Daily Links 5/18/2010: Fiberlink of Blue Bell wins CODiE award

FiOSTV Tops ACSI Consumer Satisfaction Index
Cable companies see small gains in satisfaction... (Broadband Reports)

IP Gateways Are Gaining Steam (Multichannel News)

Bentley Publishes May 2010 Annual Report (PR Newswire)

CODiE Awards Names Fiberlink® Best Mobile Enterprise Solution (Business Wire)


Xybion Completes Acquisition of Stelex and Vital-Path, Leaders in Business Process Software and Consulting Services for Regulated Industries, from GE Healthcare (PR Web)

Interactive Data Teams with InvestEdge to Provide Wealth Managers with Customized Financial Data (Business Wire)

SEI Enhances Private Equity Reporting Platform To Deliver Portfolio Company Level Transparency (PR Newswire)

NASDAQ OMX and SunGard to Deliver Risk Analytics for NASDAQ OMX Indexes (Globe Newswire via MarketWatch)

Berliner Communications Announces Financial Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2010 (PR Newswire)

Garber invests in Healthy Humans (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Lonza Group Completes MODA Technology Purchase (PE Hub)

SAP SAPPHIRE News: 5/18/2010

SAP Co-Ceo: Business ByDesign 'Is Not a Fantasy' (IDG via New
York Times)

SAP's Business ByDesign: Finally Real, But a Tough Sell? (CIO.com)

How Will Larry Ellison Counter SAP's Mobile Offensive? (Information Week: Global CIO)

SAP: Experimenting And That's a Good Thing (Read Write Enterprise)


Sapphire: Users like SAP's push on mobile, on-demand and in-memory, but aren't ready (SearchSAP.com)

Sybase Shareholder Sues to Bar $5.8 Billion SAP Bid (Bloomberg Business Week)

Microsoft Seeks To Infiltrate SAP as Sapphire Begins (Redmond Channel Partner)

SAP Customers Get A User-Group Champion
At SAP's SAPPHIRE conference, ASUG's CEO promises strong advocacy as the user group tackles software-support and BusinessObjects integration woes. (Information Week)

Princeton's SES World Skies plans orbital maneuver to minimize Cable TV disruptions

Princeton-based satellite operator SES World Skies is planning an "orbital maneuver" later this month that will hopefully minimize the probability of major cable TV reception problems, the company said in a press release today.
The maneuver is aimed at steering SES' AMC-11 satellite and its customers clear of interference from Intelsat’s troubled Galaxy 15 spacecraft, the so-called "Zombie" satellite. SES also plans to reposition its new SES-1 satellite to serve as a backup to enable some customers to "leapfrog" their broadcasts over interference. The company says the risk of interference should end by June 7.
One can only imagine how much processing power SES chewed up in calculating this solution.

Daily Links 5/17/2010: DuPont develops new OLED printing process

New Inks Could Mean Cheaper OLED Screens
DuPont has developed a printing process to bring down the cost of high-performance displays. (MIT Technology Review)

update CRM Inc. Brings a Revolution in Cloud-based CRM Solutions to North America (Business Wire)
Another area player in the Life Sciences CRM market.

PhillyDeals: Poker games as trader's test for making quick decisions (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Four Programmers To Shove Off With Canoe's Interactive Ads
Comcast Networks, Discovery, NBCU, Rainbow To Debut RFI Applications (Multichannel News)

TV Apps to Bring in $1.9B by 2015 (NewTeeVee)

hhgregg Announces the Grand Opening of Twelve New Stores Serving Residents in Philadelphia and Greater Delaware Valley Area (Business Wire)

Neuxpower Expands Software To Cut 'File Bloat' In Large Files (Channel Web)

SAP SAPPHIRE News: 5/17/2010

SAP rolls out latest BusinessByDesign release (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP Readying In-memory Database Appliances (PC World)

SAP Co-CEO Defends Price of Sybase Deal (PC World)

SAP's SaaS strategy: On demand add ons, Business ByDesign starter packs (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP's "Third" CEO: Vishal Sikka
Early on at Sapphire 2010, CTO Vishal Sikka took on a somewhat starring and surprising role, even with his co-CEOs on stage. (CIO.com)

The other reason SAP bought Sybase (InfoWorld)

Spring Wireless Secures $12 Million in Growth Equity Led by SAP Ventures (PR Newswire)



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NHL Eyes New Rights Deals As Ratings Climb: Collins
NHL COO Says Renewal Discussions With Versus, NBC To Take Place In Late Fall (Multichannel
News)

Philly Tech People News 5/17/2010

Apollo Health Street Names Karen Ferrell as President and CEO (Business Wire)


BioNanomatrix Names Genomics Industry Leader Dr. David L. Barker to Its Board of Directors (PR Newswire)

Ron Oscher Named Vice President and General Manager Materials Analysis Division (PR Newswire)


Member Solutions Appoints Lakshmi Venkataswamy As Chief Information Officer (PR Web)

The SAPPHIRE of Second Chances: SAP and the Road to Redemption (Enterprise Irregulars)

SAP Launches Virtual Platform for SAPPHIRE(R) NOW (PR Newswire)

Daily Links 5/14/2010: Bernanke visits Philly

Analyst makes case for HP to top SAP's Sybase bid (San Jose Business Journal)

SAP pays dearly with $5.8 billion Sybase purchase (Reuters)

Americas’ SAP Users’ Group Announces Impact Award Winners (Business Wire)
Comcast wins in "Large Enterprise" category.

Ben Bernanke’s Field Trip to Philly (New York Times: Economix)

TiVo: Lazard Downgrades On Court Decision; Stock Off 40% (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Comcast's 4G Market Primer
(Light Reading)
Interview with Comcast's Cathy Avgiris (Video).

Gannett Folds Ripple6 Into Pointroll (paidContent)
PointRoll is headquartered in Conshohocken.

Pa. cuts scarring Ben Franklin (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Alteva joins Cloud Communications Alliance, partners with Microsoft and BroadSoft for hosted Unified Communications solution

When I wrote about Philadelphia-based hosted VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services provider Alteva a few months ago, I highlighted two important strategic issues the company faced. First, it had to determine how to begin moving beyond a primarily regional footprint as the industry inevitably begins to consolidate. Secondly, Alteva needed to define its strategy in the growing market for "unified communications services".
In recent weeks, Alteva took significant steps on both fronts.

In April at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York, Alteva was announced as a founding member of the Cloud Communications Alliance along with seven other companies. The network will offer nationwide peering with interconnected switches and gateways across the country to provide greater network efficiences and more HD voice connections, a common infrastructure to provide nationwide customer support, closer integration of mobile and fixed platforms, formation of a Cloud Communications Alliance 'Sandbox' which will allow the rapid rollout and customer adoption of new apps, joint product development, and other shared services. The combined companies represent more than $100 million of revenue and 100,000 customers.

On the second front, Alteva announced it was partnering with Microsoft and BroadSoft to deliver a hosted Unified Communications (UC) solution to small businesses. Alteva says it interconnects its hosted voice and messaging services with the Microsoft Communication Services product suite, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server (OCS). In part to reflect the emphasis on this offering, Alteva is rebranding itself as a hosted unified communications solution provider, according to Chief Sales Officer Louis Hayner. (This is reflected in their redesigned website). In addition, Alteva now has a web store where organizations with less than 25 users can evaluate and select applications.

Also, Alteva was recently awarded Unified Communications Magazine's "Product of the Year" award for 2009 for its new voice application, Alteva Vision.




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Online system streamlines mortgage modification (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SCVNGR, a Google Ventures-Backed, Location-Based Mobile Gaming Company, Launches Into the Consumer Market (Marketwire)
SCVNGR was founded at Princeton and is a graduate of the DreamIt Ventures incubator, though it is now based in Massachusetts.
A New Entry Into the World of Location-Based Games (New York Times: Bits)

FBI Gets Evidence in Student Webcam Scandal (Wired Blogs: Threat Level)

MedQuist cost cuts lift profit 7 percent (Associated Press via the Courier-Post)

Astea Reports First Quarter 2010 Results (PR Newswire)