Daily Links 3/18/2010: T-Mobile talking with Clearwire, cable companies

NBC/Comcast execs make few guarantees to Franken (Minneapolis Star Tribune: Hot Dish Politics)

FCC wants to hear your thoughts on Comcast-NBC merger (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Comcast: 100-Meg Residential Service Coming This Year
MSO Sees Doubling Max Broadband Tier Over Next 12 to 18 Months (Multichannel News)

F.C.C. Questioned on Its Far-Reaching Plan to Expand Broadband Access (New York Times)

Verizon Sues Cablevision Over DVR Patents
Good thing Cablevision wants to kill off the DVR by 2011... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast Seals Up Cimco (Light Reading Cable)


Clearwire, T-Mobile May Hook Up
T-Mobile CEO says they've been chatting with Clear, cable companies (Broadband Reports)

Manufacturing expands in Philly region for 7th month (MarketWatch)
But weakness in New Orders index.
Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook Survey: March 2010 (pdf)

The New SAP: The Techies Are Back in Charge (CIO: Enterprise Software Unplugged)

SAP Bosses Say It’s Now Pedal to the Metal (New York Times: Bits)

Kopelman to be honored at Early Stage East (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

QVC raising cash, lots of cash (Radio Business Report/Television Business Report)
Sells $1 billion of debt, twice the amount originally indicated.

GSI Commerce Boss Goes Undercover, And Hurts (Investors Business
Daily: Click)




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Daily Links 3/17/2010: Specter Holding Hearing on WebcamGate Case

USA Technologies Files Registration Statements for Public Offering and Subsequent Rights Offering (Business Wire)

QVC plans $500M senior secured notes offering (Associated Press via
Google News)

Specter Holding Hearing on WebcamGate Case (NBC Philadelphia)

SunGard's $1 billion writedown not conference-call fodder (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

10 Things SAP's Co-CEOs Should Focus On (Information Week: Global CIO)

Widespread Discontent Persists With ERP Projects (PC World)

Message Systems Closes Significant Investment Round with NewSpring Ventures (Business Wire)

Investigating ComputerTraining.edu -- a collaborative effort (Baltimore Sun: BalTech)
ComputerTraining.edu had Pennsylvania campuses in Lancaster, Bensalem and King of Prussia.

J&B Software Introduces New Software-as-a-Service Mobile Deposit Solution for Smartphones (PR Web)

FCC Broadband Plan: NCTA Critiques Set-Top Statements
Says "gateway" set-top device worth studying, not mandating, CableCard fixes "misplaced"
(Broadcasting & Cable)
Replacing the CableCARD Regime (Zatz Not Funny!)

20nine adds two clients: Penn Health System and Franklin Institute (Philadelphia Business Journal: Media & Marketing Blog)

WPCS Reports FY2010 Third Quarter Financial Results (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 3/16/2010: InterDigital raises Q1 revenue view

FCC's national broadband plan now online; getting the rest of the country to follow is the next challenge (LA Times)

FCC Broadband Plan: Reactions Pour In
Comcast's Roberts Commends Plan (Multichannel News)


InterDigital raises Q1 revenue view (Reuters)

Comcast to Deliver The Masters in 3D (Zatz Not Funny!)

Canoe Moving To Bigger Digs, Plans To Double Staff In 2010
Advanced-Ad Venture Expects Headcount to Grow From 68 to 135 (Multichannel News)

SAP Chiefs: Change Underway
Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe promise a significant advance in on-demand applications this year. (Information Week)
SAP makes 'on-demand' move
(San Jose Mercury News)

Boomi Brings Brokering to the Cloud (CTO Edge)

Voxware Adds IBM WebSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Support to Popular Voxware 3 Software Product (Business Wire)

Big Quiz Thing coming to Philly in April (PhillyBurbs.com)




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Daily Links 3/15/2010: LoKast launches a ‘disposable social network” for sharing media from your iPhone

Why You Should Start a Company in... Philadelphia (Fast Company)

LoKast launches a ‘disposable social network” for sharing media from your iPhone (MobileBeat)

GSI Commerce Founder and CEO Michael G. Rubin Goes Undercover in His Own Company on the Hit Series “Undercover Boss,” March 21 on CBS (Business Wire)

FCC unveils National Broadband Plan (CNET News)

FCC Wants Cable Industry to Adopt Gateway Device to Replace Set-Tops
Broadband plan to call for CableCard fixes before open-standard move
(Broadcasting & Cable)

The700Level.com and SportsNet are a team (Philly.com: The Insider)

Versus, DirecTV have an agreement (LA Times)

Comcast Entertainment Group to stay in Miracle Mile building (LA Times)

Fandango Begins Rolling Out Mobile Tickets That Let Moviegoers Go Paperless (TechCrunch)

SunGard Announces 2009 Results (Business Wire)

Universal Display Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Financial Results (Business Wire)

RCM Technologies, Inc. Reports 2009 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

Philly Newspapers Taping Incident Takes Center Stage (Wall Street
Journal: Bankruptcy Beat)

SocialMediaPlus Announces Speakers (PR Newswire)




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Philly Tech People News 3/14/2010

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Appoints James Wrigley Group President, Global Customer Management (Business Wire)

Healthy Humans CEO Anthony Gold new Chair of Council’s CIO Institute (Technology Times)

Intellectual Property Attorney Michael J. Leonard Joins Philadelphia IP Boutique Law Firm Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP as Partner (Business Wire)

Dan Francis Joins Allied Pixel as Webcast Producer (Philly Ad Club News)

ARIS Used to Innovate in the Classroom at Widener University
Dr. Yvonne L. Antonucci Honored with the Fitz Dixon Innovation in Teaching Award by Widener
(Business Wire)



Herbert Heitmann, Chief Communications Officer, to Leave SAP (PR Newswire via CNN Money)

RCM Technologies Adds Two Directors to Board (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

Times’ publisher Frank Gothie retiring (Delco Times)

James McDonald Named Executive Sales Director of Metro Philadelphia Newspaper (Business Wire)

DSS Promotes Mary Bosack to Chief Financial Officer (PR Web)




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U.S. to roll out major broadband policy (Reuters)

So, Is This Where Verizon's FiOS Deployment Ends?
<50% served. Hopefully you got FiOS during the first deployment wave... (Broadband Reports)

If prices rise after an NBC/Comcast merger, is that bad?
(Christian Science Monitor: Mises Economics Blog)

Selling on QVC: nice work if you can get it (Crain's New York)

NBC execs get trained in Comcast culture (Philadelphia Daily News: Gossip)

Comcast Will Not Appeal Program-Access Decision
(Multichannel News)

Rushin’ For Fiber, Baltimore Appoints A “Google Czar” (TechCrunch)

Daily Links 3/12/2010: Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk

Revenge of the Cable Guys (Business Week)

Jack Welch on ‘30 Rock’ (Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy)

Comcast-NBCU merger: how the regulators will decide (Ars Technica)

The Fourth Congressional Hearing on NBC Universal (Comcast Voices/Official Comcast Blog)

D.C. Circuit Court Denies Cablevision/Comcast Program-Access Challenge
Court Rules FCC Reasonable To Conclude Rules Are Still Necessary (Multichannel News)

FCC Launches Broadband Test Site for Consumers (IDG via New York Times)

Raising Capital From Angel Investors (Philadelphia Bulletin: The Entrepreneur)

Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk
Terminated for disclosing security incident at Department of Transportation, source says
(Computerworld)

Yolton returning home to headline SAP event (Philadelphia
Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Grady Hospital Improves Surgical Dept. Efficiency
A real-time location system combining CenTrak hardware and PeriOptimum software has raised the utilization rate of the facility's 16 operating rooms by 23 percent. (RFID Journal)
CenTrak is based in Newtown, Bucks County.

MedQuist posts 4Q profit, up from loss in 4Q 2008 (Associated Press via Forbes)

A Rough Week — and Likely Future — for WiMax (PE Hub)




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Daily Links 3/11/2010: Webcam spy case could see resolution

Razorfish Health launches (MedAD Blog)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2009 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Safeguard to pay higher interest for longer term (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SunGard Acquires Hosting 365
(Business Wire)
Irish company provides Cloud hosting services.

T-Mobile webConnect Rocket available March 14, already blowing minds in Philly (Engadget)

Webcam spy case could see resolution (6ABC)

Former Penn official Fry to be next president at Drexel (Philadelphia Business Journal)

TV Mergers Can’t Raise Rates, Rockefeller Says at NBC Hearing (Bloomberg)
Lawmakers press FCC, DOJ on Comcast-NBC merger (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Comcast, Cox, Time Warner Invest In BitTorrent Snooping Tech
Researchers claim it will reduce false positive copyright infirngement claims... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast Is Absent From Campaign to Change Retransmission Rules (New York Times: Media Decoder)


Fiberlink Debuts Business Intelligence Platform for Healthcare Mobile Device Compliance
Mobility as a Service Identifies HIPAA Security Compliance and Data Protection Risks (Business Wire)

Herley Reports Earnings for Second Quarter of Fiscal 2010
Revenues increase 17% to $46.6 million; Net income up 76% to $3.8 million $.27 EPS; EBITDA of $7.1 million (PR Newswire)

Global Pharmaceutical Company (Cephalon) Chooses Ingeniux for Multi-Site Web Content Management (Marketwire)

Tech clusters would grow under bill advancing in Legislature
(NJBIZ.com)

“Hi, welcome to Viddler, how can we help?”
(The Viddler Blog)

Cyber Posse Knew All About 'Jihad Jane' (NPR)




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Daily Links 3/10/2010: FCC commissioner blasts Comcast for raising broadband prices

SevOne Continues Success With Robust Growth and Sales (Marketwire)

InterDigital Signs Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications to Worldwide 2G and 3G Patent License Agreement (Business Wire)

FCC commissioner blasts Comcast for raising broadband prices (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Rovi Claims $2.4B Loss On 2008 Sale Of TV Guide Mag
Company Says IRS Has Completed Review of Divestiture (Multichannel News)

Gallery: SAP's tech of the future (ZDNet)

Hercules Technology Growth Capital Provides an Additional $3.0 Million of Capital to InfoLogix, Inc. to Launch New Products Roll-Out and Fund New Growth (Business Wire)

Clearwire exec shares WiMAX road map
Clearwire's master plan to cover most major U.S. cities by the end of 2010 (Network World)

What Does Google Have In Store For The Set-Top Box? (paidContent)

Billboard.biz Q&A: Comcast-Spectator President (Billboard.biz)

Newspaper economics: online and offline (Google Public Policy Blog)

ERT Launches 'Centralized Cardiac Safety 2.0': A Revolutionary New Approach to ECG Management in Clinical Trials (PR Newswire)

CardioNet rises as analyst expects greater revenue (Associated Press via Business Week)

Program increases Internet comfort level for older adults (Dothan Eagle)




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Daly Links 3/9/2010: Comcast raising prices again

New Comcast TV, Broadband, Phone Price Hikes April First
Competition? Most broadband and TV packages going up by $2 a month... (Broadband Reports)

Done Deal: Comcast-Spectacor Buys Live Nation's Paciolan (Billboard)

Cable group ask U.S. FCC to end fee disputes (Reuters)
Comcast, curiously, not part of group.

FCC chair, DOJ's Varney to testify on Comcast-NBC merger (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Cisco's "Change the Internet" event: Technology to drive video (ZDNet Blogs)
Cisco Unveils One Router to Rule Them All (New York Times: Bits)

Cisco Quits WiMax Radio Business
The decision to cease making WiMax base stations gives a boost to Cisco's Long-Term Evolution portfolio. (Information Week)

Safeguard Scientifics Launches Corporate Blog
Blog Increases Transparency and Provides Insight into Safeguard’s Strategy and Performance for Investors and Media (Business Wire)

Can SAP Get Its Supply Chain Mojo Back? (Network World)

Harris Corporation and Sunhillo Corporation Team to Develop Advanced Information Exchange Networks for Aviation Markets (PR Newswire)
Sunhillo is based in West Berlin NJ.

heipha, Biotest, and MODA Introduce Pre-barcoded Culture Media Plates with Automated Solution for Paperless Environmental Monitoring (PR Newswire)




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