Daily Links 2/25/2010: GSI Commerce extends NFL relationship

Internet Capital Group Announces 2009 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results (Business Wire)

Liberty Media Reports Results for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2009 (PR Newswire)
QVC revenue up 14% in 4th Quarter.

GSI Commerce and the NFL Extend E-Commerce Partnership with New Multiyear Agreement
Record-Breaking Successes and Winning Multichannel Strategy Mark the Long-Term Partnership
(Business Wire)

Salesforce.com outlook misses Street view
* Sees full-yr profit 58-60 cts/shr vs Street view 82 cts (Reuters)

InterDigital Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Financial Results
Full Year Net Income Quadruple Prior Year After Adjustments (Business Wire)

Philly searchmasters greet post-Google 'Splinternet' (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Unions Lay Into Comcast-NBC Universal
Communications Workers of America, IFTA, others weigh in (Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast-NBC Deal Will Benefit Consumers, Roberts Tells Congress (Bloomberg via Business Week)

SCTE Seeks CTO
Professional Organization Wants To Reinforce ‘Core Engineering Focus' (Multichannel News)

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

ERT Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results (PR Newswire)

Mzinga OmniSocial Named Technology Product of the Year by TechQuest Pennsylvania (Business Wire)



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Report: Radnor's QlikTech preparing for IPO

The 451 Group blog "Inorganic Growth" says that Radnor's QlikTech, the in-memory Business Intelligence provider, is taking steps in preparation for an initial public offering. QlikTech has reportedly chosen bankers (Morgan Stanley, CitiGroup and JPMorgan) and is preparing its IPO paperwork. Revenue was $120 million in 2008, up from $80 million in 2007, and certainly appears to have grown in 2009. The company was hinting at an IPO two years ago before the market meltdown.


QlikTech looks likely to click on the market (The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth)




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Daily Links 2/24/2010: Clearwire boosts subscribers, but may need more capital

Clearwire posts loss but revenue beats Street (Reuters)
Clearwire net additions soar to 87K in Q4 (FierceWireless)
Clearwire: Will It Need More Capital? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Salesforce earnings: Strong fourth quarter, outlook (ZDNet Blogs)

Comcast Plans Bond Sale to Help Pay for NBC Stake (Bloomberg via
Business Week)

Man pleads to hacking Comcast site (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Baltimore Wants To Know Why They Aren't Worthy Of FiOS
Verizon denies redlining, says their focus is simply elsewhere... (Broadband Reports)

Pa. educator says she didn't watch student webcams (Associated Press via Washington Post)

FIELD: ENTERCOM SEEING 'SIGNIFICANT MARKET STRENGTHENING' (Radio Ink)

SAP Rolls out SaaS BI for 'casual Users' (PC World)

Archonix Systems, LLC Purchases Public Safety Assets of Cross Current Corporation (PR Newswire)

InfoLogix, Hercules restructure loan agreement (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Testing the electric vehicle-to-grid connection (Ars Technica)
University of Delaware works with PJM of Norristown.

A new response to emergency workers’ needs
Lowell wireless company looks to be a market-changer (Boston Globe)




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Will Motorola Move to California? (Business Week: The Tech Beat)
This Business Week article suggests the new Moto might move Horsham's set-top box unit as well
the handset business; other articles haven't been quite so clear on that point. In any event, if that did happen it could be a big loss for the Philly tech ecosystem.


Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results (Business Wire)

CDI Corp posts surprise fourth-quarter loss (Reuters)

Entercom Communications Corp. Reports Fourth Quarter and 2009 Annual Results (Business Wire)

Beyond CRM: SaaS slips into the mainstream (Computerworld)

Safend Announces 35 Percent Revenue Growth for 2009 and Significantly Increases Customer Base (Marketwire)

Comcast launches first public U.S. trial of advanced DNS security (Network World)


Comcast Asks FCC to Deny, Dismiss Tennis Channel Complaint
Cable net wants carriage on basic tier instead of premium sports tier (Broadcasting &
Cable)

Wal-Mart Buys Vudu To Deliver Movies Via Broadband
Deal Reportedly Worth Slightly More Than $100 Million (Multichannel News)


Cable Execs Defend Advanced Ad Efforts (Light Reading Cable)

Support Decision Looms for SAP Users (IDG via New York Times)

QVC(R) Selects Manhattan Associates to Optimize Multichannel Supply Chain Network (Globe Newswire via
CNN Money)




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Daily Links 2/22/2010: Moto set-top exec heads to Technitrol

Motorola set-top box exec departs (Fierce Wireless)
Heads from Horsham to Philadelphia, becomes CEO of Technitrol.
Technitrol Press Release

Laptop camera snapped away in one classroom (Philadelphia Inquirer)

NBCU Deal Looks Good to FCC, DOJ
Report to Congress Sees Comcast Gaining Control, Outlines Concerns (Multichannel News)


TidalTV Targets Ads for Set-Tops, TV Everywhere (Light Reading Cable)

Auditude Announces Online Video Advertising Partnership with Comcast Interactive Media
Auditude to Provide Online Video Advertising Services for Comcast Interactive Media Sites
(Business Wire)

Comcast Exploring 250 Mbps Service
Though 50 Mbps to 100% and 100 Mbps to 20% is the 2011 target... (Broadband Reports)

Vishay Slides; Weisel Downgrades, Sees Few Positive Catalysts (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

One expensive year later, and papers remain bankrupt (Philadelphia
Daily News)


IMS Health Announces Anticipated Closing Date of Merger with Affiliates of TPG and CPP Investment Board (Business Wire)

SunGard Launches Protegent Surveillance for Energy and Commodities
Protegent helps firms that trade in energy to detect trading behaviors that increase the risk of regulatory action. (PR Web)

Double-Take, Amazon form disaster recovery cloud with Double-Take Cloud (SearchDisasterRecovery.com)

Health technology includes more than digital records (Central Penn Business Journal)



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Philly Tech People News 2/21/2010

WSFS Names New Chief Technology Officer (PR Newswire)

Apollo Health Street Announces New Regional VP of Physician Services (Business Wire)

Unisys Elects Paul E. Weaver to Board of Directors (PR Newswire)

Former Insurance CIO David Rampson Joins Anexinet (PR Web)

Comcast Names Scott Hansen Vice President of Commercial Business Services for West Division (Business Wire)

Patrick Grubbs Joins HCL AXON as Global Head of Travel and Transportation Practice (Marketwire)

Irate parents in Pa. say schools use 'peeping tom technology' (Computerworld)

Lokast P2P Mobile Media Service to Launch at SXSW (GigaOM)
Service of Philadelphia-based NearVerse.

Heavy Rain drenched in noir (LA Times)
French video game designer sees Philly as a dark place.

Daily Links 2/19/2010: Roberts, Zucker To Appear Before House Judiciary Committee On Feb. 25

Roberts, Zucker To Appear Before House Judiciary Committee On Feb. 25: Sources (Multichannel News)

Comcast Shouldn’t Fight Sharing Rules, Rival TV Providers Say
(Bloomberg via Business Week)

School That Spied On Students With Laptop Cameras Says It Was A Security Feature, Turns It Off (Silicon Alley Insider)
Remotely accessing a laptop is fairly easy (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Official tells AP: FBI probing Pa. webcam case (Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News)

Motorola Completes Acquisition of BitBand
Strategic acquisition enhances Motorola's On Demand Portfolio (PR Newswire)

Motorola cable boxes to get Blur, connect with phones (Engadget)

Verizon Fios Adds Remote Control by Android Phones, iPhone Owners Jealous (Wired.com: Epicenter)


Dataram Rallies On Distribution Deal (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Dataram is based in Princeton.

Olympic notebook: A fresh look at the medal table (CNET News)
Radnor's Qliktech helps analyze the data.

Kulicke & Soffa to cut U.S. jobs (EE Times)

Microgrids: Building Blocks of the Smart Grid (Earth2Tech)

Lockheed Martin and Adaptive Digital Technologies Sign Marketing Agreement for Vocoder Technology
Companies to collaborate to deliver ultra-low rate voice coding technology to the VoIP Market (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 2/18/2010: Philly Fed delivers upbeat news, though Plosser has concerns

Pa. schools spy on students using laptop webcams, claims lawsuit (Computerworld)

Is Lower Merion spying students inside their home? LM official responds (Norristown Times
Herald)
On the face of it, this story seems absurd to me, but we will see.


Comcast offers data sharing, backups (Boston Globe)

Comcast Expanding Broadband Meter Trials (Light Reading Cable)

February 2010 Business Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia)

Philadelphia Fed’s Plosser Not A Fan Of ‘Extended Period’ Low-Rate Pledge (Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics)

Pennsylvania SERS Reports Year-End Performance (PE Hub)

Heartland Payment Q4 profit misses Street (Reuters)

WizeHive Launches Tool To Help Organizations Manage Applicants (TechCrunch)


Bentley Delivers New 3D City GIS Information Modeling Software to Enhance Design and Operation of Intelligent Cities (PR Newswire)

IBM, Accenture lead Gartner Magic Quadrant for SAP outsourcing (SearchSAP.com)

inTEST Corporation Reports Preliminary Unaudited Fourth Quarter 2009 Results and Schedules Conference Call (PR Newswire)

Pennsylvania gets $130M for educational, rural broadband technology (Harrisburg Patriot-News)


Philly targets Facebook, Twitter after snowball fight turns ugly (CNET News)




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Daily Links 2/17/2010: GigaOM on Philly mobile startup Venmo

Nutter to test two new business-tax policies (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Changes could aid research & development, video game developers and "computer systems design" firms

SAP's 'Timeless' Future (Forbes)

SAP and Open Text Expand Global Reseller Agreement to Include Digital Asset Management (PR Newswire)

CardioNet, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter, Full Year 2009 Financial Results and 2010 Outlook (Business Wire)

A forgotten giant, remembered
Scientist Nikola Tesla's time has returned. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Venmo’s Simple, Loaded Premise: Pay Your Friends From Your Phone (GigaOM)

Upcoming: Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference 2010 (The Green Skeptic)

HBO Go launches for Verizon FiOS customers, streams HBO content over the web (VentureBeat: DigitalBeat)

Comcast Spotlight, Starcom Report Ad Trial Results (Cable360)

FiOS TV Launches Ad Zones In NY, Rhode Island
Verizon Delivering Geotargeted Ads Using Invidi Technologies' System (Multichannel News)

Vanguard leader to build on predecessors' work (Daily Local News)

Portico Systems and SDI Announce Partnership Using Actionable Business Intelligence for Targeted Provider Recruitment, Provider Performance Management, and Member Decision Support (Business Wire)

IntegriChain Launches DNA: Dynamic NextGen Analytics(TM) Platform (PR Newswire)

Metro Philadelphia Newspaper and Calkins Media Incorporated Form Strategic Classified Advertising Alliance (Business Wire)




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