Category: Media Vibes

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]