4th Annual pulver.com Presence and Instant Messaging Conference to Focus on State-of-the-Art Innovations.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001 Lotus, Microsoft, Motorola, and Yahoo! Executives Among Featured Speakers to Discuss Boom for Wireless Internet Startups in Contrast to Downturn in Most of Telecom Industry Lotus, Microsoft, Motorola, and Yahoo! senior executives will be among the telecom industry leaders speaking at the 4th Annual Spring 2001 Presence and Instant Messaging Presence and Instant Messaging (PRIM) was an early proposal to the IETF of a standard protocol for instant messaging. No work has been done on it since 2001, however. Currently, SIP, its derivative SIMPLE, and XMPP are being considered for use as instant messaging protocols. (PIM (1) (Protocol Independent Multicast) A multicast routing protocol endorsed by the IETF. Used in conjunction with an existing unicast routing protocol, it comes in two flavors: Dense Mode (PIM-DM) is used when recipients in the target group are in a concentrated ) Conference hosted by pulver.com on May 22-24th at the Hyatt Harborside in Boston, MA. Please note that news media passes for the conferences are limited, so please confirm your reservation ASAP (chat) asap - As soon as possible. by emailing contact information to sean_crowley@hotmail.com. PIM is a revolutionary innovation which improves upon all current forms of telecommunication because it provides immediately relevant communication wherever the users are located via computers, cell phones, hand held computers and pagers. For example, PIM users who shop at a favorite store could choose to receive that store's current sales promotions via PIM every time they go to the store. More than 60 million people worldwide use PIM today and that figure should grow exponentially as businesses recognize the value of using PIM technology in communicating with both their clients and employees. While AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. represented the first mover in the market, its market share has declined significantly over the last two years, as Microsoft, Yahoo! and others have improved upon PIM technology. The PIM Conference will focus on the continuing insurgence in·sur·gence n. The action or an instance of rebellion; an insurrection. insurgency, insurgence 1. the state or condition of being in revolt or insurrection. 2. an uprising. of PIM devices and applications throughout the computer and communications industries. "Presence and instant messaging match the requirements for broadband end to end Internet communication, far better than the existing telecommunications services and will be the key for new services used by the next generation of communication technologies," said pulver.com Chief Executive Officer Jeff Pulver Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and founder of pulver.com, and a founder of the VoIP industry. Pulver is the chief writer of what's referred to as "the Pulver Order", which was adopted in 2004 by the Federal Communications Commission as the first FCC ruling regarding internet , whose expertise is widely recognized in the global telecommunications industry. "For decades, our industry has talked about creating the ultimate communications system In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. that enables people to communicate any time to any where. PIM technology accomplishes this goal while empowering the end users to exercise complete control over whom they want to communicate with and when they want to communicate." The continued resilience of the wireless PIM sector, despite the recent economic downturn in the telecom industry as a whole, is demonstrated by the fact that this year's PIM Conference is attracting more companies than ever before. pulver.com's renowned Voice over the Net (VON) conferences are heralded as the preeminent gathering for Internet communications pioneers and PIM very quickly has become a must-attend event for PIM experts, entrepreneurs and visionaries around the world. Speakers from in and around the industry will be discussing the effects of PIM on businesses and service providers today, as well as current issues surrounding wireless instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , location based services, mobile presence management and mobile commerce. State-of-the-art PIM products and applications will be on display in the Exhibitor's Hall starting on May 22, at 6:30 pm. For a full schedule of conference events and speakers, check the following website address: www.pulver.com/pim. On Tuesday, May 22nd, 8:45 am-9:15 am, Kathryn Brown, former Chief of Staff of the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. , will explain the PIM issues at stake in the recent AOL-Time Warner merger review. On Wednesday, May 23rd, 8:00 am-9:30 am, the PIM conference will hold a new morning event, the iSuds Entrepreneurs Breakfast, featuring up to ten hot IM start-ups giving one-to-five-minute presentations to a select group of PIM delegates and investors. Preceding and complementing the PIM Conference will be the pulver.com Spring 2001 Location-Based Services Summit on May 21-22, which also will be taking place at the Hyatt Harborside in Boston. It is a forum for entrepreneurs to learn from and network with the senior executives responsible for driving the international industry, such as SignalSoft, Strategis Group, Lehman Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) , Motorola, Lucent, SiRF, Oracle, Locationet, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , AirFlash, ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. and Airbiquity. About pulver.com: Jeff Pulver founded pulver.com at the end of 1994. In addition to producing the highly successful VON conferences, pulver.com is engaged in many activities that promote the growth of communications technology. The pulver.com website (http://pulver.com) is a key source of information for those in the Internet protocol communications industry and The Pulver Report (http://pulver.com/reports) is a widely read information source on the latest developments in emerging net technologies. |
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