Sprint's WiMax efforts doomed to failure? (CNET
News)

Credit Crunch Could Stall Clearwire Network (GigiaOM)

Philadelphia's Wi-Fi Story Begins a New Chapter (Wi-Fi Planet)

Did Google Sabotage Ringside Networks? (eWEEK: Google Watch)

Saving the World for a Latte
A startup is betting free coffees and groceries will encourage reluctant recyclers. (Newsweek)
RecycleBank is now officially headquartered in New York, though it still has significant operations in Philadelphia (Its Customer Care Center, Operations, and Mid-Atlantic Sales Staff ).
Philadelphia Plans to Expand Recycling Program with RecycleBank (Alcoa Recycling Company Blog)

Kayentis, the Provider of the "Unique Paper-Based E-Trial" Solution, is Strengthening its U.S. Presence (PRWeb)
Expanding its US operations in Philadelphia.

Pulse Introduces the Smallest GPS Antenna on the Market (BusinessWire)

myYearbook Finds Success in Casual Gaming (Mashable)

The unification theory of content management (Really
Strategies Blog)

How SOA matters in SAP environments (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)

SAP customers to face BI disruption
NetWeaver business intelligence apps to be phased out (Computing.co.uk)

Vishay Mails Letter to International Rectifier Stockholders (BusinessWire)


Video exercises aid driving skills
Allstate targeting those over 50 with 'brain fitness' tool (Chicago Tribune)
To be tested on Pennsylvania drivers.

Taxes could get sky-high with aerial technology
(Press of Atlantic City)




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Ricocheting off its success, AirClic has even bigger plans (Philadelphia Business Journal)
A look at AirClic's very expensive history here .

XOHM WiMax is Live in Philadelphia, Sort Of (Gearlog)
Advocacy groups already nervous about Xohm WiMAX policies (BetaNews)

Comcast begins bandwidth limits today (Detroit Free Press)

Leap OKs 'roaming' deal with MetroPCS (San Diego Union-Tribune)

SunGard Completes Acquisition of Majority Interest in GL TRADE (SunGard Press Release)

Ecount takes on parent Citigroup's name (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

JP Morgan downgrades Heartland Payment (Reuters)

1&1 Opens Lenexa Data Center
(Web Host Industry Review)

Checkpoint Systems, Inc. Appoints Steven Davidson President, Global Apparel Labeling Solutions (BusinessWire)

India's outsourcing bubble is bursting (ZDNet)

Glaxo to shed 850 research jobs in drive for efficiency (The Guardian)

Gigya brings in $11M to grow widget services (VentureBeat)
Early investor First Round Capital participates in latest round.

How to Know if You Should Fire Your Social Media Consultant (Mashable)
Written by Philadelphia's Alex Hillman.

Hanson Creates Evocative Brand Campaign for Revolutionary Design Software from Bentley (BusinessWire)




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Some Google, Rohm & Haas Trades Canceled, Nasdaq Says (Bloomberg)

SAP lower as Microsoft CEO's comments hurt (Thomson Financial via Forbes)

Ringside Networks down for the count (Too much information)
ringside lessons (Jason Kinner)
All Good Things... (Games Without Frontiers)

International Rectifier bashes Vishay (TheDeal.com)

Comcast Renews Deal With Amdocs (Multichannel News)

QlikTech Names William Sorenson as CFO
(QlikTech Press Release)
Should be helpful in getting the company to an IPO, but that probably isn't going to happen for awhile now.

Sovereign Gains Most in 22 Years as Perrault Named (Bloomberg)

Alcatel-Lucent adds targeted advertising to IPTV (Telephony Online)

Happy Neat Day! (Neat Company
Blog)

Want to tour a coworking facility?
(The Viddler Blog)

Kulicke & Soffa Completes Divesture of Wire Business Unit (BusinessWire)

AGI and AER Form Business Partnership (PRNewswire)

For her, on the Web means in the bag
Robinson Luggage flies high with addition of online sales (Philadelphia Business Journal)

eResearch Makes 1818 Market St. its New HQ (CoStar Group)




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Citigroup to buy Wachovia banking assets (CNN Money)

Vishay Commences Tender Offer for International Rectifier Corporation (BusinessWire)

NeatReceipts Relaunches as The NeatTM Company, Debuts All-New Scanning and Software Solutions (Marketwire)

Xohm WiMAX Launches: Limited Service, No Bandwidth Caps (GigaOM)


Comcast, Sprint: Oppenheimer Cuts Ratings; Sees Cyclical Slowdown In Consumer Communications (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Feds And Internet Service Providers Don't Mix (Forbes)

Bio-Imaging Technologies Appoints Peter S. Benton President of Its Phoenix Data Systems Division (BusinessWire)

Sherrerd funds new building at intersection of engineering and social science (News at Primceton)

Tyco Electronics shares could rise-Barron's (Reuters)

Tyco Electronics completes sale of two businesses (Associated Press via CNN Money)

SAP takes centre stage with HCL, Infosys' bid for Axon (Business Standard of India)

HealthVault Surges, Google Flounders (Chilmark Research)

Voxware Reports Record Revenue and Profit for Fiscal 2008 (BusinessWire)

Former Denver Newspaper Agency Exec Starts New Company (Editor & Publisher)




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Q&A with Greg Case, LLR Partners (Private Equity Hub)

Cable Ready For Banking Shifts
Wall Street Turmoil Shouldn't Alter Business As Usual For The Sectot (Multichannel News)

Media company deal chances few: Liberty's Malone (Reuters)

America's Top Wired Colleges, 2008 Edition
(PC Magazine)
Villanova and Penn both ranked in top 20.

A closer look at Comcast
What happens when you call customer service? (York Daily Record)




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People News




CableLabs CEO to Retire in December 2009 (xchange)

Chris Connor Joins Phoenix Data Systems as Director of Product Development (BusinessWire)

HTH Worldwide Welcomes New Chief Financial Officer (PRNewswire via Philly.com)

Avenue A | Razorfish Promotes John Avondolio to VP, Client Services, Brian Krick to VP of Search, Ron Wessels to CD (Philly Ad Club News)

Tier One Partners Adds PR Industry Veteran to Management Team; Expands Presence in Mid-Atlantic Region (Marketwire via MarketWatch)



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Is Ringside Networks totally, completely dead? On Wednesday, I posted CEO Bob Bickel's announcement from his blog (Thoughts from the Ringside) describing Ringside's demise. A link to Bickel's post was also on Ringside's corporate website on Wednesday. Now, that link is no longer on the Ringside site as far as I can tell and there is nothing else there that gives any indication of a shutdown.
Update: Bickel reconfirms Ringside's shutdown here.

Former TurnTide sales exec and angel investor Kendall Schoenrock is back in Philly with a new startup. Larger Than Life prints (LTLprints.com) allows users to create customized, oversized wall graphics of images uploaded to its website. Prices run from roughly $100 to $150 per print depending on size (up to 7.5 feet by 4.5 feet). They are also building a user interface that will allow people to create their own cutouts and designs, and also to sell those designs in LTLprints' online catalog or, eventually, from their own blogs or websites.

I am amazed at how so many social web or news sharing sites do such a poor job of testing the user-friendliness of their sites. I look at several new sites each week, and if I check one out and can't figure out in twenty minutes or so what I'm supposed to be doing, I'm out of there. I'm not talking about shoestring startups, but companies launched on budgets of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. My suggestion to startups is to be sure to budget enough for usability studies; even if you are very small there are still ways to do fairly rigourous testing.




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Facebook Traffic Up 50% Over Last Year; myYearbook on the Rise (Search Engine Watch)

QVC Exports More Of Itself To Italy (Multichannel News)

Student Recruitment Management Available on Salesforce.com (TMCnet)
TargetX is based in Bristol.

SAP's Business Objects Gains Share From Oracle, IBM, CEO Says (Bloomberg)

HCL counters Infosys' bid for Axon at 650 pence/share (Economic Times of India)

Questions Emerge On HP-Oracle Device (Intelligent Enterprise)


Camiant joins Comcast traffic shaping team (Telephony Online)

Penn Biophysicists Create New Model for Protein-Cholesterol Interactions in Brain and Muscle Tissue (UPenn)

Bayside Capital Acquires Akrion (PRNewswire)

CTDI Acquires Phoenix Wireless (BusinessWire)

Can These Startups Beat Paypal?
(GigaOM)

T-Mobile's data cap reversal hints of uncertainty with 3G networks (Computerworld Blogs)

Comcast Provides Highly Anticipated Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates On Demand (BusinessWire)




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Oracle, With HP, Debuts Database Server, Storage Hardware Systems
(Channel Web)
This is particularly interesting given recent rumors that SAP may consider acquiring Teradata.

Oracle says will catch up with SAP (Reuters)

Great Times @ Ignite Philly (Robert
Sandie)
Videos.
Ignite Philly II (O'Reilly Radar)

NeatReceipts for Mac: Advance Release 1.1 (NeatReceipts Blog)

Anthillz Relaunches to Focus on Trusted Business Relationships (CenterNetworks)

Philadelphia, have you met Tapinko? (Phillypreneurs)

Primavera(R) ProSight(R) Improves Selection of Strategic Investments (PRNewswire)

GSI Commerce and Aeropostale Extend E-Commerce Partnership through 2018
(PRNewswire)

Miles Technologies buys Clifton building to expand (NorthJersey.com)

Gore Joins Ethernet Alliance (BusinessWire)

Center City Film & Video Wins Emmy for Bono Tribute Featuring George Clooney (PRNewswire via Audio Video Producer)

Astea Announces $3 Million Capital Investment (PRNewswire via
Philly.com)



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Hot Dogs Force Evacuation At Citizens Bank Park (CBS3)
Apparently, it was the Phanatic's fault.




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