Category: Media Vibes

Light Reading – Carol Wilson has been appointed Editor-at-Large at UBM’s Light Reading. She previously joined the publication in 2009 as Chief Editor of Events, until March 2013 when she left to join The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) as an editor. Carol’s return is a part of a major overhaul going on at Light Reading as it prepares to […]

TMCnet – Doug Barney has been named Editor at Large. He brings nearly 30 years of experience as a technology journalist, with extensive knowledge of the networking, virtualization, and managed services industries. He most recently served as Vice President and Editorial Director of 1105 Media, where he launched Redmond, Redmond Channel Partner and Redmond Developer News. […]

Light Reading/Heavy Reading – United Business Media has appointed Ray Le Maistre as editor-in-chief at Light Reading. His areas of coverage include: international news, test and measurement, service provider IT (SPIT), including OSS, BSS, SDPs, cloud enablement and optical networking equipment. Ray, formerly the publication’s International Managing Editor, will now be responsible for overseeing Light […]

Yankee Group – Nick Holland is leaving his position as Principal Analyst, Mobile Money Strategies at Yankee Group. Nick had been with the analyst firm since June 2010, researching key trends in the evolution of mobile payments and the greater value proposition of mobile as a conduit between online and offline domains. His specific areas […]

Time – Time Warner announced that it will spin off its magazine unit into a separate, publicly traded company by the end of the year. Investors had come to see the magazine business as a drag on revenues and profits and want to focus on the company’s TV networks. Analysts have estimated that the Time […]

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 […]

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 […]

Yankee Group – Gigi Wang is out as Chief Research Officer of Yankee Group, a role that she has held since February 2011. In this role, she lead Yankee Group’s team of analysts in defining the overall direction of research content for the firm. Gene Signorini, Vice President, Mobility Research has been promoted to SVP and […]

New York Javits Convention Center November 14 -15, 2012 Attendance: 6,077 Exhibitors: 300+ Media and analysts: 52 Calysto Overview The 11th annual SATCON conference in New York City was held just two weeks after super storm Sandy hit the New York tri-state area, and there was some concern about whether the lingering effects of the […]