WWDC: Apple slashes prices for 3G iPhone, shipping in July (Macworld)
I'm still trying to find out more about InterDigital's role in the new iPhone.

Reinventing a Giant, Part 1: SAP's Transformation (E-Commerce Times)

Nation's tallest sustainable skyscraper rises 975 feet (Consulting-Specifying Engineer)

Passport Health Completes $144 Million Financing (BusinessWire)

Kaiser Backs Microsoft Patient-Data Plan (New York Times)

CapMed Connects Its Award-Winning Personal Health Record Technology with Microsoft HealthVault
Strategic relationship with Microsoft helps ensure that consumers’ critical health information is available when and where it is needed most (BusinessWire)

myYearbook Named Third Largest Social Network in the U.S.
426 Percent Year Over Year Growth Shows Closed Platforms May Be the Answer (BusinessWire)

Technitrol’s Electronic Components Plant in Mianyang, China is Back On Line (BusinessWire)

Makeover artist: Face to Face with Sandy Frucher
Sandy Frucher was unable to close the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, so he transformed it (Pensions & Investments)

Franklin Electronic Publishers Reports Strong Year on Year Results (PRNewswire via MSN Money)
But lays off 10% of staff.

Environmental Tectonics Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Results
(PRNewswire)

Philly False Airline Ads Draw High Responses, Ethics Concerns (Editor & Publisher)

AGI Analysis Software Supports NASA's GLAST Mission (PRNewswire)

AOL’s Platform-A and Its Behavioral Targeting Solution, TACODA, Join PointRoll Included Program (BusinessWire)

Socially insecure in Downingtown
SCHOOL DISTRICT’S ILL-FATED USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS BAFFLING TO COMPUTER EXPERTS ELSEWHERE (Daily Local News)

Comcast Filings Hint At Video Gadgets
Operator Seeks Trademarks For 'AnyReach' Handheld Player and 'XtraScreen' PC Device (Multichannel News)

Customers cry fraud over Comcast P2P meddling in new lawsuit (ars technica)

Reactions Are Mixed On Verizon's Day-Old $28.1 Billion Acquisition Of Alltel (mocoNews.net via Washington Post)

Q&A: Makarand Teje, CEO of AppLabs (Computer Business Review)

WILL INTERDIGITAL AND INFINEON MAKE THE APPLE 3G IPHONE 3G? (DeWitt Capital Management)

Rodale’s Interactive Head Ostroff Leaves; Management Shakeup (paidContent)

Ediscovery profoundly changing lawyering
But some say rules for e-mail and other digital data don't serve justice. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Off the Field, Phil's Durbin Starts an Internet Business (KYW News Radio)

Executive Hirings and Promotions:


Former CNN Exec Goes To Comcast (mediabistro)

Comcast Entertainment Adds Pair Of Research Gurus (Multichannel News)

Rosenthal Leads Digital Content At Entercom

Precyse Solutions Appoints James Matas as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(PRNewswire)

IntegriChain Appoints John Bailye to Its Board of Directors (PRNewswire)

Scopus Hires Cable Vet (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Roska Digital Taps 'Mr. Interactive' to Help Agency Reach Next Level (BusinessWire)

Global Creative Leader Drawn to Vox Medica’s New Vision Ross Thomson Joins Vox Medica as EVP, Chief Ideation Officer (PharmaLive)

Alltel: A Boon for Verizon Wireless
The merger would let Verizon Wireless overtake AT&T as the No. 1 cellular provider. But what would its 80 million customers gain? (Business Week)

Owner of Philly Papers Blames Leak For Interest Payment Story (Editor & Publisher)

Phila. newspapers run ads about fake airline Derrie-Air (Associated Press via Google News)


InterDigital Executives Review Key Accomplishments and Strategic Objectives at 2008 Annual Shareholder Meeting (BusinessWire)
"Will announce a design win in the first half of 2008" for SlimChip. The SlimChip is not expected to be part of iPhone 3G, so
this is probably something else. Other InterDigital technology will play a key role in the new iPhone, most observers think.

News Corp. Sells Its 19% Stake In Macrovision (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Not one of Murdoch's better investments. This is the end result of his acquisition of Triangle Publications.

Lockheed Martin Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon System Destroys Ballistic Missile in Terminal Phase (PRNewswire)

Ignite Philly offers rapid-fire pitching (Philadelphia Business Journal)

C&D fiscal 1st-quarter profit beats predictions (Associated Press via CNN Money)

Motorola, Cisco Steering Cable’s DCAS Project
Vendors Now Performing Most Work That Was Handled By PolyCipher JV (Multichannel News)

SAP fails to settle with Oracle
(SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Sandy Wax - President of PBS Sprout Kids (fun Play Dates)

Unisys Wants Sign On Liberty Two (Philadelphia Will Do)

Suit: Protest check to Comcast makes Internet rounds (Associated Press via Philly.com)

More on Philadelphia Media Holdings' debt problems:

Owner of Philly's 2 dailies misses debt payment
Owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News misses debt payment, seeks relief from lenders (Associated Press via
CNN Money)

Verizon Agrees to Buy Alltel for $28.1 Billion (New York Times)

Private Equity Firm Buys Web Host, HostMySite (TopHosts.com)

HostMySite.com Web Hosting Company, Premieres New Website (The Hosting News)

Interview: Lem Lloyd, VP, Yahoo’s Newspaper Consortium: Reticent On Results, But Wait For AMP (paidContent)
Philadelphia Media Holdings is a key member of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium. Lloyd says that most of the Consortium's success to data has come from HotJobs. Ironically, though, Philly.com doesn't use HotJobs. It uses Monster, which hasn't been
faring too well recently.

PMH negotiating with lenders (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
In "technical default".

Comcast planning super-fast Internet speeds in most markets (Associated Press via Delaware Online)

Optium Corporation Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results
Record Revenues of $45 Million Driven by High-Growth Product Lines and Customer Diversification (Prime Newswire)

Optical Component Market Consolidation – Part I (Seeking Alpha)

Nokia to use IDCC products in future? (Wireless Industry Analyst)

Nokia/Navteq approval assured, no EU charge-sources (Reuters)
Navteq owns Traffic.com

Bensalem firm earns chance at contracts (phillyBurbs.com)

Probaris Wins FIPS-201 Credentialing Contract With Patent and Trademark Office for HSPD-12 Compliance (Marketwire)

Mikros Systems Awarded a Navy Seaport-Enhanced (Seaport-e) Contract
(PRNewswire)

The Web's global reach translates into a business
MTM LinguaSoft will speak the language of your pages (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Pennsylvania DCED Official Says Expanded Bethlehem Facility Will Create Jobs (PRNewswire)

Windows veteran jumps to second Silverlight (The Register UK)

ECRI Institute's Alert and Recall Management System Expands Effectiveness with New Content and Filters (PRNewswire)

SAP Ventures plans to invest in India (Business Standard of India)

SAP may pick up 15% stake in Newgen (Economic Times of India)

SAP India - 'Jewel in the Crown' (CXOtoday)
I'm wondering out loud whether this my have been a bit of a faux paus on Mr. McDermott's part. "Jewel in the Crown" was the
phrase the British used to refer to the importance of India to the British Empire. I doubt the Indian people want their relationship to SAP compared to their relationship to the British Empire.

VCs prefer IPOs even as bourses turn cheap (livemint.com)
Mentions AppLabs as an IPO possiblity.

Some 'angel' investors do answer startup prayers (Newark Star-Ledger)


ARPANet architect: bring "fairness" to traffic management (ars technica)

CNBC: Verizon Wireless in talks to buy Alltel Communications for $27B (Associated Press via CNN Money)

ipCapital Group and Intellisophic, Inc. Announce Strategic Alliance (BusinessWire)

Dataram Reports Fiscal 2008 Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Financial Results
Company Reports Fourth Quarter Net Earnings of $0.05 Per Share (BusinessWire)

OATSystems Selected for Production RFID Implementation; RFID Solution to Be Integrated With SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure Platform (BusinessWire)
To be deployed at Cephalon.

QVC Recalls Tomato Planters (Consumer Affairs)

Police search for 2 men who fled shooting in Comcast van (Associated Press via CNN Money)

Pa. software company sues over Howard Stern's Web site (Associated Press
via York Daily Record)

The Insider: Funding for Entrepreneurs – Philly’s Assets are the Numbers
(Innovation Philadelphia Blog)

ICG Announces Execution of Merger Agreement between Creditex and IntercontinentalExchange (BusinessWire)

SAP's Kagermann says profitability is top priority (Reuters)

SAP’s services dilemma: Ecosystem versus opportunity (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

SAP EMEA Sapphire: planning for performance management (ovum)


Comcast Begins Testing 'Protocol Agnostic' Network Management
Leaked memo identifies Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and Warrenton, Virginia tests (Broadband Reports)

Time Warner Cable To Test Metered Internet Access
Time Warner Cable may start charging customers $1 for each gigabyte of content they download from the Internet over a specified allotment. (Information Week)

Social Networking Is No IT Fad
Ringside Networks' Bob Bickel brings customers closer with social-networking technologies. (Redmond Magazine)

Alfresco and Ringside (ecmarchitect.com)

Gates: Silverlight 2 Beta 2 this week, IE8 Beta 2 in August (ars technica)

Infragistics Releases Silverlight 2 UI Components (Dr. Dobb's Portal)

Philadelphia CIOs Report on Third-Quarter Hiring Outlook
Survey Measures Hiring Optimism Among Local Technology Executives (PRNewswire)

Innotap Selects Aleri to Power Real-Time Decision Lifecycle Management Product for Energy Traders (BusinessWire)

InGrid Alarm Hits Crutchfield’s (TWICE)
InGrid expands into a new channel.

Graphing Social Patterns East (A VC)

$13 Million in New Contracts Awarded to WPCS (PRNewswire)

Clickability Wins Award As Best CMS
(Information Week)
Philly.com uses Clickability as its content management platform.

Operators, Vendors Accuse Patent Firm Of Modem 'Sham'
Cable Industry Argues That Rembrandt’s DOCSIS Gear Is Legal Ploy (Multichannel News)

Evolve IP Acquires Lyrio IP Technology Solutions (BusinessWire)

Verizon FiOS tech heading to enterprises
Claims new high-speed optical networks slash floor space, electricity needs (Network World)

FIOS TV has a flaw that's a universal one (Delaware Online)

Can Anything Replace My Old Reliable Friend? (New York Times)
On VoIP and Comcast.

Google To Launch Large Scale Geo-Services (TechCrunch)

The New iPhone’s New Winner (GigaOM)

Five Questions (Plus One) About TRF and the New Version of PolicyMap (Directions Magazine)

Microsoft Dynamics AX looking more like SAP? (ZDNet Blogs)

This One Really Matters! (Human Resource Executive Online)
On Taleo's acquisition of Vurv.

Could Nextel network spin-off to new Clearwire WiMax venture? (sprint connection)

EMS Moves Headquarters to Oaklands Corporate Center (BusinessWire)

University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) extends Radianse real-time location system across Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (BusinessWire)

Penn to Build Largest Academic Motion-Capture Studio in Region (Research at Penn)

Introducing A New Search Engine


Today I am launching a new custom search engine, PhillyTech Search. It should be much more useful than the rudimentary thing I had out there before, and I hope you’ll try it out.
The search engine covers large and small tech companies, venture capital firms, industry and trade associations, user groups, government resources, academic institutions and research centers, news and information resources, and support services that tech companies need. It is fairly comprehnsive in terms of coverage, and I will continue to expand it on an ongoing basis.
There are some limitations to the capabilities of Google Custom Search, which I am using. There are ways to tweak some of these things, and I’ll also look at finding a more robust search engine to use in the future. But for now, I think this is a good starting point.

If you can’t find your site or some other site you think should be in there, please let me know. And any suggestions or comments would be welcomed.
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Onstream To Buy IPTV Firm Narrowstep
Internet-Video Services Deal Worth Up To $19 Million (Multichannel News)
NarrowStep is based in Princeton.


Sapiens, Millbrook and IBM to Offer On Demand Business Intelligence to Small and Mid-Sized Insurance Carriers (PRWeb)
Millbrook Inc. is based in Exton.

Del. is tops in 'State of the Internet'
Big network backbones serving large cities nearby give state plenty of bandwidth, fiber optics (Wilmington News Journal)

Roberts Clearer on Clearwire Strategy
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Time Warner Cable to Offer Web to TV Link (New York Times)

Samsung multi-sources 3G now (Wireless Industry Analyst)
Implications for InterDigital.

Microsoft Raises Bar for Fostering a Diverse IT Industry with Changing Face of IT Campaign (WebWire)

Cell phones yield key clues for investigators (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Billboards That Look Back (New York Times)

New Twist for Double Helix (mrweb)