Daily Links 8/17/09: Hackers Charged with Heartland Data Breach

InterDigital is down about 21% so far today after a preliminary ruling on Friday by the International Trade Commission favoring Nokia in the Nokia/InterDigital patent dispute. It was earlier down by 30%.
InterDigital Announces Financial Guidance for Third Quarter 2009
Company to Host Conference Call at 2:00 PM ET to Discuss Recent ITC Determination (Business Wire)

TJX Hacker Charged with Heartland, Hannaford Breaches (Wired.com)


IBM Targets Mainframe At Specific Applications
IBM hopes to counter plummeting System z sales with seven packages of integrated hardware, software, and services tailored to specific application workloads. (Information Week)


Software AG offers to buy remaining Scheer shares (Associated Press via Forbes)

Tibco/SAP Redux: Does Tibco Code Meet SAP Standards? (Information Week Blogs)

Oracle looks to planning apps for future growth
Demand for PPM software growing (Computerworld)
Spotlight to be on Primavera at OpenWorld.


Greater Philadelphia Economy to Turn Upward Later this Year According to New Leading Indicator (Business Wire)

myYearbook Turns A Profit By Getting Users To Pay (paidContent}

Interview with Becki Heller from Trendsta Part 1 (Sparxoo)
Part 2

CoPilot® Live™ GPS Navigation available for iPhone in North America (Business Wire)

Air Force launches 8th new Lockheed GPS satellite (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Hercules Technology extends deadline for InfoLogix (Philadelphia Business Journal


CVPH moving toward total paperless record keeping (Plattsburgh Press Republican)



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People News 8/16/09

Cheng T. Chen Joins ProtonMedia as CTO and VP of Engineering
(Business Wire)

OKI Data Americas Promotes Takabumi Asahi to President, Chief Executive Officer (Business Wire)

HighPoint Solutions Names New Solution Lead For Master Data Management Practice
(PR Newswire}

Dr. George E. Daddis Jr. to Join WorldGate as Chief Executive Officer (Business Wire)

RCN Appoints Randy Nungester as Vice President, General Manager, RCN PA (Marketwire)

Founder of Pharmaceutical Software DEACOM Named to PharmaVOICE 100 (Newswire Today)




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USOC delays Olympic Channel planned with Comcast
paidContent

Is Comcast poised to do another Disney? (Reuters)

Verizon Tests LTE Network in Boston & Seattle (GigaOm via New York Times)

A Quik Look at QlikView (BI Blogs)




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ITC initial ruling favors Nokia in InterDigital case (Reuters)
This is probably a little bit of a surprise to many people.

Philly newspapers want lenders to wipe out $300M in debt (Poynter Online: Romenesko)

Daily Links 8/14/09: Comcast Opts Out Of Stimulus Funding

Telecom companies reject stimulus money
Government grants to help expand Internet broadband service apparently make the big carriers nervous. (LA Times)

Entrepreneurial boot camp (Phildelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

SCVNGR Lets You Build Awesome Scavenger Hunts For Any Mobile Phone (TechCrunch)
Boston-based SCVNGR is a 2008 DreamIt Ventures alumnus.

InfoLogix Announces Second Quarter Financial Results (PR Newswire)
Company issues "going concern" statement.

Companies investing in SAP ERP FI, core financial apps (SearchSAP.com)

What SAP product or service would make your life easier? (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)

The Peril of Secret Conditions (New York Times: Dealbook)

Quick & Dirty How-To: Employee Stock Option Allocations (Christine.net)

Philadelphia may become the center of video gaming
(The Triangle)

WorldGate Releases Second Quarter 2009 Results
(Business Wire)

Astea Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results (PR Newswire)






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Daily Links 8/13/09: DreamIt Graduates New Class

Philly's Freshest: DreamIt Ventures Graduates Class of Ten Startups (Read Write Web)

Viddler and Graspr Seek Growth Via AnySource Media’s Connected TV Platform (PR Newswire)

GSI Commerce Announces Pricing of Its Common Stock Offering (Business Wire)
Stock offering sinks GSI Commerce (Blogging Stocks)


Tierney: Philly Papers Will Be a New Version of Poynter-'St. Pete Times' (Editor & Publisher)

Urban Outfitters profit beats estimates (Reuters)
Strong growth in internet & catalog sales; European expansion plans outlined.

SAP Connects Midmarket Channel Partners to LinkedIn to Support Recruiting Efforts
(PR Newswire)

Oracle Unveils Oracle® Revenue Management and Billing for Health Insurance (Marketwire)

Mint Raises $14 Million For Its Online Finance Service (paidContent)
First Round Capital was an early backer of Mint and also participated in this latest round.

WuXi AppTec Purchases Instem’s Provantis Software for Toxicology Facility in China (Business Wire)

Quarterly Shipment Numbers: Q2 2009 (Media Experiences 2 Go)
For Horsham"s Motorola Home and Networks Mobility.




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2009 Inc.5000

The Inc 5000 for 2009 is out. Here are the top 100 in the Philly metro area. Heading the list is DSG of Malvern, which provides clinical trial data collection systems for the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. It ranks 82nd nationally. More on this later.



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A contentious court day for newspapers
Judge says creditors' offer could have led to a breach of the owners' fiduciary obligations (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Philly Newspaper Guild Rejects Request for Contract Extension (Editor & Publisher)

The Digital Philadelphia Vision (Technically Philly)
Excellent work by the guys at Technically Philly.

Comcast Lawsuit Questions FCC Right to Enforce Net Neutrality (GigaOM)

Will Razorfish make Publicis cutting edge? (Stuart Smith's Blog)

Lockheed Martin Breaks Ground Marking Expansion of Newtown, PA Facility (PR Newswire)

Journal Register emerges from bankruptcy protection (Associated Press via Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

SAP Ranked Leader in the Combined Performance Management and Analytic Applications Market for Second Consecutive Year by Leading Analyst Firm (PR Newswire)

Open-Source, Proprietary Vendors Partner on Cloud BI (IDG via New York Times)
Perhaps this is an attempt to better compete against Radnor's QlikTech. A four-way joint venture seems like a difficult to manage, however.
BTW, SAP Ventures is an investor in JasperSoft.

Share your ARIS Express model! (ARIS BPM Blog)
Great Example!

FiOS Broadens Multi-Room FiOS Functionality
Media Manager now free for all DVR/Broadband customers... (Broadband Reports)

PHIMA PANEL DISCUSSES SOCIAL MEDIA (Dinkum Interactive Blog)

Dynasil Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results
(Business Wire)




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Daily Links 8/11/09: Comcast Takes On Godzilla

Comcast Email Service Goes Down for an Hour (PC Magazine)

Comcast Battles Godzilla
Trademark owner not fan of new commercial (Broadband Reports)

Cable's Grip On The Living Room Is Getting Weaker (Silicon Alley Insider)

CHART OF THE DAY: How Comcast Ate Vonage's Lunch (Silicon Alley Insider)

Comcast Spectacor Scores with Acumen-Integrated Salesforce.com (Outbound Call Center)

Publicis lands Razorfish (Medical Marketing & Media)

YouStar ToonUps Embeds User’s Voice and Face in Digital Cartoons to Create Entertaining, Memorable Messages and Presentations (Business Wire)

Deadline near for Mid-Atlantic event (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Advanta Reports Loss, Says Survival Tied to New Plan (Bloomberg)

Clearwire posts narrower loss, adds customers (Reuters)
Clearwire adds Huawei to WiMax vendor roster (Computerworld)


Siemens adds to ‘meaningful use’ conversation with roadmap, expertise (CivSource)

Outdated 911 centers can’t handle texting (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Supposedly, fees on mobile phone bills were to cover things such as this, but apparently the funds are diverted for other purposes.



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