Penn State Latest University Plagued by Data Breaches (eSecurity Planet)

Hands On with Comcast’s Xfinity: TV Everywhere That’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be (NewTeeVee)

Adelphia To Pay $133 Million To Claimants As It Closes Motorola Suit (Dow Jones via CNN Money)

CMS will publish 'Meaningful Use' regulation on Dec. 31 (FierceHealthIT)



ICG Commerce: The Evolution of a Successful Procurement BPO (Part 1) (Spend Matters)

FINNISH FIRM OPENING ELECTRONICS SCRAP RECYCLING FACILITY IN PENNSYLVANIA (Recycling Today)

The Top 10 SAP Watch blog posts of 2009 (SearchSAP.com: SAP Watch)




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Broadcasters' Woes Could Spell Trouble for Free TV
Assailed by cable and the Web, broadcast TV looks to build a new business model (Associated Press via ABC News)

NBC, Comcast, and the future of television (Audio: Minnesota Public Radio)

Canoe Pushes Back Interactive Ad Launch Until Spring 2010
MSO Venture Says It Conducted An RFI Trial In Q4 (Multichannel News)

InterDigital Mourns Loss of Harry Campagna, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Long-time Board Member Served as Chairman Since 1996 (Business Wire)



Google Phone Event Scheduled For Jan. 5 (Silicon Alley Insider)

Smoke Halts Trading at Nasdaq’s Philadelphia Exchange (Bloomberg via Business Week)
Trading resumes at Philadelphia Stock Exchange (MarketWatch)


Hacker in card theft to admit guilt today (Boston Globe)

Herley Industries, Inc. Subsidiary, Micro Systems, Inc. Receives $16M Contract to Supply Avionics (PR Newswire)

MyYearbook Speeds Web Responses (Information Week)

SS&C takes another crack at an IPO, looks for $300M (Mass High
Tech)




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AT&T Stops iPhone Sales in NYC (Wired: Gadget Lab)

AT&T Reverses Course: iPhone Available Again in New York City (Mashable)


The Set-Top Files (Part II) (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

2009 Top Ten: Most Popular Cable Stories (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Intelligroup to focus on shared apps outsourcing (Business Standard of India)
Intelligroup is based in Princeton.

Top 10 predictions for cloud financials and accounting for 2010 (SaaS 2.0)

Philadelphia Daily News loses Davies to WHYY radio (Poynter Online: Romenesko)




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People News 12/27/09

Lockheed Martin ATL names new lab director (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SunGard Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition (Business Wire)

BioNanomatrix Board Chairman Erickson Named President, CEO, as Genomic Analysis Technology Company Prepares for Market Entry
Battelle Ventures General Partner Tracy Warren succeeds Erickson as board chair (Business Wire)

Acsis Appoints Gene Eubanks to the Position of Chief Executive Officer
Former SAP and Oracle senior executive with 20+ years experience building profitable, high-growth organizations (Business Wire)

Acsis CEO Eubanks Solidifies Executive Team with Key Appointments (Business Wire)


SCTE Hires Motorola's Vernon As VP Marketing, Membership
Bernadette Vernon Takes Over For Deb Swann, Louis Games (Multichannel News)

NJTC CEO Maxine Ballen Honored for Commitment to Region's Technology Community (PR Newswire)

Drexel University LeBow College Student Named College Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur Magazine
(PR Newswire)

Temple University Provost Lisa Staiano-Coico Joins Science Center Board (Business Wire)

Timothy J. Carney is now vice president of health care for SunGard Availability Services L.P. in Wayne. He was formerly enterprise vice president for McKesson Corp in Alpharreta Ga.



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NPR Hires Key Staff For Local News Effort; Finalizes Station List (paidContent)
Philadelphia one of 10 markets to receive NPR's new local service.

Fine Print: Fee fight in Philly newspapers (TheDeal.com: Dealscape)

2009 Bickel Business Year in Review (Bickel Blog)

Company gives $400K for Washington's NJ river trek (Associated Press via Business Week)

NBC-Comcast will be big power in sports - but it will take time to gain rights (Canadian Press via Google News)

The Life of Brian
Roberts Helped Shape The Industry He Grew Up In (Multichannel News)




Interview with SunGard CEO Cristóbal Conde (Wall Street Journal)


Sequoia-backed testing firm AppLabs considering strategic sale (Reuters India)

Liquent, Inc. Acquired by Marlin Equity Partners (Company Release)

DecisionOne Acquires Anacomp MVS (PR Newswire)




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SCVNGR Raises $4 Million From Google Ventures (TechCrunch)
Though now based in Boston, SCVNGR started out at Princeton and was a graduate of the first DreamIt Ventures class.

The State of Global WiMAX: The 2009 Report
(GigaOM)

FCC Commissioner slams Verizon on $350 ETFs (ars technica)

Ian Berg of ETF Venture Funds dead at 68 (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Optellios to Develop Cutting Edge Technology for Civil Infrastructure Monitoring (Marketwire)



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Comcast Reaches Settlement on P2P-Blocking Case (PC Magazine)

Comcast executive Steve Burke joins board of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (LA Times)


USA Technologies Files Counterclaims Against Dissident Shareholder Group (Business Wire)

Technitrol Agrees to Divest North American Electrical Contacts Operations (Business Wire)

Dynasil Announces Fiscal Year 2009 Results with a Doubling of Revenues and Income from Operations (Business Wire)

Back Online

After a long, weather-related outage. Not fun.

Google May Buy Yelp: A Quick Analysis
(GigaOM)


Oracle Rises After Beating Estimates, Cites U.S. Recovery
Orders for new software remain slow but come in at the high end of company forecast (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Oracle Database Biz Poised to Bounce Back (Business Week)


STOCKS NEWS EUROPE-SAP gains on Oracle figs, speculation (Reuters)

Philadelphia hasn't given up on citywide wi-fi (WHYY)

Movitas moves into hospitality (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Mobile Monday announces 3rd annual Philadelphia DEMO Night
(Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic)

Bentley Publishes The Year in Infrastructure 2009 (PR Newswire)

Public interest groups urge new FCC rules for TV set-top boxes (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Heartland Payment, AmEx reach breach settlement (Associated Press
via Google News)




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Daily Links 12/17/09: Philadelphia to buy Muni WiFi System

Phila. to buy municipal WiFi network for city business (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Philly Muni Wi-Fi Fiasco Continues; Taxpayers to Pick Up Tab (Technology
Liberation Front)

December 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Philly Fed factory activity at 4-1/2 year high (Reuters)

Shareholder Advocates for Value Enhancement (SAVE) Seeks Injunction Against USA Technologies
USA Technologies Annual Meeting was Convened As Originally Scheduled on December 15, 2009 and Votes Were Received by Inspector of Elections (PR Newswire)

Appify: A City-By-City App Store (Read Write Web via New
York Times)

Oracle's $1.5B profit beats estimates (San Jose Business Journal)

FCC: Retail Set-Top Is Possible, at Least (Light Reading: Cable Digital News)

Comcast Targets ESPN By Streaming Pro Sports Games
As Philadelphia fans watch 76ers basketball games online, Comcast intends to leverage its deal with GE's NBC Universal to offer other teams and sports (Business Week)

Zucker Outlines Comcast/NBCU Transition Team
Salil Mehta to lead transition effort; Victor and Eck to head administrative team
(Broadcasting & Cable)

Comcast CFO Says Investors Supportive of Transaction (Bloomberg)

HCL AXON signs 5-yr global IT deal with GlaxoSmithKline (Economic Times of India)
To implement SAP.

Technitrol shares fall as company plans note sale (Associated Press via Google News)

Aria: Providing Cheaper PCI Compliance for Payment Processors (TechCrunch IT)

Local Advertising Startup Yodle Sues Former Employees Over Alleged Data Theft (TechCrunch)
Yodle was originally a Philly startup before moving its HQ to New York.

InterDigital and Attila Collaborate on Innovative Bandwidth Aggregation Technologies
InterDigital Acquires Stake in Attila and Invests in Joint Development Effort (Business Wire)




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