PENTON ACQUIRES CONFERENCE, LAUNCHES TWO OTHERS.Penton Media Penton Media, Inc. (OTC: PTON.OB), founded in 1892, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces over 40 magazines, 80 trade shows, and 47 web sites. (Cleveland, OH) has acquired the "WirelessDeveloper Conference" from WirelessDeveloper.com (East Lansing East Lansing, city (1990 pop. 50,677), Ingham co., S central Mich., a suburb of Lansing, on the Red Cedar River; inc. 1907. The city was first known as College Park, but was renamed when it was incorporated. , MI). No terms of the deal were given. Also, Penton will launch "Last Mile Fall 2001" for the broadband services industry and "StorageNet 2001" in October. The "WirelessDeveloper Conference" draws an attendee base of professional wireless software developers and corporate developers of custom applications and data infrastructures. ExhibItors and sponsors include wireless, platform developers and investors in wireless development businesses. The acquired show becomes a part of Penton's Electronics Group (Hasbrouck Heights Hasbrouck Heights (hăz`br  k), borough (1990 pop. 11,488), Bergen co., NE N.J., a residential suburb adjoining Hackensack; settled c.1685, inc. 1894. , NJ). To be produced by Penton's Service Provider Events Group (Golden, CO) and evolved from Penton's "CLECexpo," "Last Mile Fall 2001" has been expanded to include all access carriers and will be co-located with the "ISPCON ISPCON Internet Service Provider Convention (The Golden Group, Inc.) " and "ASPCON" shows to be held in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. this year. Penton said the show will be a forum that examines opportunities and challenges facing voice, video and data providers. "StorageNet 2001" will co-produced with Light Reading, a company that provides analysis and content dealing with optical networking and network storage. To be held in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , the show will cover integrated storage--network solutions for local, metro and wide--area networks and will target both enterprise and service provider customers. It will also cover the financial aspects of the storage networking industry with information on investment opportunities and increased efficiency for service providers. |
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