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Leif Eriksen joined as research director covering applications for mobile and wireless. Prior to joining Gartner, Leif was the founder and managing director at Indusry Insights for one year. He previously served as the director of indusry solutions at Motorola for five years.

Expanding its analysis of the electronics value chain into the fast-growing media market, iSuppli Corp. has entered into an agreement in principle that is expected to lead to the acquisition of Screen Digest, a provider of market research covering film, television, broadband media, mobile media, cinema, home entertainment, TV technology and video games. While the […]

Welcome to PR Vibes™, created by Calysto Communications to provide you with key insights into the publications and events in the telecommunications industry. Today, we’re featuring a short interview with Monica Alleven, editor-in-chief of Wireless Week, which provides intelligent and in-depth information addressing the people, companies, technologies and ideas that are transforming the wireless industry. […]

Samantha Bookman has been named managing editor of FierceCable, FierceIPTV, FierceOnlineVideo, FierceTelecom and FierceVoIP. In her new role, Samantha will assist the Fierce wireline editors–a group that includes Sean Buckley (FierceTelecom), Jim Barthold (FierceCable), Mike Dolan (FierceVoIP), and Jim O’Neill (FierceIPTV and FierceOnlineVideo). She will also contribute some of her own content each week in […]

VP of Next Generation Software Systems Ari Banerjee has left his position at Yankee Group to join Heavy Reading as a senior analyst. His areas of coverage include all aspects of BSS, OSS, SDP, digital commerce, revenue assurance, service assurance, and elements that span both the infrastructure and network software markets, such as data warehousing, […]

Courtney Howard has joined the publication as a senior editor. She covers news for LightwaveOnline.com and the Lightwave Direct e-newsletter, and works on the Lightwave digital magazine. Prior to joining Lightwave, Courtney served as senior editor at Military

Senior editor Nicholas Thompson has left the publication. He has joined the staff at The New Yorker as a senior editor. Replacing Nocholas at Wired will be Bill Wasik, who is leaving his position as a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine in late June.

The Linley Group has purchased Microprocessor Report from Reed Business Information. The company let go of managing editor Leslie Fish and senior editor Max Baron. Publisher Linley Gwenapp and editor-in-chief Jim Turley have been hired. Jim has held editorial positions with Embedded Systems Design and Embedded Technology Journal in the past.

Editor Jonathan Tombes has left the publication after more than ten years. His areas of coverage included video, voice, data and wireless technologies. Jonathan has been replaced by Debra Baker who was named editor by Communications Technology. Previously, Debra was the vice president and managing editor at T3i Group LLC.

The two Virgo Publishing sites, VON and xchange, have been merged into one (www.von.com). The site has been completely redesigned and VON/xchange are now one site, one brand, one audience. VON/xchange covers IP telephony and video, unified communications, mobile and wireless, cloud-based communications, wholesale transport, software and applications, optical networking, Ethernet, and cable systems – […]