Daily Links 1/10/2011: Comcast cuts price of entry-level package 25% in Philly area, but no ESPN

GSI Commerce’s Global Marketing Services Division Acquires ClearSaleing to Expand Offerings in Advertising Analytics and Attribution (Business Wire)

Viridity Energy Raises Series B Financing to Support the Deployment of its Next-Generation Dynamic Demand Management Technology
Braemar Energy Ventures and Intel Capital Join as Investors (Business Wire)

Comcast, Networks Spar Over iPad App (Light Reading Cable)

Comcast cuts cost of entry-level cable package 25 percent (Philadelphia Inquirer)

FCC Has Yet To Vote On Comcast/NBCU
Critics Keep Pushing For Deal Conditions That Commission Has Proposed Okaying (Multichannel News)

Analysts predict SAP trends for 2011 (SearchSAP.com)


Oracle Aims New BI App at SAP Customers (PC World)

Self-service BI, SaaS, real-time analytics will dominate 2011 agenda (Computerworld)

Is Business ByDesign finally turning the corner? (SAP Watch)

CES: Show Rewind
(Multichannel News)

Apps Irk Cable Nets (Mediaweek)

Léo Makes It Official: SAP’s Bill Wohl Joins Hewlett-Packard
(All Things Digital: NewEnterprise)
Bill Wohl, who will be relocating to California, graduated from the University of Delaware and was a member of the West Grove, PA, volunteer fire department for 25 years.

Daily Links 1/7/2011: Samsung to let its gadget users access Time Warner and Comcast programming

Meetings Multiply As FCC Vets Comcast/NBCU Draft
Comcast/NBCU, ACA, Dish, DirecTV, Bloomberg Officials Get Agency Facetime (Multichannel News)

Comcast, NBC round up Hill support (Politico)

Samsung to let its gadget users access Time Warner and Comcast programming (VentureBeat)

What If Verizon FiOS TV Was an App? (Zatz Not Funny!)

Hume Steps Down From SAP Channel Chief Post (CRN)

SAP's Plan to Make Money by Cutting Carbon
Becoming a model of energy efficiency is part of a wider corporate strategy. (MIT Technology Review)

HRM #EnSW Vendor Consolidation Fairy Tales (Enterprise Irregulars)

PepsiCo Snafu Illustrates Dangers of Crowd Sourcing (Mashable)
Philly agency's ad for Pepsi offends some Catholics.

Sprint, Clearwire Try To Calm Nervous Investors
Nothing to see here, please move along! (Broadband Reports)

Carrier AboveNet Extends Network to Philadelphia Technology Park (Web Host Industry Review)

InTest ready to complete corporate move (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SuiteLinq™ Expands With New Offices on East and West Coasts (PR Newswire)




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Philly-based Stream TV gets head start with its eLocity Android 3.0 tablets

Philadelphia-based Stream TV Networks, Inc. generated a lot of buzz by getting out in front of the of the pack in announcing its new 10-inch eLocity Android 3.0 tablets in advance of CES. I tried to find out a little more about the company and who is behind it.

Stream TV is headquartered on Chestnut Street in Philly, and its founders are Mat and Raja Rajan, who have been behind Bensalem-based Zero Water, which produces household water filtration systems. Though I am not sure how this background translates into manufacturing computer devices, the key asset the founders may possess is channel experience. From their Zero Water background, they know how to get product into mass retailers such as Wal-Mart, and they appear to be taking a similar path with the eLocity. There may be a niche there for a somewhat lower-cost Android tablet in what will be a brutally competitive market.

I've got no information on funding right now, but Zero Technologies (the company behind Zero Water) raised $30 million and had connections to some prominent investors.

Stream TV has other interests as well; At CES it launched a line of 3d without glasses devices.

HP Hires Wohl to Handle PR as Marketing Chief Leaves (Bloomberg)
Previously at SAP.

SAP inks patent licensing deal with Intellectual Ventures (TechFlash Seattle)

Judge Sets Aside US$139M Verdict in SAP-Versata Patent Suit (PC World)

CES 2011: Moto's 4G Gadgets Blur Lines (Light Reading Mobile)

Comcast CEO Says He Took His Family on a Universal Theme Parks Trip Over the Holidays (Hollywood Reporter)

Philly Open Angel Forum is now accepting applications (Gabriel Weinberg's Blog)

Comcast/NBCU Vote Not On FCC's Jan. 25 Public Meeting Agenda
Commission Releases Tentative Agenda, Sans Merger Vote (Multichannel News)

Comcast Bringing Live TV to Your iPad (In Your House) (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)


Pulse Electronics names Faison CEO (Philadelphia Business Journal)
May only be a short-term gig if Bel Fuse or somebody else can mount a successful
takeover.

Stream TV Networks launches seven new 10-inch mobile tablets (Computer Business Review)
Stream TV is based in Philadelphia.

Lockheed in line for more GPS work (Philadelphia Business Journal)

A new beginning (Donald Farmer's Blog)
Donald Farmer on moving from Microsoft to QlikTech.

SAS Institute CEO Jim Goodnight on Building Strong Companies -- and a More Competitive U.S. Workforce (Knowledge@Wharton)

Location game SCVNGR raises $15m from Balderton (The Guardian)
DreamIt Ventures alum, now based in Cambridge, Mass. The current valuation would probably make DreamIt's miniscule initial investment look rather good. (This round places its valuation at around $100 million, according to some reports.)
U.S. Start-Up Turns to European V.C. for Global Expansion (Wall Street Journal: Tech Europe)

Motorola Mobility: Today’s The Day; Oppenheimer, Gleacher Say Buy (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Comcast-NBC merger watch: no decision this week as Feds look to CES (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Tru2way: Epic Fail at Retail (Light Reading Cable)

Are One in Four of You Really Going to Cut Cable and Switch to Web Video? (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)

Microsoft to Reveal Windows TV Set-top Boxes [REPORT]
(Mashable)

Dell: Channel Will Help Us Deliver Cloud Services (CRN)
Dell makes another Cloud-related acquisition; outlines strategy for Boomi and other
Cloud services.

Philly company accused of violating state's Spyware Act
(Seattle TechFlash)
Problems with Ascentive are nothing new.

Analysts: Comcast-NBCU conditions could change if GOP wins White House (The Hill.com)

Sprint Nextel Lets Partner Clearwire’s Debt Offer Deadline Pass (Bloomberg)

Do You Want To Save Your Web Ads? AdKeeper Bets $35 Million That You Will (All Things Digital: MediaMemo)
First Round Capital among those returning for second round.

N.J. venture capitalists expect healthy activity in 2011 (NJBiz.com)

RJMetrics moves to new headquarters in Philly

Website analytics startup RJMetrics has moved its "World Headquaters" from Camden to 1315 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, the company posted via Foursquare. The two year old company, co-founded by Robert J. Moore and Jake Stein, has been growing rapidly and doing some hiring.

Motorola Begins Anew As Two (Investor's Business Daily)
There have been indications that Motorola Mobility may move its headquarters from Illinois to somewhere else (California, Texas?). It also seems clear that some administrative functions for Motorola Home that have been based in Horsham are going to be consolidated within Motorola Mobility, though how far this integration will go over time is anybody's guess at this point.



Is Clearwire’s Only Option: Sell To Sprint? (Gigaom)

Clearwire: Sprint May Invest $200M, Says Kaufman (Barron's: Tech Trader)

Nonprofit News May Thrive in Comcast Takeover (New York Times)