Philly Tech People News 9/9/2012



Software Industry Veteran Tim Buckley Joins Xtium as CEO (PR Web)

Philly Ad Club names Paul Blake president (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Akshaya Mehta Joins VINtek as Executive Vice President of Technology and Strategic Planning (Business Wire)


GS1 US and GS1 Germany Complete Joint Venture, Uniting 1SYNC and SA2 Worldsync Subsidiaries Into 1WorldSync
(Business Wire)

Electronic Ink Welcomes Raegan Hoeft, Ph.D., as Senior Researcher (Electronic Ink News)

Meehan named Bentley Systems Incorporated Chair of Civil Engineering (University of Delaware UDaily)




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Feministization Diversification Rantification (Jackie Lea Shelley)
Points out lack of diversity among First Round Capital partners. While true at this time, I think you've also got to look at the diversity that does exist within its portfolio companies' senior management ranks.


Neat Company releases NeatMobile for Android


Tom Paine

In July, I wrote about Philadelphia-based Neat Company, the pioneer in providing technology for scanning and digitizing information from paper sources such as receipts and business card, launching its first mobile app, NeatMobile for iOS, and its cloud-based offering, NeatCloud. On Wednesday, Neat released NeatMobile for Android into general availability.

NeatMobile for Android includes the same features as the iOS app:

Acquire - Users can quickly capture important information by using the camera on their smartphone.

Sync - NeatMobile for Android automatically synchronizes with all other versions of Neat's Digital Filing System including Neat's desktop software, NeatCloud, and other mobile devices - ensuring that all content is accessible from anywhere.

Access - Android users can now use their mobile devices to quickly view all the information in a Neat Digital Filing System while on the go.

Search - NeatMobile for Android leverages OCR and parsing to transform information in the Neat Digital Filing System into searchable data. In addition to OCR and parsing, NeatMobile users can also signup for NeatVerify, a monthly subscription service that ensures that data taken from images is 99% accurate.





NeatMobile for Android is free for subscribers to the top two tiers of NeatCloud service ($15 to $25 per month). It is available for download from the Google Play store.

The company had told me it had sold about 1 million total units of its NeatReciepts handheld scanner and NeatDesk desktop scanner combined prior to releasing NeatMobile and NeatCloud in July.



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Daily Links 9/7/2012: Business Week on John Gruber




Meet Apple's Favorite Blogger (Business Week)
On John Gruber.

Verizon CEO: Samsung could be 'dark horse' with own mobile OS (CNET News)

SAP HANA: Demystified, Discussed and Dissected (ASUG News)

10 questions you need to ask your SAP HANA hardware vendor (John Appleby/Bluefin Solutions)

Verizon may expand DVR capacity with network storage (FierceCable)

With 2 days left, Google Fiber has signed up 21,000 (Gigaom)

Delaware HIE wants to be 'another pillar' of health information (Government Health IT)

Sparta Systems Named 2012 Software Company of the Year by New Jersey Technology Council (Marketwire)
Sparta Systems CEO Eileen Martinson is married to John Martinson, the founder of Edison Ventures.



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phillytechnews twitterfeed 9/5 to 9/6/2012


Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:51 PM PDT
phillytechnews: RT @jaketapper: Philly Mayor attacking Romney's skepticism re: the importance of class size, but Ed Secy Duncan shares that skepticism h ...
Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:11 PM PDT
phillytechnews: Daily Links 9/6/2012: Apple talks with broadcasters, cable ops said to be stuck http://t.co/irMgPvDe


Daily Links 9/5/2012: Journal Register files for bankruptcy, up for sale; Fiberlink M&A target?



Renewed rumors in MDM M&A, spotlight on Fiberlink (451 Group: Inorganic Growth)
Fiberlink is based in Blue Bell, although it recently opened an office in Philadelphia.

10 Questions for Fiberlink CFO Mark Partin (PC World)

Another Tough Step (John Paton/Digital First)
Yardley-based Journal Register files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, will be sold, parent company CEO announces.

Journal Register Company files for bankruptcy (Poynter)


Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies Deploy On-Premise, Private Clouds (TechCrunch)

SAP Is Morgan Stanley's New Best Idea; Bullish On HANA (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Oracle Wins Partial Victory in School's Software Project Lawsuit (PC World)

Qlik Shares Rally As Morgan Stanley Turns Bullish (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Astea International Launches ServiceVision(TM): Cloud-Based Solution that Will Transform the Way Small and Midsize Businesses Deliver Service (PR Newswire)
Astea is based in Horsham.

Kenexa Releases the Industry’s First Social LMS, an Integral Part of Its Learning Suite (Business Wire)
Perhaps adds more substance to the emphasis IBM place on "social business" when it announced the acquisition last week.

Cable Industry Courts Network DVR (Zatz Not Funny!)

Good news for Del.: Fisker says Atlantic is a priority (Delaware Online: Delaware Inc)
What is the probability of a single Fisker automobile ever coming out of that Delaware plant?


phillytechnews twitterfeed 9/3 to 9/4 2012


Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:26 AM PDT
phillytechnews: RT @WSJ: Breaking: Apple announced a Sept. 12 media event, where it is widely expected to unveil a new iPhone. http://t.co/u90uzHul
Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:06 AM PDT
phillytechnews: Philly Tech News Events Calendar: Updated 9/3/2012 http://t.co/di7JMsJt


Highlights last week on Philly Tech News (8/27/2012 to 9/2/2012)



IBM announced it would acquire Wayne-based talent management SaaS vendor Kenexa for just less than $1.3 billion. I also looked at IBM's motivations behind the buy and what it might mean for Kenexa's future within IBM.

I took a look at Time Warner Cable's decision to build out fiber to selected New York City business locations, and asked whether Comcast had any similar plans.

Upstart cloud-based SAP & Oracle competitor Workday formally filed for its IPO, which could raise $400 million or more and put a valuation of several billion dollars on the company.

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott appeared in front of the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley. He recounted what happened when he and Jim Hagemann Snabe were first appointed co-CEOs, and also a phone call with Steve Jobs.

Google was reported to have hired a banker (Barclays) to shop its Horsham-based Motorola Home unit, which engineers equipment and software for the cable industry.

Philly digital health agency Razorfish Health merged with another Publicis unit, Publicis Healthware.

The Harrisburg Patriot-News became the latest Advance Publications daily to announce a move to printing three day per week, raising the question of whether Advance's New Jersey dailies would be next.



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Eric S. Raymond to speak at Philadelphia Linux User Group tomorrow (Wednesday, the 5th) night



Eric S. Raymond, a pioneer and thought leader in the Linux and open source software worlds who resides in the Philly area, will speak tomorrow night, September 5, at the Philadelphia Linux User Group (PLUG) Central Meeting.

The meeting will run from 7 to 9 pm at the University of Sciences in Philadelphia. Raymond's talk will start at 8.

See this brief bio here.



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