Daily Links 6/12/09: Ben Franklin Technology Partners Threatened With 60% Budget Cut
SuccessFactors' CEO On SAP's SaaS Strategy (information Week Blogs)
What does SAP’s new SaaS strategy spell for the NetSuites of the world? (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)
Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant (ZDNet Blogs)
Zipcar Seeks IPO as Once ‘Wacky’ Car-Sharing Gains (Bloomberg)
Cutting Ben Franklin Technology Partners funding would hurt job creation, retention in Pennsylvania (OpEd: Allentown Morning Call)
Surprise Early Stage East guest (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)
Stations Turn Off Analog Signals as Digital TV Deadline Arrives (New York Times: Media Decoder)
Comcast extends digital transition service program (Boston Globe)
Comcast: Verizon Can Dish It Out But Can't Take It (Broadband Report)
Lockheed Martin to work on ‘Space Fence’ (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Vishay Highlights Components for Alternative Energy Applications With New Virtual Trade Show on Company Web Site (Marketwire)
BI Market Grows 22% In Tough Economy (Intelligent Enterprise)
1st Meaningful Use Definition Due June 16 (Health Data Management)
New Jersey Bill Would Outlaw Health IT Not Certified by CCHIT (iHealthBeat)
TelVue Corp. gets $500K line of credit from Lenfest (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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BlackRock to Buy Barclays Global Fund Unit for $13.5 Billion (Bloomberg)
I guess that trumps Vanguard Group's bid for iShares.
I wonder where things stand on Black Rock moving to Philly.
Daily Links 6/11/09: Information Technology: Not a Cure for the High Cost of Health Care (Wharton)
OnDemand Summit: Matt Bond Urges Consistency
Comcast Acquisition Exec Cites Company's 'VOD Magna Carta' (Multichannel News)
Comcast subscribers unable to see 9th inning of Nationals-Reds game (Washington Business Journal)
EyeIC Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for MatchedFlicker(TM) Retinal Aid Detection Technology (PR Newswire)
The Fight Over Drug Data Mining (Business Week)
Arista Marketing Associates Rolls Out Multichannel Physician Access Program For Leading Pharma Company (Business Wire)
Information Technology: Not a Cure for the High Cost of Health Care (Knowledge@Wharton)
Join the Conversation from HigherEdCamp Philly (Technology at Wharton)
President of RecycleBank aims to expand after getting a first foothold in the UK (edie.net)
LLR Partners Increases Purchase Price for I-many, Inc. to $0.61 per Share (Marketwire)
SAP's Wookey outlines the company's on-demand ambitions (SearchSAP.com)
SunGard Provides Hosting to BDP International (Web Host Industry Review)
Herley Industries, Inc. Reports Third Quarter Earnings (PR Newswire)
Finisar Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Financial Results (Marketwire)
Finisar merged with Optium Corp of Horshan last year.
Bentley Announces Be Connected: An Online Seminar Series Covering Breadth of Topics to Help Infrastructure Professionals Stay Abreast of Best Practices and Technology (PR Newswire)
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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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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)
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