Silicon Valley 1, Delaware Valley 0, At Halftime (The Bulletin)

eBay Plans To Spin Off Skype Via 2010 IPO (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

RFID Baby Born from Checkpoint-OATSystems Marriage (RFID Update)

Comcast Took ‘Revenge’ for Not Getting NFL Games, Attorney Says (Bloomberg)

Phila. Newspapers offer $50M deal (Philadelphia Inquirer)

NetSuite gears up to take on SAP
SaaS firm targets enterprise market with SuiteCloud Connect (vnunet)

UK Customers Go Live on SAP Business ByDesign (Feeding the SAP Ecosystem)

Reining in SAP Consulting Fees (eWeek Blogs)

SCP Vitalife Expands Israel-To-US Strategy (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Motorola building Android-based cable boxes for Japan's KDDI? (Engadget)

USA Technologies to fit vending machines with VISA-accepting technology (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Q&A: Stephen Holford, CMO of Fasthosts (Web Host Industry Review)

Ulticom Provides Update on Special Cash Dividend (Marketwire)

Lockheed Martin to Celebrate Space Day with Hi-Tech Wizardry (PR Newswire)



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Harry Kalas Dies

Harry Kalas dies
(Philadelphia Daily News)

But his voice will live on forever.

Clinical Trials Manager Heads Into VC (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Philadelphia-based Numoda Corp raising $150 million fund.

Comcast’s Burke takes on critics of company’s dual strategies (Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal)

Tech Mahindra Outbids Larsen, Wilbur Ross for Satyam (Bloomberg)

Interview: SAP's global head of project operations [podcast]
(ZDNet Blogs)

Netsuite software targets SAP, Oracle: source (Reuters)

WorldGate founder Krisbergh resigns (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Angels follow cautious route on investments
But equity stakes can cost less for those willing to take risks (NJBIZ.com)

Blumenthal says HITECH faces challenges (Healthcare IT News)

Google Health faces its first test (ZDNet Healthcare)

Fandango for IPhone (PC World)
Fandango is a unit of Comcast Interactive Media.

Comcast, TWC Contribute To CableLabs Tru2way Reference Code
‘Canonical' Version Based on Stack From Operators' OCAP Development LLC Venture (Multichannel News)

Clone Memory Maker Dataram Buys Rival MMB
(IT Jungle)

eBay starts undoing bad acquisitions: Sets StumbleUpon free (ZDNet Blogs)
I'll be interested to see if Josh Kopelman has any comment about this. First Round Capital was an early backer of StumbleUpon
and Josh has had some other experience dealing with eBay as well.
(Update: Josh K tweets: Hey @eBay - since you've sold StumbleUpon and are apparently selling Skype, any chance I can buy half.com back?)

Creditors Want Control of Philly Newspapers (MediaPost: Media Daily News)

Pa. officials object to newspaper executives bonus [in Journal Register bankruptcy] (Associated Press via MSN Money)



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Philly Tech Events

FCC steps into Comcast-NFL Network fight (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Something to talk about
Leap Wireless' Cricket service enjoying success among the cost-conscious (San Diego Union-Tribune)

What taxpayers can expect for their investment
Taking a closer look at earmarks for PMA Group clients and their subsidiaries. (Bucks County Courier Times)

Sculpting The Digital Dollar (NPR)

GVA SMITH MACK RELEASES OFFICE LEASING MARKET RESULTS FOR Q1 2009 (Company Press Release)



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People News 4/12/09

Razorfish Philadelphia Promotes Joshua Palau to VP and Matthew Maynard to Sr Account Manager (Philly Ad Club)

Safeguard Scientifics’ CFO Stephen T. Zarrilli to Be Honored by LaSalle University’s School of Business on April 30th (Business Wire)

DMi Partners Assembles New Division & Leadership
Privacy Officer and E-Commerce Veteran, Josh Aberant, Takes Helm of DMi's New West Coast Email Marketing Operations
(Marketwire)

DataBank IMX, LLC Names John Oldham, General Manager Mid-Atlantic Region (PR Web)

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.