Daily Links 3/11/2010: Webcam spy case could see resolution

Razorfish Health launches (MedAD Blog)

Safeguard Scientifics Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2009 Financial Results (Business Wire)
Safeguard to pay higher interest for longer term (Philadelphia Inquirer)

SunGard Acquires Hosting 365
(Business Wire)
Irish company provides Cloud hosting services.

T-Mobile webConnect Rocket available March 14, already blowing minds in Philly (Engadget)

Webcam spy case could see resolution (6ABC)

Former Penn official Fry to be next president at Drexel (Philadelphia Business Journal)

TV Mergers Can’t Raise Rates, Rockefeller Says at NBC Hearing (Bloomberg)
Lawmakers press FCC, DOJ on Comcast-NBC merger (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Comcast, Cox, Time Warner Invest In BitTorrent Snooping Tech
Researchers claim it will reduce false positive copyright infirngement claims... (Broadband Reports)

Comcast Is Absent From Campaign to Change Retransmission Rules (New York Times: Media Decoder)


Fiberlink Debuts Business Intelligence Platform for Healthcare Mobile Device Compliance
Mobility as a Service Identifies HIPAA Security Compliance and Data Protection Risks (Business Wire)

Herley Reports Earnings for Second Quarter of Fiscal 2010
Revenues increase 17% to $46.6 million; Net income up 76% to $3.8 million $.27 EPS; EBITDA of $7.1 million (PR Newswire)

Global Pharmaceutical Company (Cephalon) Chooses Ingeniux for Multi-Site Web Content Management (Marketwire)

Tech clusters would grow under bill advancing in Legislature
(NJBIZ.com)

“Hi, welcome to Viddler, how can we help?”
(The Viddler Blog)

Cyber Posse Knew All About 'Jihad Jane' (NPR)




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Daily Links 3/10/2010: FCC commissioner blasts Comcast for raising broadband prices

SevOne Continues Success With Robust Growth and Sales (Marketwire)

InterDigital Signs Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications to Worldwide 2G and 3G Patent License Agreement (Business Wire)

FCC commissioner blasts Comcast for raising broadband prices (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Rovi Claims $2.4B Loss On 2008 Sale Of TV Guide Mag
Company Says IRS Has Completed Review of Divestiture (Multichannel News)

Gallery: SAP's tech of the future (ZDNet)

Hercules Technology Growth Capital Provides an Additional $3.0 Million of Capital to InfoLogix, Inc. to Launch New Products Roll-Out and Fund New Growth (Business Wire)

Clearwire exec shares WiMAX road map
Clearwire's master plan to cover most major U.S. cities by the end of 2010 (Network World)

What Does Google Have In Store For The Set-Top Box? (paidContent)

Billboard.biz Q&A: Comcast-Spectator President (Billboard.biz)

Newspaper economics: online and offline (Google Public Policy Blog)

ERT Launches 'Centralized Cardiac Safety 2.0': A Revolutionary New Approach to ECG Management in Clinical Trials (PR Newswire)

CardioNet rises as analyst expects greater revenue (Associated Press via Business Week)

Program increases Internet comfort level for older adults (Dothan Eagle)




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Daly Links 3/9/2010: Comcast raising prices again

New Comcast TV, Broadband, Phone Price Hikes April First
Competition? Most broadband and TV packages going up by $2 a month... (Broadband Reports)

Done Deal: Comcast-Spectacor Buys Live Nation's Paciolan (Billboard)

Cable group ask U.S. FCC to end fee disputes (Reuters)
Comcast, curiously, not part of group.

FCC chair, DOJ's Varney to testify on Comcast-NBC merger (Washington Post: Post Tech)

Cisco's "Change the Internet" event: Technology to drive video (ZDNet Blogs)
Cisco Unveils One Router to Rule Them All (New York Times: Bits)

Cisco Quits WiMax Radio Business
The decision to cease making WiMax base stations gives a boost to Cisco's Long-Term Evolution portfolio. (Information Week)

Safeguard Scientifics Launches Corporate Blog
Blog Increases Transparency and Provides Insight into Safeguard’s Strategy and Performance for Investors and Media (Business Wire)

Can SAP Get Its Supply Chain Mojo Back? (Network World)

Harris Corporation and Sunhillo Corporation Team to Develop Advanced Information Exchange Networks for Aviation Markets (PR Newswire)
Sunhillo is based in West Berlin NJ.

heipha, Biotest, and MODA Introduce Pre-barcoded Culture Media Plates with Automated Solution for Paperless Environmental Monitoring (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 3/8/2010: Google Testing TV Search Service On Android-Enhanced Set-Top Boxes

eXo Accelerates U.S. Operations with $6 Million Series A Financing (PR Newswire)
Philly area tech exec/entrepreneur Bob Bickel to serve as Chairman.

Comcast's Burke Touts One-Stop Shopping
Wants to offer cross-platform buys in entertainment, sports and women (Broadcasting & Cable)

NBC, Comcast Not Expecting Zucker To Testify This Time Around
Sources Say NBCU President Will Miss March 11 Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Joint Venture (Multichannel News)


IPhone Network Jams Open Market for Time Warner Cable (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Google Testing TV Search Service On Android-Enhanced Set-Top Boxes (Silicon Alley Insider)

SEI Adds 250 Advisers In Sign Independent Channels Are Growing (Dow Jones Newswires)

Vertex tracks sales tax increases around the nation (Philly.com: Philly Inc)

Startup story: Millennial Media (Baltimore Sun: BaltTech)

ICT Group plans not formulated
(PhillyBurbs.com)

University of South Carolina Selects SunGard Higher Education to Support Transformation of Business Processes, Information Tools and Digital Resources (Business Wire)




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2020: I See It Clearly - Through the Clouds (Sandhill.com)
Essay by Marc Benioff of salesforce.com.

Philly Tech People News 3/7/2010

myYearbook Lands Digital Media Industry Veteran to Lead Business Development
Focus on Leveraging Virtual Currency and US Distribution to Drive Value for Partners
(Business Wire)



Gary Jackson Joins Shunra Software as Chief Executive Officer (PR Newswire)

SAP Names Former HP Exec To Manage Volume Channel Business (Channel Web)

Viridity Energy Names Laurie Actman as Director of Government Relations and Business Development
Member of the City of Philadelphia Mayor’s Office will join Viridity Energy to develop strategic partnerships with business and government leaders to advance the smart grid (Business Wire)

Marin County may pull plug on computer fiasco (Marin Independent Journal)
A SAP project gone wrong.

Cisco Wants To Kill Your Cisco Set-Top Box With Another Cisco Set-Top Box (Silicon Alley Insider)

Daily Links 3/5/2010: RCN Sold For $1.2 Billion

Two tech workers sidelined in Web-cam case (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Wi-Fi iPad goes on sale April 3 in U.S. (Macworld)

RCN Sold For $1.2 Billion
No word on what, if anything will change for RCN users... (Broadband Reports)
RCN provides broadband services in parts of the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas.
Broadband Provider RCN Finally Gets Its Buyout Deal (Daily Finance)

Senate Commerce committee brings back Comcast and NBC Universal for fourth hearing (Washington Post: Post Tech)

NCC Media: New Name, Expands Audience Reach (MediaPost: Media Daily News)

Charging fees for Hulu comes with its own problems (Associated Press via Yahoo! News)

Survey Says: VCs Banking On Energy Efficiency, Storage (Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch)

Logistics technology: SAP sees signs of a recovery in supply chain management software (Logistics Management)


Email Marketing Firm, Listrak, Integrates Customer and Site Data to Provide Advanced Profiling and Conversion Metrics (PR Web)

Drexel food Web site revamped (The Triangle)




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Daily Links 3/4/2010: Urban Outfitters' earnings jump 92%

Comcast's thePlatform Posts To Social Nets
Video Management System Provides Hooks into 10 Social Media Sites (Multichannel News)

Analyst talks Comcast-NBC Uni deal
Moffet: 'We don't like the deal, but we do like the stock' (Hollywood Reporter)

4A's: What's Delaying Ad Addressability?
Such platforms allow advertisers to target specific regions, zones, even individual households (Adweek)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software Development Firm Avencia Incorporated Announces New Company Name – Azavea Inc
(Business Wire)

Urban Outfitters Reports Q4 Earnings Jump 92% (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

New Customers Fuel BravoSolution Growth in Challenging Year
Spend management vendor outpaces market to reach $71 Million in 2009 revenue (Business
Wire)

Dot-Mobi Gets New Owner, New Life Still In Doubt (MediaPost: MoBlog)
Top level domain acquired by Ireland-based Afilias, which has its US headquarters in Horsham.

DreamIt Recruiting New Class of Startups (Center Networks)

SAP - The Message Back on Target
(ZDNet Blogs)

Semiannual PostgreSQL User Conference - PG East 2010 - Adds Impressive Line-up of Speakers to Conference Roster (PR Newswire)


SunGard adds EMC Data Domain deduplication to Secure2Disk cloud data backup service (SearchDataBackup.com)


Acurian Generates over 50% of Clinical Trial Patient Referrals from Proprietary Relationships with Online Health Networks & Social Media Platforms (Business Wire)

New Lehigh institute will coordinate business efforts (Allentown Morning Call)




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Daily Links 3/3/2010: TiVo debuts new box; working with Comcast

AstraZeneca overhaul leaves 550 jobless here (Wilmington News Journal)

Verizon Wireless experiencing nationwide data outage (ZDNet Blogs)

SAP co-CEOs to prioritize product development, delivery (SearchSAP.com)

Should SAP buy Sybase? (IT Knowledge Exchange: SAP Watch)


News Brief: Micro-Apps by SEAL Consulting Expand Business Value of SAP(R) Solutions at Archean Group (PR Newswire)

Q&A: How will e-mail, social media marketing merge? (VentureBeat)
More on the ExactTarget-CoTweet deal.

Jelli puts social networks to work picking radio tunes (USA Today)
Jelli is a First Round Capital portfolio company.

Change is coming to online shopping (Redeye VC)

TiVo to Offer Boxes That Go Beyond the Recorder (New York Times)
TiVo Building tru2way Version of New Interface (Light Reading Cable)

Introducing the Video Edge Services Platform (Motorola Blog: Media Experiences 2 Go)

NextGen Health Information Exchange and Doylestown Hospital Recognized as Winners of Microsoft HUG 2010 Innovation Awards (Business Wire)

Blumenthal gets hero's welcome at HIMSS
(ZDNet Blogs)

Federal Reserve
Board: Beige Book-Philadelphia-March 2010 (Federal Reserve Board)




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Daily Links 3/2/2010: Venmo gets funded

Rovi Pulls Out Of GuideWorks Venture With Comcast
Vendor Also Expands Deal With MSO for Metadata and Patents Across Mobile, Online (Multichannel News)

SAP co-CEOs hope for love on promises of continuity
* Co-CEOs reiterate targets, strategy (Reuters)

SAP, Sybase Release Joint Mobile Apps
Sales and workflow apps developed on the Sybase mobile platform extend SAP CRM and Business Suite to iPhone and Windows devices. (Information Week)

Venmo Wants You To Pay Your Pal, Over the Phone. What Will the Carriers Think? (All Things Digital: Media Memo)

E-mail Marketer ExactTarget Buys Twitter Enterprise Client CoTweet (paidContent)
CoTweet originally started out of Central Pennsylvania and was backed by First Round Capital, among others.
CoTweet, Internet start-up from central Pennsylvania, bought by ExactTarget (Harrisburg Patriot-News)

Ben Franklin group to invest in 5 Phila.-area companies (Philadelphia Business Journal)

USDA International Technology Services Awards Emtec Federal a Contract with Ceiling Value of $82.5 Million (Business Wire)

Registration Now Open for 'Be Together: The Be Communities LIVE Conference,' Being Held May 17-20, 2010, in Philadelphia (PR Newswire)

HIMSS: Meaningful Use Goes Over The Top (Information
Week: Heathcare Blogs)

Siemens' Dillione is HIMSS' smartest executive
(ZDNet Healthcare)

Pew Study: Philadelphia’s 311 System Shows Progress; Philly311 Made Contacting City Hall Easier but Challenges Remain in Handling Service Requests (PR Web)

Sungard earnings weeks behind past schedule (Philly.com: Philly Deals)
SunGard has since announced its earnings will
be released on March 15.





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