A 'Tipping Point' Year For Health Care IT, Says HHS (Channel Web)
IT training institutes take a hit on slowdown (Hindu Business Line)
Comcast will close its CN8 network (Newark Star-Ledger)
Puck It Up: Versus Wants To Keep NHL (MediaPost: Media Daily News)
Comcast-owned Versus is based in Philadelphia.
D&D Brings Its Game to Army Navy (PR.com)
Deadline nears for tech program (Chambersburg Public Opinion)
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People News
Volpe and Koenig Continues to Grow - Adds Five New Associates (Press Release)
AP Names Eastern Regional Editors for News, Sports (Editor & Publisher)
WHYY hires Satullo as news executive (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
AstraZeneca names new U.S. chief (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Vertex Appoints Chris Walsh to Chief International Indirect Tax Officer (Business Wire)
Open Source Leaders Andy Astor and Anthony Gold Join Bluenog's Board of Directors (Marketwire via CNN Money)
Lightwave Logic, Inc. Announces the Addition of Howard E. Simmons, III, PhD to its Technology Team (PR Newswire)
Electronic Ink Addresses Growing Demand for End-to-End Design and Usability Services by Launching New Strategy Practice (PR Newswire via MarketWatch)
Commerce360 CEO Lucinda Holt wins WIN Award (ClickEquations Blog)
DMW Worldwide Promotes Jeff Williams to Director, Decision Support (Philly Ad Club News)
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SAP to bring unified interface across apps suite (IDG News via New York Times)
SAP’s Apotheker: ‘Happy John Wookey joined us’; Business hasn’t gotten worse (ZDNet Blogs)
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Senate panel opposes health insurers' merger (Associated Press via Allentown Morning Call)
ING Direct: Rebels with a Cause (Chris Skinner)
ING Direct is based in Wilmington.
Hundreds wait at Verizon stores for BlackBerry Storm (Reuters)
Cable Gets Down to Business (Light Reading)
Verizon Looks to Bring FiOS TV to Delaware
Telco Applies For Video Franchise License in Wilmington (Multichannel News)
Cops' radio software compromised (Philadelphia Daily News)
Unisys says Unisys simplifying organizational structure (Thomson Financial via Forbes)
Unisys eyes moving targets to identify (Government
Computer News)
NJTC Celebrates the `Power of Technology' in NJ (PR Newswire)
Core Learning Announces Launch of Crayola Art Studio (PR Newswire)
Council Approves Sale of Telecom (Alameda Sun)
Comcast picks up small municipally-owned system.
Internet's bandwidth health still in trouble, report says
Demand for Internet bandwidth will exceed supply by 2012, Nemertes says (Network World)
Technology jobs up in region (Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review)
Although The Technology Collaborative has state funding and a statewide mandate, most of its activities seem focused on Western PA.
Region’s economic boosters see positives in the negatives (Philadelphia Business Journal)
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November 2008 Business Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Q3 Online Ad Growth Sliced in Half Since Year Ago (ClickZ)
Salesforce profit tops estimate, shares rally (Reuters)
10 Things to Know About Salesforce.com (Read Write Web)
Salesforce is Hiring, Big Time (Private
Equity Hub)
Judge throws Comcast/NFL Network mess back at FCC (ars technica)
JDS Uniphase Buys Circadiant (Private Equity
Hub)
JDSU acquires optical comms test specialist
(EE Times)
Report: Region making transition to New Economy (Philadelphia Business Journal)
SevOne Named to Network World's '10 IT Management Start-Ups to Watch' (Marketwire)
Network World profile
SevOne updates network performance management appliance (IT World Canada)
SevOne is based in Newark DE.
Refugees from SAP unit raise Oracle's ire
Spinnaker hires TomorrowNow staff; industry makes software giants uneasy (MarketWatch)
Sprint WiMax spinoff moves ahead with Clearwire shareholder vote (Kansas City Star: Sprint Connection)
CTO Ray Sokola on 2009 and Beyond (Media Experiences 2 Go)
Interview with Motorola Home and Networks Mobility's CTO.
German IT, Telecom Indus Want Government Invest In Infrastructure (EasyBourse)
Philadelphia paper starts magazine for affluent (Associated Press via Forbes)
Philly.com Drives Reader Engagement With Aggregate Knowledge (Business Wire)
Ex-Penn professor gets 5-10 years in wife's 2006 death (Philadelphia Daily News)
5 to 10 years? You've got to be kidding.
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SAP sees slight 2009 licence sales growth at best (Reuters)
IT majors eye European SAP cos (Economic Times of India)
Impact of the economy on angel investing (Robin Hood Ventures)
Eastern Technology Council honors award winners (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Lenfest will get chamber's William Penn Award (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
TelVue Corporation Announces Product Development Pact With Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc. (GlobeNewswire via MarketWatch)
Ben Franklin to Invest $1,144,400 to Support Northeastern PA Economic Development (Business Wire)
FlyCast Releases Desktop Client
(Zatz Not Funny!)
FlyCast is based in Lancaster.
Sallie Mae move to Del. all but confirmed (Wilmington News Journal)
CableFAX: The Magazine's annual list of top women execs in cable (Cable360)
Several Comcasters included.
Comcast Taps U.K.'s MirriAd for Placement (Media Week)
ShopNBC Auction Moves Forward
Decision Expected By End of Fiscal Year (Multichannel News)
New Product: ReportEverywhere for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Converts Essential Business Intelligence (BI) into Instant Messages for Access Anytime, Anywhere (PR Web)
New Blog from PM Solutions Helps Project Managers Improve Strategy Execution (Business Wire)
RegionalBest.com, New Online Food Site, Lets Holiday Shoppers 'Buy Local,' Supporting Farmers, Cheesemakers and Other Food Artisans Nationwide (PR Newswire)
Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. Announces Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Year Ended September 30, 2008
(Business Wire)
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How Twittering Critics Brought Down Motrin Mom Campaign
Bloggers Ignite Brush Fire Over Weekend, Forcing J&J to Pull Ads, Issue Apology (Advertising Age)
Agilence funding round didn't come easy (Tech Confidential: The Deal)
Agilence is based in Camden.
Comcast DTV pricing response may bring fine: FCC (Reuters)
TV Guide Lays Off Staffers, Still Less Brutal Than Most Mag Cuts (Jossip)
Microsoft Releases SharePoint, Exchange As A Service (Information Week)
Ben Franklin Technology Partners gives loans to Lehigh Valley companies (Lehigh Valley Live)
Viddler is one of the recipients.
SAP adds data migration to ERP arsenal
SAP's Data Migration services leverage information management products acquired from Business Objects (InfoWorld)
SAP Tools for Process Definition, Modeling and Management (Column 2)
Lombardi execs think BPM might be countercyclical in down economic times (BPM in Action)
Heartland acquires gift card outfit Chockstone (Finextra)
Voxware Reports First Quarter Results for Fiscal 2009 (Business Wire)
TelcoTV Report: IPTV Hoping for a Big 2009 (NewTeeVee)
Motorola is a major IPTV supplier.
Primavera Honors 11 Innovative Companies With 2008 Excellence Awards (PR Newswire via Yahoo Finance)
Bentley Systems upbeat on Indian market (Economic Times of India)
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Early Morning Basketball
I turned on ESPN about 10 this morning, expecting to catch a little of Sports Center, but instead I found a Penn-Drexel
basketball game (live).
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Anyone interested in being a "Chief Consumer Experience Officer", whatever that involves?
Yes, its a real job, at GSI Commerce, and it seems to pay pretty well too. Have a look.
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Mark Cuban charged with insider trading
SEC charges Dallas Mavericks owner with insider trading related to sales of Mamma.com. (CNN Money)
Adobe pushes Flash forward; Bolsters SAP partnership (ZDNet Blogs)
Salesforce.com for sale? (Inorganic Growth)
Lincoln Financial seeks to become S&L and apply for bailout funds (Associated Press via CNN Money)
Buys small Indiana S&L.
New type of pay TV being tested (San Jose
Mercury News)
Transition Watch: Obama’s FCC Advisors Include Crawford, Werbach (paidContent)
Werbach is a Wharton prof. See his blog.
Cricket Communications to hire 250 in Phila. area (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Bio-Imaging Gets Some Advice for Its Shareholders (iStock Analyst)
[itvt] Interview: Canoe Ventures CEO, David Verklin [itvt]
Cable Continues to Beat Telcos at the Broadband Game (GigaOM)
College Fanz Sports Network Acquires Victory Sports Network, Adding “Home for All Things NAIA” to World’s Largest Online College Sports Community (Business Wire)
ORBIT/FR Reports Q3 Results (PR Newswire)
Lattice Incorporated Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results, and Announces Conference Call (Business Wire)
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