Category: Blog Post

Rural Telecom Industry Meeting & EXPO 2013 Orlando, FL Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel February 4-5, 2013 Attendees: 2,500 Exhibitors: 116 Calysto Overview 2013 was the inaugural year for the Rural Telecom Industry Meeting & Expo – formerly the annual meeting of the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association, or NTCA. This year’s event was hosted jointly […]

ITEXPO East Miami, FL Miami Beach Convention Center January 29 – February 1, 2013 Calysto Overview Now in its 13th year, ITEXPO East, a communications and technology event for enterprise, government and SMB end-users, resellers, service providers, manufacturers and developers welcomed thousands of professionals to the Miami Beach Convention Center for its four-day conference and […]

The PR business model is changing—a lot. That’s no secret. There are fewer industry publications, which means fewer traditional media opportunities.  But there also are a lot more content creators out there—some legit and some… well, not so legit. Bottom line—there are a lot more ways for people in the industry to learn about what’s […]

Bloomberg News: Elizabeth Wasserman has joined Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C., as technology regulations editor. Previously, she served as  the technology editor for POLITICO. Before POLITICO, she worked for publications such as The Post Standard, the Orlando Sentinel, Long Island’s Newsday, and the San Jose Mercury News. In Wasserman’s goodbye note to her readers, she […]

Don’t look now, but tradeshow season is here again. Are you ready? If not, no worries! Calysto’s got you covered. Today, we’re going to be talking about your social media strategy surrounding a show. Specifically, we’ll discuss how you can use social media to get more bang for your tradeshow buck – and also what not […]

Yes, we know most of you have heard this news by now. But we spoke with Terry Waters, CEO of Yankee Group, and Chris Hill, CMO of 451 Group, and got an exclusive perspective. The facts The 451 Group, the corporate parent of 451 Research and Uptime Institute, acquired 40-year old communications research, data and advisory firm Yankee Group from private […]

CNET Writer Resigns Over Controversy CNET reporter Greg Sandoval left CNET after CNET reportedly was forced by parent company CBS to remove the Dish Network’s Hopper set-top box from its “Best of CES” awards due to ongoing litigation between the two companies. Sandoval posted this explanation on Twitter: “I no longer have confidence that CBS […]

Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, CA November 5-8, 2012 Attendance: 6,500 Exhibitors: 120 Media and Analysts: 46 Calysto Overview Two unstoppable enterprise IT trends, Cloud Computing and Big Data, converged at the 11th Cloud Expo event in Santa Clara. Organized by SYS-CON Media, the 11th Cloud Expo was held in Santa Clara’s Convention Center; […]

April 3 – 4, 2012  Moscone Center West San Francisco, CA  Attendees:  10,000 est Exhibitors:  180+ Calysto Overview The ad: Tech digital marketing conference series produced by dmg :: events are held in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, New Delhi, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and London. The events take a strategic approach to online marketing, covering […]

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 […]