Category: Media Vibes

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.

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 […]

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 Designlinefrom 2006-2009.

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.