance (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)
Razorfish has a large Philly office.

India's Infosys to buy UK's Axon Group for $753 mln
(Reuters via The Guardian UK)

Privacy: Your Cable Box Knows You So Well (GigaOM)

MGM says not for sale, eyeing capital enhancements (Reuters)
Comcast holds a major stake in MGM.

Turning Point for Touch Screens
(New York Times: Prototype) Free registration

Calvin Klein Launches Full-Scale Branded E-Commerce Site For U.S. (BusinessWire)
Powered by GSI Commerce.

New firm venturing into NEPA (Scranton Times Tribune)

AMETEK Completes Acquisition of Xantrex Programmable Power
--Unit of Xantrex Technology Broadens Scope of AMETEK’s Power Business-- (BusinessWire)

Maxwell Systems Releases Management Suite to Integrate with Estimating Solutions
(PRNewswire)

Tales From The Boom: Digital City Philadelphia (Philebrity)


MapQuest Adds More Content in Select Search Results (MapQuest Blog)

CSL Behring's Innovative HeliTrax(SM) System Helps Physicians Manage Hemophilia A Patients (PRNewswire)

eMergent Benefit Solutions, LLC Announces Plan for Next Generation Benefits Administration Technology (PRWeb)

Breakaway Technologies Becomes SAP(R) Services Partner (PRNewswire)

Chamber on ombudsman mission
James Street Investment District in partnership (Lancaster Sunday News)





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SAP has a new chief and a new course
(Reuters via International Herald Tribune)

Comcast's on the line (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Broadband rollouts stir
complaints over utility boxes (Associated Press via Google News)

Qwest Wants Comcast Taxed Like A Telco In Utah
Asks State Tax Commission To Consider If Op Should Pay Corporate Assessments (Multichannel News)


IMS Health, Verispan under fire (Associated Press via Delaware Online)

Gartner Tech Forecast: Cloudy and Getting Cloudier (New York Times: Bits-free registration)

NY comptroller: ditch $2 billion wireless network (Reuters)
A unit of Berwyn-based Tyco Electronics has the contract.

Changing Skyline: Letter-imperfect: Signs of too much sky writing (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Local companies on list of fastest-growing firms (Lancaster Sunday News)

What's up with that? (Raleigh News & Observer)
Traffic.com comes to town.

Capital Briefings Registration (Ben Franklin Technology Partners)


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People News



Janney Continues Growth with Addition of New CIO (BusinessWire)

Orduna heads to Canoe Ventures as CTO
(CED Magazine)

Barclaycard US Appoints Michelle Bottomley as Chief Marketing Officer (PRNewswire)

Cadient Group Appoints Andrew le Blanc as Creative Director (PRNewswire)

AppLabs Strengthens European Management Team (Free Press Releases)

ValueVision ousts new CEO after five months (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Archer Group Adds Dennis Egen, Andrew Fishman and Ben Levin to Management Team (Philly AD News)

Lattice Appoints Steve Brown as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing (BusinessWire)

CardioNet Appoints Two Directors to Board (PRNewswire via Philly.com)




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Computerworld's 2008 list of IT Schools to Watch has been released and includes 56 schools. Penn was ranked among the top ten innovators, and this profile features Penn's masters program designed people without undergraduate computer science/engineering degrees.
Other area schools included are Penn State (University Park), Drexel and Princeton. Also, surprisingly (to me anyway), Rutgers-New Brunswick made the list.
What is interesting is that if you look at the map on the first page of the article (I'd embed it here if I could), you'll notice the heavy concentration of schools in the Northeast United States, and the relative sparseness elsewhere. This would seem to bode well for high technology in this part of the country, but of course, how much formal IT education did Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have?



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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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