Consumer 10.0: Wharton case illustrates the value of branding
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Powering N.J.: PJM control center in Pennsylvania governs electric transmission in 13 states (Newark Star-Ledger)

Philly Tech People News: 6/27/2010

Siemens Healthcare Appoints John Glaser CEO of Health IT Business (PR Newswire)

GSI Commerce Appoints William Mills Vice President Corporate Development for Global Marketing Services Division (Business Wire)

AMETEK Names Gregory J. Kelble as Senior Vice President- Human Resources (PR Newswire)

Motorola Appoints Scott A. Crum Senior Vice President, Human Resources, for Mobile Devices and Home Business
(PR Newswire)

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award Winners in New Jersey are Announced (PR Newswire)

Internet Capital Group Elects Peter Miller to Its Board of Directors (Business Wire)

The Cline Group Strategically Expands Marketing Team with Appointment of DeeDee Rudenstein as Account Director (PR Web)

Deacom Appoints Amanda Mackedanz as Senior Product Consultant for ERP Solution (PR Web)

New Knight Foundation Phila. director (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Standards, Stacks and Mergers: The SQL Backstory
(Dr. Dobbs)

Philly-area companies Thermo Scientific, ProtonMedia, NextDocs win Microsoft Life Sciences award

Philly-area companies dominated Microsoft's Life Sciences Innovation Awards 2010, announced at the Drug Information Association's annual meeting in Washington DC on June 16. Three of the four projects honored involved local companies.

Thermo Scientific of Philadelphia worked with Emory University to install its Nautilus LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) as part of an enterprise biospecimen management system rollout to enhance workflow, foster collaboration and effectively manage samples. ProtonMedia of Lansdale partnered with Merck to develop customized "virtual meeting" technology. And NextDocs of King of Prussia helped the Stanford University Medical Center automate its Event Discovery (EDR) process using NextDoc's Microsoft SharePoint-based solutions.

Microsoft says the awards "honor pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies that demonstrate new solutions or the successful application of available software and devices to revolutionize medicine, bring therapeutic breakthroughs to market faster, fight serious ailments, improve health and enhance people’s quality of life".




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Penn leads area organizations on Computerworld's "100 Best Places To Work In IT"

Computerworld has named its 2010 100 Best Places To Work In IT, and as usual the University of Pennshylvania is ranked right near the top, at #5.

Others are Campbell Soup (16), The Vanguard Group (35), Lehigh
Valley Health Network (36), Temple University (53), and American Water of Vorhees (94).

Penn was recognized for, among other things, its new open-source/open-standard voice-over-IP system to replace the existing one and deliver unified communications, and a multiyear initiative to replace Penn's printed directory with an online-only version.

Campbell's was lauded for its heath and wellness programs, Vanguard for its in-house training, Lehigh Valley Health for a strong community service culture, Temple for its huge computer lab and its employee tuition breaks, and American Water for its embrace of new technologies.

Among these six area organizations Vanguard is by far the largest IT employer, having over 2400 employees classified as such.

Daily Links 6/25/2010: DirecTV, Dish Ask For Access To Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia

Oracle Q4 Profit Jumps 24 Percent (IDG via New York Times)

Salesforce Countersues Microsoft In Patent Brawl, Brings David Boies To The Fight (TechCrunch)

You Don’t Want ISPs to Innovate (Wired: Epicenter)

Hulu Subscription-Service Rumors Heat Up
Pay service could launch as early as next week (Broadcasting & Cable)

DirecTV, Dish Formally Ask For Access To Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (Multichannel News)

Unisys to locate in St. Louis, bring IT jobs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Pharma and Cloud Computing: Are We There Yet? (PharmExec Blog)

SAP Labs logs on to new strategy to improve efficiency (Hindu Business Line)

Daily Links 6/24/2010: iPhone 4 Seekers Swamp Local Malls

iPhone 4 Seekers Swamp Local Malls (Fox29)

Oracle Profit Jumps 25% to Beat Street Estimates (Daily Finance)
Oracle Q4 turns in strong revenue and earnings (ZDNet Blogs)


EU Seeks Outside Opinions on SAP-Sybase Deal (PC World)

Unisys plans for St. Louis facility, add 300 jobs (Associated Press via Bloomberg Business Week)

Clearleap, Roku Shop Web Video Combo to Cable (Light Reading Cable)

FCC stops time clock on NBCU-Comcast review (The Hill)

NBC Universal Decides Not To Sell ShopNBC Stake On Weak Stock (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Exciting FanGamb Changes, Moving to Europe
(Robert Shedd)
Former DreamIt Ventures startup.

Health IT Boot Camp To Accelerate Professional Certification
The five-day crash course in health IT and e-medical records can lead to professional certification for IT pros and clinicians. (Information Week)
To be conducted by Trevose-based Training Camp.

FreedomPay surpasses 1,000 client milestone since launching its FreeWay™ Transaction Gateway in 2009
(Business Wire)

SAS buys maker of police software (Raleigh News & Observer)
Claims Philadelphia police, Delaware and Pennsylvania state police as customers.




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Daily Links 6/23/2010: Evolved Capital launches beta app targeting Venture Capital Ecosystem

Comcast's ThePlatform Reaches For IP-Connected TV Devices
Integrates With Over-the-Top Services From TiVo, Roku, LG, Boxee, Others (Multichannel News)

Parties still far apart in US Internet talks-source
* More talks scheduled for Wednesday (Reuters)

FCC Takes Beating Over Closed Door Net Neutrality Meeting
Transparency and documentation is either important -- or it isn't. (Broadband Reports)

Fitch cuts rating on Liberty Media unit (Associated Press via Google News)

SAP Labs Is Hiring Up to 300 in Palo Alto (eWeek Blogs)

SAP's McDermott Sees No Big Acquisitions After Sybase (Bloomberg)
Doesn't quite jibe with what co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said in prepared remarks for the SAP annual meeting a couple of weeks ago.

SAP value engineering services aim to boost SAP ROI (SearchSAP.com)

Evolved Capital Beta Launch Targets Venture Capital Ecosystem (Marketwire)


Verizon tests 10 Gbps to the home via FiOS (ZDNet Blogs)
Using Motorola's 10 Gbps GPON solution.

SAS Preps In-memory Analytic Grids (PC World)
Focusing on vertical solutions.

Startups replacing summer jobs for students (Reuters)




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Daily Links 6/22/2010: IBM will ‘vigorously’ fight $100M alleged racketeering suit from Devon IT

Is Malone Planning to Go Shopping? (New York Times: DealBook)
Renewed speculation about QVC ( through Liberty Interactive) buying out HSN.

IBM will ‘vigorously’ fight $100M alleged racketeering suit from IT partner (Local Tech Wire)

The Neat Company Raises $2.75 Million (PE Hub)
Edison Ventures' total investment in Neat now $15.5 million.

Verizon Canceling Wholesale FiOS?
DSLExtreme tried, failed to renegotiate new contract (Broadband Reports)

Global CIO: An Open Letter To Apple CEO Steve Jobs
(Information Week)

Newspapers' owners choose Philadelphia Media Network Inc. as company's new name (Philadelphia Daily News)

Study: Pennsylvania slow in Internet speed (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)


NBC's John Miller To Concentrate On Comcast/NBCU Integration
Veteram CMO Will Hand Off Marketing Duties For TV Group To Adam Stotsky (Multichannel News)

EarthLink opposes Comcast acquisition of NBC (Associated Press via Forbes)
Earthlink left Philly high and dry, as I recall.

Clearwire Raises $290M in Rights Offering (PC World)

Fiberlink Communications rolls out cloud-based patch-management service (ZDNet Blogs)
Fiberlink is based in Blue Bell.

After Four Months In Private Beta, Salesforce Chatter Finally Arrives As A Public Conversation (TechCrunchIT)

Enterprise-Software Makers Taking Cues From Facebook, Twitter (Dow
Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Dow Electronic Materials to Expand TMG Capacity to Serve LED Market (Business Wire)




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More on Devon IT lawsuit against IBM

Devon IT lawsuit filed against IBM and four of its executives in the Eastern Districtof Pennsylania (pdf).
See original post here.

Liberty Media to separate businesses; Implications for QVC, TruePosition and Atlanta Braves

John Malone's Liberty Media said yesterday that it will split off its Liberty Capital and Liberty Starz units from Liberty Interactive, which controls West Chester-based QVC. Liberty Capital includes Berwyn-based TruePosition, which primarily uses cell tower triangulation to identify mobile phone locations, and the Atlanta Braves, two companies that do not really fit together, as well as interests in other media properties. Liberty Interactive will become an "asset-backed" company rather than function as a tracking stock; tracking stocks (which are one of my pet financial peeves) do not actually own the underlying assets of the businesses they reflect.
I think this deal will open up new strategic possibilities for QVC, TruePosition and the Braves. Baseball people have always speculated that Liberty's ownership of the Braves, who were acquired as part of a deal with Time-Warner in 2007, would be short-term.
The Wall Street Journal quoted Morgan Stanley analyst Ben Swinburne as saying the transaction was "a vote of confidence in the stability of QVC."