Category: Media Vibes

Matthew Vartabedian Promoted at iGR

Matthew Vartabedian has been promoted to the position of Vice President. He previously served as a research director for the Enterprise Wireless and Mobile flexible subscription service. Matt joined iGR in November 2002 as a senior analyst. Prior to joining iGR, Matt was senior editor with Telecom Business.

Kate Galbraith Laid Off from NY Times

Kate Galbraith was laid off from her position as a business reporter covering alternative energy and green technology. She also wrote for the blog Green Inc. Kate had been with the publication since June 2008.

Rich Jaroslovsky Expands Technology Column to Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Technology columnist Rich Jaroslovsky is expanding his technology column to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The change is part of the recent acquisition of the magazine by Bloomberg News. He has been a technology columnist for the news service since May. Prior to this, he was an executive editor overseeing global government and economics. He joined Bloomberg News […]

Michael Hickins Leaves InformationWeek's Digital Life Weblog

Michael Hickins has left InformationWeek’s Digital Life Weblog and BNET.com. Michael served as a technology writer for BNET’s Industries section and covered consumer electronics and technology for Weblog. Prior to joining InformationWeek, he was the executive editor, news, for eWeek and Channel Insider, as well as senior editor at internetnews.com. No replacement has been named.

TechWeb Retires BMighty

United Business Media’s TechWeb is retiring the 2.5 year-old BMighty brand and will address the small and midsize business market through InformationWeek SMB. The name change coincides with a change in the URL from bmighty.com to bMighty.informationweek.com. The name and URL changes are the first steps in an ongoing integration between the two brands. Until […]

Samara Lynn Leaves Everything Channel

Technical editor Samara Lynn has left Everything Channel to take a position as a business and networking analyst at PCMag.com. Her areas of coverage included the latest trends in attacks, malware and suspicious behavior throughout the global web, data management, security and virtualization. Samara joined Everything Channel in February 2008 as a technical editor to […]

Tole Hart Laid Off from Gartner

Tole Hart has been laid off from the analyst firm. Tole was a research director for the Consumer Services group of the communications area of Gartner Technology & Service Provider research. His areas of coverage included mobile voice and data trends, mobile advertising, mobile VoIP, mobile applications and mobile Web, SMS campaigns, context-aware computing, mobile […]

MMA’s CEO Steps Down

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) announced that its global CEO and president, Mike Wehrs, will resign effective 12/31/09. After leading the association for the past year, Mike will now take on the role of special advisor to the MMA Global Executive Committee until June 30, 2010, to ensure a smooth transition. MMA Global Chairman Federico […]

Changes at Forrester Research

Nigel Fenwick has joined the analyst firm as a vice president covering CIO issues. His research focuses on the IT to BT transformation, social media and technology trends and their impact on competitive advantage. Augie “August” Ray has joined the firm as a senior analyst covering social computing. Principal analyst Paul Roehrig is leaving the […]

TechBites.com Publishes Two New Newsletters

The online community newly released two newsletters for the RF and wireless communities. The newsletters focus on the tools, trends, technologies and products that enable you to get your current and future RF and wireless designs done. Sign up at www.TechBites.com.

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