SecureLogix Corporation announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Mark Collier, will headline a presentation entitled "VOIP Security: Managing Risk" during the VoiceCon Spring 2006 conference and exhibition. The presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, March 8, from 2:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The conference will take place March 6-9 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando, Florida.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is driving one of the most far-reaching technological and commercial transformations of the decade. End-users worldwide are increasingly switching from traditional telephony to the versatile capabilities of VoIP. The financial, organizational and technological opportunities are huge - and so are the challenges.

Most industry experts agree that a general confusion and lack of strategic direction concerning VoIP has hindered the technology's adoption at many organizations that would benefit from it. That's why the industry's most visionary minds will gather to participate in VoIP: Transforming Business Horizons, an executive roundtable produced by Larstan Business Reports and scheduled for May 24-25, 2006 at the Omni Chicago Hotel. To reserve a chair at the table, contact: managing director, Jennifer O'Grady, 240-396-0007 x 902 or jogrady@larstan.net.

pulvermedia announced that the 10th annual Spring 2006 VON Conference & Expo will take place on March 14-17 at the San Jose Convention Center. This year, pulvermedia's flagship "global impact event" plays host to a record number of attendees, exhibitors, and speakers throughout the four-day event.

More than 350 industry experts are scheduled to address the VON community of attendees -- including Jeff Pulver, Founder and Chairman of pulvermedia, Jeremy Allaire, Chairman and CEO, Brightcove, Jim Bankoff, Executive Vice President, America Online, Jeffrey Citron, Chairman of Vonage, Blake Irving, Vice President of Microsoft's MSN Communication Services & Member Platform Group, Mark Spencer, President, Digium/Asterisk, and many others.

GlobalNet Corporation announced that its iDial-IP Turn-Key VoIP Solution has been named winner for a second year of a "Best of Show" award at Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC)'s INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and EXPO East 2006. TMC reports that the conference, attended by over 8,000 people last month at the Ft. Lauderdale/Broward Convention Center in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, was the best-attended VoIP conference ever held.

"iDial-IP is a flexible private label consumer VoIP platform designed and built specifically for service providers who require performance and ease of installation," commented Mark T. Wood, GlobalNet's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Our turn-key product provides ISPs and major telecom business customers with a scalable solution for becoming leaders in VoIP technology without product development investment and costly telecom equipment, inherent in building out a carrier-class VoIP Platform."

A special collection of exhibits and displays supporting cable's delivery of voice-related products and services will be featured in a "VoiceNET" pavilion at The 2006 National Show, the 55th Annual Convention and International Exposition of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, April 9-11.

With nearly 5 million customers, voice is a rapidly growing service offered by cable companies, which has taken off recently with the wide scale launch of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. VoiceNET will be a one-stop showcase of cable's future in offering these important products, offering displays that provide the latest technological advancements to help Show attendees understand the opportunities provided by this emerging service.

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CTIA WIRELESS 2006, the premiere event for everything wireless, will feature the latest technologies and solutions making today's mobile enterprise more streamlined and simplified. Smartphones, VoIP, RFID, WiMax and WiFi are enabling the mobile workforce to remotely track email, billing, product fulfillment, shipping, inventory and more. At this year's CTIA WIRELESS event, attendees will learn about the latest enterprise applications and technologies that are taking off. Companies showcasing enterprise solutions at CTIA WIRELESS 2006 include Hewlett Packard, Kodak, Cisco Systems, NAVTEQ, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Symbian, Texas Instruments, Siemens, Openwave, Kyocera and Bitstream, among others.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., announced it will stream Dave Navarro's Indie 103.1 FM radio show directly from its web site, http://www.vonage.com. Navarro will be hosting the radio show from the Premiere Lounge at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 23 and 24, 3:00 - 5:00 MST. Those interested in accessing the live streaming audio feed can click on the graphic on home page of Vonage.com or can dial 1-700-367-1031 to listen to the programming.

BinFone Telecom, a fast-growing provider of VoIP for call centers worldwide, recently received the "Top 100 VoIP Service Providers" Award from Internet Telephony Magazine and the International Packet Computing Consortium (IPCC). Awards were announced and presented at the Fall 2005 Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO in Los Angeles. The complete list of award-winners can be found at: http://www.tmcnet.com/awards/service-provider-winners-2005/service-provider-winners-2005.htm

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R)) announces that Mark Spencer, president of Digium Inc., original creator of Asterisk and pioneer of open source telephony, has agreed to deliver the opening keynote address at its INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006, on January 24-27, 2006 at the Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Mr. Spencer's address, which is open to all registered attendees, will take place Tuesday, January 24th at 11:30am EST. Registration for the conference is now open at http://www.itexpo.com.

XConnect, the largest neutral VoIP peering provider worldwide servicing more than 75 VoIP service providers in 20 countries, announced participation in the following upcoming events in the first quarter 2006.

VoIP peering allows operators to "identify" VoIP calls and exchange them end-to-end across IP networks, facilitating zero-cost settlement while preserving value-added services and advanced features for the benefit of subscribers.

PMC-Sierra, Inc., a leading provider of broadband communications and storage semiconductors, will present a live webinar on VoIP voice quality testing on Thursday, January 26, 2006, at 11 a.m. Pacific Time (2 p.m. Eastern Time).

What to Expect

Driven by downward price pressure from ever-increasing competition and consumer demand for enhanced services, carriers are seeking to leverage VoIP to reduce capital and operational costs and to provide innovative value-added features. However, meeting customers' voice service quality expectations set by legacy circuit switched networks will be necessary for the mainstream market penetration of IP telephony. Fast, accurate and non-resource-intensive voice quality testing is key to speeding VoIP equipment and network design and deployment, as well as to meeting service quality objectives in operation.

Xelor Software announced that Steven Guthrie, vice president of marketing, will speak at Internet Telephony Conference and Expo East 2006, held between Jan. 24 and 27 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on using service quality management to ensure the reliability, performance and quality of enterprise IP telephony (IPT) and Voice over IP (VoIP) systems.

"Enterprises are still experiencing a large gap between the theoretical capabilities of their IP telephony systems and the actual quality of service that their employees and customers are receiving," said Guthrie. "Despite the increasing popularity of IPT, we've found that many enterprises are still experiencing quality issues caused by packet loss, delay, jitter, latency, and the competition for bandwidth between data and realtime applications."

Uniden America Corporation, a leading manufacturer of wireless consumer electronics, and 8x8, Inc., the Packet8 broadband Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and videophone communications service provider, announced the extension of their strategic partnership and introduced a new co-branded VoIP product. The Packet8-enabled UIP165P is a 5.8GHz DSS cordless, service-ready whole house VoIP phone system and on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), January 5 - 8, 2006, at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the Uniden booth # 12044 in the Central Hall.

XACT Communication, LLC and SunCorp Technologies, Ltd. have signed a long-term agreement to develop VoIP products on the DECT 6.0 platform, Videophones, and Bluetooth products in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

The joint venture will focus on the Americas for launching DECT 6.0 products. XACT is an experienced industry leader in personal consumer electronics and telephony solutions and has launched several award-winning communication and digital entertainment products in the United States and internationally -- dramatically changing the global communications landscape. XACT-SunCorp products will be displayed at XACT's Consumer Electronic Show Booth # 9817 from January 5th-8th, 2006.