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* NEWS FROM VOICECON:

VoiceCon 2007 Headquarters

This year’s spring business telephony conference promises to be bigger than the year before with keynotes from Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft and Nortel, bigger exhibition, more sessions as well as a conference-within-a-conference on next-gen contact centers — and Network World has it covered. Stay tuned for all the latest news from VoiceCon.

VoiceCon: Avaya, Nortel CEOs say they’re all about software, 03/06/07

The future of Avaya’s and Nortel’s respective VoIP businesses is in software, as well as strong partnerships with enterprise-class application vendors, the CEOs for both companies said this week.

VoiceCon: AVST offers four options to deploy unified messaging, 03/06/07

AVST is announcing at VoiceCon this week that it is expanding the deployment options for its CallXpress unified messaging platform so end users have more options of picking up their voicemail, faxes and e-mails.

VoiceCon — Free VoIP management tools, 03/05/07

Two network infrastructure vendors launched free management software tools at the VoiceCon show this week, with the aim of simplifying the setup IP desktop phones and carrier VoIP services.

VoIP vendors pushing mobility, interoperability, 03/05/07

Vendors at this week’s VoiceCon Spring 2007 conference say they want to extend the reach of corporate VoIP technology to mobile users, while making VoIP a more integral part of other corporate applications.

* NEWS FROM BLACK HAT:

Black Hat: Think like an attacker

The best way to develop software applications that can defend themselves against malicious attacks is to think like an attacker.

Black Hat: Much ado about RFID, 02/28/07

IOActive, a small security consulting company, brought out some big guns to help defend itself against an RFID giant at the Black Hat conference here Wednesday.

Black Hat hears of data leak dangers, 03/01/07

The biggest threat to your personal and professional security may be the information that your computer is already transmitting to the world around you.

Black Hat: RFID weakness demo nixed, 02/28/07

Show organizers of the Black Hat Federal security conference on Wednesday said they have agreed to cancel a demonstration scheduled for today that would show attendees how to build RFID cloners.

DoD crime fighter said digital evidence more powerful than DNA, 02/28/07

The emergence of digital evidence means investigators now have many more ways to find out who committed a crime and how, but it also means wading through near-endless amounts of data to arrive at those answers.

Researcher charts new, more dangerous Oracle attack, 02/27/07

In a paper he plans to discuss Wednesday at the Black Hat DC 2007 conference, noted database security researcher David Litchfield is expected to outline a new attack method against Oracle databases that boosts the danger to unpatched systems.

Battle brewing over RFID chip-hacking demo, 02/26/07

Secure card maker HID is objecting to a demonstration of a hacking tool at this week’s Black Hat Federal security conference in Washington, D.C. that could make it easy to clone a wide range of so-called “proximity” door access cards.

* NEWS FROM CEBIT:

CEBIT – Trade show wrestles with an ‘image crisis’, 03/06/07

There will be something for everyone at this year’s Cebit trade show. Unfortunately, that’s not what everyone wants.

CEBIT – IBM aims for midmarket with business-intelligence appliance server, 03/01/07

IBM hopes to bring business intelligence to a wider audience of midmarket customers with a new software stack developed in partnership with Business Objects, industry sources said.

* 2007 TRADE SHOWS:

VoiceCon

Orlando, March 5 – 8

InfoSec World

Orlando, March 19 – 21

CTIA Wireless

Orlando, March 27 – 29

6th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference 2007

Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center – Washington, DC – April 10-13

Gartner Symposium/IT Expo

San Francisco, April 22 – 26

Web 2.0 Expo