Daily Links 4/5/2010: FCC forms strategy to defend broadband powers

SAP Signals Changes At Insider Event – Vaguely (Merv's Market Strategies for IT Suppliers)

Oracle Adds Pharmaceutical Focus to CRM on Demand (PC World)

Proscape Announces iShowPlayer App for iPad (Marketwire)

FCC forms strategy to defend broadband powers (Reuters)

NetCompetition: FCC Contemplating 'Overreaching Regulatory Hubris."
Says proposed regulations would be bad for goals of national broadband plan (Broadcasting & Cable)

Change Up At NBC Sports Digital; Miller Shifts To Universal Sports, Keeps Olympics (paidContent)

SaaS best-of-breed vs. SaaS suites: Who's likely to win? (ZDNet Blogs)

City to embrace iPhone, develop 311 app (Philly.com)
If Philadelphia still doesn't have the underlying software systems it needs to run the 311 service effectively, I'm not sure how much good it will do to build iPhone apps to run on top of it.
Pew Study: Philadelphia's 311 system shows progress after one year (Plan Philly)

Software developers steering creative energy toward burgeoning app market (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

SunGard Launches Middle-Office Outsourcing Service for Energy and Commodities Trading
SunGard Launches Middle-Office Outsourcing Service for Energy and Commodities Trading
(PR Web)



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Philly Tech People News 4/4/2010

Jeffrey Belk Joins InterDigital Board as Independent Director (Business Wire)

Nuance Appoints Janet Dillione, Former CEO of Siemens Health Services, to Lead Nuance’s Healthcare Business (Business Wire)
Dillione announced her resignation from Siemens in early March.

Morning Call' Publisher Kennedy Out as 'Baltimore Sun' CEO Adds Title (Editor & Publisher)

MISTRAS Group, Inc. to Report Third Quarter Results on April 8, 2010 and Announces Retirement of CFO and Automatic Extension of Lock-Up (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)

Precyse Solutions Appoints ICD-10 Program Management Director (PR Newswire)

Red Tettemer brings on fresh talent and adds more muscle to its interactive department (Philly Ad Club News)
Also establishes "ongoing consultancy partnership" with Alex Hillman.

Backe Digital adds Richard Essaf as Interactive Designer (Philly Ad Club News)

Krista Coonelly-Becker joins MayoSeitz Media as Interactive Media Strategist, Buyer (Philly Ad Club News)




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Comcast’s Queen of Convergence Speaks (GigaOM)

Early adopters pounce on iPad at mall (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)

Buyers queue up for their iPads (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Delaware business: Disconnect between FiOS, Wilmington likely to linger
With Verizon's rollout nearly complete, city left out (Wilmington News Journal)

Qlik
Technologies Inc. Form S-1 (Securities and Exchange Commission)




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Comcast Usage Meter Keeps Expanding
So what happens if you cross the 250 GB limit? (Broadband Reports)

NBC Reevaluating Streaming TV Episodes to IPad (PC World)

Apple iPad launch draws morning lines after months of hype (NJ.com)

Gallery: iPad launch in Atlantic City (ZDNet Blogs: The Apple
Core)

Daily Links 4/2/2010: Comcast-NBCU deal under scrutiny by Florida, other states

Eastern Tech-MAC merging (Philadelphia Business Journal)
MAC Alliance and The Eastern Technology Council Announce Agreement to Merge (Press Release)

BI Software Provider QlikTech Files for $100M IPO (Managing Automation)
2009 revenue of $157.4 million.

Comcast-NBC Universal Deal Probed by Florida Amid U.S. Review
(Bloomberg via Business Week)

Verizon Derides Cable 3DTV Efforts
(Light Reading Cable)

Comcast Owes One-Fifth of Its Value to VoIP (Seeking Alpha)

Delaware iPad lines form at 6, maybe earlier (Wilmington News Journal)




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QlikTech files for IPO

In a long anticipated move, in-memory business intelligence provider QlikTech of Radnor announced today it had filed a registration statement on Form S-1 for a proposed initial public offering of common stock. No info at this time concerning number of shares or pricing. Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Global Markets, and J.P. Morgan are acting as joint book-runners, and Jefferies & Company and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC will be co-managers.

QlikTech has grown rapidly and achieved revenue of $120 million in 2008; I have yet to see 2009 figures. This should be the biggest tech IPO in the Philly area in some time. I don't have enough information to makes guesses as to how much the company is worth except that it should be in the hundreds of million dollars. An IPO not only would help some people to "cash out" or get some liquidity for their interest in QlikTech, but it would also give the company a currency to make acquisitions to broaden its product portfolio.

See press release here.




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Daily Links 4/1/2010: LoKast Creator Secures $1 Million In Venture Funding

LoKast Creator Secures $1 Million In Venture Funding (MediaPost: Online Media Daily)

Comcast demos live 3D TV
(CNET News)

Successes (and Some Growing Pains) at Hulu (New York Times: DealBook)

Haggar Clothing Co. Launches E-Commerce Business with GSI Commerce as Its Strategic Multiyear E-Commerce Partner
(Business Wire)

Verizon, IBM launch private cloud backup service (Computerworld)

Lawson puts its ERP on Amazon's cloud (IDG via Business Week)

Forrester Critiques SAP's Data Management Tools (IT Business Edge)

Moxy Vote looking forward to this year’s proxy season (Philadelphia Business Journal: Law & Finance Blog)

CPSI Announces the Acquisition of Devon Consulting (PR Newswire)

Berliner Communications Announces Financial Results for Six Months Ended December 31, 2009 (PR Newswire)

Clear Align of Eagleville uses brainpower to make gains in optics work (Keystone Edge)

WebLinc launches DeepDiscount.com (WebLinc Blog)

VERIZON FIOS TV LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE TV WIDGET FOR BASEBALL FANS (InteractiveTV Today)

Pennsylvania Invites World to Explore Its Civil War Trails on Google Earth (PR Newswire)




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Daily Links 3/31/2010: Tierney says won't turn Philly papers over to "hedge funds"

CBS Affiliates 'Concerned' About Comcast-NBCU Deal (The Wrap)

QlikTech Responds to Enterprise Demand with Launch of Global QlikView Scalability Center (PR Newswire)

Does StreamWork Give a Picture of SAP's Future? (Read Write Enterprise)

Larry Ellison's Nightmare: 10 Ways SAP Can Beat Oracle (Information Week: Global CIO)

Tierney: I'm not going to turn Philly's papers over to hedge funds that want to strip and flip them (Poynter Online: Romenesko)

Megapath And Covad Announce Merger
No terms announced -- to close sometime during Q3 (Broadband Reports)

600,000 Mentoring Grant to Spur Interest in Computer Science for Students of All Ages (Penn Almanac)

USA Technologies Launches ePort Wireless Test Kit for Vending, Unattended POS Markets
Solution Tests for Optimum Signal Strength for Cashless Payment and Communications Efficiency (Business Wire)

Three Trends Expected to Be Hot Topics at SunGard Higher Education’s Annual User Conference, SunGard Summit (Business Wire)

Start-Up Aims to Be a Hub for Location Data (New York Times: Bits)
Backed by First Round Capital.





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Daily Links 3/30/2010: hhgregg hiring for 12 new Philly-area stores

Q&A: Michael Powell: Title II Move Could Spark ‘War’
Reclassifying Internet Would Be a Disaster, Warns Ex-FCC Chairman (Multichannel News)

The Press Realizes The FiOS Party Is Over
But doesn't quite see the bigger picture yet... (DSL Reports)

Open Source Enterprise Company MuleSoft Raises $12 Million From SAP And Others (TechCrunch)

SAP's 'virtual war room' tool gets a name: StreamWork (Network World)

USDA Awards $500 Million IT Contract (Information Week)
To implement large SAP deployment.

Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference like Woodstock, organizer says (Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)


BioNanomatrix Announces Issuance of Key Nanochannel Array Patent for High Throughput Macromolecular Analysis
- Patent is licensed exclusively from Princeton University - (PR Newswire)

hhgregg Announces 600 Job Openings for 12 New Stores in the Philadelphia Area (Business Wire)

SCO loses again: jury says Novell owns UNIX SVRX copyrights (Ars Technica)



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Daily Links 3/29/2010: Oracle's Larry Ellison Declares War On IBM And SAP

ICG Commerce's 2009 Results Suggest Procurement BPO Growth
(Spend Matters)

Acorn Energy Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Financial Results (PR Newswire)

Oracle's Larry Ellison Declares War On IBM And SAP (Information
Week: Global CIO)

Rimini Street sues Oracle (ZDNet Blogs)

Synygy Announces Full Integration with Oracle® CRM On Demand (Business Wire)

Technology Shines at 2010 NJTC Venture Conference (PR Newswire)

Specter wants to extend U.S. privacy curbs to Web-cam use (Philadelphia Inquirer)

ShopNBC parent makes headway on road to profit (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Imported execs from QVC.



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Philly Tech People News 3/28/2010

Journal Register Company Names William Higginson as President and Chief Operating Officer (Marketwire)

Journal Register Company Establishes Advisory Board
Prominent Media Thinkers Jeff Jarvis, Jay Rosen and Betsy Morgan to Advise Company on Rapidly Changing Media Landscape (Marketwire)

The Judge Group Confirms Major Investment in New York City Market (Business Wire)