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Skype Founder Niklas Zennström to Deliver Keynote Address at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPOFounder and Inventor of Peer-to-Peer Phenomenon Will to Address Audience at Leading VoIP Conference in Los Angeles Norwalk, CT [July20, 2005] — Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) today announced that Niklas Zennström, founder and president of Skype, has accepted an invitation to deliver a keynote address at their upcoming INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO Fall 2005in Los Angeles. The conference will take place October 24-27, 2005, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Mr. Zennström’s address, which will be delivered live from London via Internet Telephony Videoconference, will take place Tuesday, October 25th at 12:15 pm PST. Admission to his address is free to all registered attendees. “Mr. Zennström and Skype have created perhaps the world’s most popular and most well-known VoIP service with their peer-to-peer IP telephony network,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC president and conference chairman. “I am as eager as all of our attendees to hear his unique perspective on what the future of VoIP holds in store for the industry.” Mr. Zennström, who also founded KaZaA, Joltid, and Altnet, headlines a program that features former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, former FCC Chairman Michael Powell, and executives from Yahoo!, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, Cisco, Inter-Tel, Siemens, Toshiba, Juniper Networks, NEC, Vonexus, Interactive Intelligence, and Deloitte & Touche. “Of particular interest this year is to get an update from Mr. Zennström on Skype’s business offering, a service he unveiled at last year’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO,” commented Tehrani. Tehrani continued, “We are delighted that last year, Mr. Zennström chose INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO as the first event in the United States to speak at and we are even more excited to have him back.” “INTERNET TELEPHONY has built up a following of prominent audience members and presenters,” said Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and co-founder. “We are honoured to participate in such an influential forum and share our industry perspective with other market leaders.” Registration for the show is now open. Anyone interested may register by visiting http://www.itexpo.com. Limited booth space is still available as well. Vendors interested in exhibiting at the show should contact Dave Rodriguez right away at (203) 852-6800, ext.146 / [email protected]. Press inquiries regarding Niklas Zennström’s appearance can be directed to Mostafa Razzak, 23-31 Communications: 646.442.3361 / [email protected]. About TMC® Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two magazines: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, and Internet Telephony, and the online publications, TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC also produces The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com. |