April 11, 2008

TMCnet Welcomes Rick Bye as Newest Columnist

TMCnet News

Norwalk, CT (April 11, 2008) - Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), an integrated global media company helping clients build communities in print, in person, and online, announced today the addition of Rick Bye (News - Alert) as TMCnet’s newest columnist.

“I am very pleased be to joining the leading communications and technology Web sites in the world, TMCnet,” said Bye. “My column, Broadband Evolution, will be an interesting series of monthly columns. In each installment I’ll share my perspectives on the evolution of broadband services, and in particular, the future of VoIP. I will examine the ways in which changing technologies, as well as changing business, political and regulatory environments, influence broadband service providers and their customers.”

Bye is a senior segment marketing manager with Zarlink and is responsible for leading the company’s residential gateway and consumer voice products development. Mr. Bye has 21 years experience in the semiconductor industry, holding strategic leadership positions with Texas Instruments, Broadcom and most recently, D2 Technologies (News - Alert).

“I’m pleased to announce that Rick is joining our fast-growing team of TMC and TMCnet contributors. He will be covering current broadband and VoIP technologies in his column Broadband Evolution on TMCnet. I am happy to welcome Rick as the newest member of our editorial team,” stated Greg Galitzine (News - Alert), group editorial director.

“Rick Bye joins an impressive group of TMC editors and contributors,” stated Rich Tehrani, TMC president.  “Our dedication to increase the quality and quantity of content found on TMCnet has made TMCnet the leader in the communications and technology media space boasting over 10 million unique visitors and 300 million page views annually.”

Bye joins these other respected contributors recently added to the TMCnet editorial team: Bob Emmerson, Charlotte Wolter, Gary Kim, David Yedwab, Peter Radizeski , Scott Wharton, Taran Singh, Rick Graves, Dr. Alan Solheim, Jagan Jagannathan and Phil Hill.

In addition, Jon Arnold is also contributing his commentary to TMCnet.  Please read his first column, Broadband Evolution. For more about Bye, please visit his columnist page on TMCnet.

TMCnet is the most-visited site on the World Wide Web for news, analysis and feature articles on communications and technology, including VoIP and other IP communications, CRM, contact centers, wireless, unified communications and IMS. TMCnet is read monthly by nearly one million US visitors according to Quantcast (News - Alert)* and by as many as three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends.

For more information about TMC, please visit www.tmcnet.com.