2050: Philadelphia Becomes Orlando (New York Times)
Judging from the weather recently, I think this has already happened.
Does this mean we get our own Disneyworld?

SAP’s Plattner: Oracle control of Java is not a problem (FT.com: Tech Blog)

A Better Way to Manage Receipts for Business Travel (New York Times: Pogue's Posts)

SAS Institute: There Is No For Sale Sign In Our Yard (Information Week)

Salesforce.com fires back at Oracle in SaaS war (ZDNet Blogs)

Happy Cog smiles as Airbag becomes West Coast wing (Philadelphia Business Journal)

U.S. Allocates $1.2 Billion For Electronic Medical Records
The grants will go to regional centers to support implementing electronic health records, as well as state grants to share information nationwide. (Information Week)

DirecTV Could Drop Versus
Carriage Expires Sept.1 Unless New Deal Emerges (Multichannel News)

InfoLogix Files Preliminary Proxy Statement in Connection with Special Meeting of Its Stockholders to Approve Recapitalization Plan (PR Newswire)

GIS/Geospatial Industry Worldwide Growth Slows to 1% in 2009 (Daratech Press Release via Directions Magazine)

Boomi CEO: EDI Lives On In SaaS World (Information Week)

The Internet of Things (SAP TV)
How SAP Technology will help Big Brother track how you drive, and other neat things.

SAP Embraces Real-Time in the Entemrprise (Read Write Web)

SEDONA Corporation Announces Recent Court Ruling (PR Newswire)

Apple reconsidering C64 Emulator for iPhone? (MacNN)



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August 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Philly Fed)


Philadelphia Media Holdings files restructuring plan (Video Press Release)

This seems to cross a line. Someone who is supposed to be an objective journalist (Brandy Bell) presenting a company PR piece.
Bankruptcy Plan Calls for Philadelphia Papers to be Sold to Local Investors (Editor & Publisher)

Hacking Suspect’s Lawyer Criticizes Federal Prosecutors (New York Times: Bits)

A Medical Decision Support System That Learns
Best Practices Winner: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Project: Pediatric Knowledgebase (Bio-IT World)

Free For All? Profits Can Be Elusive Online
(National Public Radio)
Peter Fader of the Wharton School weighs in.

Forrester: SAP, Others Will Make Analytics Acquisitions (PC World)

Salesforce.com reports higher quarterly profit (MarketWatch)
Salesforce delivers strong second quarter, ups outlook (ZDNet
Blogs)

DOJ approves Oracle's Sun Micro buy (CNET News)

Accenture Cutting Jobs, Office Space to Trim Costs (Bloomberg)


Last Polaroid cameras and film to be sold at Urban Outfitters tomorrow (Engadget)


Verizon to Cut $20 Billion in Debt by 2011, Finance Chief Says (Bloomberg)

SSI Knowledge Center signs $1.9M hospital contract (Pittsburgh Business Times)

D&E shareholders to vote Sept. 24 on $330 million sale to Windstream (Lancaster Online)

Google to Present at Philadelphia Business Marketing Association's Inaugural Educational Event (Marketwire)



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How’d They Do That? The Virtual Debut of Infiniti’s New M (Wired.com)

Judge in newspapers case assails lawyer for creditors (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Lincoln Sells Fund Unit to Macquarie in Post-TARP Cash Raiser (Bloomberg)

Ben Franklin Tech program invests $1.2M in seven firms (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Seed fund group, Temple to study venture trends (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Tapping a Legion of Smart Programmers (Business Week)
On San Francisco startup and First Round Capital portfolio company Mashery.

Olympic Network was doomed to flame out (LA Times Blogs: Company Town)


Kenexa's Award-Winning Global Recruiting Solution to Integrate QlikView Business Analysis Technology (Marketwire)

Memory Industry Leader Dataram Enters Storage Market
Will soon unveil innovative data storage acceleration product line (Business Wire)

LECG Announces Proposed Merger With SMART, New CEO and $25M Cash Infusion (Marketwire)
Smart Advisory is based in Devon and has more than 300 employees in the area.





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Daily Links 8/18/09: Comcast Fighting The FCC Again

FCC enforcing imaginary laws in P2P ruling, says Comcast
Comcast comes out swinging in court against the spanking it got from the FCC for BitTorrent throttling. We unpack the ISP's legal challenge. (ars technica)

Q2 Slowest In Eight Years For Broadband Growth
Just 634,000 new subscribers on the quarter... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast Enhances Triple Play With Launch of Universal Caller ID(TM) Service
Three-Product Digital Customers in Michigan Can Now See Who's Calling on the TV and PC (PR Newswire)

Tru2way's Retail Forecast: Cloudy (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Boomi Widgets Ease SaaS Integration (Read Wrie Web)

GSI Commerce stock offering snags $87.9 million (Associated Press via Forbes)

Lockheed discusses local impact of cuts (Philadelphia Business Journal

Controversial Anchor Alycia Lane Surfaces in LA
Fired Philly reporter signs with KNBC (Broadcasting & Cable)



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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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Philly Tech Events Calendar

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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