Archive for February, 2012

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NTCA 2012 Annual Meeting and EXPO

February 29, 2012

NTCA 2012 Annual Meeting and EXPO San Diego, CA Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego February 12-15, 2012 Attendees: 2,300 Exhibitors: 119 Press: Under 5 Calysto Overview The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association, representing more than 570 locally owned and controlled telecommunications cooperatives and companies throughout rural and small-town America, holds its biggest event of the year [...]

 

Broadcast Video Expo 2012

February 24, 2012

Broadcast Video Expo 2012 February 14- 16, 2012 Earls Court 2  London   Attendance: 15,000 Exhibitors: 300 Media and Analysts: est. under 50   Calysto Overview   Broadcast Video Expo 2012, or BVE, is one of the top events in the UK for broadcast, video and audio professionals and content providers. It’s sometimes called the [...]

 

Cloud Connect 2012

February 23, 2012

Cloud Connect 2012 Santa Clara, CA Santa Clara Convention Center Feb. 13 – 16, 2012   Attendance: 3,700 Exhibitors: 90 Media and Analysts: 100 Calysto Overview This year is going to be the year of the cloud. And haven’t we heard that before? Regardless of how widespread actual implementation is, the cloud is arguably on [...]

 

ITEXPO East 2012

February 21, 2012

Miami, FL Miami Beach Convention Center January 31 - February 3, 2012 Calysto Overview One of the oldest B2B communications and technology events series is the TMC ITEXPO conferences that were launched in 1999 to educate enterprises, SMBs, government agencies and other end users about IP-based, B2B communications solutions. For 2012, the three-day ITEXPO East [...]

 

Yankee Group Sells 4G World

February 7, 2012

Yes, we did call this one last year. The 4G World trade show and exposition has been sold to UBM plc, a global media company. The sale of the stand-alone business unit allows Yankee Group to focus exclusively on research and advisory services, as well as concentrate more investment into new products. According to UBM’s [...]

 

David Kieselstein Named CEO at Penton

February 7, 2012

Penton Media – The publisher has named David Kieselstein as CEO. He was previously CEO of TNS North America, a custom research division of WPP. Kieselstein succeeds Sharon Rowlands, who left Penton to join Altegrity as CEO on Nov. 1. Kieselstein had previously led Dun & Bradstreet's small-business division. Prior to that, he had spent [...]

 

Joe McGarvey Leaves Current Analysis

February 7, 2012

Joe McGarvey, Principal Analyst has departed from Current Analysis as of Friday. Joe had been with the analyst firm since December 2002 covering the carrier-based IP services infrastructure market. Prior to joining Current Analysis, Joe was executive editor of The Net Economy, a Ziff Davis publication focused on the telecommunications space. Prior to The Net [...]

 

Metcalfe and Jobs recommend Marketing as first priority

February 1, 2012

Internet Pioneer Bob Metcalfe at ITEXPO West’s StartupCamp Event While ITEXPO is taking place in Miami this week, we thought we’d share with you a speech given by Internet pioneer Dr. Robert (Bob) M. Metcalfe at StartupCamp during last fall’s ITEXPO. During his presentation, Dr. Metcalfe reminisced about Steve Jobs, who approached him about designing [...]

 
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