Philly Tech People News 7/8/2012

PRWeek reported that Abernathy MacGregor Group SVP Kate Finn will join Comcast as director of corporate communications this fall, reporting to VP of corporate communications Jennifer Khoury (subscription required).

Fortune's Term Sheet reports that Michael Madden has left Edison Ventures, where he has been a Boston-based principal since 2010.

SAP Australia gets new Aussie MD(ZDNet)
Joins SAP from Unisys.

SAP Appoints Harry Thomsen As German Head, Euro Am Sonntag Says (Bloomberg)

Former HP Channels VP Frank Rauch Joins VMware (The VAR Guy)
A Drexel graduate, Rauch has spent his career based out of Philadelphia.

Motorola Home Adds M&A Expertise
(Light Reading Cable)

Maiden Media Group welcomes three new hires (Philly Ad Club News)




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To Subscribe Or Not Subscribe? That Is The eCommerce Question (Phineas Barnes/TechCrunch)

Netflix: ‘We’re bullish on the cloud’ despite outage (Gigaom)

phillytechnews twitterfeed 7/6 to 7/7 2012

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phillytechnews: Andruw Jones rejuvenated, playing like 19 year old kid again Posted: 07 Jul 2012 06:43 PM PDT phillytechnews: Andruw Jones rejuvenated, playing like 19 year old kid again

phillytechnews: Bryce Harper going to All-Star game? Ridiculous! Posted: 07 Jul 2012 06:31 PM PDT phillytechnews: Bryce Harper going to All-Star game? Ridiculous!

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Canada’s vanishing tech sector (The Globe and Mail)

Google TV Needs To Decide: Platform Or Closed Ecosystem (TechCrunch)

Daily Links 7/6/2012: Report says sale of Comcast's stake in A&E for $2.8 billion close

'Hatfields & McCoys' helps boost value of Comcast’s A&E stake (New York Post)
15% stake said to be worth $2.8 billion; sale may be imminent.

This Ex-Salesforce Exec Wants To Save The Planet—And Kill Oracle, SAP In The Process (SAI: Enterprise)

Informatica Slumps After Quarterly Sales Miss Estimates (Bloomberg)
QlikTech was down as much as 15% at one point.

Could Oracle ruling lead to used e-book, music sales? (ZDNet Blogs)

Cloud vendors rub their hands over European licensing ruling (Dennis Howlett/CloudPro)

Oracle-SAP Retrial Set to Begin in August (PC World)


SAP Schools Workers Apple-Style on Making Most of Mobile Devices (Bloomberg)

Will Anyone Switch On Cable's Upstream Booster? (Light Reading Cable)



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Daily Links 7/5/2012: Verizon Wireless says cable deal won't affect backhaul

Building and dismantling the Windows advantage (ASYMCO)
Though losing ground on the client side, Microsoft still has tremendous strengths in providing much of the backend plumbing that enterprises rely on.

News Analysis: UsedSoft Vs Oracle Ruling Opens Up Monopolistic Practices By Software Vendors (Ray Wang/Enterprise Irregulars)

Oracle’s ‘Exalytics’ No Threat to SAP’s ‘HANA,’ Says Bernstein (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

Fans Howl After Weather Site Buys Out Rival (New York Times)
The Weather Channel is partly owned by Comcast.

CBS, NBC and Fox head to court over Dish ad-skipping feature (LA Times)

NBC Sports Network's Olympic Ambitions (Bloomberg)

VZW: AWS deal with cable ops won't affect backhaul (Wireless Week)
Comcast is big in backhaul, which is critical to providing wireless bandwidth.


Luring Online Shoppers Offline (New York Times)

PA DCED: Venture Capital Investments Support New Companies, Job Growth (PR Newswire)

3D Printer Used to Print Vascular Networks (Medgadget)
Research done at UPenn and MIT.



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Highlights: Last week on Philly Tech News (6/25/2012 to 7/1/2012)

I profiled West Chester-based Bradford Media Group, which is doing interesting things in combining social media with video and other media formats.

A severe storm on Friday night temporarily knock out an Amazon Web Services data center in Northern Virginia, but full recovery for some of its major customers took a long time even after power was restored, raising further questions about the reliability of AWS's Cloud architecture.

Storm aftermath in Northern Virginia

As if it didn't already have enough to do, the US Supreme Court agreed to review an issue raised by Comcast regarding the validity of class action status in an antitrust suit claiming Comcast tried to monopolize the market for cable services in the Philadelphia area.


I took a look at some recent occurrences in the VC/startup scene in the Philly area.

A panel discussion held at the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) Mobile Application Forum in Princeton in June focused on some serious potential bottlenecks facing mobile app development and deployment, as Alan Skontra reported. Also at the event, PublicStuff, the New York-based startup that began life in Philly (GoodCompany Ventues), is backed by First Round Capital, and is developing Philly's 311 system, won first place in the NJTC's mobile app competition.

The Inquirer reported on the emerging tech scene in Old City Philadelphia.

Dan Moloney, a long-time veteran of and top exec for Horsham-based Motorola Home, announced he is leaving the business, shortly after Google completed the acquisition of Motorola. Former Charter Communications CTO and onetime Adelphia exec Marwan Fawaz takes over, amid uncertainty regarding Google's plans for the cable systems technology unit.

Invite Media co-founders Nat Turner and Zachary Weinberg, having left Google, have launched their new New York-based Healthcare IT startup, Flatiron Health.

And among people moving into new positions, DreamIt Ventures named VC Karen Griffith Gryga as its Philly-based Managing Director.


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Daily Links 7/3/2012: SAP, Ariba get second DOJ request for info

Jive Bids Seen Spurred by Microsoft-Yammer Deal: Real M&A (Bloomberg)

UPDATE: SAP, Ariba Get Second Request for Information on Deal (Dow Jones Newswires via NASDAQ.com)

Dell Ramps Up its Cloud (Wired: Cloudline)

Multiple Generator Failures Caused Amazon Outage (Data Center Knowledge)

The iPhone and Disruption: Five Years In (Daring Fireball)

Passport to hell: why thin client desktops must die (Ars Technica)


Sashi Reddi to invest Rs 100 cr in start-ups (Business Standard of India)
AppLabs founder remains active investor in US, India. He is among the investors in Newtown Square-based Healthcare IT startup konciergeMD.



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Juniper OpenLab Brings Network Innovation to NJ, No Strings Attached

Esther Surden
Publisher & Editor, NJTechWeekly.com







Juniper Networks, the Silicon Valley firm whose expertise is in software-defined networking (SDN), launched OpenLab: The Junos Center for Innovation, on June 19, 2012, in Bridgewater.
The event was remarkable because no incentives from N.J. were provided to bring the networking laboratory here.

“We’re not helping this company. We haven’t offered them any incentives; we haven’t made any phone calls,” Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno said at the opening ceremony. “It’s all about creating an environment in N.J. for innovation,” she added.

“This is a story about collaboration between private companies, entrepreneurs and institutes of higher education,” which can happen here, she said, noting that it is also about creating the next “generation of jobs” for N.J.

According to Jerry Passione, OpenLab general manager, this is the first and only facility of its kind for Juniper, though the company is not ruling out opening other labs nationally or globally if this one proves successful.

NJTechWeekly.com asked Passione why the company had chosen to establish the lab in N.J. The answer: N.J.’s place in technology history, the legacy of Bell Labs and the fact that many Juniper customers are in the state made this location ideal for OpenLab.

Central N.J. was chosen because of its importance in serving the large regional base of service providers like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and several global enterprises like NYSE Euronext, Bloomberg and others.

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Daily Links 7/2/2012: Dell says its acquiring Quest; First Round Capital among backers of Cory Booker's startup

Lockheed Martin Selected To Manage Major Defense Information Systems Network Operations (PR Newswire)
$4.6 billion contract to be managed from Lockheed's King of Prussia location.

Mystery Over: Dell Inks $2.4B Buyout of Quest Software (Fox Business)

#waywire, Cory Booker’s Personalized News Startup, Uses Video To Give Youth A Voice (TechCrunch)
First Round Capital among the investors.

WebLinc a success after some tough times (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Steady cash flow helps Comcast warm up to its theme parks (Orlando Sentinel)

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