Daily Links 2/10/2011: NBC, Versus said to have inside track on NHL deal

Costs drag down GSI Commerce 4Q earnings by 32 pct (Bloomberg)

NBC, Versus have inside track on NHL deal (SI.com: Red Light)

Mobile payment startup builds buzz through causes (Reuters)
On Philly's Xipwire.

Sprint in 'Good' Talks With Clearwire on Financing (Light Reading Cable)

Cisco Cable Set-Top Sales Tumble Again
Vendor Pins Turnaround Hopes on 'Videoscape' Converged TV Strategy (Multichannel News)

Arris Revenue Falls On Weaker Sales To Comcast, TWC
Revenue Drops 11.3% for Fourth Quarter of 2010, Income Plummets 66% (Multichannel News)

Verizon iPhone Lines Inversely Proportional to Verizon iPhone Rumors (All Things Digital: Digital Daily)

Dish Network stock jumps amid talk of AT&T bid (LA Times)

Phila. Early Stage Venture Showcase report (Philadelphia Business
Journal)

Pulse Electronics Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter Results
(Business Wire)

ENIAC Day to celebrate dedication of Penn’s historic computer (Penn Current)




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GSI Commerce to Acquire Fanatics, Inc.
Company announces new $400 million credit agreement and $50 million share repurchase authorization (Business Wire)
Acquisition valued at about $277 million.

GSI Commerce Reports Fiscal 2010 Year and Fourth Quarter Operating Results
(Business Wire)

Clearwire Said to Stop Retail Expansion, Keep Existing Stores in Save Cash (Bloomberg)

Defense contractor Kratos buying Herley Industries (Bloomberg)
Herley Industries is based in Lancaster.


Data Centers Offer Hope for St. Louis Office Market (New York Times)
Highlighted by Unisys's new software development center.

DDMAC's Abrams gives update on policy making (Medical Marketing & Media)

Time Warner Cable slapped for "fiber optic" claims (Reuters)
The ads by Time Warner Cable and some other cable companies misusing the term "fiber optic" to compare themselves to FiOS are absolutely deceptive.

Comcast's Next Big Battle May Be in Its Backyard (Daily Finance)
I'm not sure Comcast agrees with one of the premises of this article: that the agreement with the FCC necessarily changed the terms under which it must offer Comcast SportsNet programming
to others.

Daily Links 2/8/2011: Josh Kopelman joins GSI Commerce board

Rediscovering WWII's female 'computers' (CNN)

Ken Olsen, cofounder of Digital, dead at 84 (Boston Globe)

SAP preps 'huge' BI upgrade (Computerworld)

A Techie Explains Just What Happened With San Diego Comic Con 2011 Ticket Sales (Or Lack Of) (Bleeding Cool)
Post by Keith Fitzgerald, VP Engineering at Ticket Leap.

GSI Commerce Elects Josh Kopelman to its Board of Directors (Business Wire)

Was Eric Schmidt Wrong About the Historical Scale of the Internet? (Read Write Cloud)
RJMetrics cofounder Robert J. Moore gets to the bottom of it.

Kenexa Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 (Business Wire)

Vishay's 4Q profit boosted by improving sales (AP via Bloomberg)

Bubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble – or Not? (Safeguard Scientifics Blog)

Airgas Ruling Still to Come (New York Times: DealBook)

Entercom Communications Corp. Reports Fourth Quarter and 2010 Annual Results
Announces 7% Increase in Same Station Net Revenue and 22% Increase in Free Cash Flow in Fourth Quarter (Business Wire)

Daily Links 2/7/2011: Zucker says NBC tried to buy Huffington Post for 18 months

SAP's Business ByDesign Gets Software Development Kit (PC World)

SAP Business ByDesign Graduates From App To Platform (Information Week)

Salesforce.com Rides Chatter Momentum Toward $2 Billion (Information Week)

Epocrates Opens The Door For Health IT (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

A Duck & a Wiki Team Up Against the Content Farms (Read Write Web)

Lehigh Valley angel investor group launches (Allentown Morning Call)

Zucker: NBC tried to buy Huffington Post for 18 months, couldn’t agree on price (Poynter)

COMCAST SPOTLIGHT TOUTS SURVEY CLAIMING 67% OF COMCAST SUBS INTERESTED IN INTERACTIVE TV (Interactive TV Today)

Saying goodbye to cable
More TV consumers are using the Internet or even an old-fashioned antenna (Wilmington News Journal)



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TicketLeap snags Comic-Con assignment but runs into some issues

Philadelphia-based online ticketing startup TicketLeap got a bit more publicity than it bargained for yesterday morning when ticketing for the popular Comic-Con 2011 event (to be held in San Diego) went live, as its system quickly went to overcapacity after the 9 am (Pacific) start time, and the problems apparently lasted up to four hours. This was particularly troublesome since the Geek-oriented convention had turned to TicketLeap after two previous failed attempts with another vendor, and TicketLeap had tried to carefully test out its system for the event with a trial run in December. Reaction was so widespread that TicketLeap was briefly trending globally on Twitter.


TicketLeap CEO Chris Stanchak, who responded yesterday on Twitter, posted on the TicketLeap Blog today about the situation. To summarize, he said that although they tried to prepare for heavy demand it still was more than they expected, and as they tried to adjust the scale of their infrastructure with Amazon Web Services during the day, a yet to be specified "bottleneck" prevented the necessary adjustments from taking effect quickly. Not clear whether that bottleneck was more TicketLeap's
or Amazon's problem; a basic benefit of Amazon Web Services is that it is supposed to be fairly elastic in expanding to meet customer capacity requirements. Chris says TicketLeap will follow up with a more technical explanation in the next few days.

Update: TicketLeap's post on the technical issues.



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PhillyDeals: Pa. pension plan's woes are costing taxpayers (Philly.com)

What it's like to cut the cord and stop paying for TV (Washington Post)

Philly Tech People News 2/6/2011

Ulticom Names Bruce Swail CEO (Marketwire)

LLR Partners Expands Investment Team with Four Hires (Business Wire)

Grant Thornton announces next Phila. leader (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Apollo Health Street Adds New Vice President of Sales in the Northeast (Business Wire)

Unisys Federal Systems Appoints New Leaders for Civilian Agencies, Homeland Security and Sales (PR Newswire)

WHARTONITE SEEKS CODE MONKEY

More Devices, Netflix Mean More Traffic for Comcast (Gigaom)

Through Ed Sabol's lens, the NFL and its players became mythic (CNN)

National health IT chief to step down
Blumenthal to return to Harvard; HHS to begin national search for new IT chief (Computerworld)

Cisco To Buy Video-Streaming Startup Inlet For $95 Million
Acquisition Aimed at Supporting Cisco's Videoscape Initiative (Multichannel News)

Exclusive: Comcast, NBCU Net Affiliate Units Merging
Consolidation Will Shift Jobs To N.J. From Philadelphia, With Cuts Likely (Multichannel
News)

Clearwire shares rise on spectrum sale speculation (Reuters)

Azavea, George Mason University and Harvard University Present District Builder, an Open Source Web-based Redistricting Application (PR Newswire)

ICG Announces Execution Of Merger Agreement Between Metastorm And OpenText (Globe Newswire via TheStreet.com)

SAP 2010 - Predictions Review Of A Turnaround Year (Forrester Blogs)

SAP to fight Oracle's $1.3 billion jury award (Computerworld)

Comcast's Versus network will stay in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Hulu By The Numbers: Hulu Plus Projections & More (paidContent)

Big Media Wants More Money From Netflix (Gigaom: NewTeeVee)

Cisco, Motorola Embedding Intel Chips Into Set-Tops? (Multichannel News)

Blumenthal to step down as health IT coordinator (Government Health IT)

SunGard Acquires PredictiveMetrics to Broaden the AvantGard Suite and Expand into Trade Credit Liquidity (PR Web)

B2B Integration Solution Provider EXTOL Announces Strong Revenue Performance in 2010 (PR Newswire)

Technology chips in to assess concussions (National Post)

Daily Links 2/2/2011: Marin County files RICO suit against SAP, Deloitte

Marin County alleges SAP, Deloitte engaged in racketeering (Computerworld)
RICO suite. Somewhat surprising to see SAP included, since most reports I had read had laid the blame more on Deloitte rather than SAP.

Two Hints at Stepped-Up Media Rivalry in Online Streaming (New York Times)

Comcast App Now Playing Video On iPads
Streaming Content Includes Shows and Movies from HBO, Turner, Showtime, Starz (Multichannel News)

Comcast Versus President Davis to Exit Sports Channel After NBC Merger (Bloomberg)

Mark Lazarus Named President of NBC Sports Cable Group (Press Release via Hollywood Reporter)
Ebersol names management team for newly formed NBC Sports Group.

NBC Sports Group restructures in wake of Comcast deal (LA Times: Company Town)


Time Warner Cable Buys Enterprise Hosting And Cloud Services Company NaviSite For $230M (TechCrunch)

U.S. court rejects Verizon request for same judges (Reuters)

Unisys' 4th-quarter profit falls 13 percent (Bloomberg)

SunGard Availability Services Announces General Availability of Enterprise Cloud Services (PR Newswire)

Gartner Quadrant Reports BI Split (Information
Week)
QlikTech in Gartner's Leaders Quadrant for first time.

Epocrates shares rise on higher IPO pricing (AP via Forbes)

U.S. Tries Open-Source Model for Health Data Systems (New York Times: Bits)

SAP Extends Ecosystem via Google Docs Alliance (IT Business Edge)

iPads become reality in Wharton classrooms (Daily Pennsylvanian)



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