O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference - January 31 - February 2, 2006 - San Francisco, CA
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Diamond Sponsor

Tellme

Tellme fundamentally improves how people and businesses use the phone by replacing traditional phone infrastructure and offerings with an Internet model for building and delivering phone services. Using an open standards platform with Internet-based applications, the innovation and economics of the Internet are starting to come to the phone. With this shift, expect new capabilities in telephone communications, commerce and directory services to come to market faster and with greater diversity than ever. Today Tellme platform is considered one of the largest of its kind, handling billions of calls per year for more than 35 million people every month. Headquartered in Mountain View, California., Tellme is pioneering a new era where the phone becomes a faster, more powerful way to connect to the things you want every day.


Gold Sponsors

MySQL

MySQL, the world's most popular open source database, develops and markets a family of high performance, database servers and tools. Many of the world's largest organizations, including Yahoo! and Sabre Holdings, are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL to power Web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software.


Silver Sponsors

SMS.ac, Inc.

SMS.ac,Inc. is host to the largest community of mobile phone users in the world, meshing together an interactive society of approximately 50 million members in 180+ countries with more than 400 mobile operators to create a global wireless communications network for the global exchange of information, products and services. Through its proprietary technology that enables micro-transactional billing and the global exchange of multimedia communications, SMS.ac is driving the mobile convergence of community and content.

Voipster

Early 2006 Voipster (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) will launch an open source XMPP and SIP compliant VoIP engine, called OpenZoep. The OpenZoep Foundation will actively support the development of open source VoIP technology that is secure, open and standards-based. OpenZoep enables any (PSTN) service provider to hook into the code base. Its API makes it easy for developers to create custom user interfaces and to attach their own back-end web services for accounting, billing and SIP provisioning.


Media Sponsors

boing boing

With more than a million of visitors a month, Boing Boing is one of the most well-read weblogs in the world. Boing Boing's daily digest of technology, culture, and Internet curiosities are written and edited by four veteran print and broadcast journalists, whose work appears regularly in Wired, National Public Radio, PBS, The New York Times, Scientific American, Playboy, Popular Science, MSNBC, and Business 2.0. Last year at the SXSW conference, Boing Boing won three Bloggie Awards: Best American Weblog, Best Group Weblog, and Weblog of the Year.

Conference Guru

Conference Guru - We track hundreds of technology conferences around the world to help our Members find the right conferences…to get in front of the right people…at the right price.

DevtownStation News

DevtownStation.com, maintains one of the best Developer Conference and Educational Event Calendars. DevtownStation provides marketing assistance to companies looking to communicate with qualified IT communities for educational events. If you are running an IT educational event check out the site and post your upcoming conferences, webinars, road shows, or training courses, free of charge.

Dr. Dobb's Journal

Dr. Dobb's Journal Now in its 30th year, the award-winning magazine, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, has been the only magazine to cover cross-platform, language-independent software development and architecture in serious depth. Dr. Dobb’s Journal is written exclusively for professional software development leaders and architects, and provides tools and techniques using relevant, real-world solutions.

IPTV Industry

IPTV Industry is the leading online trade publication dedicated to the internet television B2B marketplace. Providing news, white papers, development resources and online buyer's guide for the IPTV Industry. With a worldwide readership of manufacturers, content providers, distributors, resellers and integrators, IPTV Industry is the number one online source for industry sales leads, branding and promotion of IPTV products and services.

Linux Journal

Established in 1994, Linux Journal is the original monthly publication of the global Linux community, covering topics critical to intelligent implementation of the Linux operating system. Linux Journal is published by SSC Publishing, the leading Linux and Open Source authority, which has published reference materials in these fields since 1983.

MacMinute

MacMinute.com delivers timely, concise news covering all aspects of the Apple Macintosh market. Presented in a format that is easy to read and quick to navigate, content is updated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the latest Mac news from around the globe.

Make magazine

Make The first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration.

O'Reilly Emerging Telephony

O'Reilly's new Emerging Telephony site will showcase the kind of technology you'll see at the upcoming Emerging Telephony conference all year around. By providing news, analysis, tips, and detailed examinations of the new technologies as soon as they hit the scene, ETel will help you stay on top of the Internet Telephony landscape.

PHP VoiceXML magazine

PHP VoiceXML Magazine is providing solutions and tools to develop easily advanced VoiceXML applications using PHP. Find out everything about the unique authoring tool for VoiceXML written in PHP, learn more experiences, many demo applications, easy to learn, 100% compatible VoiceXML 2.0. A unique web-based open source telephony solution.

SDForum

SDForum has been instrumental in setting the high-tech industry agenda for more than 22 years. A high-tech non-profit dedicated to educating and creating relationships within the technology community. SDForum provides the latest insights on emerging technology trends and best business practices through events, specialized services and resources.

SIPCenter

The SIP Center is a public resource for the commercial development of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol.) Serving both the SIP developer community as well as the wider industry since July of 2000, The SIP Center offers technical and market resources as well as a 24 x 7 public SIP proxy for testing SIP implementations. There are free SIP User Agent downloads, a comprehensive products and services directory, the latest SIP news and special interest articles, tutorials, whitepapers, developers tools and resources and much more. Visit The SIP Center for information on all things SIP www.sipcenter.com.

Skype Journal

Skype Journal Get your 21st century phreak on at SkypeJournal.com. Your daily read for Conversation 3.0 (2.0 is soooo last quarter) geekery, ecosystem reporting, industry analysis, policy wonkage. All in a shiny, thoroughly independent blog package. Our consulting brain-trust writes SJ. Write for us. And download our free Skype API guide.

Southern California Linux

The Southern California Linux Expo (Feb 11-12, 2006) -- We are bringing businesses, academic institutions and the Linux community together in a way that no other conference does!

SXSW

An incubator of new, cutting-edge technologies, the SXSW Interactive Festival is ground zero for the world's most creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators and new media entrepreneurs. This year's keynotes include: Craig Newmark, Jason Kottke, and Heather Armstrong and some panels include: How to Be a Web Design Superhero, Starting Small: Web Business for the Rest of Us, Building Buzz for Your Web Project, How to Create Passionate Users, and Does Your Blog Have a Business?

The Wi-Fi Technology Forum

The Wi-Fi Technology Forum (Wi-Fi-TF) network is a non-profit worldwide organization based in the UK. Manned mostly by volunteers, aims to report and inform its audiences on all aspects of Wi-Fi and wireless technology. With its round the clock Wi-Fi Newswire© service, discussion forums, reviews and other resources, the Wi-Fi-TF operates on impartiality and non-profitability. The Wi-Fi-TF network owns and operates a string of Wireless and Wi-Fi Technology sites.

The Women's Technology Cluster

The Women's Technology Cluster is the pre-eminent business accelerator dedicated to women leaders building technology-driven businesses. Our mission is to increase the number of successful companies and leverage their influence. Through our dedicated community of proven CEOs, investors, and industry experts, we provide extensive advisory services, coaching, and access to business and capital networks.

VOIP ACTION

VoIPAction publishes 1,000 daily news headlines every day from over 2,500 international news sources covering the VoIP and IP Telephony industry Coverage includes popular VoIP Providers like Skype and Vonage, VoIP Softphones, IP PBX vendors, VoIP Carriers, VoIP Multimedia including Triple Play services and IPTV, Wireless VoIP services and FCC regulatory issues that affect the industry such as VoIP E911. In addition to Internet telephone coverage, the site also covers the Wi-Fi industry including 3G, CDMA, EVDO, GPRS, GSM, M2M, MVNO, RFID and Mobile Convergence.

VoIP-News

VoIP-News.com provides VoIP and Internet Telephony buyers with the information they need to make informed decisions about next generation voice communications. The site offers news, analysis, whitepapers, and interactive tools that make the world of telephony easier to understand. With this rich content, VoIP-News serves the needs of 115,000 Internet Telephony professionals worldwide.

Web Host Industry Review

Web Host Industry Review -- Since 2000, The Web Host Industry Review (www.thewhir.com) has made a name for itself as the foremost authority of the Web host industry providing reliable, insightful and comprehensive news, reviews and resources to the hosting community. The Web Host Industry Review Magazine (www.thewhir.com/magazine) and WHIRtv (www.whirtv.com) also offers a business-minded, issue-driven perspective of interest to executives and decision-makers at both large and small hosting companies as well as suppliers, resellers and web hosting consumers. The Magazine and online video broadcast offers the best in competitive intelligence and provides insight into the thinking and strategy of web host industry leaders and trendsetters.

WiMAX Industry

WiMAX Industry is the leading online trade publication dedicated to the WiMAX 802.16 standard and broadband wireless access (BWA) marketplace. Providing news, white papers, development resources and online buyer's guide for the WiMAX Industry. With a worldwide readership of manufacturers, providers and enterprise end-users, WiMAX Industry is the number one online marketplace for WiMAX, 802.16 broadband wireless access solutions


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Diamond Sponsors

Tellme

Gold Sponsors

MySQL

Silver Sponsors

SMS.ac, Inc.
Voipster

Media Sponsors

boing boing
Conference Guru
DevtownStation News
Dr. Dobb's Journal
IPTV Industry
Linux Journal
MacMinute
Make magazine
O'Reilly Emerging Telephony
PHP VoiceXML magazine
SDForum
SIPCenter
Skype Journal
Southern California Linux
SXSW
The Wi-Fi Technology Forum
The Women's Technology Cluster
VOIP ACTION
VoIP-News
Web Host Industry Review
WiMAX Industry

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