Daily Links 7/1/2010: Motorola details break-up plans

The NBA and GSI Commerce Extend E-Commerce Agreement to 2017 (Business Wire)

Fisker Gets Green Light for New Plant, Toils in Tesla’s Shadow (VentureBeat via New York Times)

SAP co-CEO talking innovation (CIO.com)

SAP Joins Microsoft in Technology Recovery as `Crystal Ball Looks Good' (Bloomberg)

SAP under EU scrutiny: the malaise continues (ZDNet Blogs)

Analyzing the Success of SAP Inside Tracks
(Feeding The SAP Ecosystem)

Motorola details break-up plans, including name split
Separation expected to be completed in first quarter of 2011 (MarketWatch)
The big question for this area is how committed will the new company be to maintaining operating management for Motorola Home (to be a part of Motorola Mobility) in Horsham. There has been some speculation of more of those functions moving to California.

AMETEK Acquires Haydon Enterprises (PR Newswire)
At $270 million, this is a rather pricey acquisition for Ametek, which more frequently makes very small deals.

Intel backs off WiMAX industry, dismisses WiMAX Program Office, say sources (DigiTimes)

Accel Invests in ModCloth, a Social Shopping Site (New York Times:
Bits)

Boy Scouts to use FreedomPay technology at Jamboree (Philly.com: Philly Inc)


Judge: Pa. man can name company 'I Choose Hell' (Associated Press via
Google News)




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Verizon to Launch LTE Nov. 15? (GigaOM)

New Sybase mobile database key to SAP's plans (IDG via Bloomberg Business Week)

Electrocution kills Comcast worker (Delco Times)

Comcast Says It Has Resubmitted Data to FCC
‘Shot Clock' on NBCU Deal Could Be About to Resume (Multichannel News)
That was fast(five days)!


Comcast promises to add Latino to board of directors as part of outreach effort (LA Times: Company Town)

Hulu unveils subscription service
Is the site's $10-a-month offering a threat to cable or Netflix? (MSN Money)

Heartland ramps up first end-to-end encryption
Heartland resonds to major data breach (Network World)

Watch Worldwide Social Media Day Live Streams (Mashable)

Microsoft hires Philadelphia lawyer Howard to head litigation (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Daily Links 6/29/2010: Report: Verizon Wireless iPhone service to debut in January

SAP readies 'River' cloud platform for public debut (IDG via Bloomberg Business Week)

Can SAP innovate quickly and quietly? (SAP Watch)

SAP Abused Its Dominance in Software, Versata Says (Bloomberg Business Week)

Supreme Court's SOX decision may be non-event for IT (Computerworld)

Verizon Wireless To Debut iPhone In January, Bloomberg Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Hulu Unveils Subscription Service for $9.99 a Month (New York Times:
Media Decoder)

Detroit Sues Comcast To Retain Franchise Authority
Sets up interesting battle over state vs. local rights (Broadband Reports)

Judge OKs Philly papers' reorganization plan (Associated Press via Google News)

How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets
(Gabriel Weinberg's Blog)

Gaming degree a sign of the times
Wilmington U. major lacking focus, critics say (Wilmington News Journal)




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Daily Links 6/28/2010: Conshohocken's CardioNet sees shares fall on Medicare reimbursement news

Qlik Technologies Sets IPO Terms (PE Hub)
Planned pricing would put market cap in $600-700 million range.

CardioNet Shares Down; Push For Broader Medicare Coverage Fails (Dow Jones Newswires via Fox Business)
Down 15% for the day.

Kenexa Puts Its Pieces Together (Human Resource Executive Online)

Canoe Launches Clickable 30-Second Ads With Comcast, TWC
Cable Joint Venture Debuts RFI Overlays With Unnamed Networks, Advertisers (Multichannel News)

Phila. tours? There's now an app for that (Philadelphia Inquirer)

The Supreme Court Punts On Business Method Patents (TechCrunch)
Decision in Bilski case.

Clearwire Expands 4G Wireless Service (Information Week)

Infor buddies up with Microsoft (IDG via Bloomberg Business Week)

ExpertPlan Expands Into 401(k) Retirement Plan Consulting (PR Web)

Consumer 10.0: Wharton case illustrates the value of branding
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Powering N.J.: PJM control center in Pennsylvania governs electric transmission in 13 states (Newark Star-Ledger)

Philly Tech People News: 6/27/2010

Siemens Healthcare Appoints John Glaser CEO of Health IT Business (PR Newswire)

GSI Commerce Appoints William Mills Vice President Corporate Development for Global Marketing Services Division (Business Wire)

AMETEK Names Gregory J. Kelble as Senior Vice President- Human Resources (PR Newswire)

Motorola Appoints Scott A. Crum Senior Vice President, Human Resources, for Mobile Devices and Home Business
(PR Newswire)

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award Winners in New Jersey are Announced (PR Newswire)

Internet Capital Group Elects Peter Miller to Its Board of Directors (Business Wire)

The Cline Group Strategically Expands Marketing Team with Appointment of DeeDee Rudenstein as Account Director (PR Web)

Deacom Appoints Amanda Mackedanz as Senior Product Consultant for ERP Solution (PR Web)

New Knight Foundation Phila. director (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Standards, Stacks and Mergers: The SQL Backstory
(Dr. Dobbs)

Philly-area companies Thermo Scientific, ProtonMedia, NextDocs win Microsoft Life Sciences award

Philly-area companies dominated Microsoft's Life Sciences Innovation Awards 2010, announced at the Drug Information Association's annual meeting in Washington DC on June 16. Three of the four projects honored involved local companies.

Thermo Scientific of Philadelphia worked with Emory University to install its Nautilus LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) as part of an enterprise biospecimen management system rollout to enhance workflow, foster collaboration and effectively manage samples. ProtonMedia of Lansdale partnered with Merck to develop customized "virtual meeting" technology. And NextDocs of King of Prussia helped the Stanford University Medical Center automate its Event Discovery (EDR) process using NextDoc's Microsoft SharePoint-based solutions.

Microsoft says the awards "honor pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies that demonstrate new solutions or the successful application of available software and devices to revolutionize medicine, bring therapeutic breakthroughs to market faster, fight serious ailments, improve health and enhance people’s quality of life".




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Penn leads area organizations on Computerworld's "100 Best Places To Work In IT"

Computerworld has named its 2010 100 Best Places To Work In IT, and as usual the University of Pennshylvania is ranked right near the top, at #5.

Others are Campbell Soup (16), The Vanguard Group (35), Lehigh
Valley Health Network (36), Temple University (53), and American Water of Vorhees (94).

Penn was recognized for, among other things, its new open-source/open-standard voice-over-IP system to replace the existing one and deliver unified communications, and a multiyear initiative to replace Penn's printed directory with an online-only version.

Campbell's was lauded for its heath and wellness programs, Vanguard for its in-house training, Lehigh Valley Health for a strong community service culture, Temple for its huge computer lab and its employee tuition breaks, and American Water for its embrace of new technologies.

Among these six area organizations Vanguard is by far the largest IT employer, having over 2400 employees classified as such.

Daily Links 6/25/2010: DirecTV, Dish Ask For Access To Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia

Oracle Q4 Profit Jumps 24 Percent (IDG via New York Times)

Salesforce Countersues Microsoft In Patent Brawl, Brings David Boies To The Fight (TechCrunch)

You Don’t Want ISPs to Innovate (Wired: Epicenter)

Hulu Subscription-Service Rumors Heat Up
Pay service could launch as early as next week (Broadcasting & Cable)

DirecTV, Dish Formally Ask For Access To Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (Multichannel News)

Unisys to locate in St. Louis, bring IT jobs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Pharma and Cloud Computing: Are We There Yet? (PharmExec Blog)

SAP Labs logs on to new strategy to improve efficiency (Hindu Business Line)

Daily Links 6/24/2010: iPhone 4 Seekers Swamp Local Malls

iPhone 4 Seekers Swamp Local Malls (Fox29)

Oracle Profit Jumps 25% to Beat Street Estimates (Daily Finance)
Oracle Q4 turns in strong revenue and earnings (ZDNet Blogs)


EU Seeks Outside Opinions on SAP-Sybase Deal (PC World)

Unisys plans for St. Louis facility, add 300 jobs (Associated Press via Bloomberg Business Week)

Clearleap, Roku Shop Web Video Combo to Cable (Light Reading Cable)

FCC stops time clock on NBCU-Comcast review (The Hill)

NBC Universal Decides Not To Sell ShopNBC Stake On Weak Stock (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Exciting FanGamb Changes, Moving to Europe
(Robert Shedd)
Former DreamIt Ventures startup.

Health IT Boot Camp To Accelerate Professional Certification
The five-day crash course in health IT and e-medical records can lead to professional certification for IT pros and clinicians. (Information Week)
To be conducted by Trevose-based Training Camp.

FreedomPay surpasses 1,000 client milestone since launching its FreeWay™ Transaction Gateway in 2009
(Business Wire)

SAS buys maker of police software (Raleigh News & Observer)
Claims Philadelphia police, Delaware and Pennsylvania state police as customers.




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