3G iPhone guts discovered (Computerworld)

Rush to judgment: Comcast not blocking web traffic after all (ars technica)

Amdocs and Comcast: The cables that bind
An Amdocs purchase raises opportunities with the US firm. (Globes Online)

2.91 Million Homes Wired For Fiber (DSL Reports)

The CableFAX Show: Megabit Madness! (Cable360)

SAP's BI Road Map: Rationalizing and Expanding Beyond CFO (eWEEK)

Rimini Street no longer interested in SAP's TomorrowNow unit (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)

The Newspaper Industry Needs to Take a Page from Comcast's Triple Play Book (Seeking Alpha)

Phila. union sues newspapers over pension plan merger (Associated Press via phillyBurbs.com)

NutriSystem Pulls Its Weight
The diet-plan provider forecasts higher-than-expected revenue for the first quarter as marketing efforts bear fruit (Business Week via MSNBC)
Former AOL exec named CEO, expected to increase emphasis on online marketing.

NAFTA: The great trade debate (Daily Local News)
Includes some insights into the Bentleys.

Sarnoff Releases New H.264/AVC Bitstreams for OpenCable (BusinessWire)

Tyco launches WiMAX dual SPDT switch (Semiconductor Today)

Conshy firm merging with Chinese cable operator (Philadelphia Inquirer)

MEDecision Names George J. Marshalek, Jr., Senior Vice President, Client Operations
Appointment Demonstrates Company’s Strengthened Focus on Client Service (BusinessWire)

The virtual Streets of Philadelphia and real-time geo-tagging (Kzero)

Focus On Local Media


Newspapers: Buyer Beware (Forbes)
On Journal Register and other chains in trouble.

Arbitron Updates Philly Sample Initiatives (Radio Ink)

Video: Sprout(R) Makes Viewers the Stars of its New Original Afternoon Block, The Sprout Sharing Show
International hit show PICME debuts in The Sprout Sharing Show Monday, May 5, 2008 (PRNewswire)

Clear Channel Radio Tunes into to Thumbplay to Offer Mobile Entertainment Content on Stations' Web Sites
Largest Radio Company Adds Mobile Content to Boost Local Sites (Businesswire)
The mobile content is now available from the following Clear Channel stations in the Philly area:

105.3 WDAS-FM (www.wdasfm.com)

Q102 WIOQ-FM (www.q102.com)

My 106.1 WISX-FM (www.my1061.com)

Radio 104.5 WRFF-FM (www.radio1045.com)

Power 99FM WUSL-FM (www.power99.com)

Idearc Media’s Digital Billboards Offer Advertisers More Ways to Reach Consumers
New Digital LED Billboards Offer Flexible Messaging; Communicate Important, Local Information (BusinessWire)

Multi Media Consultant Mel Taylor
Working In A Web 2.0 World (FMQB)

Comcast asks court to reverse FCC set-top box rule (Reuters)

What Cloud Computing Really Means (IDG via New York Times)
Discusses Boomi.

Amkor brings its chips back to Phila. for shareholders meeting(Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript (Seeking
Alpha)
Helpful. Reading Safeguard's financial reports is like reading Greek. The company says it is trying to become more transparent.

Microsoft's Vision for Healthcare (eHealth-video)

You couldn’t do this with proprietary software (451 CAOS Theory)
On Marlton startup Ringside Networks.

FiOS’ ‘Free’ and ‘Easy’ Spin on the Digital Transition
Verizon uses clever promotional catchwords to say: ‘No more analog TV.’ (Cable360)

PeerView Completes Acquisition of Veritas Clinical Trial Register™
PeerView Expands Its Suite of Medical Publishing Solutions with Acquisition of the Leading Clinical Trial Register Application (BusinessWire)

Inverness Graham invests in B&B Electronics (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Discover, Diners Club under 1 roof
Company gains international status (Wilmington News Journal)

Alternative Technology to Offer Gemalto's Web-based Authentication Device Administration (Smart Card Alliance)

QVC Goes '2D' With Mobile Phone Test
Technology Uses Icons To Point Wireless Users To Content (Multichannel News)

Turns Out New Jersey E-Voting Problems Even Worse Than Originally Thought (Techdirt)

TargetRx Completes $9.6M Financing Round (BusinessWire)

Plattner vs. Benioff: Who Is Looking to Buy Salesforce? (eWEEK: Enterprise Apps)
More details on this interesting debate.

SAP’s unexpected infrastructure investment (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

What SunGard Has Wrought
(New York Times: DealBook)

Rohm and Haas buys Gracel Display (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)

Rohm & Haas Swaps Korea For Harvard (Forbes)

Journal Register Company Hires Lazard Freres as Its Financial Advisor (Marketwire)

Verizon To Start Shutting Down FiOS TV Analog Channels
Regional Change To All-Digital Starts In New York April 21 (Multichannel News)

Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point) (TechCrunch)
I doubt you or I would get that much attention.

Still No Grand Plan For Going Mobile
Cable Operators Have Yet To Fund WiMax Joint Venture (Multichannel News)


DSG opening subsidiary in India (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SEI Announces Distribution Agreement in Mainland China (PRNewswire)

Discover Financial Services to Acquire Diners Club International Network (Payments News)

The future of SaaS billing (ZDNet Blogs)
Profiles Media's Aria Systems.

The Real World Online' Comes to San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia at EveryScape.com (PRNewswire)

Project Management Keeps IT From Being A Victim Of Success
(Information Week)

Podcast: Deep Dive into Real-Time Traffic and Location-based Advertising on Mobile Handsets (Directions Magazine)

Safend Announces Record Results for 2007 and Q1 2008 in Endpoint Data Leakage Protection (BusinessWire)

Roska Makes Strategic Acquisition of Mueller & Wister (BusinessWire)

Aiming to shape the "connected home" (Denver Post)

Fiber Awash In War of Words
Verizon, Cable Operators Spar Over Claims (Multichannel News)

Verizon reveals plans for airwaves
It says it will use the spectrum won in an FCC auction to speed up wireless Internet. (Los Angeles Times)

AT&T Plans Fast 4G Wireless Rollout (Information Week)

Comcast: customers face Internet problems (Wilmington News Journal)

Readying For Another Round
Diller's Win In Court Leaves Liberty Media Mulling Over Its Next Move (Multichannel News)

Who Are the New 3G Performance Leaders? (Seeking Alpha)

Walt Mossberg promises 3G iPhone in 60 days (Engadget)

Penn Engineering Awarded $7.5 Million to Advance Emerging Field of Network Science (UPenn)
Fascinating stuff. The earlier releases I had seen made it sound as if this grant was targeted more specifically towards
robotic applications, though this description seems a little broader.

Benioff v. Plattner: let history decide (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

SAP Rises as Chiefs See Higher Margins, Repeat Goals (Bloomberg)

Newspaper Chain Hires Adviser as It Weighs Restructuring (New York Times-free subscription)
On Journal Register.

Verizon, AT&T Plan Next-Gen Wireless Networks, Google Plans To Watch (Silicon Alley Insider)

Comcast and Starcom MediaVest Group Expand Addressable Advertising Trial to Baltimore
Initial Trial Results Reveal Addressable Ads Delivered 56% More Efficiency and 38% More Effectiveness for Marketers (PRNewswire)
Reported here on Sunday.

On Comcast's customer service problems(Philly.com: Philadelphia Business Today-video)

Motorola to Lay Off 2,600 More Employees
Cutbacks Result In $104 Million Charge For First Quarter (Multichannel News)
May include cuts in Horsham.

Voices of Innovation: A talk with entrepreneur Greg Olsen (NJ.com-video)

CSC and Oracle in retail banking combination (Finextra)

An Enterprising Approach to RFID
OATSystems' new platform scales RFID deployments across larger businesses. (eWEEK)

Innovative Solutions & Support Expands Functionality on Eclipse 500® Flight Deck (BusinessWire)

Governor Rendell Says New Investments Helping PA Improve Its Economy (PRNewswire)
Announcement includes additional funds for DreamIT Ventures.

NWCT Event: Strategic Portfolio Management (PR.com)

Report says federal planning key to prosperous Phila. (Phiadelphia Business Journal)
"Federal Planning" is an oxymoron. Not surprising the Brookings Institution would come up with something like this. I don't know about the rest of the state, but from what I see I think the Philly area is doing fairly well without a "comprehensive federal master plan".

See the report here.

Comcast Enters the Wideband Era (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)

U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin Team Celebrates Success of GPS IIR Program as Final Satellite is Readied for Shipment to Cape Canaveral for June Launch
Satellite Includes Demonstration Payload for New Third Civil Signal (PRNewswire)
The critical next-generation GPS contract is expected to be awarded in the next few months.

SAP wants to influence the influencers (SearchITChannel.com)
By paying them a cut of the action.

Liberty Media increases stake in DirecTV to 48 percent (San Jose Mercury News)

Take That, Google! MapQuest Snags OnStar Deal (GigaOM)
MapQuest, partially based in Lancaster, has been making some very aggressive moves lately to fight back against Google Maps.


EPAM Systems Buys Two (Private Equity
Hub)
EPAM is based in Lawrenceville.

University City Science Center Hosts DreamIt Ventures (BusinessWire)

N.J., Pa. among top 10 states for high-tech jobs (Philadephia Business Journal)

Coleman Research Group Acquires Endowment Capital Group's Clio Research Management Software (Marketwire)

CRM manager Continues Rapid Growth
Revenues from Salesforce.com Consulting Services Almost Quadruple (PRNewswire)

Markell, Carney cite business goals
State treasurer hopes to be 'small business governor;' Lt. Gov. stresses his 'economic development' work (Wilmington
News Journal)


Bentley Wins FIATECH CETI Award
Jury Recognizes Bentley for Collaboration on FIATECH’s ‘Accelerating the Deployment of the ISO 15926’ Project
(BusinessWire)

TMX Communications Named IAC Agency of the Year for Unprecedented Fourth Consecutive Year (PRNewswire)

Keane Business Risk Management Solutions Launches SCORE 3.3
Enhancements improve supervision of enterprise governance, risk and compliance management (BusinessWire)

NYSE Warns Journal Register on Delisting
Journal Register Faces NYSE Delisting for Failing to Meet Minimum Stock Price Requirements (Associated Press via
CNNMoney)
Watch out when those penny stock salespersons call pitching Journal Register.

Unisys Names James M. Geiger as Managing Partner, Department of Defense, in Federal Systems Business (BusinessWire)

Buccinis buy ex-MBNA HQ (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

WorldGate inks Ojo contract (phillyBurbs.com)
WorldGate survives to fight another day, I guess.

SAP names Leo Apotheker as co-CEO UPDATE (Thomson Financial via CNNMoney)
No surprises.

Comcast plans faster Net speeds
(Associated Press via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Starting in Twin Cities tomorrow.

Kenexa Acquires Quorum International -- Global Recruitment Process Outsourcing Provider (Marketwire via CNNMoney)

Traffic reports for your cell phone (Network World)
New offering from Traffic.com

Pete Distler joins Smarter Agent as President of the Smarter Agent Media Network (Smarter Agent Blog)

Synygy India targets pharma sector (Sify.com)

AXIS Goes Live as AdminServer’s First P&C Client (Insurance & Technology)

Bentley Announces Strategic Initiative to Help Sustain Bridge Infrastructure Through Bridge Information Modeling (BusinessWire)

TruePosition to use hybrid approach for greater E-911 accuracy (RCR Wireless News)

Who Will Buy Sirius (SIRI): If It Has To Be Sold?
(24/7 Wall Street)
Mentions Comcast as a possible, though unlikely, buyer.

ClinPhone Eliminates Common Integration Headaches with Innovative Combined EDC-IVR Solution (PharmiWeb)

Report: Sprint Nextel delays WiMax commercial launch (Kansas City Business Journal)

Korea's WiBro to Debut in U.S. This Month (chosun.com)
I'm not sure how the two articles above square with each other. Perhaps there will be a slowdown until the Cable participation
(Comcast et al) is worked out.

Remark Web Survey(R) 4.0 Combines Ease of Use and Powerful Functionality (PRNewswire)

NRI FORMS ASERDIV TO PROVIDE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT (Press Release)

Xbox Moron Covered on Fox News
(Gaming Today)

The UNfunded (Redeye VC)

TruePosition

About a week ago I posted this article on a decision by the DC Appeals Court to stay a ruling by the FCC requiring more stringent accuracy requirements for mobile phone E911 services. I suggested that this position might not be beneficial to Berwyn-based TruePosition, since its cell tower triangulation methodology seemed to most closely adhere to the standards the FCC was trying to impose.
Anyway, TruePosition today issued a press release to coincide with CTIA in Las Vegas announcing its new "hybrid" solution to E911, involving the use of both cell tower triangulation and GPS identification, sometimes in the same area, if I understand it correctly. It sounds as if they are positioning the hybrid solution as going far beyond E911, toward more sophisticated commercial location-based services (LBS).
TruePosition also announced some significant promotions, and released its "Seven Key Drivers for LBS Success" .