Three Area Companies Named to CIO 100

CIO.com recently released its CIO 100, which "honors 100 companies that are creating new business value by innovating with technology".
Three area organizations made the list: Chester County Hospital of West Chester (BPM, BI, Databases; Ray Hess, VP, Information Management) , Reed Technology & Information Services of Horsham (BPM, CRM, ERP; David Ballai , VP, Operations & Technology Services) , and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals of Collegeville (Research & development/product development; Jeffrey Keisling, VP, Corporate Information Services & CIO).

Daily Links 6/08/09: Philly.com Picks Brightcove to Manage Video

Philly.com Picks Brightcove Ahead of Online Fees (Contentinople)

Software offers real-time election-day data (Philadelphia Inquirer)

iPhone 3GS announced: $199 16GB, $299 for 32GB, June 19 (Engadget)

I-many Receives Increased Offer for $0.61 per Share (Marketwire)
Competing bidder tops LLR Partners again.

Electronic records get a booster shot
$20B stimulus injection aims to put doctors online (NJBIZ.com)

Inside the World of Tech CEO Succession Planning (IT World)

Somerset County Council to review 'shambolic' SAP system
IBM contract in public spotlight (again) (Channel Register UK)

SAP denies wrongdoing in Pemex Formula 1 case (Reuters)

SaaS HR Vendor Lands Global Deal With Siemens (PC World)

Oracle Insurance Introduces Oracle(R) Revenue Management and Billing for Insurance (PR Newswire)

Bad News for Downtown Baltimore: NEA Moves Out, Citing Needles, Used Condoms and “Psychotic Homeless People” (PE Hub)
And you think Philly has problems.

Doylestown Hospital: iPhone 3G for physicians, staff (Mobile Health News)

Herley Industries, Inc. Receives $11 Million Contract to Provide Electronics for a U.S. Missile Program (PR Newswire)

PRWT Services, Inc. and Epitome Systems Join Forces to Offer Labor Saving, Domestic Outsourcing Solutions (Business Wire)



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Philly Tech Events

Frank Rizzo
W.Va. should be wary of broadband-for-all plans (Charleston WV Gazette-Mail)

Cheaper Big-Screen OLEDs
New organic display materials can be printed with ink-jets. (MIT Technology Review)

ASU Flexible Display Center, Universal Display make breakthrough in organic LED (Phoenix Business Journal)

Futuristic OLED bracelet will make you look like a Halo fighter (CrunchGear)

People News 6/7/09

Wonderling to head Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Patrick Gates joins iCueTV’s Senior Management Team (Business Wire)

Covance Announces Monte Jarvis as Vice President of Global Data Management and Biostatistics for Periapproval Services (PR Newswire)

PointRoll Expanding West Coast Operations (Internet Ad Sales)

imc2 Promotes Marc Blumberg to President
Doug Levy Assumes Role of CEO (Marketwire)

Patrick McKenna, DMi Partners CEO, Receives Top Honors from PBJ, ABA (Philly Ad Club News)

Shire P.L.C. appointed Anne Wilms senior vice president and chief information officer. She will be based in the pharmaceutical company's U.S. headquarters in Chesterbrook. Wilms previously had been chief information officer at Rohm & Haas Co.

Pemex exec quits after report of trip paid by SAP (Reuters)

U.S. Online Advertising Shrinks in Q1 (PC World)



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Milken Institute Ranks Philly 11th Among High Tech Areas

The Milken Institute, which recently pleased many in the Philadelphia area by ranking it second among metropolitan regions in the life sciences area, has now released its High Tech rankings. Philadelphia ranks 11th based on 2007 data, up from 13th in 2003.
I am dubious of these kinds of ranking for several reasons; the quality of the underlying data, the always debatable definition of "High Tech", and the fact that metropolitan areas such as Wilmington, Camden and Trenton are not included in the Philadelphia statistics. Actually, if you look at the data broken down by industry segment, you'll realize that Philadelphia only ranks as high as it does because of its strength in the Pharma, Medical and Aerospace segments; in most of the segments we would consider as IT-related it ranks considerably lower.
A complete PDF copy of the report, "North America's High-Tech Economy: The Geography of Knowledge-Based Industries" is available for free download after a simple registration.

Daily Links 6/05/09: SAP- Plenty of Money for Acquisitions; Motorola Set-Top Box Biz May Be Shopped.

SAP Could Spend EU5B on Acquisitions, Chief Tells Figaro (Bloomberg)

Verizon Business Unveils 'Computing As A Service' (Information Week)

Ray Ozzie: Cloud Platforms Are Less Profitable (GigaOM)

Jobs ‘On Track’ to Return to Work; WWDC Speculation Ticks Up: WSJ (Wired Blogs: Epicenter)

Motorola: Shopping Wireless And Set-Top Box Units? (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Wanted: A National Broadband Plan that Works (Comcast Voices)

Verizon Willing To Consider Fifth FCC Internet Principle
Executive V.P. says company open to considering principle but thinks competition has driven market to openness (Broadcasting & Cable)

Advanta makes AmEx deal for card-holders (Philadelphia Inquirer)

MAC Alliance CEO Balderston moving on (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Five technology bidding wars preceding EMC vs. NetApp (Computerworld)
SAP, Comcast among those involved.

Kenexa Jumps; Cowen Bullish On HR Outsourcing Trend (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Best Buy announced planned opening dates for 13 new stores today, including Pottstown on August 7. Also. Comcast launched more HD channels, including Speed HD, FX HD and Fox News Channel HD, in the Greater Philadelphia area.



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Daily Links 6/04/09: Bootstrapping Booms in Philadelphia

Q&A with Josh Kopelman: I Never Wanted to Be a VC Who Offers “Long, Drawn-Out Maybes” (PE Hub)
One thing from this interview that I did not know was that First Round participated in the StumbleUpon buyback from eBay.

Marvell, InterDigital Optimistic (Sramana
Mitra on Strategy)

IBM expands Information on Demand portfolio (IDG via New York Times)

LLR Partners Boosts I-Many Buyout Price (PE Hub)

Synygy Announces Full Integration with Salesforce CRM
Merges SPM and CRM with Single Sign-On and Seamless, Complete Functionality (Business Wire)

Going For It: Bootstrapping Booms in Philadelphia (Keystone Edge)

Convicted Anchor Sues Philadelphia Newspapers (Associated Press via Editor & Publisher)

NBA TV Jumps To Broader Comcast Carriage
Pro Hoops Network Moves From Sports Tier To MSO's Digital Classic (Multichannel News)

OfferWire Debuts Unbeatable Deals on Services, Products, and Brands People Want Most
Launch of Comparison Shopping and Saving Site Follows $3.5 Million Financing Round by Safeguard Scientifics and Constellation Ventures (Business Wire)

Video tour of Star Trek: The Exhibition at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute (CrunchGear)
Also see More geeky Philadelphia stuff from CrunchGear.

Elsevier to Create New Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Article Reprint, Compilation and Custom Publications (PR Newswire)

Select Greater Philadelphia offers entrepreneurs directory (Philadelphia Business Journal)



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Daily Links 6/03/09: SAP gets closer to open source

A Network for Small Businesses and Start-Ups (New York Times)
On Advanta and Ideablob.

Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore (Bloomberg)
Bentley Systems also speaks out against Obama tax proposals.

Court Tells EchoStar & Dish to Pay TiVo (Contentinople)

Canoe In Discussions On Providing Set-Top Data
Cable Advertising Venture Aiming to Provide ‘Supplemental' Metrics In 2010 (Multichannel News)

Targeted Ads, More Choices in FiOS TV's Future (PC World)

Comcast to offer more access to NHL-NET programs New digital agreement will make NHL Network available to millions more Comcast customers (NHL.com)

Medidata Solutions Sets IPO Terms (PE Hub)
Medidata acquired Fast Track Systems of Conshohocken last year.

INC Research to acquire later-phase clinical trials business unit for $50M (WRAL: LocalTechWire.com)

SAP gets closer to open source with Eclipse (Internetnews.com)

Will SAP buy Tibco? (IT
Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)

SAP implementation partners fall short in industry know-how, workforce continuity (SearchSAP.com)

Franklin Electronic Publishers Reports Year End Results (PR Newswire)

Phoenix Integration Reports Strong Q1 Growth (PR Web)

Philly software start-ups to meet investors (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Technology Evolution
New Jersey and Delaware Valley HIMSS chapters collaborate on educational event covering smarter solutions for better patient care. (AdvanceWeb.com)

Cooper launches new record system (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)



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InterDigital, Nokia finish patent fight hearing

InterDigital, Nokia finish patent fight hearing (Reuters)