Philly Tech People News 3/21/2010

Catherine Avgiris Named Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications and Data Services for Comcast Cable
(Business Wire)

Comcast Promotes Colleen Rooney to Vice President, Internal Communications (Business Wire)

Comcast Promotes Sena Fitzmaurice to Vice President, Government Communications (Business Wire)

Comcast Spotlight Announces Expanded Roles for Two Senior Executives (Business Wire)

SevOne Takes Leading Network Performance Management Solution to the EMEA Market
Company Opens UK Subsidiary and Appoints Two Industry Veterans (Marketwire)

Beyond.com, Inc. Expands Leadership Team through Appointment of Senior Director of Enterprise Sales (Company Release)

Janney Continues to Invest in Equity Research with Addition of Enterprise Hardware Analyst (Business Wire)

QED Financial Systems Hires Kornmeier to Expand Client Reach of Newly-Integrated System (PR Web)

NetPlus welcomes back Anthony Eccles, Integrated Media Analyst (Philly Ad Club News)

e-Dialog Welcomes Tony Terranova as Vice President of Marketing (Business Wire)

Allied Pixel Hires Jay Lubragge (Company Release)




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Sneak Peek of GSI Commerce's Michael Rubin on "Undercover Boss"

Just a few tiny clips from a promo ad. Airs tomorrow, March 21, at 9pm est on CBS.

Daily Links 3/19/2010: Comcast and ISC offer IPv6 transition tool

Commodore 64 Awakes From Slumber With Makeover (IDG via New
York Times)

Comcast, ISC offer IPv6 transition tool (Network World)

Cuttyhunkers Win Comcast Net Reversal
(Vineyard Gazette Online)

Android set-top box may be coming to a living room near you (Ars Technica)

Parents oppose Philly school webcam spying lawsuit (Associated Press via the Times Herald)

Morningstar buying rater of structured finance (Reuters)
Horsham-based Realpoint.

PHIXing medical record sharing
(Daily Pennsylvanian)

Report: mHealth had $1.5B in 2009 revenues (Mobile Health News)

Mikros Systems Corporation Announces $26 Million Contract Award for the Adaptive Diagnostic Electronic Portable Testset (ADEPT) (PR Newswire)

Appearance: PPUG meets tomorrow in Philadelphia (ZDNet Blogs)




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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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