Daily Links 10/26/2010: SunGard CEO outlines Cloud Plans

Comcast Opens Xfinity TV Online To All Video Subs
'TV Everywhere' Service Provides 55,000 Movies and TV Shows (Multichannnel News)

Is Comcast’s Xfinity TV a Trojan Horse? (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Netflixity… Time to Buy? (Cable360)

Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan wants sitdown with News Corp. at FCC headquarters (LA Times: Company Town)

Unisys hit by mainframe, services declines in Q3
Apple deal misunderstood and overblown (Channel Register)
Unisys Press Release

Ametek Q3 earnings beat Street; ups FY earnings view (Reuters)

Sungard outlines cloud plans: a CEO Q&A (Computer Business Review)

SAP, Oracle… Infor? (FT.com: Tech Blog)

SAP sued over 'Run Smarter' slogan (Computerworld)

BravoSolution: More Applause Deserved (Part 1) (Spend Matters)
The one thing that did come out of VerticalNet.

TruePosition Awarded Patent that Enables Advanced Mobile Phone Triggering (Business Wire)

Software development company opens new facility
Infragistics CEO has lived in So. Brunswick for over 20 years (North South Bunswick Sentinel)

Dataram chooses Issaquah for new testing, development center
(TechFlash: John Cook's Venture Blog)
Dataram is based in Princeton.

Judge reverses ruling on man's suit against Penn (Philadelphia Inquirer)





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Deloitte Philly Fast 50 is out

Deloitte Announces 2010 Greater Philadelphia Fast 50 Rankings
(PR Newswire)

Deloitte Philly Fast 50 (pdf)

Knowland Group became one of the fastest-growing companies by taking photos of signs (Washington Post)
On the #1 ranked company, which started out in DC but now claims Lewes, Delaware as its HQ location.

Daily Links 10/25/2010: Comcast's TV Everywhere service goes nationwide

Apple Enlists Unisys to Help With Corporate, Government Deals (Bloomberg)

Unisys’ license plate-scanning award boosts border security (Washington Technology)


Carlyle Bids to Take CommScope Private (New York Times: DealBook)


SAP TechEd 2010: Redeeming the NetWeaver Platform (Feeding the SAP Ecosystem)

SAP and Siemens Team Up on EVs (Greentech Media)

Charles Phillips Named CEO of Infor (PC World)
Latest move in the Enterprise Software game of musical chairs.

QlikTech uses IPO cash to expand globally (Information Age)



106 software jobs being created by US company in Newry (BBC)
Philadelphia-based Market Resource Partners.

Copps Talks Comcast/NBCU On Visit To Allbritton Facilities
Execs warn of merger's 'grave' implications on D.C. market competition (Broadcasting & Cable)

TV wedding (Washington Post)
Editorial supports approval of Comcast/NBCU merger without net neutrality conditions.

Xfinity and beyond: Comcast's TV Everywhere service goes nationwide (CED Magazine)


TicketLeap: Agile Teamwork and Responsive Customer Service (Ben Franklin Technology Partners: Keynotes)

Entrepreneur's Corner: Evisors (Wharton Journal)




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Internet TV and The Death of Cable TV, really (TechCrunch)

UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital had just recently lead a $1.25 million investment in UberCab. Apparently, the
San Francisco Metro Transit Authority and the Public Utilities Commission of California have some
issues with the mobile cab-finding service.

Philly Tech People News 10/24/2010

Music Business Program Announces Chris Stanchak, Founder & CEO of Ticketleap, as Entrepreneur-in-Residence (NYU)

Electronic Ink Appoints Susan Denchak Director of Technology (Business Wire)

JT Ramsey is the new Chief Blogger at Comcast, responsible for overseeing Comcast Voices. He was previously Music Editor at Comcast.net.

Dataram Announces New International Leadership
Industry Veteran Colin Pittham Joins Dataram Corporation to Promote International Growth (Business Wire)

Pennsylvania’s CIO Brenda Orth to Resign (Government Technology)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Announces Appointment of Julie Spicer England to Its Board of Directors (Business Wire)

SAP seeks gag order for upcoming Oracle trial (Computerworld)

Got an issue with Apple? Email Steve Jobs (It worked for one Philly-area exec)

There was an uproar in the Mac/Java developer community yesterday when a statement contained in Apple documentation appeared to indicate that Java on OS X would be deprecated (left outdated with no more updates.)

Scott Fraser, CTO and Co-Founder of healthcare information technology provider Portico Systems of Blue Bell,
went straight to the source, emailing Steve Jobs for an answer.

And he got a response.

"“Our software is Java based and runs both on the server and the desktop. We have been in business for over 12 years now and are a healthy growing company with about 180 employees”, Fraser wrote in his email, which he posted on his Flickr account.

The reply, in Jobs' name, said "Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms. They have their own release schedules, which are almost always different than ours, so the Java we ship is always a version behind. This may not be the best way to do it.”

Daily Links 10/22/2010: Comcast invests in the sFund

Safeguard Scientifics Partner Company Clarient to Be Acquired by GE Healthcare for $587 Million or $5 Per Common Share (Business Wire)

Verizon Net Beats Estimates as Smartphone Ranks Grow (Bloomberg)
Verizon Adds 226k FiOS Users, Loses 165k DSL Users
As profits fall due to voluntary (and not so voluntary) layoffs (Broadband Reports)

Kleiner Perkins and Partners Create $250 Million ‘Social’ Fund (New York Times: Bits)
Comcast, Liberty Media among those participating in fund.

Offers.com Raises $7 Million To Help Track Down Good Deals (No, Not Like Groupon) (TechCrunch)
Texas firm backed by Susquehanna Growth Equity.

LLR Partners Invests in Lightspeed Financial (Business Wire)

SAP and consumer healthcare (ZDNet Blogs)

Global CIO: SAP Shares Corporate Treasure With Customers (Information Week)

SAP's mobile strategy, the SI perspective (ZDNet Blogs)

Hulu Plus, Take Two: How’s $4.95 a Month? (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)

FCC starting to wade into Fox-Cablevision battle (LA Times: Company Town)




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Daily Links 10/21/2010: Netflix Shares Soar, but it faces challenges from Big Cable

Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey: October 2010 (Federal Reserve
Bank of Philadelphia)
Philadelphia-Area Manufacturing Expanded in October (Bloomberg)

Domino Sugar Moves SAP and Much More to Cloud (CIO.com)

Cloud computing services ‘should be like consumer products’, says SAP (Computerworld UK)

UBS Analyst Cites Four Reasons to Buy Comcast Shares
But Hodulik also becomes latest to predict a delayed NBC Uni deal close in Q1
(Hollywood Reporter)

Ahead of the Bell: Netflix shares soar (AP via Bloomberg Business Week)
Is Netflix at the Mercy of Big Cable? (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2010: Motorola Web Tool Lets Broadband Users Help Themselves
Self-Service Portal Aimed at Cutting Support Calls (Multichannel News)

Medical-data breach said to be major (Philadelphia
Inquirer)

Freedom OSS and Symplified Streamline Unified Access Control for Web-Based Apps (Business Wire)

SEI 3Q beats profit estimates despite revenue dip (AP via Bloomberg Business Week)




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MK Capital Invests $3 million in Crowdsourced Video Leader Poptent

MK Capital Invests in Crowdsourced Video Leader Poptent
Digital Media Executive Andy Jedynak Joins Company as CEO (Business Wire)
Poptent raises $3M for new social network for crowdsourced video
(VentureBeat)
Although Wynnewood is given as Poptent's HQ on its website, it seems from what I'm reading that its headquarters may be moving to the LA area, although there is no official confirmation of that at this time.
Update: Mark Schoneveld of Poptent writes in to say: "Actually - we'll be staying here in Wynnewood. Our West Coast office is definitely expanding, but we're growing here, too".




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TruePosition receives $48 million payment in Patent Infringement suit

Wireless technology company TruePosition of Berwyn has received a $48 million payment from CommScope in settlement of TruePosition's patent infringement suit against CommScope's Andrews LLC subsidiary, according to a CommScope Form 8-K filing with the SEC.

CommScope paid up after a Federal Court of Appeals denied its appeal of the trial court's decision in the case and turned down a request for a rehearing. Andrews is still fighting TruePosition in another court case over disputed royalty obligations.

TruePosition provides wireless locator technologies using cell tower triangulation and other means. TruePosition is a subsidiary of Liberty Media. CommScope, based in Hickory NC, was spun off
from Horsham-based General Instrument (now part of Motorola) in 1997.