GSMA Launches Mobile Apps Briefing

By Calysto | September 3, 2010

The GSMA’s media business has launched Mobile Apps Briefing, a new online news and analysis service covering the mobile applications market. Mobile Apps Briefing has a website (www.mobileappsbriefing.com) and is also distributed as an enewsletter twice a week. Mobile Apps Briefing is produced by the same team responsible for daily industry news service Mobile Business Briefing. Steve Costello, previously of the Financial Times, CMP Europe and ComputerWire, has joined the GSMA’s editorial team.

 

Kenneth Li Signs On with Reuters

By Calysto | September 3, 2010

Kenneth Li will be joining Reuters as Editor-in-Charge of Technology, Media and Telecoms on September 13. He is currently a Media Correspondent at the Financial Times. In his new role, Kenneth will be charged with Reuters’ coverage of the technology, media and telecommunications industries in America. Kenneth will lead a team of a dozen reporters across America and will be based in New York. Prior to the FT, Ken was Reuters Global Media Correspondent.

 

David Dines Departs ACG Research

By Calysto | September 3, 2010

David Dines has left his position as Principal Analyst at the analyst firm. He was with ACG for one year; his areas of coverage included managed services, OSS, SaaS and Cloud Computing. His replacement has not yet been named.

 

Sam Rosen Joins ABI Research

By Calysto | September 3, 2010

The analyst firm recently announced the appointment of Sam Rosen as Senior Analyst, Digital Home. Sam’s focus will be on cable, satellite, IPTV and terrestrial pay TV set-top boxes, operating systems, middleware and user interface on the set-top box, and TV infrastructure equipment including video on demand, video servers, and ad servers. For several years prior to joining ABI Research, Sam headed his own company, Blue House Tech, LLC, carrying out contract research and analysis projects for ABI Research and others.

 

RF Designline Renamed to RF & Microwave Designline

By Calysto | September 3, 2010

Formerly known as RF Designline, the newly re-named site, first launched in 2006. It is now integrated within the EETimes site and has adjusted its focus specifically to design. Janine Sullivan Love has been named the editor of site. She served as founding editor of RF Designline from 2006-2009.

 

Laura Hamilton Returns to Broadband Gear Report

By Calysto | September 3, 2010

Former VP and Editor-in-Chief Laura Hamilton has returned as Director of Content. She took leave in April to focus on her academic studies while remaining a partner in the publication. She has been with BGR since 2005.

 

Elizabeth Herrell Departing from Forrester

By Calysto | August 26, 2010

Elizabeth Herrell, VP, Principal Analyst, will be leaving Forrester effective September 30, 2010. Her areas of coverage include contact center, communications infrastructure, SIP, speech technologies and unified communications.

 

Kate Leggett Joins Forrester

By Calysto | August 26, 2010

Kate Leggett has joined Forrester as a Senior Analyst for Customer Service. Prior to Forrester, Kate was the senior director of product marketing at KANA Software which produces multichannel customer service solutions. Prior to KANA, Kate spent a decade working in many diverse areas of the eCommerce and CRM software industry.

 

Forrester Announces 3 New Events

By Calysto | August 26, 2010

The analyst firm recently announced that it will host three new role-focused forums, furthering the company’s commitment to serving IT, marketing, and technology industry professionals through a role-based strategy. Forrester’s CIO Forum, Business Process & Application Delivery Forum, and Content & Collaboration Forum will take place October 7-8, 2010 at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

 

Lauren Robinette Joins ACG Research

By Calysto | August 26, 2010

Lauren Robinette is now the senior analyst for ACG Research’s Managed Services/Cloud segment. Lauren’s responsibilities include providing ACGs clients with business intelligence on managed services trends and their impact on the overall telecom and Managed Service/Cloud market space. She will also focus on cloud computing and the impact of changing purchase behaviors of customers buying services over products. Her experience includes launching and managing programs for HP, Avaya, Symantec, Cisco, Fortinet and her own start up.

 

Patrik Bihammar Leaves IDC

By Calysto | August 26, 2010

Patrik Bihammar, Research Manager covering infrastructure software has departed IDC Europe. He had been with the company since 2005. IDC has had a bit of turnover in 2010, an analyst leaving almost every month.

 

IDC Hires 13 New Analysts

By Calysto | August 26, 2010

The International Data Corporation has hired more than 50 research and consulting professionals worldwide during the first six months of this year. The newly hired research analysts and consultants add to the expertise and depth of IDC’s research organization and strengthen IDC’s geographic presence. IDC plans to hire additional research and consulting professionals in the second half of 2010. Those most recently brought onboard include:

•    Mieko Fujisawa Ph.D., Senior Researcher, End-User Research, IDC Japan
•    Greg Girard, Research Director , IDC Retail Insights
•    Alexandre Goldman, Research Manager, covering Telecommunications, Brazil
•    Scott Guinn, Research Director, covering Enterprise Applications
•    Nicholas McQuire, Research Director, covering Enterprise Mobility, EMEA
•    Rohit Mehra, Research Director, covering Enterprise Communications Infrastructure
•    Takashi Miyazono, Research Manager, IDC Japan
•    Gerald J. Murray, Research Manager, CMO Advisory Service
•    Sherlin Hui Ching Pang, Research Manager, covering Telecommunications, Asia/Pacific
•    Jakub J. Stolarski, Program Manager, Worldwide IT Markets and Strategies
•    Yuko Tominaga, Senior Researcher, covering Software and Security, IDC Japan
•    Thomas Vavra, Research Director, CEMA Region
•    Mahalingam Venkatesan, Research Manager, covering Semiconductors
•    Andre P. Viera, Program Manager, covering Service Provider Infrastructure

 

New Blog: Mobilized

By Calysto | August 19, 2010

Forbes has launched a new blog from covering mobile technology. Forbes staff writer Elizabeth Woyke covers wireless technology, mobile and telecommunications news and mobile devices, including smart phones and table computers. Mobilized is part of the new effort by Forbes to launch blogs for all editorial staffers.

 

Richard Robinson Joins Strategy Analytics

By Calysto | August 19, 2010

The Global Automotive practice of Strategy Analytics recently announced the addition of Richard Robinson as a director for the Automotive Multimedia and Communications Service (AMCS). This service focuses on in-car multimedia/infotainment, telematics and semiconductor technologies. Prior to joining Strategy Analytics, Richard was a principal analyst leading iSuppli’s research on automotive infotainment and telematics

 

John Devlin Joins ABI Research

By Calysto | August 19, 2010

John Devlin has joined the analyst firm as principal analyst, smart cards and embedded security. His research will focus on smart cards and chip cards, authentication, identification, payments and data protection. John previously served as Research director, Financial & I.D. Technologies Group at IMS Research in the UK.

 

John Siefert Named CEO of Virgo Publishing

By Calysto | August 19, 2010

John Siefert has been named CEO of Virgo Publishing. The former senior vice president and publisher of InformationWeek Business Technology Network at United Business Media TechWeb, has also been named a member of Virgo’s board of directors. As part of a transition plan that Virgo announced in February, Jenny Bolton, who co-founded Virgo in 1986, will step down as Virgo’s CEO. Jenny will remain a member of Virgo’s board of directors and a senior advisor to the company.

 

Brian Fuller Returns to EE Times

By Calysto | August 19, 2010

Brian Fuller has returned to EE Times as a product strategist and contributing writer covering new products. He previously held the title of editor-in-chief from October 2001 to June 2007 and first joined the publication as an associate editor for the business desk in 1992. Brian also works as a contributing editor for Low-Power Design.

 

Paul Boutin Exits VentureBeat

By Calysto | August 12, 2010

Paul Boutin has left his post at the blog VentureBeat, where he was a reporter covering the iPhone, social media and digital music and video. He remains a freelance writer and contributor at The New York Times and has contributed to Wired in San Fransisco. He was with VentureBeat since May 2009.

 

Mark Wilson Steps Down at Gizmodo

By Calysto | August 12, 2010

Senior associate editor of reviews, Mark Wilson has stepped down from his position at Gizmodo. He will continue to serve as an editor at large.

 

Joe Brown Leaves Wired for Gizmodo

By Calysto | August 12, 2010

Joe Brown left his position as a senior associate editor at Wired. He has joined the Gizmodo team as features editor. However, he will continue to contribute to Wired on automotive topics. He first joined the magazine in 2007. Prior to this, he was an associate editor for Popular Science.

 

Martha Walz Joins Mobile Enterprise

By Calysto | August 12, 2010

Martha Walz has been named editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise. She previously served as editor-in-chief of R&D Magazine where she oversaw the entire R&D brand, steering the editorial development and operational planning of the print publication, daily e-newsletter, supplements, Web site and awards programs.

 

Mike Saxby Leaves Virgo

By Calysto | August 12, 2010

Mike Saxby is no longer the Group Publisher at Virgo. He had been with the company for nearly 20 years. Taking over for Mike is Larry Lannon as group publisher of the service provider and channel segments of the Telecom Division. In his new role, Larry will be overseeing the strategy for the division’s print, digital and event products, which include PHONE , VON/xchange and Billing & OSS World (B/OSS) brands and the Channel Partners Conference & Expo and Billing & OSS World Conference & Expo. Larry was formerly the group vice president and publisher for Telephony (now Connected Planet). Most recently, he was the president of Ascend Media’s Allied Division.

 

Robert Cravotta Named Principal Analyst & Editor at Embedded Insights

By Calysto | August 5, 2010

Robert Cravotta joined the online publication as principal analyst and editor, where he oversees coverage of embedded systems, software development and troubleshooting tools. He also heads the site’s bi-weekly e-newsletter and writes for the Embedded Master Blog. He most recently served as a technical editor at EDN magazine.

 

Jessica Davis Named Editor of Channel Insider

By Calysto | August 5, 2010

Jessica Davis has officially been named editor of the publication. She had been serving as its acting editor since April. She previously served as a senior editor of eWeek.

 

Benjamin Tomkins, Managing Editor at InformationWeek

By Calysto | August 5, 2010

Benjamin Tomkins has been named managing editor of the publication’s website. Benjamin will continue to serve in his role as editor-in-chief of SmallBizResource and InformationWeek SMB. He replaces Cora Nucci, who left InformationWeek to join HealthLeaders as senior online editor.

 

Sara Silver Leaves WSJ

By Calysto | August 5, 2010

Sara Silver has left her position as a reporter covering wireless and telecommunications. She had been with the paper since 2005. No replacement has been named. Watch here for more information!

 

Charles Carr Joins Yankee

By Calysto | August 5, 2010

Broadband and networking expert Charles Carr has joined the firm as a senior analyst covering enterprise network services, including MPLS, IP VPN, VPLS, E-LINE, E-LAN and Metro Ethernet. In this role, Charles will put his more than 15 years of industry forecasting experience to work with Yankee Group’s data products, enhancing analysis of enterprise connectivity. Charles comes to Yankee Group from Open Automation Strategies, Inc., where he was a principal consulting analyst responsible for telecom industry market research and consultancy for product development. Previously, he worked as a principal analyst at Gartner.

 

Career Opportunity: Social Media Strategist

By Calysto | August 2, 2010

Calysto Communications, an established public relations & social marketing agency with a focus on telecommunications, broadcasting & wireless, is looking for social media consultants. The ideal candidate is an experienced professional with telecom experience (preferred) or technical experience (required), who is looking for some flexibility in his or her schedule or has their own PR consultancy.

 

We are currently seeking contract/freelance Social Media Strategists. In association with our strategic, creative, and production consultants, this position will lead the development, execution, and assessment of innovative, results-oriented digital marketing campaigns that leverage online communities, social media and related Web 2.0 tools and methodologies.

 

Responsibilities


  • Serve as an agency leader and subject matter expert for issues associated with social media marketing. Regularly exhibit thought leadership on social media marketing and related topics inside and beyond the agency
  • Lead research and creative brainstorming for social media marketing campaigns on behalf of clients and prospects
  • Plan social media marketing campaigns, including requirements definition, scope, deliverables, schedules, and budgets
  • Manage campaigns in a hands-on, on-going fashion. Duties shall include online advocacy, rolling creation and execution of new concepts, copy/editorial, community-building efforts, promotions, etc.
  • Analyze, review, and report on effectiveness of campaigns in an effort to maximize results
  • Identify new business opportunities and play an active role in the agency’s new business acquisition team.

 

Qualifications


  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience leveraging social media in a corporate, marketing or brand-building capacity
  • 8-15 years experience in marketing or public relations
  • Experience working in a team environment
  • Wide-ranging familiarity with major social sites and services from a conceptual, marketing, technical, and feature-set perspective
  • Deep personal engagement in social media and online communities of all types
  • Strong editorial background and outstanding writing/journalistic skills
  • Demonstrable ability to exhibit bona fide thought leadership in the realms of social media and interactive marketing
  • Excellent research and presentation skills
  • Creativity and energy

 

If this sounds like a strong fit, please send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to Jobs@calysto.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

 

EE Times Revamps Website

By Calysto | July 22, 2010

EE Times Group has revamped its website and online strategy. The site relaunched this week with EE Times serving as the umbrella brand for a portfolio of formerly separate Websites covering electronic engineering and design, including Designline, Embedded.com, Planet Analog and TechOnline.

 

Forrester Growing: Big Hires

By Calysto | July 22, 2010

So is the analyst industry improving? Looks like it from changes at Forrester… 

The analyst firm announced 27 new research hires during the past six months. Some of the recent additions include:

Richard Fichera, vice president, principal analyst serving infrastructure & operations professionals — An 11-year veteran of Forrester, Richard returned after four years serving as director of BladeSystem strategy for HP. An expert in systems architecture, particularly blade servers, mid-range servers and converged infrastructure, Richard advises clients on their overall data center strategy, including virtual infrastructure.

Derek Miers, principal analyst serving business process professionals — Derek is internationally recognized for his work in business process management (BPM) and organizational transformation. He has worked for and consulted with major brands, governmental organizations, and NGOs for more than 20 years.  

Paul Hagen, principal aqnalyst serving customer experience professionals – Paul returned to Forrester after eight years of running his own consulting business. He is an authority on cross-enterprise customer experience transformation and organizational structures and Forrester’s Experience-Based Differentiation maturity model.  

Chris Stutzman, principal analyst serving CMO & marketing leadership professionals – With more than 15 years of experience, Chris specializes in transforming brands for the digital era through media-agnostic communications strategy, tech-enabled brand platforms, human insights and organizational creativity. Previously, Chris was vice president of brand strategy and consumer insights for Trone, a full-service marketing agency.  

Joe Stanhope, senior analyst serving customer intelligence professionals – Joe has brought his experience in Web analytics, online testing and targeting, and Web site optimization technologies to Forrester after serving as vice president of platform strategy at Alterian. His research focuses on using marketing intelligence from interactive channels to deliver relevant and engaging online and multichannel customer experiences.  

Andre Kindness, senior analyst serving infrastructure & operations professionals – Andre’s research focuses on mobile network infrastructure, application delivery networking, data center convergence and network infrastructure security. Prior to his role at Forrester, Andre worked for 10 years in the networking industry, including positions with Cisco and HP.  

Brian Lambert, Ph.D., senior analyst serving technology sales enablement professionals – A sought-after speaker on addressing the complexities of today’s selling environment, Brian’s research helps sales teams achieve business outcomes through cross-functional alignment of sales, marketing and portfolio teams. He previously worked with the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD), where he was director of business segmentation.  

Melissa Parrish, analyst serving interactive marketing professionals – Melissa covers social media community, technology and organization, as well as marketing on emerging interactive channels, such as mobile devices and eReaders. Before joining Forrester, she was the director of community strategy at Time Inc., Lifestyle Digital group. Other senior hires include managers and advisors for Forrester Leadership Boards, data and surveys and consulting offerings.

 

Guy Matthews Joins Capacity Magazine

By Calysto | July 22, 2010

Guy Matthews has been named associate editor of the monthly title highlighting wholesale telecoms issues. Guy’s areas of coverage include datacenters, fiber, IT and telecom. Prior to joining Capacity, Guy was a freelance journalist for four years, he has also served as deputy editor at Computer Reseller News.

 

Vocus Acquires HARO

By Calysto | July 20, 2010

Vocus, a provider of on-demand software for public-relations management, has acquired HARO (Help A Reporter Out), a free Web service that links 30,000 reporters and bloggers with 70,000 small businesses and PR professionals. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, however HARO’s ad revenues are nearly $1 million per year. HARO founder Peter Shankman will join Vocus as a vice president.

 

Dan Butcher Promoted at Mobile Marketer

By Calysto | July 20, 2010

Dan Butcher, staff reporter has been promoted to associate editor for Mobile Marketer and Mobile Commerce Daily. Dan covers content, carrier networks, manufacturers, and software and technology. He will continue to focus on those areas as well as report on mobile commerce issues and video content. He will also take on more editing work and help with Mobile Marketer and Mobile Commerce Daily Classic Guides, webinars and conferences such as the Mobile Marketing Summit and the Mobile Commerce Summit (Mcommerce Summit) series. Dan will continue to report to senior editor Giselle Tsirulnik.

 

New Editor Joins Telecom Engine

By Calysto | July 20, 2010

Chris Snow joined Telecom Engine in May 2010. He is primarily responsible for writing the telecom and M2M newsletters. Telecom Engine has plans to host the Cloud Computing Conference to be held in conjunction with this fall’s CTIA Enterprise & Applications™ 2010 in San Francisco.

 

Ron Wilson Leaves EDN

By Calysto | July 20, 2010

Ron Wilson has left his position as the executive editor of the electrical engineering trade publication. He was with EDN since January 2006. Ron has joined the team at EE Times Group as director of content and media.

 

CTIA Partners with The Enterprise Mobility Foundation

By Calysto | July 20, 2010

CTIA and The Enterprise Mobility Foundation – CTIA Enterprise & Applications™ 2010 and The Enterprise Mobility Foundation (EMF), today announced they are partnering this fall to host the Enterprise Mobility Boot Camp, a two-day event for IT and telecom professionals focused on building and managing an enterprise-wide wireless strategy. The Enterprise Mobility Boot Camp will run October 5-6 during the CTIA Enterprise & Applications trade show and conference in San Francisco at Moscone Center West.

 

Matt Kapko Re-Joins RCR Wireless News

By Calysto | June 15, 2010

Matt Kapko, former RCR Wireless News journalist has re-joined the publication as feature editor. In this position, Matt will head up RCR Wireless News’ rapidly expanding special-report coverage as well as provide regular news coverage to RCR Wireless News and its affiliates. Matt has spent the last six years in the technology space as a journalist and editor covering the wireless industry, digital media and marketing. He previously worked at RCR Wireless News, where he covered the mobile entertainment and network technology space and has recently worked as a freelancer for RCR Wireless News.

 

New Additions at Yankee Group

By Calysto | June 15, 2010

Former Arbor co-founder Ted Julian has joined Yankee Group as principal analyst and key member of the network infrastructure team. In this role, Julian will leverage his more than 15 years of industry expertise to augment Yankee Group’s research in the areas of network intelligence and security. Most recently senior VP of marketing at database security startup Applications Security, Julian was also co-founder and chief strategist of pioneering security firm Arbor Networks. Prior to that, he co-founded Internet security startup @stake and served in key network analysis positions at Forrester Research and IDC. At Yankee Group, Julian’s area of coverage will be the Intelligent Network, including: network policy management platforms, Web-based security, managed DNS services, deep packet inspection (DPI), peer-to-peer communications, DNSSec and IPv6.

Telecom marketing and operations software expert Susan McNeice joins Yankee Group as VP of software research and a key member of the Anywhere Network® team. In this role, Susan will leverage her more than 25 years of industry expertise to augment Yankee Group’s research in the areas of telecom marketing, operations and OSS/BSS software strategy. She comes to Yankee Group from Stratecast, a division of Frost

 

Leif Eriksen Joins Gartner

By Calysto | June 15, 2010

Leif Eriksen joined as research director covering applications for mobile and wireless. Prior to joining Gartner, Leif was the founder and managing director at Indusry Insights for one year. He previously served as the director of indusry solutions at Motorola for five years.

 

iSuppli to Acquire Screen Digest

By Calysto | June 15, 2010

Expanding its analysis of the electronics value chain into the fast-growing media market, iSuppli Corp. has entered into an agreement in principle that is expected to lead to the acquisition of Screen Digest, a provider of market research covering film, television, broadband media, mobile media, cinema, home entertainment, TV technology and video games. While the financial terms of the acquisition are not public, Screen Digest and its wholly owned subsidiary Adams Media Research (AMR) would become part of iSuppli. The acquisition is expected to be completed before the end of 2010. “The addition of Screen Digest’s vast range of Intelligence services would enable iSuppli to offer its clients the most complete understanding of the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) value chain in the market research business today,” said Derek Lidow, president and CEO of iSuppli. Headquartered in London, Screen Digest employs a team of more than 45 expert analysts, led by Ben Keen, chief analyst and executive director. The planned acquisition would include AMR (Adams Media Research), which is the U.S. media industry’s key source of market data and financial analysis on the film, television, video game and digital media markets. Founded by industry-renowned analyst Tom Adams in 1993, AMR was acquired by Screen Digest in 2007.

 

Reed Sells Microprocessor Report

By Calysto | June 4, 2010

The Linley Group has purchased Microprocessor Report from Reed Business Information. The company let go of managing editor Leslie Fish and senior editor Max Baron. Publisher Linley Gwenapp and editor-in-chief Jim Turley have been hired. Jim has held editorial positions with Embedded Systems Design and Embedded Technology Journal in the past. 

 

Changes at Yankee Group

By Calysto | June 4, 2010

VP of Next Generation Software Systems Ari Banerjee has left his position at Yankee Group to join Heavy Reading as a senior analyst. His areas of coverage include all aspects of BSS, OSS, SDP, digital commerce, revenue assurance, service assurance, and elements that span both the infrastructure and network software markets, such as data warehousing, analytics, and business intelligence.

Nick Holland has joined Yankee Group as a senior analyst covering mobile commerce, payments and security. Most recently, Nick was senior analyst at Aite Group, where he specialized in security, mobile banking and alternative payments. Prior to Aite Group, he was a senior analyst with Pyramid Research, where he focused on mobile content technologies.

 

Courtney Howard Joins Lightwave

By Calysto | June 4, 2010

Courtney Howard has joined the publication as a senior editor. She covers news for LightwaveOnline.com and the Lightwave Direct e-newsletter, and works on the Lightwave digital magazine. Prior to joining Lightwave, Courtney served as senior editor at Military

 

Nicholas Thompson Leaves Wired

By Calysto | June 4, 2010

Senior editor Nicholas Thompson has left the publication. He has joined the staff at The New Yorker as a senior editor. Replacing Nocholas at Wired will be Bill Wasik, who is leaving his position as a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine in late June. 

 

Jonathan Tombes Leaves Communications Technology

By Calysto | June 4, 2010

Editor Jonathan Tombes has left the publication after more than ten years. His areas of coverage included video, voice, data and wireless technologies. Jonathan has been replaced by Debra Baker who was named editor by Communications Technology. Previously, Debra was the vice president and managing editor at T3i Group LLC. 

 

Samantha Bookman Joins FierceMarkets

By Calysto | June 4, 2010

Samantha Bookman has been named managing editor of FierceCable, FierceIPTV, FierceOnlineVideo, FierceTelecom and FierceVoIP. In her new role, Samantha will assist the Fierce wireline editors–a group that includes Sean Buckley (FierceTelecom), Jim Barthold (FierceCable), Mike Dolan (FierceVoIP), and Jim O’Neill (FierceIPTV and FierceOnlineVideo). She will also contribute some of her own content each week in the form of the occasional article, feature and Editor’s Corner. Prior to joining FierceMarkets, she was the Web editor for Horizon House’s Telecom Engine and Microwave Journal for three years.  

 

VON

By Calysto | May 15, 2010

The two Virgo Publishing sites, VON and xchange, have been merged into one (www.von.com). The site has been completely redesigned and VON/xchange are now one site, one brand, one audience. VON/xchange covers IP telephony and video, unified communications, mobile and wireless, cloud-based communications, wholesale transport, software and applications, optical networking, Ethernet, and cable systems – all from the operator’s point of view.

 

Doug Allen Joins PHONE

By Calysto | May 6, 2010

Doug Allen is the new senior editor for the Virgo Publishing magazine. He will be covering the IT and telecom indirect sales channels. Doug has 12 years experience covering telecommunications as a journalist and analyst. Most recently, he was a senior editor at Telecommunications Magazine (now Telecom Engine), which covers the telecom carrier marketplace. Previously, he was a senior analyst covering business network solutions for Current Analysis where he covered the IP VPN, VoIP, wireless LAN and Carrier Ethernet service markets. “Bringing Doug on board is part of our larger goal to increase and improve the coverage of the converging IT and telecom channels in PHONE ,” said Khali Henderson, group editor for the Telecom Division at Virgo Publishing and editor-in-chief of PHONE . 

 

New Additions at ACG Research

By Calysto Communications | April 14, 2010

Bill Rubino has joined ACG as a senior analyst for the Service Provider Mobile Infrastructure service. Christina Counts has left Synergy Research Group to join ACG Research full time as a qualitative analyst.

 

David Lemelin Joins ABI Research

By Calysto Communications | April 14, 2010

David Lemelin has joined the enterprise communications research team at ABI Research as research director, enterprise communications. David will oversee the firm’s analysis of enterprise markets for VoIP, unified communications, telepresence, contact centers, fixed-mobile convergence, video conferencing, messaging and video surveillance. Prior to joining ABI Research, David was team leader of the Business Markets practice, and lead analyst in the Business IP Communications Service at In-Stat.

 

In-Stat Spins Off from Reed Business Information

By Calysto Communications | April 14, 2010

The market research firm has spun off as an independent company from former owner, Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier. The firm also has received backing from consumer and retail information provider, The NPD Group. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. "As a nimble, independent and reputable market research firm, we see this change as a tremendous opportunity to better serve our customers with industry-leading research focused on the Digital Entertainment and Mobile Internet ecosystems," said Mark Kirstein, In-Stat CEO. "The NPD Group’s backing of, and alliance with, our business will accelerate our ability to execute on our vision and open new strategic opportunities for both companies."

 

Yankee Group Plans Expansion

By Calysto Communications | April 14, 2010

The analyst firm announced an investment plan of $10 million to support the strategic expansion of its research on the impact of global connectivity, what it terms "Anywhere." The firm plans to grow the industry analyst staff and is recruiting a new CEO. Funded by Alta Communications, a private equity firm and the company’s majority shareholder, the investment will serve to double the company’s research team over the next two years. It will also deepen the company’s research and data portfolio to further address the 4G marketplace and augment its analysis of the impact of rising user demand on telecommunications networks. Emily Nagle Green, Yankee Group’s current CEO and president, joined the company in 2005 and will transition to chairman of the board later this year. She will continue in a thought leadership role, including speaking on the impact of global connectivity in support of ANYWHERE.

 

New Hires at ABI Research

By Calysto | April 1, 2010

Neil Strother has joined ABI Research as practice director, heading the new Mobile Marketing Strategies research practice. Neil has held key positions at Forrester Research, JupiterResearch (now Forrester Research), and In-Stat. He also served as managing editor of ZDNet AnchorDesk. His areas of coverage include mobile devices, services, content and mobile advertising.

Fritz Jordan has also joined ABI Research as principal analyst, consumer mobility for the firm’s Mobile Services practice. His areas of coverage include mobile data applications, software and services, consumer trends and behaviors and strategic analysis of the mobile services value chain. He has 10 years experience in the mobile and wireless industry. He recently held the positions of senior product manager, Mobile Consumer Platforms, and strategy manager, Mobile Consumer Markets at Freescale Semiconductor.

Victoria Fodale has joined ABI Research as a senior analyst to its mobile devices research team. In this role, Victoria will analyze the range of handset segments that make up the mobile handset industry, including smartphones, enhanced phones, low-cost and ultra-low-cost handsets, as well as mobile device operating systems, form factors, user interfaces and use cases. Prior to joining ABI Research, she spent five years as senior analyst/manager of Market Data and Intelligence at In-Stat where she focused on networking, broadband and wireless technologies.

 

Karen Field Leaves EDN

By Calysto | April 1, 2010

Karen Field has left her position as vice president and editorial director for EDN, Mechatronics Zone and Test & Measurement World and editor-in-chief of Design News. Karen had been with publisher Reed Business Information since January 1998. A replacement has not yet been named.

 

Jim ONeill Expands to FierceIPTV

By Calysto | April 1, 2010

Jim ONeill, editor of FierceOnlineVideo is expanding his duties to include FierceIPTV due to the departure of Dan OShea. Jim has been on staff at FierceMarkets since 2009, he previously served as a freelance editor in 2007.

 

Sarah Reedy to Join Light Reading

By Calysto | April 1, 2010

Sarah Reedy has left her position as senior editor at Connected Planet. On April 12, she will begin her duties as senior reporter for Light Reading and Light Reading Mobile. Her areas of coverage will include mobile apps and next-gen services, such as the smart grids, meters, M2M, mobile video, home networking and IPTV. Sarah had been with Connected Planet/Telephony since August 2007.

 

Dan OShea Rejoins Connected Planet

By Calysto | April 1, 2010

Dan OShea has left his position as senior editor at FierceTelecom in order to rejoin the team at Connected Planet starting today. He had been with FierceTelecom since July 2007. Dan previously worked at Penton Media for more than 14 years holding a variety of positions, most recently editor-in-chief of Telephony Magazine, now known as Connected Planet. In his new position, Dan will be blogging and writing a weekly column, occasional news analysis and one feature per month. His areas of coverage will include IPTV, video, broadband-to-the-home and other residential services. His replacement has not yet been announced.

 

Eric Lai Leaves Computer World

By Calysto Communications | March 16, 2010

Eric Lai has left his position as senior reporter, where he covered Microsoft, Microsoft applications and Linux. He had been with the magazine since 2006. Eric formerly wrote the now defunct blog Regarding Redmond. Prior to joining Computerworld, he was a reporter for the East Bay Business Times, which is no longer in publication.

 

Marin Perez Leaves InformationWeek

By Calysto Communications | March 16, 2010

Marin Perez has left his position as associate editor at InformationWeek. His areas of coverage included smartphones and enterprise mobility. He had been with the publication since May 2008. Marin is now an editor at IntoMoble.com covering smartphones.

 

Total Telecom Ceases Print Production

By Calysto Communications | March 16, 2010

The 30 year-old Terrapinn Holdings Ltd.-owned publication has ceased production of its print magazine. Totaltele.com will continue to deliver breaking news to expert analysis for the global communications industry. The company also has a new digital product in the pipeline with more details to follow. Due to this decision, Anne Morris, Total Telecom editor, was laid off. She had been with the publication since 2000. She is now working as a freelance writer, editor and translator.

 

New Editor at Telecom Engine

By Calysto Communications | March 16, 2010

Jared Bazzy has stepped into the role of head of editorial at the publication. As the executive editor of the Telecommunications Media Group at Horizon House, Jared has replaced Beth Nicholson who left the publication in January. Before adding Editor-in-Chief to his position, Jared served as Vice President of Electronic Media at Horizon House, the publisher of Telecommunications Magazine for the past 12 years.

 

3 New Hires at Yankee Group

By Calysto Communications | March 16, 2010

Yankee Group has added three new members to its team. Analyst Terry Cudmore, is part of Yankee Groups Anywhere Network team. Formerly with FX and Fox Reality Channel, he specializes in network-based media/content delivery systems and Anywhere media business models. Analyst Dmitriy Molchanov is a member of the Anywhere Consumer team. Formerly with Marketing and Planning Systems (MaPS), he specializes in connected devices and contributes his expertise to Yankee Groups consumer surveys and forecasts. Analyst Kuba Stolarski is a member of the Anywhere Network team. Formerly with IDC, he specializes in the OSS/BSS space, including service management, network intelligence and deep packet inspection (DPI).

 

New Column at Forbes.com

By Calysto Communications | March 4, 2010

David Carr has been named business intelligence columnist at Forbes.com. His new column will focus on information technology issues for small to mid-size business. He previously served as a technology editor at Baseline magazine.

 

What’s New in Mobile Closes

By Calysto Communications | March 4, 2010

The mobile industry website devoted to new product information has ceased publication after 14 months with no revenue. Former editor Laurence Marchini is now doing freelance work both in the editorial and PR spheres covering all high-tech and industrial disciplines.

 

Jackie Noblett Leaves Mass High Tech

By Calysto Communications | March 4, 2010

Jackie Noblett has left her positions with the Boston Business Journal and Mass High Tech. She joined Boston Business Journal in November 2007 and covered manufacturing, energy, telecommunications, the technology industry and networking in Massachusetts as a reporter. She joined Mass High Tech in June 2009 as a staff writer and covered alternative energy, clean technology, defense, robotics and public technology companies. There is not yet a replacement for her posts.

 

EE Times Group Launches Embedded Internet Design

By Calysto Communications | March 4, 2010

United Business Media’s EE Times Group has launched a new website called Embedded Internet Design found at www.embeddedinternetdesign.com. The site aims to provide resources and networking opportunities for the design engineers creating these cutting-edge technologies. The site specifically targets engineers in the automotive, digital home, industrial control, medical and wireless industries. Although the site is sponsored solely by Intel Corp., it is editorially independent.

 

Randall C. Kennedy Fired from InfoWorld

By Calysto Communications | March 4, 2010

Randall C. Kennedy, blogger for Enterprise Desktop and InfoWorld, was fired for misrepresenting himself as the CTO of a software analysis company who had been sourced in a number of stories published on the website. There is no word yet on a replacement.

 

John Fontana Leaves Network World

By Calysto Communications | March 4, 2010

Senior editor John Fontana has left Network World. John has covered IT since 1996. No replacement has been announced for his position. Senior editor Denise Dubie will take over all Microsoft-related coverage.

 

Ed Gubbins Joins NPRG

By Calysto Communications | March 4, 2010

Research and consulting firm NPRG announced that Ed Gubbins, former executive editor for Telephony magazine, now known as Connected Planet, has joined the firm as a senior analyst. In this role, Ed will build on the extensive range of work he performed over the past decade at Telephony, and he will be involved in the firms research programs covering business communications markets, emerging IP services and applications of new technologies. Ed has more than a decade of experience researching and writing about the telecommunications industry. At Telephony and Connected Planet, he examined a wide variety of topics, from broadband and business telecom services and providers to new communications technology innovations and regulatory matters.

 

Christopher Nicoll Joins Yankee Group

By Calysto Communications | March 4, 2010

Christopher Nicoll, former VP of Telecom Infrastructure at Current Analysis, has joined Yankee Group as a Distinguished Research Fellow. Chris left Current Analysis to work with Alcatel-Lucent for four years as Director of Strategic Marketing and has been consulting for the past two years. In his new position with Yankee Group, Chris is overseeing the 4G, Femto, WiMax and Service Provider strategies analysis and will serve as a key member of the companys Research Council. Yankee Group has also added three additional new hires to the team; we will keep you updated as we uncover more information.

 

New Blogger at WSJ

By Calysto Communications | February 23, 2010

Jennifer Valentino-Devries will join the blog Digits as a blogger covering technology. She previously served as an editor for general news at The Wall Street Journal Online.

 

More Layoffs at Gizmodo

By Calysto Communications | February 23, 2010

A round of layoffs at the technology blog have resulted in job losses for contributing editors Dan Nosowitz, Chris Mascari and Sean Fallon. Sean continues to serve as the editor for the blogs Nerd Approved and Fashionably Geek.

 

Daniel Dumas Promoted at Wired

By Calysto Communications | February 23, 2010

Associate editor Daniel Dumas has been promoted to reviews editor at Wired.com. In this position, he will continue to cover gear and gadgets. There will be no replacement for the associate editor position.

 

Reed Sells EDN

By Calysto Communications | February 23, 2010

Canon Communications LLC, a Los Angeles-based B2B publisher and event organizer, has acquired four media brands focused on the U.S. advanced design engineering sector, from Reed Business Information-US. The brands are: Electronic Design News (EDN), Design News, Test & Measurement World and Packaging Digest. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

 

Chris Harnick Leaves Mobile Marketer

By Calysto Communications | February 23, 2010

Editorial assistant Chris Harnick has left his post at Mobile Marketer and Mobile Commerce Daily. Rimma Kats has been brought in to replace him as editorial assistant. Her areas of coverage are content, gaming, media, television, music and social networks.

 

Anne Veigle Leaves Communications Daily

By Calysto Communications | February 23, 2010

Managing editor Anne Veigle has left the Warren Communications News-owned publication. She previously served as a senior editor for the publication. Prior to joining Communications Daily, Anne worked at Consumer Electronics Daily, FCC Report and Satellite Week. She is not expected to be replaced; assistant editor Adam Bender has taken on some of Annes responsibilities.

 

Cara Sievers Leaves Virgo

By Calysto Communications | February 23, 2010

Cara Sievers will be leaving the organization on February 26, 2010. She works as associate editor for Phone+, Billing & OSS World, VON and xchange. Caras areas of coverage include distribution channels, conferencing, telecom security and VoIP. No replacement has been named at this time.

 

Beth Nicholson Leaves Telecom Engine

By Calysto Communications | February 23, 2010

Senior Content Manager, Beth Nicholson has left her position at Telecom Engine. She had only been with the publication for five months. She is now an events manager at Quantros Inc., a software and services provider for the healthcare industry. No replacement has been named; in the meantime website editor Samantha Bookman has taken over some of Beths responsibilities.

 

The Launch of RCR Research

By Calysto Communications | February 23, 2010

RCR Wireless News and market strategy consultancy, iGR have partnered to create RCR Research. The service provides in-depth primary market research, analysis and forecasts on a variety of wireless and mobile, technology and media topics. Areas of coverage for RCR Research include: smart Devices, 3G/4G networks, apps & content, the wireless cloud and mobile security. Users can purchase individual briefs and reports or take advantage of RCR Research Intelligence Area Subscriptions. RCR Research analysts include iGR founder and president, Iain Gillott, vice president, Matthew Vartabedian and managing analyst, Bob Lockhart.

 

Laura Blackwell Promoted at PCWorld

By Calysto Communications | February 16, 2010

Contributing editor Laura Blackwell has been named downloads editor for PCWorld. She will continue to pen her column, Download This, which covers downloadable software. She also has served as an associate editor and editorial coordinator at the publication. Laura has been with PCWorld since 2001.

 

Marc Flores Joins MobileCrunch

By Calysto Communications | February 16, 2010

Blogger Marc Flores has joined the editorial staff to focus on mobile technology, including mobile phones, services and applications. Marc previously wrote for Boy Genius Report and True/Slant.

 

Daniel Brusilovsky Let Go from TechCrunch

By Calysto Communications | February 16, 2010

Writer, Daniel Brusilovsky was let go from the technology blog because of ethical concerns after he reportedly accepted compensation for his blog posts. Daniel covered the technology industry for the site. No replacement has been named.

 

Philippe Winthrop Leaves Strategy Analytics

By Calysto Communications | February 16, 2010

Philippe Winthrop has left his position as director of the research firm. He held this position since July 2008. Philippe will continue to write the Enterprise Mobility Matters blog, which is a source of information on mobile application integration, mobile computers and other enterprise mobility devices and issues. His replacement has not been named.

 

Unstrung Becomes Light Reading Mobile

By Calysto Communications | February 16, 2010

Light Reading has changed the name of mobile news site, Unstrung to Light Reading Mobile. The sites newsletters, Unstrung Daily and Unstrung Weekly, will now be called Light Reading Mobile Daily and Light Reading Mobile Weekly.

 

The Launch of FierceCable

By Calysto Communications | February 16, 2010

 FierceMarkets is set to launch FierceCable March 1, 2010. It will be a business and technology-focused publication for cable service providers that will cover TV Everywhere, RF Over Glass (RFoG), Bandwidth Usage Metering, Net Neurality, DOCSIS 3.0, M&A, and other hot topics. Jim Barthold will become the first editor of FierceCable. He has previously covered the cable industry for Communications Technology, Telephony, Broadband Gear Report, and CED.

 

Abner Germanow Leaves IDC

By Calysto Communications | February 8, 2010

Abner Germanow has left his position as Director of IDC’s Enterprise Communications Infrastructure services to join Juniper Networks as the Director, Enterprise Marketing. Abner, had been with IDC for a total of 10 years covering enterprise networks and communications infrastructure. No replacement has been named.

 

Sarah Reedy Promoted at Connected Planet

By Calysto Communications | February 8, 2010

Sarah Reedy has been promoted from associate news editor to senior editor primarily covering IPTV and video. She has been with the publication since August 2007.

 

Ed Gubbins Leaves Connected Planet

By Calysto Communications | February 8, 2010

Ed Gubbins has left his position as executive news editor at Connected Planet for research and consulting firm New Paradigm Resources Group, Inc. (NPRG) where he will serve as a senior analyst. Rich Karpinski has taken over Ed’s duties as News Editor until a replacement is found. The publication is also leveraging industry icons, including former Telephony Editor Joan Engebretson, for both online and print coverage.

 

SUPERCOMM Cancelled

By Calysto Communications | February 8, 2010

The one-time largest telecommunications trade show has been cancelled for 2010. Expocomm events will not renew its contract to manage the show, effectively shelving the event for 2010 and probably indefinitely. The show had been planned for October 26-28, 2010 in Chicago, IL.

The show had been having problems for a number of years including struggling to attract attendees; the show has also undergone several ownership and name changes. In 2009, the show was originally scheduled for June and was pushed back until October, reportedly in hopes of cashing in broadband stimulus funding. Industry insiders believe that SUPERCOMM has been upstaged by other wireless and telecom shows such as CTIA and CES.

The decision was made by co-owning SUPERCOMM associations, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and United States Telecom Association (USTelecom). We expect that this is the true end of SUPERCOMM. Without the co-owned event, each association will be on their own again as far as revenue-generation (SUPERCOMM previously was the biggest revenue generator for each association). This could mean independent events or other profit generating ideas.

 

Channel Partners Conference to Colocate with SMB Nation

By Calysto Communications | February 3, 2010

Virgo Publishing and SMB Nation, a small and medium business technology partner community portal, announced a partnership to colocate their respective events for voice and data communications solutions providers. Under the agreement, the Spring 2010 Channel Partners Conference & Expo and SMB Nation’s 2010 VoIP Workshop will be held concurrently March 1-3 at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. The events will conduct separate conferences with a joint exhibit hall, featuring suppliers of voice and data communications products and services and attracting more than 3,000 attendees. As a bonus, full conference attendees will be able to participate in the education programming for both events at no additional charge.

 

Howard Mittman Promoted at Wired

By Calysto Communications | February 3, 2010

Publisher Howard Mittman has been promoted to vice president, he will take on the responsibilities of this role in addition to his current duties as publisher. Howard has served as publisher or Wired since February 2009. Before that, he served as associate publisher. Prior to joining Wired, Howard worked in the advertising departments of Popular Science and the now-defunct Mutual Funds.

 

CNET Launches New Blog

By Calysto Communications | February 3, 2010

Molly Rants, a new blog that offers commentary on the latest products and news in technology and consumer electronics is written by blogger Molly Wood. She finds solutions and provides constructive criticism for the technology world.

 

Changes at eWeek

By Calysto Communications | February 3, 2010

Jim Rapoza has left his position as chief technology analyst. Jim also wrote the column Tech Directions and contributed to the blogs Emerging Technologies and Comment Here during his tenure with eWeek. No replacement has been named.

 

MMA Restructures

By Calysto Communications | February 3, 2010

The Mobile Marketing Association announced a plan to restructure its four operating regions–Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and North America, into business units, expanding the roles and responsibilities of each region’s managing director to better address local market needs and guarantee global scalability. Managing directors will strive to foster strong member communities, form new in-country local councils and oversee MMA Forum events in addition to monitoring adherence to the organization’s Consumer Best Practices guidelines. iLoop Mobile founder Michael Becker will stepped down from MMAs board of directors to assume the role of North American managing director. He will be working alongside Paul Berney in EMEA and Rohit Dadwal in APAC–the managing directors will report to interim MMA CEO Federico Pisani Massamormile. Previously, the associations CEO also managed its North American operations. In this new structure, the role of CEO and manager of North America are separate. MMA continues to search for a new CEO.

 

Gartner Acquires Burton Group

By Calysto Communications | January 28, 2010

Information-technology research company Gartner Inc. acquired Burton Group for approximately $56 million in cash. Burton Group is a research and advisory services firm that focuses on providing advice to IT professionals. Burton Group has about 41 research analysts, 40 sales and client service associates, and projected 2009 revenue of $30 million. Gartner hopes that this purchase will expand its product and service offerings and increase IT research-market opportunities.

 

Rita Chang Leaves Advertising Age

By Calysto Communications | January 28, 2010

Reporter Rita Chang has left her position at Advertising Age magazine. Her areas of coverage included wireless carriers, mobile marketing and gaming. Her replacement has not been named.

 

New Analyst at Netbanker

By Calysto Communications | January 28, 2010

Andrew Dolbeck has joined the research firm as an analyst. He has more than seven years of business writing, analysis and reporting experience, including coverage of mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and business and industry valuations. Most recently, he was editor of Corporate Growth Report, published by NVST. Andrew will cover mobile banking for Netbanker. He will be a frequent contributor to the Netbanker blog and the Online Banking Report newsletter. He will also contribute to the new Finovate blog, debuting later this month.

 

New Editorial Director at TechTarget

By Calysto Communications | January 28, 2010

Scot Petersen has been named the editorial director for CIO/IT strategy media at TechTarget. He will oversee the e-newsletter IT/Business Strategies and the Web sites SearchCIO.com and SearchCIO-Midmarket.com. Scot is replacing Anne McCrory, who left the company. Anne had been with TechTarget since 2004.

 

GigaOM’s New Senior Writer

By Calysto Communications | January 28, 2010

Mathew Ingram has joined the tech blog as a senior writer. Before joining GigaOM, Mathew was the communities editor for The Globe and Mail, he had been there for more than a decade. He plans to continue to maintain the Mathew Ingram Blog.

 

Berge Ayvazian Joins Heavy Reading

By Calysto Communications | January 28, 2010

Berge Ayvazian has joined Heavy Reading as a senior consultant. His areas of coverage will include mobile broadband, the convergence of broadband and mobility and the business strategies of mobile broadband technology and service providers. Before joining Heavy Reading, Berge worked as a senior telecommunications industry analyst and strategy consultant with Yankee Group for more than 20 years.

 

2010 VON Conference Cancelled

By Calysto Communications | January 28, 2010

Virgo Publishing has cancelled the June 2010 VON Conference & Expo but has retained nearly all of the VON staff to provide additional focus to the growing online properties of VON and xchange. The traditional conference/tradeshow format is not the long-term successful approach, said Mike Saxby, group publisher, Telecom Division, Virgo Publishing, so Virgo has made the decision to look into new approaches for accomplishing the same goals more effectively. "We weren’t getting the kind of traction we wanted for the 2010 event," Saxby said. "We don’t want to put our customers at risk and decided that canceling the event for 2010 was the right thing to do.” At this point, Virgo is focused on the online properties and exploring possibilities within the spectrum of conference and virtual events.

 

Kate Galbraith Laid Off from NY Times

By Calysto Communications | January 15, 2010

Kate Galbraith was laid off from her position as a business reporter covering alternative energy and green technology. She also wrote for the blog Green Inc. Kate had been with the publication since June 2008.

 

Rich Jaroslovsky Expands Technology Column to Bloomberg BusinessWeek

By Calysto Communications | January 15, 2010

Technology columnist Rich Jaroslovsky is expanding his technology column to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The change is part of the recent acquisition of the magazine by Bloomberg News. He has been a technology columnist for the news service since May. Prior to this, he was an executive editor overseeing global government and economics. He joined Bloomberg News in 2004.

 

Michael Hickins Leaves InformationWeek’s Digital Life Weblog

By Calysto Communications | January 15, 2010

Michael Hickins has left InformationWeek’s Digital Life Weblog and BNET.com. Michael served as a technology writer for BNET’s Industries section and covered consumer electronics and technology for Weblog. Prior to joining InformationWeek, he was the executive editor, news, for eWeek and Channel Insider, as well as senior editor at internetnews.com. No replacement has been named.

 

TechWeb Retires BMighty

By Calysto Communications | January 15, 2010

United Business Media’s TechWeb is retiring the 2.5 year-old BMighty brand and will address the small and midsize business market through InformationWeek SMB. The name change coincides with a change in the URL from bmighty.com to bMighty.informationweek.com. The name and URL changes are the first steps in an ongoing integration between the two brands. Until recently, there was no sharing of content between BMighty andInformationWeek.com, even though some InformationWeek technology content is of interest to SMBs. Frederic Paul is the publisher and editor-in-chief of InformationWeek SMB.

 

Samara Lynn Leaves Everything Channel

By Calysto Communications | January 15, 2010

Technical editor Samara Lynn has left Everything Channel to take a position as a business and networking analyst at PCMag.com. Her areas of coverage included the latest trends in attacks, malware and suspicious behavior throughout the global web, data management, security and virtualization. Samara joined Everything Channel in February 2008 as a technical editor to the CMP Channel Test Center. Her replacement has not yet been named.

 

Tole Hart Laid Off from Gartner

By Calysto Communications | January 15, 2010

Tole Hart has been laid off from the analyst firm. Tole was a research director for the Consumer Services group of the communications area of Gartner Technology & Service Provider research. His areas of coverage included mobile voice and data trends, mobile advertising, mobile VoIP, mobile applications and mobile Web, SMS campaigns, context-aware computing, mobile portals, mobile virtual network operations (MVNOs) and mobile entertainment. He had been with Gartner for 13 years. Prior to joining Gartner, Tole worked for Northern Business Information (NBI) as a senior analyst covering the wireless industry. He also worked at Frost & Sullivan as a profiles analyst. Tole is currently working as an independent wireless consultant. From what we’ve heard, there have been additional layoffs at Gartner; we will keep you updated as we continue to research the situation. Should you know of any additional information, please forward it to me at lborgstede@calsyto.com.

 

Matthew Vartabedian Promoted at iGR

By Calysto Communications | January 15, 2010

Matthew Vartabedian has been promoted to the position of Vice President. He previously served as a research director for the Enterprise Wireless and Mobile flexible subscription service. Matt joined iGR in November 2002 as a senior analyst. Prior to joining iGR, Matt was senior editor with Telecom Business.

 

MMA’s CEO Steps Down

By Calysto Communications | December 10, 2009

 The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) announced that its global CEO and president, Mike Wehrs, will resign effective 12/31/09. After leading the association for the past year, Mike will now take on the role of special advisor to the MMA Global Executive Committee until June 30, 2010, to ensure a smooth transition. MMA Global Chairman Federico Pisani Massamormile will serve as interim CEO. The MMA Board will begin an immediate search for a new leader, which will be managed by a recruiting committee comprised of board members.

 

Changes at Forrester Research

By Calysto Communications | December 8, 2009

 Nigel Fenwick has joined the analyst firm as a vice president covering CIO issues. His research focuses on the IT to BT transformation, social media and technology trends and their impact on competitive advantage. Augie “August” Ray has joined the firm as a senior analyst covering social computing. Principal analyst Paul Roehrig is leaving the firm for a position at Cognizant. His areas of coverage included IT services, infrastructure outsourcing and vendor management.

 

TechBites.com Publishes Two New Newsletters

By Calysto Communications | December 8, 2009

 The online community newly released two newsletters for the RF and wireless communities. The newsletters focus on the tools, trends, technologies and products that enable you to get your current and future RF and wireless designs done. Sign up at www.TechBites.com.

 

Joanna Stern Leaves Gizmodo

By Calysto Communications | December 8, 2009

 Contributing editor Joanna Stern has exited the publication. Joanna covered mobile technology news. She joined Gizmodo in August 2009, and she previously served as a news editor for LAPTOP. No replacement has been named.

 

Larry Hooper Exits CRN

By Calysto Communications | December 8, 2009

 Larry Hooper has left his position at CRN. He had served as the publication’s vice president and online editor. Larry joined the staff in August 2000 and, prior to that, served as the editorial director of the now-defunct IT Services Business Report. He has been involved with technology and business journalism for 15 years at a variety of publications in Silicon Valley, Chicago and New York.

 

Eve Griliches Joins SynergyACG

By Calysto Communications | December 8, 2009

 Former director at IDC, Eve Griliches, has signed on as a managing partner at SynergyACG covering telecommunications equipment.

 

GigaOM Update

By Calysto Communications | December 8, 2009

 Liz Gannes has joined the technology blog as a senior writer. She previously served as an editor for the GigaOM network owned blog NewTeeVee, and remains an editor-at-large for the site. Stacey Higginbotham has been promoted from staff writer to senior writer at GigaOM. She also contributes to the NewTeeVee and Earth2Tech blogs.

 

Gartner Acquires AMR Research

By Calysto Communications | December 8, 2009

 AMR Research was acquired by Gartner for $64m in an effort to expand research coverage, consulting, events and other services, acquire their client base and acquire their sales representatives. AMR is primarily focused on ERP/enterprise applications, manufacturing, supply chain, retail and sourcing. L. Frank Kenney, research director covering marketing and advertising technology trends has left for a position at Ipswitch. No replacement has been named.