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Yankee Group – Principal Analyst, Vince Vittore is no longer at Yankee. He’s taken a position as Manager, Analyst Relations at Cisco Systems. Vince had been with Yankee Group since April 2006. Before that, he was the Executive Editor of the now defunct Telephony magazine for 9 years.

Bloomberg News – Ragnhild Kjetland is no longer a reporter at the publication. His areas of coverage included telecommunications, technology, software, semiconductors, broadcasters and game companies for the news service. Prior to Bloomberg, Ragnhild was a banking reporter for Dow Jones Newswires. A replacement has not yet been named. Bloomberg has a total reach of 13 million views in print and online.

PCMag.com– Fahmida Rashid has joined PCMag.com as an analyst covering computer networking and security. She recently left the staff of eWeek, where she was most recently a senior writer for the publication. Fahmida had also previously worked for CRN and VARBusiness. PCMag.com has 11.6 million unique monthly visitors.

Mashable – Emily Price has joined Mashable as a tech reporter covering mobile apps. Previously, she was a mobile editor for Tecca and as a senior editor for TechnoBuffalo. She has also written for a several other publications, including PCWorld, Reuters, Macworld and USA Today. Mashable receives 14 million unique monthly visitors.

Synergy Research Group – As part of the strategic alliance between Synergy Research Group and TeleGeography, John Dinsdale has been appointed Managing Director of Synergy Research. He is responsible for operations, sales and marketing, in addition to leading Synergy’s research in the mobile and IPTV/video markets. He also remains as Executive Director for PriMetrica, TeleGeography’s parent […]

Welcome to PR Vibes™, created by Calysto Communications to provide you with key insights into the publications and events in the communications industry. Today, we’re featuring a short interview with John Dix, editor in chief, Network World. Enjoy!   Can you tell us about Network World’s technology/market focus?   Our goal at Network World is to synthesize […]

Joe McGarvey, Principal Analyst has departed from Current Analysis as of Friday. Joe had been with the analyst firm since December 2002 covering the carrier-based IP services infrastructure market. Prior to joining Current Analysis, Joe was executive editor of The Net Economy, a Ziff Davis publication focused on the telecommunications space. Prior to The Net Economy, […]

Penton Media – The publisher has named David Kieselstein as CEO. He was previously CEO of TNS North America, a custom research division of WPP. Kieselstein succeeds Sharon Rowlands, who left Penton to join Altegrity as CEO on Nov. 1. Kieselstein had previously led Dun & Bradstreet’s small-business division. Prior to that, he had spent the […]

Yes, we did call this one last year. The 4G World trade show and exposition has been sold to UBM plc, a global media company. The sale of the stand-alone business unit allows Yankee Group to focus exclusively on research and advisory services, as well as concentrate more investment into new products. According to UBM’s […]

Internet Pioneer Bob Metcalfe at ITEXPO West’s StartupCamp Event While ITEXPO is taking place in Miami this week, we thought we’d share with you a speech given by Internet pioneer Dr. Robert (Bob) M. Metcalfe at StartupCamp during last fall’s ITEXPO. During his presentation, Dr. Metcalfe reminisced about Steve Jobs, who approached him about designing […]