Creditors seek 'oversight' of Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC (Philadelphia Daily News)


Kenexa to hire 200 more for Vizag campus (Business Standard of India)



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Who Wants .philly?

This article in USA Today discusses the possible plethora of Internet domain suffixes that might become available by next year under changes approved by ICANN, the organization that oversees the Web's address system. The difference with these new domains, according to the article, is that they can be purchased by one entity, rather than parceled out to individual subdomain registrants at $10 a pop (though I suppose the domain owner could do that too).
The proposed price for these new domains is $185,000 up front, and a $25,000 annual continuance fee. There may be a bidding system if more than one entity wants the same domain. The article mentions .philly as one example. I'd love it for my blog, but I think the price is a little beyond my budget right now.

Comcast to sack NFL Network (Boston Globe)

Time Warner’s Unlimited Download Plan: $150 a Month (New York Times: Bits)

Will Targeted TV Ads Justify Higher Fees?
Corporate marketers will be watching closely when the first "addressable" ads are aired in June (Business Week)

Comcast Wins Appeals Court Ruling Over Finisar Royalty Demand (Bloomberg)

ING plans up to $10.6 billion of disposals
Dutch group wants to free up capital, simplify structure (MarketWatch)
One analyst believes that it is likely that Wilmington-based ING Direct USA will be sold.

TapInko Product Demo Login Information - April 10th - 3pm (est) (TapInko Blog)

Osage venture firm raises early-stage funds (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Venture fund established (Scranton Times-Tribune)

Will Obama health IT committee give open source a chance? (ZDNet
Healthcare)

J&J to eliminate 900 sales-related positions (Medical Marketing and Media)

Comcast Glitch Airs Risque Video Over Vatican Service (KYW NewsRadio)

D&E Communications Selects Synacor to Power Enhanced Broadband Content and Services
(PR Newswire)

Who’s using Foursquare here in Philly? (City Paper: The Clog)


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iPhone apps for nearly every waking minute
(Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News)
Great piece by Philly-based Deborah Yao of AP.

SAP virtualization becoming more prevalent, even with mission-critical apps (SearchSAP.com)

SAP: We've Spent Millions So Far on Waste Management Suit (PC World)

Omnicom Partners with Wharton Interactive Media Initiative (Wharton School)

CableLabs releases Tru2way source code (informitv)

Canoe Targets May for Ad Campaign
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Herley Industries confirms sale not viable now (Reuters)

Stimulus act keeps HIMSS attendance healthy (Modern Healthcare)

What if Oracle bought Sun Microsystems?
If Oracle picks up where IBM left off, database, storage, and Java customers could be in for radical changes (InfoWorld)

The Case for Cloud Middleware (The Boomi Blog)

Motorola calls fired CFO a 'treacherous officer' in response to whistleblower lawsuit (Chicago
Tribune)

Science Center Building Half Leased (Philadelphia Business Journal Blogs)
The PBJ has apparently found out about blogging.

OUR NEW DIGS ARE OFFICIAL: INDYHALL MOVES TO A LARGER OFFICE ON MAY 1ST, 2009 (IndyHall
Blog)




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Comcast Voices

Just catching up with Comcast's recently launched corporate blog, Comcast Voices.
It is headed up by Chief Blogger Scott McNulty, formerly of The Unofficial Apple Weblog and well known to many in the Philly Tech scene. Scott is very good and I'm sure will do well with this, though its a little harder working on the company side in some ways. One of his first jobs was to explain Comcast's major email outage this past weekend.

AnySource Media Enables Broadband Connected HDTV (PR Newswire)

Cable's answer to online's ad success: targeting (Associated Press via Yahoo News)

Verizon begins FiOS upgrade in Phila. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Stat Shot: Fiber to the Home (GigaOM)

Comcast's Email Issues Blamed on Power Outage
(PC Magazine)

Boomi touts cloud integration service
The application integration provider is aiming the newest version of its AtomSphere platform at enterprises (Infoworld)

SaaS integration: Tricky, but manageable (Computerworld)

Philly.com joins Yahoo! online consortium (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Interesting that Philly.com is still using Monster.com for its job listings, even though my understanding is that Yahoo's HotJobs has been the most productive aspect of the Yahoo Consortium for newspapers.
Also, though the Inquirer article says that Philly.com joined the Yahoo Consortium a year ago, it was actually closer to two
years ago.

State cancels Unisys contract after spending $30 million (Associated Press via WAFB Baton Rouge)

Herley Industries fails to sell itself-sources (Reuters)

Pentaho and Jaspersoft Make the Case for Open Source BI (Enterprise Systems)

Meetings of the ARIS Minds! (ARIS BPM Blog)

ECRI Institute, MedAssets Sign Multiyear GPO Agreement (PharmaLive)

inTEST Announces Preliminary Year End 2008 Results and Retention of Financial Advisor
(PR Newswire)

Microchip Technology Acquires R&E International, a Mixed-Signal Safety and Security Design Company (Business Wire)
R & E International is based in Norristown.

E-Mon’s New Web-MonTM Energy Monitor Provides Internet Browser-Based Meter Dashboards (Business Wire)



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SAP Adds 'Google-Like' Search to Business Software (eWeek)

SAP Direct Salesforce To Sell Edge SMB Software (Channel Web)

Savana Partners Acquires Assets of Epitome Systems (PR Newswire)
Sanchez Computer Associates founder will be CEO.

Checkpoint Systems Introduces World’s First Source-to-store Merchandise Visibility Solution (Business Wire)

10.41 Million Reasons to Hate Comcast (Huffington Post)

Comcast looks into claims of lost e-mail (CNET
News)

Comcast Enhancing the Home Phone (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
When I saw this new Thomson device at the Comcast/Sony store at the Comcast Center last week, I asked a guy working there about it. First he asked me if I was a Comcast guy, and when I said no, he told me to email him and they would send me something when there was more info.


QlikTech Channel-focused Business Model Fuels Company Growth (Company Press Release)

BravoSolution Posts Record Revenue (Business
Wire)

Dell, Perot Systems Target Electronic Medical Records (Channel Insider)
Doylestown Hospital and Perot Systems Successfully Implement Advanced MEDITECH 6.0 Platform (PR Newswire)

Healthcare Information M&A Up 21 Percent
JEGI: Category saw 122 deals worth $7.3 billion last year. (Folio)

Business Intelligence in Health and Life Sciences
The Changing Role of Technology in Intelligence (Beye Network)

Power Medical Interventions(r) Receives Audit Opinion Containing Going Concern Qualification (GlobeNewswire via MarketWatch)

WorldGate and WGI Announce Closing of Strategic Investment (Business Wire)



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Cable Show Wrap

Cable TV: Pushing to Become More Web-like
The cable companies are trying to emulate online video sites before those sites eat their lunch (Business Week)

Members Only
Cable Operators, Programmers Try To Build An Exclusive Online-TV Service For Subs (Multichannel News)

Tweaking the Cable Model, to Avoid Newspapers’ Fate (New York Times: Bits)

tru2way at The Cable Show (Zatz
Not Funny!)

Comcast CEO Roberts makes the Top 15 on pay (Reuters Blogs)

Cable Show 2009: Canoe To Launch Product In 4-6 Weeks
Interactive Advertising Moves Slowly Along (Multichannel News)

Coming Next: Using Your PC as a Cable Box (New York Times: Bits)

Cable's Wild About Wireless
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Motorola Media Mover will reach production (SlashGear)

Motorola Develops tru2way Multi-Room DVR Solution for Time Warner Cable (itvt)

Wireless HD Highlights Cable 'Innovations' (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)



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Drexel U president Papadakis dies, had lung cancer (Associated Press via Philly.com)

Health Care Industry Moves Slowly Onto the Internet (New York Times: Bits)

NextGen Healthcare Unveils New Subscription-Based, SaaS Delivery Model (Business Wire)

Siemens Enhances Knowledge-Driven Solutions to Support Provider Quality of Care Initiatives (PR Newswire)

The code word at HIMSS 2009 is interoperability (ZDNet Healthcare)

Google, Microsoft Announce New Health Partners (paidContent)

Almac Group Uses HP Software to Bring New Drugs to Market Faster (Business Wire)

gsi interactive Expands Digital Agency Footprint with Acquisition of West Coast-Based Silverlign (PR Newswire via Philly.com)

Comcast Spotlight Integrates Sales and Marketing Teams (Business Wire)

Struggling with supersized storage
Shrinking budgets and swelling data demands send IT managers on a search for more efficient storage. (Computerworld)
On Tasty Baking's data storage strategy.

Acorn Energy, Inc. Announces Year End Results (PR Newswire)

Kenexa Partners With R&J Management Consultants to Form Shanghai Kenexa
Joint Venture Expands Kenexa's Footprint in Chinese Market (Marketwire)

Bethlehem technology center planned for LVIP may instead be built in the South Side commercial district (Easton Express-Times)



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Philly Tech Events

IBM Jilts Sun

I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems (New York Times)


Kind of a surprise, I guess. Wonder what Sun does now?
Sun recently announced 24 layoffs in King of Prussia.