Daily Links 6/10/09: SAP Lays Out On-Demand Strategy

SunGard Amends Existing Senior Secured Credit Facility (Business Wire)

Industry Watch: What will happen to Java? (Software Development TImes)
GSI Commerce's Bill Roth weighs in.

Wookey: SAP's future is on-demand (ZDNet Blogs)
SAP Unveils SaaS Strategy (Information Week)

SAP: Merrill Downgrades On Grim ‘09 IT Spending View (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

SAP: World Doesn't Revolve Around Sun (TheStreet.com)

Twitter Bumps Ceiling (John Battelle's SearchBlog)

QlikTech delivers business intelligence via the cloud
QlikView 9 available using on-demand model (vnunet.com)

Beige Book: Philadelphia, June 10, 2009 (Federal Reserve Board)

On Demand Summit: Benya Says VOD Platform Will Get Web-like
Time Warner Cable Exec Looks To 'Advanced Server Side Search' To Navigate Through Expanding Programming Options
(Multichannel News)

FiOS to expand sports offerings, explore cable channels (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Verizon CTO Talks FiOS and LTE (Cable360)

Take three for movie studio (The Times Herald)

Ohana Teams Up with Sears to Launch Online Rebates for Energy Star Appliances Where Everybody Wins (PR Web)




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Interesting Event Planned at Drexel on June 26

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIST), in cooperation with the iSchool at Drexel, is holding a one-day meeting entitled " Google, the Web, and the Future Roles of Publishers and Librarians". The meeting will be held on June 26 from 9:am
to 5: pm at Drexel.
The conference will examine the impact of Google and its increasing dominance through tools such as Google Search, Google Books and Google Scholar on publishers, scholars and librarians. The meeting will discuss Google's roadmap for the future, and strategies for living with, working with and perhaps even benefiting from Google. A "virtual attendance" option will be available.

Daily Links 6/09/09: Comcast breaks $100 barrier with 50Mbps broadband price cut

SAP Tops Oracle And IBM, But Siemens Picks SaaS (Information Week Blogs)

Global CIO: Should Microsoft Buy Salesforce.com? (Information Week)

Google, Comcast, Others Weigh In on Broadband
Monday is FCC's deadline for national broadband plan comments (PC Magazine)

Bottleneck Buster
(Light Reading: Cable Digital News)
Comcast's thePlatform Inc. adds new, automated "video ingest" service.

Comcast breaks $100 barrier with 50Mbps broadband price cut (ars technica)

Verizon, Comcast Feud Over HDTV
Comcast in no position to brag about HD content, says telco (Broadband Reports)

NFL commissioner set for GSI summit (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Conference shows the bright future of solar power (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Verizon, Intuit, Boomi Jump Into Cloud Services (Information Week)

Will Bunch Bites the Hand That Feeds Him
A Daily News writer makes his name by taking on the boss. (Philadelphia Weekly)

AP Reporter Reprimanded For Facebook Post; Union Protests (Wired.com Blogs)

Mapping a better world (The
Economist)



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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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