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Jason Meyers Named Executive Editor of Entrepreneur Magazine

Jason Meyers has been named Executive Editor of Entrepreneur Magazine, where he has been Editor-at-Large since early 2009. In his new role, Meyers is responsible for all aspects of editorial content development for the publication. He is also the principal of Live Concepts, a media consultancy and event production company. Meyers has been Director of Conferences for the […]

Teresa Mastrangelo Joins Infonetics

Teresa Mastrangelo has joined Infonetics as Directing Analyst, Cable, Satellite, and IPTV Video. Prior to joining Infonetics, Teresa founded market research firm The Windsor Oaks Group, where she was Principal Analyst and Director of Research and authored the popular broadbandtrendsand SmartGridTrends research services. Both the broadbandtrends and SmartGridTrends services will be discontinued after December 31, 2010.

SF Chronicle Hires New Tech Reporter

Casey Newton has been brought on as a technology reporter. He covers mobile devices and Apple and also blogs for The Tech Chronicles. He was previously a reporter for The Arizona Republic and covered topics such as state government and Phoenix city hall.

Tim Hills to Retire from Light Reading

Tim Hills, freelance telecommunications writer and journalist and Analyst at Large for Heavy Reading will be retiring at the end of the year. Over the past 30 years, Tim has held analyst and editorial position with a number of companies in the communications industry. These have included: Senior Analyst at Analysys Research, Editor of Communications International and Executive Editor […]

Interview Q&A with Grant Seiffert, president of the Telecommunications Industry Association

Welcome to PR Vibes™, created by Calysto Communications to provide you with key insights into the publications and events in the telecommunications industry. The telecom market is changing rapidly, and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is changing right along with it. In February of this year, TIA decided to launch a new event called TIA […]

Sam Gustin Joins Wired

Sam Gustin has joined the team at Wired, where he serves as a staff writer for the publication based in New York. He comes from AOL’s DailyFinance, where he most recently served as a technology writer since August 2009.

Elizabeth Herrell Joins Constellation Research

Former Forrester Research vice president and technology analyst Elizabeth Herrell joined the Constellation Research Group as a member and contributing analyst. Her areas of coverage include Unified Communications (UC) and Collaboration, Contact Center infrastructure and applications, Interactive Voice Response/Voice Portals, IP telephony, voice and data convergence and Communication services and outsourcing.

R “Ray” Wang Launches Constellation Research

CEO, Vice President and Principal Analyst, R “Ray” Wang, formerly of Altimeter and Forrester, has launched a new analyst firm. The new organization will do syndicated research. Areas of coverage include Cloud, Mobile, Social, Analytics and game theory, Unified communications and video, Internet, Legacy Optimization and Industry specific research in Next Gen Government (Gov 2.0) and […]

iSuppli Acquired by IHS

IHS Inc, a source of critical information and insight, has completed the closing of its acquisition of iSuppli Corporation, a provider of technology value chain research and advisory services. The approximately $95 million transaction also includes Screen Digest, a digital media and technology research company, which was recently acquired by iSuppli.

Denise Lund Joins Yankee Group

Denise Lund has joined the firm as a senior analyst. In this role, Denise will leverage her nearly 15 years of industry expertise to augment Yankee Group’s research in the areas of enterprise mobility technologies and services. She previously worked at Qualcomm, where she was senior manager of strategic marketing in its Services Division and […]

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