TiVo down but not out; turnaround could be coming (San Jose Mercury News)

Clearwire 'Finally in New York City' (Light Reading Mobile)

Philly Tech People News 9/12/2010

Jaffe leaves Ballard Spahr for Duane Morris (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Merkel Taps Former SAP Chief Henning Kagermann to Head Panel on Innovation (Bloomberg)

ERT Announces Upcoming Retirement of Michael McKelvey as Chief Executive Officer (PR Newswire)

Garry D. Johnson Joins BioClinica as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
- New Position to Support Global Customer Strategy and Accelerate Growth - (Business Wire)

Comcast Names Cynthia Hook Senior Vice President and General Auditor
(Business Wire)

VIST Financial Hires Chief Information Officer (PR Newswire)

Razorfish Health promotes three in its creative department (Philly Ad Club News)

Daily Links 9/10/2010: Key Wall Street analyst questions growth outlook for consumer Pay TV spending

QlikTech opens Hong Kong office (Computerworld Hong Kong)

Motorola MZ600 Tablet Appears in Verizon Inventory (Phandroid)

Mass-mailing 'Here you have' worm hits in-boxes (CNET News)

Moffett: Where Will Money Come From For Pay TV Price Increases?
Cable, Satellite Face Years Of Reduced Discretionary Consumer Spending (Multichannel News)

Business Groups Question Net Neutrality Rules
(IDG via New York Times)

Everyone's Mad About the iPad (Light Reading Cable)

Instem Announces Centrus Solution Suite for Early Drug Development (Business Wire)

Carpe Diem SAP: Hit Oracle While Its Dazed and Confused (CIO.com)

Global CIO: Gunning For IBM & Oracle, HP Plans Optimized-Systems Blitz (Information Week)

SunGard Appoints Young & Rubicam for New Brand Advertising Campaign (Marketwire)

Social Media Savvy Cities: The 17 Most 'Social' Cities Ranked By NetProspex (Huffington Post)
Philadelphia ranks 14th for whatever reason; HuffPost has its own poll along side its article where you can weigh in.




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Daily Links 9/9/2010: SAP Rules Out Hardware Company Acquisitions

SAP Rules Out Hardware Company Acquisitions, Co-CEO McDermott Tells CNBC (Bloomberg)

SAP Looks to Benefit From the Oracle Tempest (New York Times: Bits)

City, bloggers talk taxes over drinks (Philadelphia Inquirer)

XIPWIRE Announces Mobile Bill-Pay Program for University City Residents (Business Wire)

QVC coming back to NY Fashion Week with first-ever pop-up store at Rockefeller Plaza (Home
Textiles Today)

Private Equity in 5th Set With Tennis Channel (New York Times: DealBook)

Q&A with David Grubb, CTO, Motorola Home and Networks Mobility Business (FierceCable)

Verizon Keen On Offering Home Automation Services
Endless new possibilities for strange new fees... (Broadband Reports)


President Obama plans 'robust investment' in NextGen technology (Press of Atlantic City)

Harrisburg University plans social media blackout (Washington Post: Campus Overload)




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Daily Links 9/8/2010: RIGHTNETWORK launches

Network for conservative entertainment launches (AP via Google News)
RIGHTNETWORK Launches Nationwide
Multi-Platform Entertainment Network for Right-Minded Americans Delivers New VOD Programming, Online Portal and Mobile Content (PR Newswire)
No, Comcast is not behind this, though Comcast-Spectacor Chairman Ed Snider is as an individual investor. And Philly's Red Tettemer has handled the launch campaign.
(Update: A RIGHTNETWORK media representative confirms that it will be based in Philadelphia.)

Careerminds Receives Venture Capital Funding (PR Newswire)

SAP To Deploy Up To 17,000 iPads In 12 Months (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP partner launches cloud-based mobile app service
Leapfactor announces several free App Store enterprise apps (Computerworld)

Comcast Gets Texty
Operator Launches COMCAST4U SMS Text Messaging Service (Multichannel News)

Court allows warrantless cell location tracking (CNET News)
Decision of a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit in Philadelphia.

Federal Reserve Board Beige Book: Third District--Philadelphia, September 8, 2010 (Federal Reserve Board)

Knowledge Rules Implements Innovative Cloud Computing Solution to Refactor Legacy Applications for BNP Paribas Global Banking Network (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 9/7/2010: Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC and Brad Galle Acquire JK Group

Resurrecting Mark Hurd: Larry Ellison's War With IBM (Information Week: Global CIO)

Can Oracle, Hurd topple HP, IBM without services? (ZDNet Blogs)

HP Sues Mark Hurd For Violating Severance Agreement (By Joining Oracle) (Silicon Alley Insider)

QlikTech looking at major expansion in India (Economic Times of India)

Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC and Brad Galle Acquire JK Group (PR Newswire)

Allbritton Cites Comcast Harm (Multichannel News)

It's Not Always Sunny for Philadelphia and New York Sports Fans (Huffington Post)

Fall to bring Google TV, just in time for Apple TV faceoff (Ars Technica)

DVIRC Awarded $300,000 National Science Foundation Grant to Connect Regional Assets and Spur Innovation
Project will explore how visual analytics software can help to organize and connect STEM assets in the tri-state area (Business Wire)

Web Host MyHost Expands Name Server Infrastructure to Europe
(Web Host Industry Review)




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Former H.P. Exec Hurd joins Oracle

Former H.P. Chief Joins Oracle as Co-President (New York Times)

Philly Tech Tidbits 9/6/2010

SAP has already distributed over 1,000 iPads to its employees, according to a tweet by SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann, who
promises "more to come". ZDNet talks about what they are doing with them.

Scott McNulty, who joined Comcast last year as Chief Blogger to help the corporation get its Comcast Voices blog started, announced last week he is leaving to join Wharton Computing at Penn.

The anonymous publisher of the well-read Healthcare IT blog HIStalk remarked in one recent post that "I keep hearing that Comcast will make some big healthcare moves soon", though he is not specific as to what they might be.

Now a Philly tradition, (the 4th annual) PodCamp Philly 2010 is
scheduled for October 2-3 at Temple U. Its website describes it as a "Barcamp-style community unconference for anyone interested in podcasting, blogging, video-casting and social media". I know it was very helpful to me when I was just starting to blog, and the price is right also.

UpNext, a 3D mapping startup out of New York, has added a
version of its iPad app for Philadelphia (its also available on the iPhone). UpNext lets you navigate through a city interactively and do things like tapping on a building to see which businesses are located inside of it. The app is free (see demo).

Temple University was one of five schools this year to test out RoomBug, a Facebook app from a company named U-Match LLC
that helps students find compatible roommates.

The mortgage business is tough right now, but one unnamed Philadelphia mortgage banker was working so hard to keep up that she reportedly came down with what's called "BlackBerry Thumb" from texting clients 12 hours per day, though she was using an iPhone. She needed surgery on her thumb to remove inflamed tendons.

The Philadelphia Metro Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication is seeking entries for its annual Technical Communication Competition. The deadline for submissions is October 4. All english language entries are acceptable, regardless of geographical origin.




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Philly Tech People News 9/6/2010

Comcast-Spectacor taps Comcast Cable for new CFO (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SL Industries Names Louis J. Belardi Chief Financial Office
(PR Newswire)

Rajant Adds Two Software Engineers (Business Wire)

Mark Hurd in Discussions to Join Oracle as a `Top Executive,' WSJ Reports (Bloomberg)

Virtual Public Art Comes to Philadelphia (Arts, Culture and Creative Economy)

The Struggle for What We Already Have (New York Times)
On Net neutrality.