Daily Links 2/19/2010: Roberts, Zucker To Appear Before House Judiciary Committee On Feb. 25

Roberts, Zucker To Appear Before House Judiciary Committee On Feb. 25: Sources (Multichannel News)

Comcast Shouldn’t Fight Sharing Rules, Rival TV Providers Say
(Bloomberg via Business Week)

School That Spied On Students With Laptop Cameras Says It Was A Security Feature, Turns It Off (Silicon Alley Insider)
Remotely accessing a laptop is fairly easy (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Official tells AP: FBI probing Pa. webcam case (Associated Press via San Jose Mercury News)

Motorola Completes Acquisition of BitBand
Strategic acquisition enhances Motorola's On Demand Portfolio (PR Newswire)

Motorola cable boxes to get Blur, connect with phones (Engadget)

Verizon Fios Adds Remote Control by Android Phones, iPhone Owners Jealous (Wired.com: Epicenter)


Dataram Rallies On Distribution Deal (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)
Dataram is based in Princeton.

Olympic notebook: A fresh look at the medal table (CNET News)
Radnor's Qliktech helps analyze the data.

Kulicke & Soffa to cut U.S. jobs (EE Times)

Microgrids: Building Blocks of the Smart Grid (Earth2Tech)

Lockheed Martin and Adaptive Digital Technologies Sign Marketing Agreement for Vocoder Technology
Companies to collaborate to deliver ultra-low rate voice coding technology to the VoIP Market (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 2/18/2010: Philly Fed delivers upbeat news, though Plosser has concerns

Pa. schools spy on students using laptop webcams, claims lawsuit (Computerworld)

Is Lower Merion spying students inside their home? LM official responds (Norristown Times
Herald)
On the face of it, this story seems absurd to me, but we will see.


Comcast offers data sharing, backups (Boston Globe)

Comcast Expanding Broadband Meter Trials (Light Reading Cable)

February 2010 Business Outlook Survey (Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia)

Philadelphia Fed’s Plosser Not A Fan Of ‘Extended Period’ Low-Rate Pledge (Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics)

Pennsylvania SERS Reports Year-End Performance (PE Hub)

Heartland Payment Q4 profit misses Street (Reuters)

WizeHive Launches Tool To Help Organizations Manage Applicants (TechCrunch)


Bentley Delivers New 3D City GIS Information Modeling Software to Enhance Design and Operation of Intelligent Cities (PR Newswire)

IBM, Accenture lead Gartner Magic Quadrant for SAP outsourcing (SearchSAP.com)

inTEST Corporation Reports Preliminary Unaudited Fourth Quarter 2009 Results and Schedules Conference Call (PR Newswire)

Pennsylvania gets $130M for educational, rural broadband technology (Harrisburg Patriot-News)


Philly targets Facebook, Twitter after snowball fight turns ugly (CNET News)




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Daily Links 2/17/2010: GigaOM on Philly mobile startup Venmo

Nutter to test two new business-tax policies (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Changes could aid research & development, video game developers and "computer systems design" firms

SAP's 'Timeless' Future (Forbes)

SAP and Open Text Expand Global Reseller Agreement to Include Digital Asset Management (PR Newswire)

CardioNet, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter, Full Year 2009 Financial Results and 2010 Outlook (Business Wire)

A forgotten giant, remembered
Scientist Nikola Tesla's time has returned. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Venmo’s Simple, Loaded Premise: Pay Your Friends From Your Phone (GigaOM)

Upcoming: Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference 2010 (The Green Skeptic)

HBO Go launches for Verizon FiOS customers, streams HBO content over the web (VentureBeat: DigitalBeat)

Comcast Spotlight, Starcom Report Ad Trial Results (Cable360)

FiOS TV Launches Ad Zones In NY, Rhode Island
Verizon Delivering Geotargeted Ads Using Invidi Technologies' System (Multichannel News)

Vanguard leader to build on predecessors' work (Daily Local News)

Portico Systems and SDI Announce Partnership Using Actionable Business Intelligence for Targeted Provider Recruitment, Provider Performance Management, and Member Decision Support (Business Wire)

IntegriChain Launches DNA: Dynamic NextGen Analytics(TM) Platform (PR Newswire)

Metro Philadelphia Newspaper and Calkins Media Incorporated Form Strategic Classified Advertising Alliance (Business Wire)




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Daily Links 2/16/2010: Comcast leads investment in targeted ad firm

TidalTV Raising More Capital, Comcast Invests (MediaPost: Media Daily News)

Comcast Added To Citi Top Picks List (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

GSI Commerce Announces Offering of Common Stock by Selling Stockholder (Business Wire)
Liberty Media cashing out its stake.

First Round, Betaworks, And Angels Back Up Backupify With $900K (TechCrunch)

MEDecision Introduces InFrame Health Information Exchange Service and Extends Boundaries of Collaborative Healthcare Management
(Business Wire)

SAP's Vishal Sikka on SaaS (ZDNet Blogs)

Winshuttle Expands to Germany with Acquisition, Keeps Growing Through the Recession (Xconomy Seattle)
Provides SAP data tools.

T-Mobile USA to Sell First HSPA+ USB Stick (PCWorld)

InterDigital Demonstrates Wireless Convergence Technologies at 2010 Mobile World Congress (Business Wire)

It's Hammertime for Wharton business-technology event (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Intelligroup® Q4 EPS Rose to $0.08 from $0.02 in Q4 2008, and 2009 EPS Rose 65% to $0.26 on Revenue of $126.5 Million (Business
Wire)

Dynasil Announces First Quarter 2010 Results (Business Wire)

AWeber in 2010: Product Enhancements, Educational Initiatives, Corporate Growth, and Continued Hiring (Business Wire)

Commodore PET caught running Windows Phone 7 Series? (Engadget)

INetU Ranks in Top 3 Managed Hosting Providers (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 2/15/2010: Health IT gets $1 Billion in Federal Funding, mostly for health information exchanges

Behind Google's Broadband Strategy
Search Giant's Fiber-To-The-Home Plan More Political Posturing Than Bona Fide Business
(Multichannel News)

Verizon: LTE Launch On Track
CTO Lynch: 'We will meet our 2010 deadline...' (Broadband Reports)

Health IT Gets $1 Billion In Federal Funding
The money will go toward health information exchanges, training, and support for health IT deployment. (Information Week)

NaviNet Multi-Payer Portal Selected for Initiative to Increase Healthcare Efficiencies and Reduce Costs (Business Wire)

ANXeBusiness Corp. Acquires ETSec (Marketwire)

Transformed CompUSA set to open in NCCo (Wilmington News Journal)

InterDigital Demonstrates Bandwidth Innovations at Mobile World Congress (Business Wire)

Voxware Reports Second Quarter Results for Fiscal 2010 (Business Wire)

Franklin Electronic Publishers settles with shareholders (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Music Choice Channels Into Young Demo
New Pop-Music Outlet, SWRV, Adds Facebook, User-Gen Vote-for-Video Apps (Multichannel
News)
Music Choice is based in Horsham.




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Fashion fete's eyes on QVC
Sales clout turns heads in New York. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Will SAP be acquired? (Next Gen Enterprise)

Cost of smart-grid projects shocks consumer advocates (Denver Post)

New Comcast "Xfinity" Ad

Phiily Tech People News 2/14/2010

Unisys Names Dominick Cavuoto as President of Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions Business (PR Newswire)

Unirisx Names Steven G. Selfridge Chief Financial Officer (PR Newswire)

Two Industry Veterans Join the Halfpenny Technologies Team (Business Wire)

Bear Fisher Named Senior VP/Creative Director for E! and Style
Two others promoted as Comcast Entertainment Group reshapes internal creative agency (The Wrap)

Apollo Health Street Expands Office Locations to Boston (Business Wire)

AlphaDetail Names Rishi Varma to Serve as President and CEO (PR Newswire)

Premier Retail Networks, Inc. Broadens Advertising Sales Force (Business Wire)

Centris of Fort Washington has appointed Christopher M. Dolan vice president, client executive and Claire M. Bednar vice president, client services. Dolan was national senior director, sales and marketing at Comcast; Bednar was director, syndicated research at TNS Custom Research.

First Generation adds Tom Lazaunikas as creative director (Philly Ad Club News)

EnerSys Appoints Michael J. Schmidtlein Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer (PR Newswire)




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PackLate.com Scores Seed Funding For Last-Minute Vacation Rental Service (TechCrunch via Washington Post)

Mobile-Phone Tracking Violates Privacy, Lawyers Tell Court (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Waste Management Now Demanding $500 Million From SAP (IDG via New York Times)

Daily Links 2/12/2010: First Round Capital introduces Key Hire Wire

SAP keeps it interesting! (Next Gen Enterprise)

SAP chairman says won't meddle day-to-day - report (Reuters)

SAP's Executive Exodus
Less than a week after its CEO quits, two more are leaving the software firm. What gives?
(Forbes)

Motorola Merger of Phone, Set-Top Units Sets It Apart (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Moloney Stays At Home Unit After Motorola Reorganization
Exec Will Report to Jha Under Company's New Structure (Multichannel News)

InterDigital Issues Financial Updates (Business Wire)

Introducing the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire (Redeye VC)

Controversy surrounding cloud computing (Boomi Blog)

Veoh Bankrupt, what did Viddler do differently?
(Robert Sandie)



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Daily Links 2/11/2010: SAP appoints new COO; Schwarz resigns

Motorola targets first quarter of 2011 for split into two (Engadget)
Motorola Press Release

DOJ: No Need for Warrant for Cell Location Information (PC World)
Court of Appeals hearing scheduled for Philadelphia tomorrow.

Paperboy 2.0: Using the Cloud to Get Paid for Application and Content Subscriptions (ReadWriteCloud)

Aria Announces Aria Platform Standard and Enterprise Editions (Marketwire)

SAP Announces Subsequent Changes to Executive Board and Management in Support of New Co-CEO Structure (PR Newswire)
The resignation of John Schwarz is a bit of a surprise to me; he had been positioned as one of the key change agents at SAP recently.

Researchers create world’s first solar power circuit (SlashGear)
Developed at Penn.

Motorola May Spin Off, Not Sell Set-Top Box Business (Bloomberg via Business Week)

After Facebook, Google Looks to Eat Comcast's Lunch (The Atlantic Wire)

Al Franken uses conflict with NBC/Comcast execs to help raise cash (City Pages: The Blotter)

Quality Systems, Inc. Acquires Opus Healthcare Solutions
Acquisition Marks Entry into Rural and Community Hospital Market (Business Wire)
To become part of NextGen Healthcare Information Systems in Horsham.

Siemens and NextGen Healthcare Renew Alliance To Deliver Ambulatory IT Solutions (PR Newswire)


USA Technologies, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results (Business Wire)

Startl Design Boost and Startl Accelerator (A VC)


Q&A: Valerie Gaydos, Private Investors Forum (Keystone Edge)

Lockheed’s N.J. unit wins $160M Navy contract (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Technology awards to be held Friday in Harrisburg (Harrisburg Patriot-News)



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