Study: Area Teens Wired On Technology, Caffeine

A Drexel University study of 100 Philly area teens shows that many of them are much like adults: addicted to too many tech devices, overloaded on caffeine, and not getting enough sleep.

Technology, Caffeine Keeping Teens Awake
Many routinely get just 3 to 5 hours sleep per night, study shows (US News & World Report)

Quality Systems fiscal 4Q profit rises 1 percent
(Associated Press via Forbes)
Quality Systems in Question (Motley Fool)
My recent post on Quality Systems.
Quality Systems closed the day down about 5%.


Why Comcast Has To Worry About Hulu, Part 2 (Silicon Alley Insider)

After AOL, Is Time Warner’s Next Deal to Sell Itself? (Wall Street Journal: Deal Journal)
To Comcast? Actually, Comcast might be more interested in some of Time Warner Cable's (also spun off) territories if it can win their legal challenge against the 30 % ownership cap.

Comcast CEO: Company remains affected by downturn (MarketWatch)

Infinera, a small tech company, is growing in the Lehigh Valley
It expands Upper Macungie plant amid demand for its fiber optic networks (Allentown Morning Call)

Final Public Meeting on Broadband Stimulus Funds to Be Held June 3 in Philadelphia (PR
Newswire)

Would-Be Entrepreneurs Take Ideas To Open Mic (NPR)
On Bloblive.



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Daily Links 5/28/09: Time Warner to Spin Off AOL

Time Warner Board Approves AOL Spinoff; Dail-Up Business To Remain With AOL (paidContent)

Liberty Media says has not talked merger with HSN (Reuters)

Comcast To Make TiVo 'Primary DVR Choice' In One Tru2way Market
Operator Readying Launch of Remote Scheduling for New England Customers (Multichannel News)

Is Tru2way Ready to Grow Up? (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Is Verizon Considering Metered Billing?
Or just fighting regulation that would prohibit the option? (Broadband Reports)

Rumor: Comcast bumping Internet service up to 100Mbps (SlashGear)

Motorola Co-CEO: 1Q Represents Low Point For His Operations (Dow Jones via CNN Money)
Motorola clarifies position on WiMAX, LTE R&D (Fierce Broadband Wireless)


IT entrepreneur back in Greater Philadelphia with new acquisition, 30 new jobs (Keystone Edge)

The Millionaire Boys Club (Keystone Edge)
On Xoxide of Malvern.

Sestak-vs.-Specter primary?
The congressman alerted some backers about his intentions. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

'Rigged' product demo in SAP suit goes missing (Computerworld)

Electronic Patient Records Will Force Consolidation in Health Care (New York Times: Bits)

Ben Franklin Technology Partners giving loans to four Lehigh Valley firms (Easton Express-Times)

Newspaper Execs Meeting Today to Discuss Charging for Online Content (Editor & Publisher)
Philadelphia Media Holdings among attendees.

Successful Play for iCueTV’s Interactive Applications at Recent CableLabs’ tru2way Interop
Company Tests Well with Variety of Set-Top Boxes and User Agents (Business Wire)



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Appeals court rules against exclusive cable TV deals (Bloomberg via Boston Globe)

An Inconvenient Mess (Reuters)

Cable 'Canoe' Finds Slow Going
Hardware/software issues plague cable's advertising dream (Broadband Reports)
CANOE VENTURES EXPANDS ITS COLORADO-BASED ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM (Interactive TV Today)

Safeguard Scientifics to record $120 mln gain in Q2 (Reuters)

Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios buys game developer Big Huge Games (VentureBeat)

Philadelphia CBS, CW stations team up with VGXPO (Gamers Daily News)

Sapphire 2009 in Review: Jon Reed Interviews Michael Krigsman of Asuret (JonERP.com)

SAP Canada executives reflect on 20th anniversary (IT World Canada)

Bentley’s ProjectWise Dynamic Plot Brings Paper Into Digital Age to Help Mitigate Project Risk (Business Wire)

Modeling User Interactions with Search Engines (The Future of Things)
Research done at Penn State.

Princeton researchers to lead major Pentagon-funded initiatives (News at Princeton)



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First Round Capital Widget; New Investments

First Round Capital now has a downloadable widget showing all the jobs (or most, anyway) available at its portfolio companies, via VentureLoop and Widgetbox.
Also, two financing rounds were announced today in which First Round participated:

OpenX Aims to Hold Off Google, Takes $10.4M Third Round (GigaOM)

Plastic Jungle Scores $4.8 million For Gift Card Marketplace (TechCrunch)

RJMetrics: Business Intelligence Rap Video

Daily Links 5/26/09: Ben Franklin Invests in 8 Area Companies

Ben Franklin Technology Partners OKs Click Equations, other investments (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Evidentiary Hearing Commences in ITC Investigation of Nokia's Infringement of InterDigital 3G Patents (Business Wire)

Halcyon Revs Up U.S. Channel Effort (IT Jungle)

QVC HD: Now 100% High-Def
Claims First Home-Shopping Channel To Offer Native HD Service (Multichannel News)

SAP Braces For Change
New sole-CEO Leo Apotheker wants the enterprise-software powerhouse to be more responsive to customers. (Information Week)

SAP Introduces Software Package to Help Public Sector Customers Optimize Economic Stimulus Funds (PR Newswire)

Tech Employment Shrinks for Fifth Straight Month (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

70% DOCSIS 3.0 Market Share & the 200MB Home (Media Experiences 2 Go)

Higher Ed Wakes Up to Twitter
(Library Journal)

Moggle, Inc. Announces Agreement With FX Labs
(Business Wire)

EBillme launches online payments option for teens (Finextra)

Synygy Announces Availability of the Mobile Edition of SYNYGY PORTAL for Use with iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile Devices (Business Wire)




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Comcast and the NFL: a case of likes repelling (Lancaster
Online)
Analysis: Comcast Pact, RedZone Channel May Trigger More NFL Network Distribution Deals (Multichannel News)

Health providers move slowly to electronic record-keeping (Newark Star-Ledger)

GSK launches 'More than Medicine' corporate blog (Medical Marketing & Media)

Locust Walk paves way for life sciences concerns (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Blog Recap—Monday May 18 at Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic (Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic)



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Philly Tech Events

People News 5/24/09

GSI expands with the hiring of two execs Internet
Retailer)

Agilence Names Ed Parks VP of Engineering (Business
Wire)

Publicis Selling Solutions Announces Recent New Hires
(Business Wire)

Universal Display Extends Sponsored Research Program with Dr. Stephen Forrest and Dr. Mark Thompson (Business Wire)

Gregory Arnold was named Vice President, Strategic Planning at RCH Cable in Moorestown. He came from Comcast, where he was
senior VP, New Jersey region, Eastern division.

Will Philadelphia be the place where the American newspaper dies? (The Guardian)

Internet start-up helps point the green way (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Software tracks Web-site designs
Results show people tend to glaze over ad placements (Wilmington News Journal)