Will Comcast's time on the Hill pay off? (Reuters)

Billionaire Burkle Joins Local Group as Three Bidders Emerge for Philly Newspapers (Editor & Publisher)

Detroit's salvation may come from a new kind of Big 3 (Detroit Free
Press)

Project aims to ID city's problem solvers (Arizona Daily Star)

Philly Tech People News 4/26/2010

ProfitPoint Hires Former Citi Prepaid Executive to Oversee Finance & Operations (Globe Newswire via MarketWatch)

GSI Commerce Appoints Online Ad Veteran Stephen Denton as President of GSI Media, Inc (Business Wire)
Pepperjam founder departs.

Unisys Names Ron Frankenfield as President of Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services Business (PR Newswire)

LLR Partners Welcomes Jack Gavin as Operating Partner
Industry veteran to bolster LLR’s focus on business services investments (Business Wire)

Quality Systems, Inc. Promotes Several Executives, Further Strengthening Scope of Its Management Team (Business Wire)
Quality Systems' principal business unit, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, is based in Horsham.

Innovation Philadelphia president Lee resigns, Bendis returns for transition (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Greg Pelton Joins ProtonMedia’s Executive Advisory Board (Business Wire)

Vishay Intertechnology Appoints Frank D. Maier to Board of Directors (Business Wire)

Ben Franklin Announces Innovation Award Winners (Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania)

Graham Nicholls Joins Almac as Director of Biostatistics (Marketwire)

L. Merion school official to turn over computer (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Investor joins bid to buy newspapers (Philadelpha Inquirer)

The Envelope, Please: From Eight Great Innovative Tools, Which Ones Are the Winners? (India Knowledge@Wharton)

Cox Adds Weight to Comcast's Big Box Project (Light Reading Cable)

A Convenient, Mysterious Service From Cable Companies (New York
Times)
"What would cause three cutthroat rivals, who compete for the same customers in the same states, to band together and cooperate like this?"
No, they really don't compete with each other very much.

Verizon Gives FiOS Widgets a Facelift (Telecompetitor)

SAP continues its sustainability drive (Ovum)

Will SAP Become More Acquisitive? New Strategy for Procurement and the Supply Chain (Part 5) (Spend Matters)

XOS Digital Completes Equity Offering
Glenn Rieger, Christopher Noe and Christopher McCleary Join Board (Press Release/pdf)
Round led by NewSpring Ventures, and joined by Dublin Capital Partners, a Lenfest Enterprise fund.

E-SoftSys zeroes in on self-storage
(Philadelphia Business Journal: Technology Blog)

Daily Links 4/22/2010: FCC Plows Ahead With Broadband Plan Despite Comcast Ruling

Verizon Reports Continued Growth in Cash Flow in 1Q; Solid FiOS, Wireless Growth in Customers and Revenues (PR Newswire)

FiOS TV Tops 3 Million, As Its Growth Slows
Verizon Serves as Many Video Subs as Cablevision (Multichannel News)

Verizon FiOS: get ready for a public hearing, Baltimore-style (Baltimore Sun: BalTech)

CenturyTel to Buy Qwest in Stock Swap to Add Services (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Google Invites AT&T, Comcast, Verizon To Fiber Party
Whenever they actually get a network built... (Broadband Reports)

FCC moves to open television set-top box for Internet, competition (Washington Post: Post Tech)

FCC Plows Ahead With Broadband Plan Despite Comcast Ruling (GigaOM)

Hulu pushes forward with $9.95 subscription service
(LA Times: Company Town)

IPv6 gear almost ready for Comcast trials (CED Magazine)

Philly Papers to revise bid for Inquirer publisher
* Toll-led group to enter new bid by Friday deadline (Reuters)

Microsoft to Direct Small Businesses Seeking Unified Communications Solutions With VoIP Integration to Alteva
New Offering Integrates Voice With Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server
(Marketwire)


Quintiq Lands Contract with US FAA Worth up to $17.6 Million (Business Wire)

Software misuse develops as theme at Perzel hearing (Philadelphia
Inquirer)




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Daily Links 4/21/2010: USOC, Comcast drop plan for Olympic Channel

e-Dialog Secures Foothold in Mobile Marketing Through Acquisition of M3 Mobile
Company that Set the Standard for Relevant E-mail Marketing to Help Clients Deliver Targeted Mobile Campaigns (Business Wire)
M3 Mobile is based in Norristown

SAP Plans to Acquire Compliance Software Vendor TechniData
(PC World)

Lockheed Net Beats Estimate; Health Costs Cut Outlook (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Lockheed Martin layoffs hit 130 in Moorestown (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Fantasy teams draw real online bets
(Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Salesforce Buys Business Directory Jigsaw For $142 Million In Cash Plus Earn-Out (TechCrunch)

Ametek sees Q1 profit above Street; ups FY EPS outlook (Reuters)

Princeton University analyzes iPad Wi-Fi bug, offers workaround
(O'Grady's PowerPage)

Will SAP Become More Acquisitive? New Strategy for Procurement and the Supply Chain (Part 3) (Spend Matters)
Suggests Malvern's BravoSolution and Princeton's Zycus as potential candidates.

USOC, Comcast no longer training for an Olympics Channel (LA Times: Company Town)

Venture Investment In New York, New England Rebounding Faster Than Silicon Valley (Forbes Blogs: Velocity)

Ulticom Announces Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results (Business Wire)

Gartner names ProtonMedia “Cool Vendor in the High-Performance Workplace”
(ProtonMedia Blog)




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LiveIntent running beta on Philly.com

LiveIntent, a New York startup backed by First Round Capital and Battery Ventures, has been running a beta on Phiily.com. A box on the righthand sidebar of Philly.com sections reads "Philly.com twitter recommendations". Place your cursor over it, and a box will open up over towards the center of the page showing a scrollable list of recommended twitter feeds.



Right now, these mostly appear to be Philly.com journalists, First Round Capital execs, and promotional twitter accounts. LiveIntent, which raised $4.25 million from First Round and Battery, was discussed in this Wall Steet Journal blog last week on the challenges faced by Twitter's attempts to expand its control over its ecosystem.

Daily Links 4/20/2010: Rutgers (Piscataway) to offer iPad business courses with Apple

IT company EMC in services, sponsorship deal with Phillies (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Pa. district took 56,000 images on student laptops (Associated Press via Google News)

Cloud Communications Alliance Brings Voice Communications to the ‘Cloud’ (Press Release)
Philadelphia's Alteva part of the Alliance.

Janney Montgomery Scott Reiterates a 'Neutral' Rating on Kenexa (KNXA); Raises Fair Value (StreetInsider.com)

SunGard Unveils Valdi Order System With Global Focus (Bloomberg via Business Week)

Ridge Global, Prism eSolutions Form Strategic Alliance To Address Growing Enterprise Risk Management Needs
(PR Newswire)

Snider funding conservative RightNetwork (Philadelphia Daily News)

SevOne Extends Reach in EMEA With New Distribution Partner
Holonomix to Provide Next-Generation Network Performance Management Software and Services to Organizations in the UK (Marketwire)

Podcast: Business by Design - Eric Brown of Johnson Products Shares Their SAP ByD Story (Jon Reed on SAP Consulting)

Verizon Downplays FiOS Deployment Freeze
And plays up the level of market competition... (Broadband Reports)

Just like Comcast? RCN accused of throttling P2P (Ars Technica)

Boomi Launches Industry's First "Trust" Site for SaaS and Cloud Integration (Marketwire)

Rutgers and Apple team up to offer iPad business courses (Newark Star-Ledger)




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Daily Links 4/19/2010: Lockheed Martin says GPS III team on schedule

News Analysis: Oracle Acquires Phase Forward For $685M And Gains A Foothold Into The Lucrative Life Sciences Market (A Software Insider's Point of View)

Digital Printing and Information Management Industries Converge in Philadelphia Next Week -- April 19-22 -- at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (Marketwire)

Comcast Denies Connection to RightNetwork (New York Times:
Media Decoder)
Lots of people in the media apparently got taken on this one.

NDS Leads $20M Bet on BlackArrow
(Light Reading Cable)
Comcast venture arm invests again.

Comcast P2P Settlement Lawyer Thinks You Should Take That $16
(Broadband Reports)

Enterprise IT: Inside an SAP customer (ZDNet Blogs)

Lockheed Martin GPS III Team Advancing On-Schedule in Critical Design Review Phase (PR Newswire)

Paoli Company Creates Some of the Greenest Computers (KYW Newsradio)

Greater Utilization of Geospatial Technology is Theme of Gubernatorial Roundtable Hosted by PA-MAPPS
(PA-MAPPS Press Release via Directions Magazine)




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Study: Philadelphia market ranks 17th in Apple ownership by % of adults

According to a study conducted by Experian Simmons, Philadelphia ranked 17th among Designated Market Areas (DMAs) in the continental US, with 27.1% of adult residents owning at least one Apple device (iPod, iPhone or Mac). This compares to 32.3% for the #1 ranked San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose DMA, and 31.3% in the #2 Boston DMA. The Philadelphia ownership rate is 125% the national average.
Presumably, the students in the Lower Merion School District were not surveyed.

The complete study results can be seen here (they ask you to answer a few questions first and then you download the pdf.) The shaded map from Experian Simmons below shows the how the concentation of Apple ownership varies across the country.

NYC And Philadelphia Transit Goes Real-Time (Information Week)
SEPTA Bus Map Demo