Daily Links 3/29/2010: Oracle's Larry Ellison Declares War On IBM And SAP

ICG Commerce's 2009 Results Suggest Procurement BPO Growth
(Spend Matters)

Acorn Energy Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Financial Results (PR Newswire)

Oracle's Larry Ellison Declares War On IBM And SAP (Information
Week: Global CIO)

Rimini Street sues Oracle (ZDNet Blogs)

Synygy Announces Full Integration with Oracle® CRM On Demand (Business Wire)

Technology Shines at 2010 NJTC Venture Conference (PR Newswire)

Specter wants to extend U.S. privacy curbs to Web-cam use (Philadelphia Inquirer)

ShopNBC parent makes headway on road to profit (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Imported execs from QVC.



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Philly Tech People News 3/28/2010

Journal Register Company Names William Higginson as President and Chief Operating Officer (Marketwire)

Journal Register Company Establishes Advisory Board
Prominent Media Thinkers Jeff Jarvis, Jay Rosen and Betsy Morgan to Advise Company on Rapidly Changing Media Landscape (Marketwire)

The Judge Group Confirms Major Investment in New York City Market (Business Wire)

Vodafone presses Verizon for payouts: reports (MarketWatch)

US cable companies see future in business services (Reuters)

Vishay Precision Group Files Form 10 Registration Statement (Business Wire)

Irish spinoff touts "nanochromics" printable displays (Electro IQ)
NTERA is based in Radnor.

TIBCO acquires Princeton's Netrics

TIBCO Software announced yesterday that they have acquired Netrics of Princeton. Netrics specializes in enterprise data matching technology, which helps enable the intergration of different databases and improves data quality. Netrics was privately held and terms have not been disclosed. Netrics' CEO and President Stefanos Damianakis has joined TIBCO.




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Daily Links 3/26/2010: BioClinica Acquires TranSenda International

Gonzalez Sentenced for Multimillion Dollar Credit Card Scam
(PC World)
Heartland Payment Systems, TJX hacker faces additional sentencing today.
Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years for Breach of Credit Card Processor (Wired Blogs: Threat Level)
This is the sentence specifically for the Heartland Payment case; it will run concurrently with the sentences he received yesterday in the other cases (see above article).

BioClinica Acquires TranSenda International, LLC
-- Adds Clinical Trial Management Software With Microsoft Office Interoperability -- (Business Wire)

Oracle's enemies of choice: IBM and SAP; Examining the prospects (ZDNet Blogs)

Even with Comcast's Fancast Xfinity Web site, 'TV Everywhere' still isn't (Washington Post)

Verizon winds down expensive FiOS expansion (Associated Press via Washington Post)

TV's "Undercover Boss" Gets Leadership Wrong (Leadership 3.0)
Undercover Boss GSI Commerce Episode "Villain" Danielle Campbell Tells Her Side (Associated Content)
I was wondering myself what really happened there.

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA TO COMPETE TO BECOME A GOOGLE INTERNET TEST SITE (City of Philadelphia Press Release)
Next steps for our experimental fiber network (The Official Google Blog)

N.J. awarded $11.4 million for electronic health records (New Jersey
Newsroom)

New Penn website connects projects and people (Daily Pennsylvanian)

Innovative wireless products shine at CTIA 2010 (Computerworld)
Discusses Philadelphia's Connectify.

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

Former Phila. clerk sentenced for stealing city cell phones (Philadelphia Business Journal)




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Daily Links 3/25/2010: Comcast broadband meter live in (at least) parts of Philly area

Sarnoff will remain in N.J. after integrating with Calif. parent (NJBIZ.com)

GSI Commerce Expands Existing Line of Credit to $150 Million (Business Wire)

SAP's wasted passion (ZDNet Blogs)

Oracle Reports GAAP EPS of $0.23, Non-GAAP EPS of $0.38
(Marketwire)
Oracle FY Q3 In Line; Revs $6.4B; Non-GAAP EPS 38 Cents (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Oracle: Sun integration 'better than expected;' Exadata pipeline swells (ZDNet Blogs)

Mobs Are Born as Word Grows by Text Message (New York Times)

House Hearing Shapes Up as Title II Fight
Battle Brewing Over The Possibility Of FCC Reclassifying Internet Access (Multichannel News)

Is DISH Network Buying TiVo? (Multichannel News)

Comcast Usage Meter Now In 25 States
With plans to expand meter nationally 'as soon as we can' (Broadband Reports)
Including at least parts of Pennsylvania.

NBC gets financing for Comcast merger (Reuters)

Plaxo CEO Ben Golub Steps Down, To Be Replaced By Justin Miller (TechCrunch)
Plaxo was acquired by Comcast in 2008.

Messengers of Capital Deliver on Entrepreneurs' Dreams (Keystone Edge)
On the upcoming Angel Venture Fair.

PECO Selects Comverge for Energy Management Program (Business Wire)

Verizon says no to Clearwire proposal to merge WiMAX, LTE
(MuniWireless)

Major League Soccer's slick new video service debuts in Seattle
(Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's Blog)

Finkelstein Uses Phillies Fever Defense
Online Ad, Solicitation Of Police Lead To Charges (MyFox Philly)




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Daily Links 3/24/2010: Senate panel sets Phila. hearing on Web surveillance

Secret Service Paid TJX Hacker $75,000 a Year (Wired: Threat Level)
Albert Gonzalez, also Heartland Payment Systems hacker, expected to be sentenced this week.

Verizon launching 3D on FiOS when it makes sense and not just because (CrunchGear)

Comcast, Netflix report rise in IPv6 activity
Experts say IPv6 is attracting more users and content, but it's still a fraction of Internet traffic (Network World)

Big Cable Joins the Broadband Stimulus Fray (Light Reading Cable)

Senate panel sets Phila. hearing on Web surveillance (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Introducing LoKast! (A Portfolio of One)

$15M injection
Growth spurt for Hanover Township firm (Wilkes-Barre Times Leader)
BabyAge.com.

Startup Rolls out Phalanx of SAP Mobile Apps (PC World)

WorldGate Announces New Corporate Headquarters Location
Company Growth and Continuous Innovation Drive Move to New Building (Business Wire)

Boenning says it cut workers to narrow focus (Philadelphia
Business Journal: Law & Finance Blog)




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Daily Links 3/23/2010: SAP, Liberty Interactive upgraded

City's computer network is in line for a makeover (Philadelphia Daily News)

RFID firm raises $12 million in Series D funding (EE Times)
Tagsys USA is based in King of Prussia.

SAP: Piper Turns Bullish (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Q&A: IBM's Steve Mills On Strategy, Oracle, SAP (Information Week)

The Expanding Gap Between On-Premise and SaaS Solutions (ZDNet Blogs)

Liberty Interactive: Lazard Upgrades To Buy; Sets $20 Target (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
QVC Completes Issuance of $1 Billion of New Senior Secured Notes (PR Newswire)

Going undercover on TV, GSI Commerce CEO gets a fresh view of operations (Internet Retailer)

Clearwire adds new cities for WiMax, details more network plans (ZDNet Blogs)

Motorola WiMAX Devices – More than 2M Shipped (Media Experiences 2 Go/Motorola Blog)

eGames Announces Completion of Private Placement (Globe Newswire)

Evident Software Completes Series B Round of Funding (PR Newswire)
Newark NJ-based company backed by two Philly area VCs.

Comcast Unit Sizes Up 4:1 HD Compression (Light Reading Cable)

Sunoco Signs Gas Station TV as Exclusive Television Partner at the Pump
(Digital Signage Expo)




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Daily Links 3/22/2010: Journal Register CEO John Paton: We're Hiring

Journal Register CEO John Paton: We're Hiring (Editor & Publisher)

Philly Newspaper Creditors Can't Bid With Credit (Associated Press
via New York Times)

Peter Bohlin designs first Apple store in Philadelphia (ZDNet Blogs: The Apple Core)

The rise of the app entrepreneur (BBC News)

SunGard Availability Services Expands Enterprise-Grade Cloud Computing Solutions (PR Newswire)

Forrester: Uncertain Future for SAP's NetWeaver (PC World)

Could a stronger partnership with Microsoft be in SAP’s future? (SAP Watch)


Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley to Share Success Story with Science Center Entrepreneurs (Business Wire)

Unisys Expands Support for Modernized Applications and Mobile Devices on ClearPath Mainframes (PR Newswire)

Clone Systems, Inc. Debuts Cloud-Based Virtual Data Center Solutions (PR Web)

Getting a look at next high-tech (Philadelphia Inquirer)
A look at SXSW, including a Philadelphia startup that was there.

Verizon Wireless Enters Online Payment Space
(GigaOM)

MOBILITY IN HEALTHCARE – EVENT RECAP (Mobile Monday
Mid-Atlantic)

3-D glasses to be made in Shamokin Global demand will produce 100 jobs (Shamokin News-Item via Boston Herald)






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Big pharma pushes into social media
Companies prod FDA for clear rules on safety info, interactive marketing (Wilmington
News Journal)