People News 8/30/09

The Neat(R) Company Names Jim Foster as Chief Executive Officer (eMedia World)


Dataram Announces a Worldwide Vice President of Sales
(Business Wire)

QlikTech Confident of Growing Asia Pacific Business
Leading Business Intelligence Vendor Opens Office in Singapore and Commits Resources in Asia Pacific (Microwire)

Clearwire’s Richardson Exits; Two New Execs Tapped To Chart 4G Path (mocoNews.net)

ERT Appoints New Associate Director of Business Development - Japan
(PR Newswire)

SAP EXECUTIVE PAT HUME AMONG THE TOP 100 WOMEN IN THE CHANNEL (SAP Newsbyte)

Former Delaware State CIO and Cabinet Secretary Joins LexisNexis Special Services Inc. (Business Wire)





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In May, shareholders protested Comcast pay (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Tierney Tries Twitter, Facebook, PR Campaign to Keep Philadelphia Papers (Poynter Online)

Bad Software Design Inhibits Use of Enterprise Apps (Computerworld)
On Electronic Ink founder Harold Hambros and his new book.



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Auction for Philly newspapers slated amid Ch. 11 (Associated Press via Google News)

Man Accused of Stealing Stores’ Data Pleads Guilty (Reuters via New York Times)

ClickEquations Raises $3 Million For Paid Search Platform (paidContent)
ClickEquations is based in Conshohocken.

SDI will get new building for its HQ (Philadelphia Business Journal)

TeamSupport.com Scales Beanstalk
TeamSupport.com today announced a compelling integration with Beanstalk! (PR Log)

Devon IT to Feature New Thin Clients, Software at VMworld 2009 (Business Wire)

Safeguard Scientifics enacts reverse stock split (Associated Press via Philly.com)




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Appeals Court Overturns FCC Cable Ownership Cap

Court throws out FCC cable ownership limit (Reuters)
This is a very big deal for Comcast. It will be interesting to see if the Supreme Court will hear an appeal, if there is one.

Updated: Court Throws Out FCC's 30% Cable Subscriber Cap
The U.S. Court Of Appeals Agrees With Comcast Calling Sub Limit 'Arbitrary And Capricious'> (Multichannel News)

Cable Ruling Won’t Trigger M&A Wave, Bernstein Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)




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SAP Told by Jury to Pay $139 Million to Versata Over Patents (Bloomberg)
Those Texas juries.

Oracle Demands Information From Rimini Street (PC World)


Safeguard Scientifics 1:6 Reverse Stock Split Takes Effect Today
Transaction Intended to Broaden Appeal to Institutional Investors (Business Wire)
Safeguard Scientifics Announces Sale of Approximately One-Third of Its Clarient Shares for Approximately $53 Million in Proceeds, Net of Underwriter Commissions (Business Wire)


Verizon Tags TNT, TBS For FiOS 'TV Everywhere'
Telco Inks Online Video Deal With Time Warner Inc. (Multichannel News)

Who's afraid of Comcast's plans?
(Philly.com: Philly Deals)

JWT, WPP Sued Over TV Advertising for Microsoft's Bing (Ad Age)
Sound like the old "lawsuit as a cheap form of PR" ploy.

FCC Investigates Wireless Competition
Agency votes to begin wide-ranging probe of U.S. wireless industry. (Forbes)

WiMAX Gear Market to Be Worth $4.9B by 2013: Report (GigaOM)




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Philly Tech Events Calendar

Reval Acquires FXpress Corporation
Combines Best SaaS for Corporate End-Users of Derivatives
Raises $16 Million in New Round of Funding to Accelerate Growth (Business Wire)
FXpress is based in Bala Cynwyd.

myYearbook Finds Profitability In Hyper-Competitive Social Networking World (TechCrunch)

The Convergence Of Health Care & Information Technology (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Enter Strategic Partnership with ActiveStrategy, Inc. (PR Web)

Pa. lags N.J., Del. in Internet speed (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Who Is Philadelphia’s New Anonymous Newspaper Investor? (WHYY: Its Our City)

Cable Shrs More Alluring Than Telecom, J.P. Morgan Says (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Comcast DVR Web Scheduling Nears Launch? (Zatz Not Funny!)

TiVo Files Complaints for Patent Infringement Against AT&T and Verizon Communications in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas; Seeking Damages and Injunction (PR Newswire)



IBM, Wipro, Tata, Infosys win BP IT outsourcing deal (ZDNet
Blogs)

Dataram Reports Fiscal 2010 First Quarter Financial Results (Business Wire)

ShowClix Secures Series A Funding From Pittsburgh Equity Partners (PR Web)
To what extent do these guys compete with Philly's TicketLeap?





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Comcast's Stealth Internet Strategy Evolving Under The Radar (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo Finance)

FCC Chief Vows Net Neutrality Enforcement (eWeek)

Tremor Media Secures Investment from SAP Ventures (PR Newswire)

Smart Grid Cross-Pollination Continued: Siemens Buys SAP Utility Software Integrator (Greentech Media)

Free 24-Hour PA Game Jam at Harrisburg University (Press Release via Central Penn Business Journal)

Verizon Offers New FiOS Home Support Tool
New 'In Home Agent' simplifies some basic troubleshooting... (Broadband Reports)

New Tech Still On Tap For 2009
(Zatz Not Funny!)



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Clearwire Needs Money, So Hopes Cable Needs WiMAX (GigaOM)

SAP Exec Sees Banks, Energy Leading 2010 Recovery (Information Week Blogs)

Heartland Rolls Out Encryption; CEO Blames Auditors for Breach (Credit Union Times)
U.S. payment-card industry grapples with security (Reuters)

Comcast and NFL Network Set to Offer “NFL RedZone” Channel This Football Season (Business Wire)

Guggenheim Looks To Capitalize On Distressed VC Deals (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)
Guggenheim Venture Partners has offices in King of Prussia and Austin.

OnCourse wins with Lesson Planner (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Ticketing Democratized: Touch screen and phone ticketing for all (The TicketLeap Blog)

PA Applies for $108 Million to Expand Broadband Infrastructure, Internet Access, Governor Rendell Says (PR Newswire)

Proposal With a Nice Touch
10 weeks of planning works out (NBC Washington)
Philly-based company helps out.



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People News 8/23/09

Two area scientists were named to MIT Technology Review's TR35, representing top innovators under 35. Ranjan Dash, 32, of King of Prussia's Y-Carbon, is using nanotechnology to develop ultra capacitors that could significantly outperform traditional batteries. Andrew Houck, 30. an assistant professor at Princeton, has developed a method for better protecting data used in quantum computing.


Board of Directors for Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania Elects Two New Members (Press Release)

Comcast Shores Up Content Brass (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

I-many Expands Leadership Team
P. Kevin Kilroy Appointed President & CEO, David Rode Appointed SVP, Global Markets (Business Wire)


Brolik Productions add Sam Huntington as director of business development (Philly Ad Club News)

Independence IT Promotes Charles Buck to Chief Operating Officer
(PR Newswire)

Former Oracle:Primavera Executive Joins Hard Dollar Corporation
Will Assume VP of Product Strategy and Management (Marketwire)