General Motors Executive to Keynote INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006; Elliot Zeltzer, Manager, Global Converged Telecommunications Services, to Address Leading VoIP Conference in Fort Lauderdale - Broward County Convention Center

Business Wire, Jan 12, 2006

NORWALK, Conn. -- Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R)) announces today that Elliot Zeltzer, Manager, Global Converged Telecommunications Services for General Motors, Information Systems and Services group has agreed to deliver a keynote address at its INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006, January 24-27, 2006 at the Fort Lauderdale-Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Mr. Zeltzer's address, which is open to all registered attendees, will take place Tuesday, January 24th at 4:45 pm EST. Registration for the conference is now open at http://www.itexpo.com.

INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, held since 1999, is the world's largest and best-attended VoIP trade show. Last October, INTERNET TELEPHONY Fall 2005 attracted over 7,000 buyers and sellers of IP Telephony products and services to the Los Angeles Convention Center. For this upcoming January show, TMC projects total attendance to exceed 8,500.

"INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO is the World's largest VoIP marketpace because attendees know they'll get a more complete education here than other VoIP events. Clearly, the perspective Mr. Zeltzer will share about General Motors' Transformation of IT Services and Converged Telecom will be among the most valuable pieces of that education in Ft. Lauderdale," promised TMC president Rich Tehrani.

Mr. Zeltzer is responsible for Telecommunications Architecture Infrastructure, as well as for the design, build, and operation of GM's converged Global Network.

With over 32 years of Information Technology experience, Mr. Zeltzer's background includes telecommunications/networking, technical systems, computer systems, hardware, and facilities/environmental systems experience. The experience is in the design, implementation and technical management of networks, data centers, computers, and operating systems, utilities, and their supporting systems.

In addition to Elliot Zeltzer's appearance, INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006 features keynotes by Tom Ridge, CNBC anchor Ron Insana and executives from IBM, Cisco, AT&T, Aculab, Pingtel, Digium, Avaya, Covad, Quintum, Nortel, Level 3, Netcentrex, Interactive Intelligence, Time Warner Telecom, AudioCodes and Expedient Systems.

Registration for the conference and trade show is now open: http://www.itexpo.com. Vendors interested in exhibiting or sponsoring should contact Dave Rodriguez immediately at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146 or e-mail drodriguez@tmcnet.com.

Press inquiries regarding Elliott Zeltzer's address can be directed to Mostafa Razzak at 23-31 Communications: (646) 442-3361 or email m.razzak@23-31.com.

About TMC(R)

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, Internet Telephony, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine; as well as the digital publications, Speech-World, WiFI Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, IPTV Magazine and WiMAX Magazine. TMC also produces TMCnet, the world's leading communications and technology Web site. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet, ranked among the top 2,500 Web sites in the World by Alexa.com, publishes more than 20 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com.