Philly Tech People News 4/11/2010

AirClic Appoints Rick Pontin as CEO (PR Newswire)

Marketing Optimization Thought-Leader, Scott Samios, Joins Monetate Executive Team (PR Newswire)

CRF Health Appoints Gregg Jewett Senior Director of Strategic Alliances and Partnerships (PR Newswire)

NHPN Appoints Michael Forese President and Chief Operating Officer (Business Wire)

Datacolor® Names Tae Park as Chief Technology Officer
Former PMI/Covidien Executive to Drive Company’s Technology Vision and Ongoing Commitment to Innovative Color Management (Business Wire)

e5 Solutions Names Treasury & Financial Services Industry Veteran Blaise Scioli Manager of Software Products (PR.com)

Campus Philly leader Herrmann making career move, leaving in June (Philadelphia Business
Journal)

InfoLogix Announces Appointment of Melvin L. Keating to Board of Directors (PR Newswire)

myYearbook’s Chatter Driving 1 Million Updates A Day, 1 Billion Page Views A Month (TechCrunch)

DEMO tour: East Coast tech startup community is abuzz (VentureBeat)
Somehow managed to skip over Philly.

Ovation Announces Partnership With Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (PR Newswire)

Daily Links 4/9/2010: Accenture sees ERP deals up

Burke Snags $34 Million In 2009 Compensation
Comcast COO Pay Rose 50% Last Year (Multichannel News)

Raze the mystery house
America needs clearer laws to regulate internet access (The Economist)


FCC Shrugs Off Comcast Loss, Moves Forward On Broadband Plan
Luckily For FCC, Much Of The Plan Sets The Bar Low (Broadband Reports)

Accenture: ERP, systems integration deals coming back (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP users see benefits to upgrades (Computerworld)

NextDocs Announces New Clinical Collaboration Portal
Version 3.7 Product Helps Life Sciences Organizations Manage Clinical Trials, Support External Collaboration (Business Wire)

Microsoft's man in Malvern (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

BioClinica Launches WebSend and Creates Efficiencies for Clinical Trial Imaging Delivery
Transfers Clinical Trial Images and Tracks Status Via the Internet (Business Wire)

HIStalk Mobile Interviews Scott Storrer (HIStalk)
Scott Storrer is President and CEO of MEDecision of Wayne.

Software's future breaks through the “clouds”
Cloud computing will solve procurement's IT infrastructure woes, and social media will improve collaboration, bidding, training and negotiations. (Purchasing.com)

Frustrations With Cloud Computing Mount (IDG via New York
Times)




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Daily Links 4/8/2010: GoodCompany Ventures accepting applications

Mistras Achieves Strong Revenue Growth and Increased Profitability in Third Quarter of Fiscal 2010
(Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

Wounds of layoff remain fresh for Bentley Systems' CEO (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Is QlikTech a Billion-Dollar Baby? (Seeking Alpha)

AMETEK Acquires Imago Scientific Instruments
Acquisition Adds to AMETEK's High-End Elemental Analysis Capabilities (PR Newswire)

Verizon CEO: Studies be damned, US is tops in broadband (Ars Technica)

GoodCompany Ventures: Call for Applications
GoodCompany Ventures is now accepting applications for the Summer 2010 program (CSRwire.com)

Podcast session with Boomi (ebizQ: Cloud Computing Insights)

NetSuite rolling out 'codeless' customization tool
The vendor is making a run at SAP's Business ByDesign with a new business-process tweaking kit (Network World)

Oracle: Janney Launches Coverage With Buy Rating, $32 Target
(Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Appeals Court: Let the Auction of Philly Newspapers Begin
(Editor & Publisher)

Insider Tells Us Comcast Will Shake Up Speed Tiers This Year
Xfinity rebranding means a market gets 12/2, 20/4, 50/10, 100/25 Mbps tiers (Broadband Reports)

FiOS TV Adds Comcast Network In Philly, N.J. Regions
Network Presents Selects Phillies, Flyers, Sixers Contests (Multichannel News)

Drexel University Advanced Energy Leadership Conference Spotlights Future of Smart Grid, Energy Management and Sustainability in Mid-Atlantic Region (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 4/7/2010: Comcast 3D goes live

See us now, get the app soon (Philadelphia Daily News)

Comcast: We'll Continue To Play Nice In Lieu of Court Ruling
Carrier insists more open, transparent practices won't change... (Broadband Reports)

Copps: Time To End 'Ancillary Authority Dance'
McDowell, Baker praise court decision, warn against reclassification (Multichannel News)

Comcast 1, FCC 0: what to look for in the inevitable rematch
(Ars Technica)

FCC extends comment period for net neutrality after court decision (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Comcast's 3D channel goes live, just in time for the Masters
(Engadget)


Brook Lenfest's Internet "powerhouse" (Philly.com: Philly Inc)
NetCarrier press release.

SunGard Creates 4,500 Person-Strong Global Services Organization (PR Web)

Internet Capital Group: Dotcom Boom Redux? (Seeking Alpha)

Oracle releases Primavera Portfolio Management 8 (V3.co.uk)

SAP vulnerability could expose systems to hacking
* Could leave companies open to sabotage, espionage, fraud (Reuters)


Startup helps office towers find big energy savings (Reuters)
Mentions Philly's RealWinWin.


Gannett Chief Digital Officer Saridakis Quits (paidContent)
Former CEO of Conshohocken"s PointRoll.

RCD Technology Develops High-Performance RFID Cargo Tag to Capture Industrial Opportunities (Business Wire)

Main Line Health Awards Managed Services Contract to SunGard Availability Services (PR Newswire)




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DC Appeals Court overturns FCC on Comcast broadband regulations

Appeals court vacates FCC ruling on Comcast Web traffic (Reuters)

Court: FCC had no right to sanction Comcast for P2P blocking (Ars Technica)

FCC: Court Decision 'Invalidates' Prior Approach to Preserving Open Internet
Commission responds after court strikes down previous order in BitTorrent case (Broadcasting & Cable)

Winners and Losers in the Net-Neutrality Ruling (Wall Street Journal: Digits)



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Daily Links 4/6/2010: CTDI continues to grow through acquisitions

Moto Shuffles Ahead of Split (Light Reading Cable)

CTDI Acquires More Access Assets (Light Reading Cable)
West Chester-based company continues to grow.

FanDuel partners with Philly.com to let US newspaper readers bet online legally (TechCrunch Europe)

SunGard Higher Education Launches Industry’s First ERP Community Source Initiative
Initiative is Designed to Harness Power and Expertise of Customer Base and Make Valuable Functionality Available to Entire User Community (Business Wire)

Ingres and Contemporary Software Concepts of New Jersey Ink Strategic Partnership – Eye Manufacturing and Public Sector
Upcoming Webcast Focuses on How Companies are Surviving in a “Post Economic Recovery” World
(Business Wire)

Cardionet rises as analyst upgrades shares (Associated Press via
Forbes)

Mercy Health System Expands Its Use of NextGen Technology to Enhance Care Coordination (Business Wire)

Guest post: Microsoft should buy medical-records company
Microsoft EMR: It's Not Just a Matter of When, It's a Matter of Who (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
First recommendation: Horsham's NextGen Healthcare Information Systems.


As FDA debates social media rules, pharma isn’t waiting (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Pa. school official ordered deposed in webcam case (Associated
Press via Philadelphia Inquirer)

NetReach Web Development Technology Helps Parkway Council Foundation Promote Philadelphia’s Parkway District as a Destination
(Business Wire)






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Daily Links 4/5/2010: FCC forms strategy to defend broadband powers

SAP Signals Changes At Insider Event – Vaguely (Merv's Market Strategies for IT Suppliers)

Oracle Adds Pharmaceutical Focus to CRM on Demand (PC World)

Proscape Announces iShowPlayer App for iPad (Marketwire)

FCC forms strategy to defend broadband powers (Reuters)

NetCompetition: FCC Contemplating 'Overreaching Regulatory Hubris."
Says proposed regulations would be bad for goals of national broadband plan (Broadcasting & Cable)

Change Up At NBC Sports Digital; Miller Shifts To Universal Sports, Keeps Olympics (paidContent)

SaaS best-of-breed vs. SaaS suites: Who's likely to win? (ZDNet Blogs)

City to embrace iPhone, develop 311 app (Philly.com)
If Philadelphia still doesn't have the underlying software systems it needs to run the 311 service effectively, I'm not sure how much good it will do to build iPhone apps to run on top of it.
Pew Study: Philadelphia's 311 system shows progress after one year (Plan Philly)

Software developers steering creative energy toward burgeoning app market (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

SunGard Launches Middle-Office Outsourcing Service for Energy and Commodities Trading
SunGard Launches Middle-Office Outsourcing Service for Energy and Commodities Trading
(PR Web)



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Philly Tech People News 4/4/2010

Jeffrey Belk Joins InterDigital Board as Independent Director (Business Wire)

Nuance Appoints Janet Dillione, Former CEO of Siemens Health Services, to Lead Nuance’s Healthcare Business (Business Wire)
Dillione announced her resignation from Siemens in early March.

Morning Call' Publisher Kennedy Out as 'Baltimore Sun' CEO Adds Title (Editor & Publisher)

MISTRAS Group, Inc. to Report Third Quarter Results on April 8, 2010 and Announces Retirement of CFO and Automatic Extension of Lock-Up (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

Precyse Solutions Appoints ICD-10 Program Management Director (PR Newswire)

Red Tettemer brings on fresh talent and adds more muscle to its interactive department (Philly Ad Club News)
Also establishes "ongoing consultancy partnership" with Alex Hillman.

Backe Digital adds Richard Essaf as Interactive Designer (Philly Ad Club News)

Krista Coonelly-Becker joins MayoSeitz Media as Interactive Media Strategist, Buyer (Philly Ad Club News)




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Comcast’s Queen of Convergence Speaks (GigaOM)

Early adopters pounce on iPad at mall (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

Buyers queue up for their iPads (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Delaware business: Disconnect between FiOS, Wilmington likely to linger
With Verizon's rollout nearly complete, city left out (Wilmington News Journal)

Qlik
Technologies Inc. Form S-1 (Securities and Exchange Commission)




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