Appeals Court Overturns FCC Cable Ownership Cap

Court throws out FCC cable ownership limit (Reuters)
This is a very big deal for Comcast. It will be interesting to see if the Supreme Court will hear an appeal, if there is one.

Updated: Court Throws Out FCC's 30% Cable Subscriber Cap
The U.S. Court Of Appeals Agrees With Comcast Calling Sub Limit 'Arbitrary And Capricious'> (Multichannel News)

Cable Ruling Won’t Trigger M&A Wave, Bernstein Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)




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SAP Told by Jury to Pay $139 Million to Versata Over Patents (Bloomberg)
Those Texas juries.

Oracle Demands Information From Rimini Street (PC World)


Safeguard Scientifics 1:6 Reverse Stock Split Takes Effect Today
Transaction Intended to Broaden Appeal to Institutional Investors (Business Wire)
Safeguard Scientifics Announces Sale of Approximately One-Third of Its Clarient Shares for Approximately $53 Million in Proceeds, Net of Underwriter Commissions (Business Wire)


Verizon Tags TNT, TBS For FiOS 'TV Everywhere'
Telco Inks Online Video Deal With Time Warner Inc. (Multichannel News)

Who's afraid of Comcast's plans?
(Philly.com: Philly Deals)

JWT, WPP Sued Over TV Advertising for Microsoft's Bing (Ad Age)
Sound like the old "lawsuit as a cheap form of PR" ploy.

FCC Investigates Wireless Competition
Agency votes to begin wide-ranging probe of U.S. wireless industry. (Forbes)

WiMAX Gear Market to Be Worth $4.9B by 2013: Report (GigaOM)




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Philly Tech Events Calendar

Reval Acquires FXpress Corporation
Combines Best SaaS for Corporate End-Users of Derivatives
Raises $16 Million in New Round of Funding to Accelerate Growth (Business Wire)
FXpress is based in Bala Cynwyd.

myYearbook Finds Profitability In Hyper-Competitive Social Networking World (TechCrunch)

The Convergence Of Health Care & Information Technology (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Enter Strategic Partnership with ActiveStrategy, Inc. (PR Web)

Pa. lags N.J., Del. in Internet speed (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Who Is Philadelphia’s New Anonymous Newspaper Investor? (WHYY: Its Our City)

Cable Shrs More Alluring Than Telecom, J.P. Morgan Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Comcast DVR Web Scheduling Nears Launch? (Zatz Not Funny!)

TiVo Files Complaints for Patent Infringement Against AT&T and Verizon Communications in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas; Seeking Damages and Injunction (PR Newswire)



IBM, Wipro, Tata, Infosys win BP IT outsourcing deal (ZDNet
Blogs)

Dataram Reports Fiscal 2010 First Quarter Financial Results (Business Wire)

ShowClix Secures Series A Funding From Pittsburgh Equity Partners (PR Web)
To what extent do these guys compete with Philly's TicketLeap?





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Comcast's Stealth Internet Strategy Evolving Under The Radar (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo Finance)

FCC Chief Vows Net Neutrality Enforcement (eWeek)

Tremor Media Secures Investment from SAP Ventures (PR Newswire)

Smart Grid Cross-Pollination Continued: Siemens Buys SAP Utility Software Integrator (Greentech Media)

Free 24-Hour PA Game Jam at Harrisburg University (Press Release via Central Penn Business Journal)

Verizon Offers New FiOS Home Support Tool
New 'In Home Agent' simplifies some basic troubleshooting... (Broadband Reports)

New Tech Still On Tap For 2009
(Zatz Not Funny!)



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Clearwire Needs Money, So Hopes Cable Needs WiMAX (GigaOM)

SAP Exec Sees Banks, Energy Leading 2010 Recovery (Information Week Blogs)

Heartland Rolls Out Encryption; CEO Blames Auditors for Breach (Credit Union Times)
U.S. payment-card industry grapples with security (Reuters)

Comcast and NFL Network Set to Offer “NFL RedZone” Channel This Football Season (Business Wire)

Guggenheim Looks To Capitalize On Distressed VC Deals (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Guggenheim Venture Partners has offices in King of Prussia and Austin.

OnCourse wins with Lesson Planner (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Ticketing Democratized: Touch screen and phone ticketing for all (The TicketLeap Blog)

PA Applies for $108 Million to Expand Broadband Infrastructure, Internet Access, Governor Rendell Says (PR Newswire)

Proposal With a Nice Touch
10 weeks of planning works out (NBC Washington)
Philly-based company helps out.



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People News 8/23/09

Two area scientists were named to MIT Technology Review's TR35, representing top innovators under 35. Ranjan Dash, 32, of King of Prussia's Y-Carbon, is using nanotechnology to develop ultra capacitors that could significantly outperform traditional batteries. Andrew Houck, 30. an assistant professor at Princeton, has developed a method for better protecting data used in quantum computing.


Board of Directors for Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania Elects Two New Members (Press Release)

Comcast Shores Up Content Brass (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

I-many Expands Leadership Team
P. Kevin Kilroy Appointed President & CEO, David Rode Appointed SVP, Global Markets (Business Wire)


Brolik Productions add Sam Huntington as director of business development (Philly Ad Club News)

Independence IT Promotes Charles Buck to Chief Operating Officer
(PR Newswire)

Former Oracle:Primavera Executive Joins Hard Dollar Corporation
Will Assume VP of Product Strategy and Management (Marketwire)

SAP plans broader launch of Mittelstand program in 2010 (MarketWatch)

SAP looks to India for enterprise market growth (Economic Times of India)

Comcast complaints grow (Atlanta
Journal-Constitution}

Small business lauded
Moorestown manufacturer is recognized for its growth by the governor. (PhillyBurbs.com)

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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