Digium has kicked off planning for the seventh annual AstriCon Open Source Telephony Conference and Exhibition. The event will be held just outside Washington, D.C. on October 26-28, 2010, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. Digium is the corporate sponsor and owner of the Asterisk project, the most widely used open source platform for creating custom communication solutions. Speaker topic submissions are open, and the conference organizers are soliciting talk concepts for 2010. Digium invites those who would like to speak at AstriCon to submit information for consideration by May 1, 2010.

VoiceCon announces the seven finalists of the Best of VoiceCon program, which recognizes exhibitors who have made significant technological advancements within the enterprise communications industry. A panel of industry leading judges will select the winner, which will be announced at VoiceCon Orlando 2010, happening March 22-25 at the Gaylord Palms Convention Center.

Xorcom announces its participation in the 2010 Digium Asterisk World at the ITEXPO East Conference. Xorcom will be exhibiting new Asterisk based PBX solutions and services at the event (booth D-07), hosted at the Miami Beach Convention Center, from January 20 through January 22.

FreedomVOICE announced that Cory Dzbinski, Director of Sales Engineering at FreedomVOICE, will be speaking on HD Voice at this year’s 2010 International CES, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow.

With over 11 years of telecom & IT experience, Cory Dzbinski has played a vital role in spearheading the introduction and adoption of the FreedomVOICE Toll Free Number Service, a small business virtual communication platform, and the FreedomIQ Hosted VoIP PBX, a rapidly growing hosted VoIP business phone system. Now focusing his efforts on HD Voice, Dzbinski has become a pioneer and industry expert in the voice quality standard.

Case studies, more live demos and an expanded schedule are on the agenda for the new SIP Trunk Summit at ITEXPO East 2010, the highly popular educational seminar series from Ingate Systems. Once again Ingate has partnered with TMC, leading IP-PBX vendors, SIP trunking service providers and industry thought-leaders to offer a groundbreaking three-day agenda providing in-depth information on the what, why and how of SIP trunking.

Free to all ITEXPO attendees, the SIP Trunk Summit will be held January 20-22, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida, in room A108/A109.

Technology Marketing Corporation and Crossfire Media announce details on the conference content for the 4G Wireless Evolution (4GWE) event, taking place at ITEXPO in Miami, on February 2-4, 2009.

4GWE is the first major event dedicated exclusively to addressing the issues, challenges and emerging opportunities associated with the evolution of the 4G - all IP - wireless network. The conference content is designed to educate Mobile Network Operators, fixed carriers, handset manufacturers, mobile internet device manufacturers, application providers, and venture capitalists on the applications, technology alternatives, time frames, and challenges influencing the new age of mobile broadband.

Technology Marketing Corporation and Crossfire Media announce that Verizon Wireless’ Executive Director for Ecosystem Development, Brian Higgins, will deliver a Keynote Address to the combined audience of their 4GWE Conference and ITEXPO East 2010 in Miami. Higgins’ address takes place Thursday, January 21st, at 10:15 AM, Eastern.

This session will provide the audience with an update on the latest developments coming out of Verizon Wireless’ LTE Innovation Center, and will touch upon emerging opportunities for the Verizon Developer Community.

Technology Marketing Corporation and Digium announce the schedule for the first 13 speeches in their Presentation theatre within Digium|Asterisk World 2010, taking place January 20-22, 2010 as part of ITEXPO East in Miami, Florida.

Presentations, which are free to all attendees, will take place in the Digium|Asterisk World Pavilion on the ITEXPO exhibit floor. Speakers will demonstrate open source telephony solutions, showcasing opportunities for developers, service providers, and end-users.

Broadvox will have the latest version of its GO! SIP Trunking on display at TMC’s ITEXPO East 2010 to be held January 20-22 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida.

ITEXPO, going into its 11th year, is the world’s largest and best-attended IP Communications trade show, drawing an average attendance of 7,000 buyers and sellers of IP Communications products and services. The show in January will be the 21st ITEXPO, and TMC is optimistic about continued strong domestic and international attendance.

Educating end users, resellers, distributors and systems integrators about SIP trunking is on the agenda as Ingate Systems partners with TMC, leading IP-PBX vendors, SIP trunking service providers and industry thought-leaders to offer the new SIP Trunk Summit at ITEXPO East 2010.

Free to all ITEXPO attendees, the Summit is a three-day seminar series providing in-depth information on SIP trunking. The Summit will include general information panels and technical insight sessions from both the service provider and enterprise perspectives. Speakers from VOIPSA and the SIP Forum will also participate.

The SIP Trunk Summit will be held January 20-22, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, Florida.

Technology Marketing Corporation and Digium announce that all exhibit space has sold out at their expanded Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place January 20-22, 2010 as part of ITEXPO East in Miami, Florida.

In recent weeks, TMC was forced to expand the Digium/Asterisk World exhibit showcase as all 16 spaces originally allocated had been sold.

Internationally recognized small business author, columnist and speaker Steven Strauss will conduct a free webinar discussing the advantages of VoIP phone service for small business over traditional phone service on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Sponsored by IP communications solution provider 8x8, the webinar is intended to explain, in layman's terms, how VoIP technology works and how it enables companies to operate smarter and more efficiently while simultaneously reducing monthly overhead expenses.

Technology Marketing Corporation announces that Digium CEO Danny Windham has accepted its invitation to deliver a Keynote Address at ITEXPO East 2010, taking place January 20-22, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, FL.

Mr. Windham’s presentation, which takes place Thursday, January 21st at 9:45AM EST, will address the evolution of Open Source as a mature telephony platform that is experiencing extensive growth in enterprise, government and carrier markets. Open to all ITEXPO attendees, this session will also be a centerpiece of the fourth annual Digium|Asterisk World conference, which is collocated with ITEXPO East 2010.

Technology Marketing Corporation and Digium announce that all exhibit space has sold out at their Digium|Asterisk World 2010 conference, collocated with ITEXPO East 2010, January 20-22, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Digium and TMC officials are in negotiations with Convention Center staff to identify additional space to for exhibiting opportunities at the event.

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