Category: Media Vibes

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 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.

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.

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 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 […]

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 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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]