Are Microsoft, Yahoo Courting Hell in AOL? (eWEEK)
Lancaster's MapQuest is one of AOL's few jewels.


NJ officials-Stop BlackRock's move to Philadelphia (Reuters)

SAP ‘Mittelstand’ customers upset at new maintenance charges (ZDNet Blogs)

Business Objects support issue will be resolved by next week
(SearchSAP.com)

How the FCC's Comcast ruling could affect traffic management
Decision could open door for enforcement of open Internet principles (Network World)


Verizon Wins Approval For FiOS TV Service In New York (Information Week)

Business Intelligence International Receives Additional Equity Funding to Fuel Expansion (Business Intelligence International Press Release)


ACI Provides Navy's Benchmarking and Best Practices (Surface Mount Technology)
$100 million contract to be performed in Philadelphia.

MDS cutting 210 employees, taking $28M restructuring and writedown hit (The Canadian Press)

Thoughts on social software and events (ecmarchitect)

Open Up Philadelphia Election Results (Keystone Politics)

DBSi Announces New Data Center in Lehigh Valley to Support Growth and "Wall Street West" Initiatives (PRWeb)

Talented immigrants key to tech, professor says (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Philly Web site accuses Colbert Report, Inquirer of stealing photos (Metro Philadelphia)
Filing a lawsuit against a big celeb is a great way to get cheap PR and generate some traffic.

Computer general and a botnet army (stuff.co.nz)

Philadelphia Region Business Outlook Survey, July 2008
(Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

SAP to reduce R&D budget to 12 percent of sales mid-term - CEO (Thomson Financial via Forbes)

IDS Scheer chairman denies he is in talks to sell 41 pct stake to SAP (Hemscott)

Oracle Enhances Performance Management Offerings (Channel Web)

Comcast Interactive Media Names Karin Gilford Senior Vice President of Fancast and Online Entertainment
Former Yahoo! Vice President of Entertainment to Run Online Entertainment Destination (BusinessWire)

Group warns FCC: Comcast's good behavior just a "trick play" (ars technica)

TruePosition Awarded Patents That Facilitate Location-Based Safety and Security Services for GSM, CDMA and UMTS (BusinessWire)

TruePosition Rapidly Expands Research and Development on Location-Based Safety and Security Solutions
Wireless Location Technology Leader Opens New Facility in Greater Boston (BusinessWire)

Merrill to sell Bloomberg stake for $4.5 billion - Reuters (Finextra)
Also apparently dropping plans to sell Blackrock stake. Blackrock released excellent quarterly results today.

WPCS Announces Guidance for FY2009 (PRNewswire)

Radnor based NewSpring Capital has raised $165 million for a business services venture fund and held a $65 million first close on its health care-focused fund, according to Private Equity Hub

HTH Worldwide Introduces mPassport(sm), Mobile Health and Safety (PRNewswire)

Meet the founder of Ticketleap.com - Chris Stanchak (Phillypreneurs)

Wireless telecoms
Culture clash (The Economist)

MedQuist to Commence Trading on the Global Market of The NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC
(PRNewswire)

Robert Ghrist: Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor (Penn Almanac)



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E-medical records: What seems to be the problem? (Computerworld)

SAP Will Move Customers to New Support; Raise Prices (Bloomberg)

SAP says 100,000 customer target in 2010 in reach (Reuters)
Also opening research center in Israel.

SAP Launches Co-Innovation Lab in Tokyo (PRNewswire via IT Business Net)

BlackRock close to Pennsylvania move (Newark Star-Ledger)


InvestEdge Partners with SEI to Provide Enhanced Regulatory Compliance Solutions for Banks (PRNewswire)

SunGard to Expand India Operations (CXOtoday)

Journal Register investor may cancel $25 mln offer (Reuters)

New StarCite CEO To Fine-Tune Strategy (Business Travel News Online)

Siemens and NCR Ink Reseller Agreement
Siemens Offers NCR MediKiosk Self-Service Solutions to Customer Base (BusinessWire)

Environmental Tectonics More Than Doubles Revenues, Cuts Loss (PRNewswire)

Chirp Interactive Joins thePlatform
thePlatform Begins New Initiatives in Silicon Valley (PRNewswire)
thePlatform is owned by Comcast.


IPTV Subscribers Pass 15 Million, But How is IPTV Defined? (Media Experiences 2 Go: Motorola-sponsored blog)

Do BPM vendors eat their own dogfood? (Column2)
Some interesting comments on this thread.

All Over the Map (Art Info)
How regional auction houses like Freeman's in Philadelphia benefit from the Web.

Announcing FundingSleuth.com (Redeye VC)

In Pennsylvania VoIP Operators To Pay A 911 Fee (VoIP Watch)



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The PhillyTech Search Engine (always there on the right sidebar) continues to grow in its coverage of tech-related websites in the Philadelphia area. It now numbers more than 700 sites. My goal is to ultimately get it to several thousand , though that will take a while. I'm doing it methodically with a lot of quality control (I hope).
Also, Google Custom Search, on which PhillyTech Search is based, is much improved now, indexing and returning a deeper and more complete set of results for any query. The same is true for the "Search Within This Site" feature.
Please try it out, I think you'll find a more relevant and concise answer set than from using the general Google Search Engine for Philly-centric technology searches. And please recommend any other sites to me that should be included at phillytechnews@gmail.com




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Comcast-Spectacor to demolish
Spectrum (Associated Press via Google News)

Yahoo Exec Karin Gilford Headed To Comcast: Report
Entertainment GM Reportedly Set To Join Cabler (Multichannel News)

User Group Targets SAP Talent Shortage (CIO.com)

SAP cooks up partner, customer integration at co-innovation lab
(SearchSAP.com)

The SAP/Business Objects Support Blunder (Intelligent Enterprise)

New Zealand hacker
let off without conviction in Penn incident (Associated Press via International Herald Tribune)
Do your hacking in New Zealand.

Fear and enterprise in the PaaS channel (ZDNet Blogs)

Navigating toward success (Phoenixville News)

IKON Revises Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Outlook
Increases Third Quarter EPS Guidance to $0.35 to $0.37 (BusinessWire)

Barclaycard US appoints Phillip Steitz CIO (Finextra)
Barclaycard US is based in Wilmington.

Philadelphia-Based Document Solution Company, Vuzit, Makes Major Technology Upgrade; Launches Commercial Web Site (BusinessWire)

CSG Extends Contract With Comcast
MSO To Use Subscriber Management System Through 2012 (Multichannel News)

WiMAX update: Waiting for Intel silicon; Xohm looks to Sept. launch (MuniWireless)

Semantic Business Process Management (IDS Scheer ARIS BPM Blog)

HighPoint Solutions to Develop Contract Analytics Solution for a Top Three Pharmaceutical Company
(PRNewswire)

CompuData is the tortoise not the hare (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Peopling the virtual world (Philadelphia
Inquirer)


ClearOrbit Launches Industry’s First Web Store for Supply Chain Execution Products and Services (BusinessWire)
ClearOrbit, based in Austin, is part of Princeton's TAKE Solutions.
(Note: Actually, TAKE Solutions is based in India, though its US headquarters are in Princeton. It appears to be a very interesting company.)




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Technology Collaborative Accepting Proposals;
Plans $1.5M in Grants to PA-based Companies and Universities
Proposals being accepted for developments in digital & analog electronics;
robotic technologies & applications and cyber security. (Press Release)

No word yet on when or if a Philly-area session is planned.



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Shifting SunGard's focus from recovery to planning (Philadelphia Inquirer)

IDS Scheer Rises on Rumor SAP May Make Takeover Offer (Bloomberg)
Not the only SAP acquisition rumor I've heard recently.

InBev’s Anheuser-Busch takeover: an SAP win-win (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

Fast gene sequencing in two years? Investors bet $100M on Pacific BioSciences making it happen (VentureBeat)

Inside the 3G iPhone - revisiting my predictions (Wireless Industry Analyst)

FCC boss reshapes hardline stance on Comcast
(The Register UK)

Which plug to pick? (Wilmington News Journal)
Comcast or Verizon FioS?

Rohm & Haas termination fee up to $750 million (Reuters)

Rohm and Haas Opens Asia Technical Center to Support Leading-Edge CMP Applications (BusinessWire)

GSI Commerce Announces Extension and Expansion of Marketing Services Agreement with Toys'R'Us, Inc. (PRNewswire)


DuPont Invests in Enablence Concurrent With Enablence's Acquisition of DuPont Photonics Technologies, LLC (MarketWatch)

Wolters Kluwer Health Launches Mobile Clin-eguide for “On the Go” Clinical Decision Support (BusinessWire)

Can WiMAX be first-world?
Various obstacles could hinder its success Telecommunications Magazine)

See-through Phila. house is N.Y. museum 'exhibit' (Philadelphia Inquirer)


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iPhone Availability



You can check the availability of iPhones at Apple Stores (not AT&T Stores) at the the Apple website by going to this page. Actually, the information given is unclear. It shows availability as of Sunday, but that doesn't preclude a new shipment coming in tomorrow. The website says that new shipments arrive "most days"'. However, it shows that as of Sunday, almost all area stores were out. And from what I've heard, you are less likely to find one at an AT&T Store.



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Comcast Combats Customer Service Complaints With Software (Multichannel News)

FCC Crackdown on Comcast Doesn’t Even Include Fine (Broadband Reports)

NFL throws flag on Comcast for NFL Network discrimination (ars technica)

High Cost of Driving Ignites Online Classes Boom (New York Times-free subscription)

Apple Stores Have IPhones; AT&T Is Mostly Sold Out (Bloomberg)

Business Intelligence on the double (itp.net)
On QlikTech.

SWOT Analysis: Business Objects' Predictive Workbench (Enterprise Systems)

Primavera(R) Provides Anchor Contribution for PMI Educational Foundation
(PRNewswire)




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People in the News


NBC Universal Marketing Executive Kenneth R. Graffeo Joins PointRoll As Chief Operating Officer (PRNewswire via CNN Money)

Wellman Joins Diversified Search Ray & Berndtson As Managing Director, Private Equity/Venture Capital Practice (Business Wire)

Patria Names Award-Winning Brand Marketer Marvin Davis and Venture Capital/Private Equity Executive Jeffrey Rollins to Board of Directors (PRWeb)

ActiveStrategy Names Tim Mueller Director of Healthcare Consulting Practice (BusinessWire)

Wolters Kluwer Health Appoints Susan Driscoll as Executive Vice President & General Manager of the Books Business of its Professional & Education Unit (PharmaLive)

Ketan Bhimani Joins Keane Business Risk Management Solutions to Lead British and European Sales Efforts (BusinessWire)

Bryan Evans Joins Select Greater Philadelphia as Director of Public Relations and Publications (BusinessWire)

Comcast Int'l Media promotes Jene Elzie (Hollywood Reporter)

Avenue A | Razorfish Promotes Burg, Cohen, and McGinty (Philly Ad News)



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I looked in to NextG, which a couple of days ago announced that it had completed a new communications network in Philadelphia (see press release) . What NextG does is use a technology called DAS (fiber-optic distributed antenna systems) to create base stations that supplement the major cell towers to improve and fill in coverage in a geographic area. It sells its network services directly to carriers, rather than to end users.
NextG is based in San Jose, and last month filed for an IPO. It may be in an advantageous position because its base stations are less visually invasive than cell towers. NextG should not be confused with the Australian wireless network of the same name.




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