Heartland Payment CEO forced to sell stock
(Associated Press via Forbes)
Margin call, gentlemen.

To plan big meetings, firms turn to software to cut costs (Boston Globe)
On Philadelphia's StarCite.

InterDigital Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results
Company Projects First Quarter 2009 Recurring Revenue of $69 million to $71 million (Business Wire)

SAP seeks interim financing, no share issue-paper (Reuters)

Firm pledges to cut its greenhouse gases (San Francisco Chronicle)
SAP appoints first chief sustainability officer. introduces new product to help companies meet "green" objectives.

SAP, CRM 2.0: The Culture Shift Begins (ZDNet Blogs)

Verivue Surfaces With Comcast Backing
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

TiVo Loses 611,000 Subs Over Last Year
DVR Proponent Touts Progress on Comcast Partnership (Multichannel News)

Aegis to acquire ICT group for about $128 mln (Reuters)

He is counting on PhindMe phinding your business
Text-marketing might be the next wave (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Tierney talks Philadelphia newspapers (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Software System’s Fans Gather to Talk Code (New York Times)

Professor Scheer on Adapting to the Economy (Aris Bog)

Vanguard resists layoffs, adjusts comp (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Dataram Hit by the Economic Downturn, But Ready to Do Biz (IT Jungle)
Dataram is based in Princeton.


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Philly Tech Events

Microsoft: “2019”

Microsoft's futuristic video titled “2019”, unveiled Friday at the Wharton Business Technology Forum by division President Stephen Elop.



<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

Comcast, Cablevision turn to WiFi to retain customers (Newark Star-Ledger)

Interactive TV Begins To Bloom
Cable (Finally) To Start Delivering ITV To Millions; Thank EBIF, Not OCAP (Multicahnnel News)

Commerce360 Changes Name to ClickEquations; Announces General Availability of Paid Search Management Software (PR Web)

Dress Barn, Inc. Selects GSI Commerce as E-Commerce Partner
(PR Newswire)

How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality (New York Times: Unboxed)

How Does a Doc Really Use An Electronic Medical Record? (Wall Street Journal: Health Blog)



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People News 3/1/09

Former U.S. Commerce Under Secretary to Lead SAP Public Policy Office
SAP Names Robert C. Cresanti to Key Executive Position (PR Newswire)

Comcast Names Margosian, SVP Marketing/Sports Sales (MediaPost: Media Daily News)

Lockheed Martin Announces Black Engineer of the Year Award Winners (PR Newswire)

Volpe and Koenig Adds to the Depth of Its IP Practice (Company Press Release)

James J. Mergiotti Named Seventh President & CEO of Peirce College (Business Wire)

The Franklin Institute Honors the 'Best of the Best' in Science and Technology (PR Newswire)

So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know (ZDNet Blogs)
Panel discussion from Wharton Business Technology Conference yesterday.

Salesforce.com sees Microsoft Azure as validating SaaS (Network World)



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eResearch Technology Down 25%

As the Dow closed just above 7,000 today, major area tech stocks held steady, with the exception of eResearch Technology (now apparently renamed ERT by some branding genius). ERT was down 25% today, and was down as much as 30% earlier in the day, after reporting sharply slowing revenue growth and reduced guidance for 2009 yesterday. The Philadelphia company provides cardiology-related IT systems and services

Jerry Jones In Town

What was Cowboys owner Jerry Jones doing in Philly on Wednesday? Not trying to unload Terrell Owens back to the Eagles.
Jones, who is the Chairman of the league’s NFL Network committee, was here with Patriots owner Robert Kraft for a meeting at the Comcast Center, presumably regarding the ongoing negotiations over the future relationship between Comcast and the NFL Network. No word on whether the meeting was productive.

Top 30 Innovations Of The Last 30 Years (Knowledge@Wharton via Forbes)
The Top 30 Innovations (PBS)

Wall Street 3.0 (Internet Retailer)

Tyco Electronics ordered to keep shipping to Visteon (Associated Press via Forbes)

Will Internet TV Charge Ahead?
Study Suggests Some Will Pay For Cable Content Online (Multichannel News)
VOD chief: Comcast will survive in face of TV.com, Hulu (ZDNet
Blogs)

InterDigital Signs Global Wireless to Worldwide 2G and 3G Patent License Agreement (Business Wire)



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Microsoft at Wharton Business Technology Conference

Microsoft: Vision to 'fundamentally re-imagine productivity'
(ZDNet Blogs)

Microsoft's Elop 'pessimistic' on near term outlook (Reuters)

Updatet on CardioNet Management Changes

A few weeks ago I reported on the somewhat surprising departure of CardioNet CEO Arie Cohen and the start of the search for a new one. Apparently, Chairman & Acting CEO Randy Thurman has quickly found the right replacement: himself (see yesterday's press release).
My guess is this result was preordained, and had little to do with Mr. Cohen's level of competency..