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		<title>April 2011 Video Talk from DIDX VP Suzanne Bowen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omar shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<title>Voiceserve Teams With Super Technologies’ DIDx to Mass Market Its Mobile Dialers</title>
		<link>http://www.techistan.com/2011/03/30/voiceserve-teams-with-didx-to-mass-market-mobile-dialers-phone-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omar shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voiceserve, Inc, Internet telephony software and service provider, says DIDXchange, leader in wholesale DID and SIP services, will offer Voiceserve’s mobile dialers through massive DIDx network]]></description>
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<iframe style="width:0px;height:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden" frameborder="0" id="ispeech_iframe_3"></iframe><p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-13802" style="margin: 15px;" title="web_didx_scenario_1_didx" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/web_didx_scenario_1_didx-300x282.png" alt="voipswitch didx mobile dialer international phone numbers" width="300" height="282" /><em>Tellabs&#8217; CEO recently said <a href="http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/tellabs-q1-2011-revenue-declines-15-percent-sees-potential-mobile-internet-/2011-04-26?utm_medium=nl&amp;utm_source=internal" target="_blank">after reporting their 2010 Quarter 1 2011 revenue of $322.4 million</a>, down from $379.2 million in Q1 2010, a factor it attributes to declines in all of its units. &#8221;"Going forward, we will continue to invest in the smart mobile Internet through increased R&amp;D spending to position Tellabs for long-term growth.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Voiceserve, Inc. (OTC BB: VSRV), a low-cost, next-generation Internet telephony software and service provider, announced today that Super Technologies, Inc., a leader in wholesale direct inward dialing (DID) and session initiation protocol (SIP) services, will offer Voiceserve’s award winning mobile dialers through its massive <a href="http://www.didx.net" target="_blank">DIDx</a> network.</p>
<p>Established in 1999, Super Technologies’ DIDx is the leading provider of VoIP DID telephone numbers from 173 nations to over 18,500 IP wholesale level buyers in 56 countries who, in turn, have millions of customers, in aggregate. In addition to DID and SIP services, the company provides virtual phone lines that enables a Public Switched Telephone Network phone number ring on an IP phone.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-13801 alignright" style="margin: 15px;" title="P1010987" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/P1010987-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" />&#8220;This is an incredible opportunity for our company to gain exposure to an extraordinarily large market for our mobile dialers,” said Michael Bibelman, Voiceserve’s CEO. &#8220;Super Technologies has created a unique marketplace for all levels of VoIP telecommunications professionals. DIDx has developed into an important shopping complex for our target market of wholesalers and retailers. It also provides additional exposure through its technology publication, Techistan.”</p>
<p>Alex Ellinson, Voiceserve’s chairman, added, “The arrangement highly motivates Super Technologies to promote our dialers, while providing its large group of market participants with a broad selection of award winning dialers. We have teamed with an exceptionally prolific marketing partner. In addition to the download fees, customers will also pay an annual maintenance fee to <a href="http://www.voiceservegroup.com/" target="_blank">Voiceserve</a>.”</p>
<p>“At Super Technologies, we have built up a vast worldwide network of telecom industry participants. Our objective is to provide our members with next generation global service capabilities. Teaming with Voiceserve will enable us to provide our network with the most advanced VoIP dialers in the industry. Voiceserve’s expert R&amp;D staff and customer support will consistently provide our wholesale members with cutting edge VoIP software products,” commented Rehan Allahwala, president of Super Technologies, Inc. &#8220;Providers can mix gaming, tourism, mobile wallets, music, and other online activities with direct inward dialing local and international phone numbers and VoIP Switch dialers.&#8221;</p>
<p>About Voiceserve, Inc.<br />
Voiceserve is a software platform provider focusing primarily on delivering affordable, complete, next generation services to Internet Telephony Providers (ITSPs). Products include <a href="http://www.voipswitch.com/" target="_blank">VoipSwitch</a>, a custom modular all-in-one Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) management platform licensing solution for resellers; VoIP airtime minutes bundled with optional convenient features, including virtual numbers, direct dial, web callback, and call forwarding; IP-PBX; and mobile softphone, and video technologies. For further information please visit <a href="http://www.voipswitch.com/">http://www.voipswitch.com</a>.</p>
<p>About Super Technologies’ DIDx<br />
DIDX is a wholesale SIP DID phone number exchange. It creates new vertical markets for CLECs, ILECs, mobile operators, MVNOs, local regional telecoms, and VoIP companies to buy and/or sell their DID wholesale. It is also a media partner for world-renowned IP communications and technologies events via podcast channels and online magazine Techistan. Visit <a href="http://www.didx.net/">http://www.didx.net</a>.<br />
Certain statements in this news release may constitute &#8220;forward-looking&#8221; statements within the meaning of section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. The Company believes that its expectations, as expressed in these statements are based on reasonable assumptions regarding the risks and uncertainties inherent in achieving those expectations. These statements are not, however, guarantees of future performance and actual results may differ materially. Risks and uncertainties which may cause actual results to be different than expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the risk factors listed in the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and described under the heading &#8220;Risk Factors&#8221; our Form S-1 filed December 20, 2010. The Company expressly disclaims any current intention to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events or developments.</p>
<p>Investor Contact:<br />
Yvonne L. Zappulla<br />
Managing Director<br />
Grannus Financial Advisors, Inc.<br />
(212) 681-4108<br />
yvonne@grannusfinancial.com<br />
Alexander Ellinson<br />
President &amp; Chairman<br />
Voiceserve, Inc.<br />
011 44 208 136 6000<br />
alex@voiceserve.com</p>
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		<title>Immigrants and Expatriates are Driving Force for IP Communications</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omar shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<title>Part 1, Daniel-Constantin Mierla on Timeline Leading to Kamailio</title>
		<link>http://www.techistan.com/2011/03/09/daniel-constantin-mierla-on-kamailio-timeline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omar shaikh</dc:creator>
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Part 1 of 4 podcasts with Daniel-Constantin Mierla  (Core Developer at SIP Router Project, CEO at ASIPTO, Co-Founder and Core Developer at Kamailio (OpenSER) on a Timeline of What Has Led to Kamailio in 2011: 
Daniel-Constantin Mierla shares a timeline of what happened between the year 2001 at the Fraunhofer FOKUS research institute in Berlin, [...]]]></description>
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<iframe style="width:0px;height:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden" frameborder="0" id="ispeech_iframe_7"></iframe><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13472" style="margin: 15px;" title="daniel_kamilio" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/daniel_kamilio.jpg" alt="daniel-constantin mierla kamilio open source rich communications" width="150" height="150" />Part 1 of 4 podcasts with <a href="http://de.linkedin.com/in/danielconstantinmierla" target="_blank">Daniel-Constantin Mierla</a>  (Core Developer at SIP Router Project, CEO at ASIPTO, Co-Founder and Core Developer at Kamailio (OpenSER) on a Timeline of What Has Led to Kamailio in 2011: </p>
<p>Daniel-Constantin Mierla shares a timeline of what happened between the year 2001 at the <a href="http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/de/fokus/index.html" target="_blank">Fraunhofer FOKUS</a> research institute in Berlin, Germany. We still have the first few lines of code in our depository. He says they look to have a big party to celebrate the beginning and the success for all since then in late summer 2011.</p>
<p>By 2005, SIP was no longer just a research topic. There was a spin-off company with expertise in SIP protocol. The name of this initial project was <a href="http://www.iptel.org/ser/" target="_blank">SIP Express Router</a>. A fork developed from SER. The name was openSER.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13471" style="margin: 15px;" title="daniel-constantinmierla_rehanallahwala2" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/daniel-constantinmierla_rehanallahwala21.jpg" alt="" width="134" height="91" />In 2008, a company stated that the group had infringed on a trademark with &#8220;openSER&#8221; name and that it appeared that the group was suggesting it was an open source version of their service. It was renamed to <a href="http://www.kamailio.com" target="_blank">Kamailio</a>. This time, a tough search was conducted to make sure no infringement of anyone&#8217;s trademark. Kamailio comes from two Hawaiian words. It means to talk or to have a conversation.</p>
<p>Another developer created a new fork, called <a href="http://www.opensips.org/" target="_blank">openSIPs</a>.</p>
<p>Soon, the community began to develop the roadmap for integrating the original SIP Express Router project with Kamailio. Each had close to 100 extensions. The two worked together pretty well. Within one year in January 2010, they had a release ready as 3.0.</p>
<p><strong>When a <a href="http://www.didx.net" target="_blank">DID phone number</a> is dialed, there is an application that has to discover where the phone is that has to ring.</strong> That&#8217;s where Kamailio comes in, and more and more large companies are coming on board.</p>
<p>The next time you dial a phone number, it may be that Kamailio is doing the work of making it route to the proper destination.</p>
<p>Hear parts <a href="http://www.techistan.com/2011/03/09/daniel-constantin-mierla-on-kamailio-timeline/" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="http://www.techistan.com/2011/03/09/daniel-constantin-mierla-on-joint-venture-with-sipwise/" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="http://www.techistan.com/2011/03/09/daniel-constantin-mierla-on-best-kamailio-2010/" target="_blank">3</a>, and <a href="http://www.techistan.com/2011/03/09/daniel-constantin-mierla-on-rich-communications/" target="_blank">4</a> of the podcast with Daniel.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://www.asipto.com/">http://www.asipto.com</a>, <a href="http://www.sipwise.com/">http://www.sipwise.com</a>, <a href="http://www.kamailio.org/">http://www.kamailio.org</a> and also the website of the wholesale DID platform that sponsors this podcast channel <a href="http://www.didx.net/">http://www.didx.net</a>. Find an article detailing more on <a href="http://www.techistan.com/">http://www.techistan.com</a> online magazine.</p>
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		<title>Selling E164 DID voIP Phone Numbers on DIDXchange</title>
		<link>http://www.techistan.com/2011/02/10/selling-e164-did-voip-phone-numbers-on-didxchange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omar shaikh</dc:creator>
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Thousands of wholesale VoIP companies, social community portal providers, virtual office providers, government entities, CLECs, incumbents , and all types of companies are buying and selling phone numbers on the platform called DIDXchange at didx.net. Why don&#8217;t iIgive you a couple of tips here?
First, sign up on http://www.didx.net and just be in research [...]]]></description>
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<p>Thousands of wholesale VoIP companies, social community portal providers, virtual office providers, government entities, CLECs, incumbents , and all types of companies are buying and selling phone numbers on the platform called DIDXchange at didx.net. Why don&#8217;t iIgive you a couple of tips here?</p>
<p>First, sign up on <a href="http://www.didx.net/" target="_blank">http://www.didx.net</a> and just be in research mode to start. You may want to come on board to sell phone numbers to other DIDX members on a wholesale level.</p>
<p>Go through Interop testing. Complete the agreement with us. Decide if you want to use our API or if you want to add the numbers you want to make available for selling on DIDX. Or &#8230; you can add them manually, one number at a time or numbers in the series. Youu can upload in a bulk through the API, in XLS spreadsheet and insert format as single numbers or multiple numbers in a series<br />
When a buyer logs in, this is what they see &#8230; the numbers are currently added in the last few minutes in addition to what is already available. They click here and browse the countries in the databse to search for the phone numbers that they need. They can do it through the advanced search or by certain phone numbers or this way &#8230; even vanity number search!</p>
<p>So the next, the buyer sees the list of area codes that are available.</p>
<p>For Houston area 832 code, the buyers will see three different vendors. There&#8217;s a vendor rating for each from 3, 4 and the to 5. There is a setup fee, monthly fee and in some cases, the buyer can buy per minute or per channel or have a choice. In other cases, it will be flat rate per month with a certain number, including minutes or maybe 1 or 2 channels.</p>
<p>I hope this helps to explain who to sell on DIDX and the relationship between the Buyer, DIDX, and the Seller of wholesale phone numbers. The prices that you see include the small amount that didx adds for our cost. Buyer buys and pays total amount. DIDX keeps the small portion. DIDX pays the seller each time seller invoices in increments at least $100 total for amount due 45 days before. There is a PAY ME button on the Seller dashboard that sellers see when they first log in to their DIDX account.</p>
<p>We wish for you, a happy and great experience selling on a wholesale level on <a href="http://wwwdidx.net./" target="_blank">http://wwwdidx.net.</a></p>
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		<title>VIP Communications and Vodafone Ghana Showcase Direct Line Ghana Service</title>
		<link>http://www.techistan.com/2011/01/28/vip-communications-and-vodafone-ghana-showcase-direct-line-ghana-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omar shaikh</dc:creator>
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<iframe style="width:0px;height:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden" frameborder="0" id="ispeech_iframe_10"></iframe><p><em> </em><a href="http://www.joinvip.com/main/index.php" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-12930" style="margin: 15px;" title="ghanaphonenumber_virtualphoneline" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ghanaphonenumber_virtualphoneline.jpg" alt="Ghana Phone Number Virtual Phone Line" width="300" height="130" />VIP Communications, Inc., </a>a leading provider of international calling services and solutions, in partnership with Vodafone Ghana, today announced the launch of Direct Line Ghana, an international calling service that enables VIP customers in the US to stay in touch with family and friends in Ghana at rates up to 35 percent less than existing calling services.</p>
<p><em>You get your own Ghana local number (like a <a href="http://www.virtualphoneline.com" target="_blank">Virtual Phone Line</a>) that you can give to friends and family to call you anywhere. It&#8217;s free* for them and saves you 35%.</em></p>
<p>Exclusive to VIP, Direct Line Ghana provides Ghanaians in the US their own Ghana  phone number at 12.9 cents per minute.  In Ghana, calling the Direct Line number is free from any Vodafone mobile or landline phone. telephone number which connects directly to their US mobile or landline phone at an industry low rate of</p>
<p>VIP customers can simply add Direct Line Ghana to their existing VIP account or new customers can open a VIP calling account and then add the new service. Registration is simple, either by visiting <a href="http://www.joinvip.com/directlineghana">www.joinvip.com/directlineghana</a></p>
<p>&#8220;We are absolutely delighted to be able to offer our large and loyal base of Ghanaian customers this new service to reduce their high costs of calling to Ghana,&#8221; said Graham Milne, President of VIP Communications.   &#8220;Our new partnership with Vodafone Ghana has opened up an entirely unique method for Ghanaians to speak with their families and friends whilst saving almost half of the cost of a regular call.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8221;The decision to be part of this initiative is a clear manifestation of Vodafone&#8217;s commitment to make our services affordable and accessible to enhance people&#8217;s lives the world over,&#8221; Carmen Bruce- Annan, Head of Corporate Communications, Vodafone Ghana noted.</p>
<p>This announcement continues to build on the momentum VIP Communications has achieved recently, and solidifies its presence as the leading international calling provider to expats living in the US. Over the past year alone, the company has increased its customer base by more than 30% and expanded its service portfolio to include business and mobile services. The company has also earned recognition for its &#8216;No Hidden Fees&#8217; philosophy, which assures customers pay only the per-minute rate that&#8217;s advertised, and not any additional fees or service charges.</p>
<p>The company has also become a household name in the international calling industry, being recognized by renowned media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The New York Times, CBS, and many others.<br />
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		<title>Mobile Money and More at M-Commerce World Summit in Singapore April 6-7</title>
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		<dc:creator>omar shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[M-Commerce World Summit 2011 is April 6-7, 2011 in Singapore to discuss profit strategies from mobile financial services to users through strategic partnerships and best business models.]]></description>
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<p>M-Commerce World Summit 2011 will be held from 6 to 7 April 2011 in Singapore to discuss on strategies to profit from mobile financial services to the mass through developing strategic partnership and best business model.</p>
<p>Singapore (January 19, 2011) / —<a href="http://www.symphonyglobal.com" target="_blank">M-Commerce World Summit 2011</a> will be held from 6 to 7 April 2011 in Singapore. Highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile operators, banks, mobile transfer networks, mWallets and ‘interoperability hubs’, handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers are invited to share their latest efforts in launching m-commerce services and the key challenges facing them at this summit.</p>
<p lang="en-US">The following key issues will be addressed in depth with necessary Real World</p>
<p lang="en-US">Case Studies:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">Overview of Current Global Market Trends and Developments for Mobile Financial Services</p>
</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">Building Global Mobile Payment Infrastructure and Beyond</p>
</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">A Future Direction for M-Commerce?  Assessing Strategic Opportunities at the Nexus of Social Networks and Mobile Value Transfers</p>
</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">Profitable and Sustainable Business Models Available for Mobile Money Transfer and POS</p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Commercial Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Banks in Offering Mobile Financial Services</li>
<li>Mobile Banking and Payments Success from the Bank’s Point-of-View</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">Building an Open Mobile Payments Ecosystem</p>
</li>
<li>New Strategies to Capture the Mass Market for Mobile Money Transfer &amp; Mobile Remittance</li>
<li>Additional Revenue Generating Channels through Deployment of M-Payments</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-GB">Growth of International Mobile Commerce</p>
</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">Mobile Banking &#8211; Consumer Behaviour and Adoption</p>
</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">Case Study on IMPS (Instant Inter-bank transfer) by Union Bank of India</p>
</li>
<li>Banking the ‘Unbanked’ &amp; Microfinance Services</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">Case Study on Globe’s Experience in Implementing GCASH</p>
</li>
<li>Case Study on Dialog’s Experience in Launching Tradenet in Sri Lanka</li>
<li>Case Study on Celcom’s Experience in Developing an Innovative M-Commerce Platform using Open API Concept</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">Remittance Provider Case Study &#8211; Mobile Remittance in 2011</p>
</li>
<li>NFC Technology Updates</li>
<li>
<p lang="en-US">Mobile Handsets – What Are the Latest Technology Developments?</p>
</li>
<li>Management Issues Concerning the Business and Technological Interfaces between Banks and Mobile Operators</li>
<li>User-friendly and Secure Mobile Payments</li>
</ul>
<p>Companies/organisations representing the M-Commerce Ecosystem will be speaking at this conference :</p>
<ul>
<li>Nitin Chittal, Vice President, Retail Banking-Alternate Channels, Axis Bank, India</li>
<li>Frédéric Schepens, Executive Vice President, Strategic Business Development, <a href="http://www.belgacom-ics.com/" target="_blank">Belgacom ICS</a>, Belgium</li>
<li>Salil Bhuvanadasan, Head-Mobile Money, CamGSM, Cambodia</li>
<li>Ng Wei Ken, Head of MCommerce, Product Innovation, Celcom, Malaysia</li>
<li>Mohammad Jakirul Islam, Project Coordinator- mCommerce, Citycell, Bangladesh</li>
<li>Sandeep Lal, Managing Director Consumer Banking Group eBusiness, DBS Bank, Singapore</li>
<li>Fariq Cader, Senior General Manager Mcomm, <a href="http://www.axiata.com/operating-companies/sri-lanka" target="_blank">Dialog Axiata</a>, Sri Lanka</li>
<li>Richie Sison, Marketing Group Head of G-Xchange, Inc, Globe Telecom, Philippines</li>
<li>Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services, <a href="http://www.grameenphone.com/" target="_blank">Grameenphone,</a> Bangladesh</li>
<li>Atsumasa Tochisako, President and Chief Executive Officer, Microfinance International Corporation (A KDDI Group Company)</li>
<li>Kate Zilla-Bâ, COO, Mondato, USA</li>
<li>Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia, Motorola, India</li>
<li>Chakaprani GK, Director – Emerging Markets, Nokia Financial Services, Nokia, India</li>
<li>Yvonne Cheong, Vice President, Internet/Mobile Banking, OCBC, Singapore</li>
<li>Tom Wills, Principal Consultant, Secure Strategies, USA</li>
<li>Shankar Narayanan, President and Co-founder, Tagit, Singapore</li>
<li>Dan Armstrong, Managing Consultant, Takashi Mobile / Co-Founder, Rabo Mobiel B.V., The Netherlands</li>
<li>Arnab K. Biswas, Head-mCommerce, Tata Teleservices, India</li>
<li>Vincent Kadar, CEO, <a href="http://www.telepin.com" target="_blank">Telepin Software</a>, Canada</li>
<li>Lalit Sinha, Deputy General Manager, DIT, Union Bank of India, India</li>
<li>Gregg Marshall, VP of Business Development, Western Union</li>
</ul>
<p>There will be a pre-conference workshop on 5 April 2011 with the title “Keeping the Hackers at bay without Putting Off Your Customers: A Primer on Usable M-Commerce Security” and a post-conference workshop on 8 April 2011 on “Bank-MNO Cooperation in the Mobile Money Ecosystem: Have We Moved Forward?”.</p>
<p lang="en-US">The summit website is : <a href="http://www.symphonyglobal.com/index.php/event/page/m-commerce_2011/overview">http://www.symphonyglobal.com/index.php/event/page/m-commerce_2011/overview</a></p>
<p>About Symphony Global</p>
<p>Symphony Global is a business media and consulting company that aims to provide the best networking platforms for global business connections.</p>
<p>All our events are research-driven with direct contacts with major industry stakeholders to ensure that they meet their needs and keep up to the industry trends and developments. SG Conferences offer you an unrivalled opportunity to network with your peers within your areas of business and ultimately develop the best business partnership for future business expansion. Our workshops and masterclasses provide an informative and interactive forum for developing latest techniques and skills.</p>
<p>Take advantage of SG services and products to keep up-to-date with the latest developments within your industry.</p>
<p lang="en-US">Visit <a href="http://www.symphonyglobal.com/">http://www.symphonyglobal.com</a> to join the conference as sponsor, exhibitor, or other type of participant.</p>
<p lang="en-US"> </p>
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		<title>VUC Enables DIDX to Chat with Open Source Telephony Developers and Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omar shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DIDX, invention of Rehan Allahwala, is hot topic on Asterisk-Biz list. It enables 1000s of telecoms in 163 nations. Listen to Suzanne Bowen, the co-founder, handles complaints and praise on VUC]]></description>
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<iframe style="width:0px;height:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden" frameborder="0" id="ispeech_iframe_12"></iframe><p><a href="http://www.theivrvoice.com/"><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-12101 alignleft" style="margin: 15px;" title="vuc_didx_podcast" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/vuc_didx_podcast-300x128.jpg" alt="vuc voipusersconference randulo e4voip zipdx didx podcast suzanne bowen" width="300" height="128" />Allison Smith</strong></a>: Randy?</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick</strong>: You&#8217;re about to take part in the VoIP Users&#8217; Conference, VUC.me.</p>
<p>We get together every Friday at 12 noon EST, and the conference is made possible by people like <a href="http://labs.voxeo.com/">Voxeo Labs</a>. You can check some of their latest work at <a href="http://phono.com/">Phono.com</a>.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re listening to this in full audio color, thanks to the <a href="http://www.zipdx.com">ZipDX</a> wideband conference bridge.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re talking to Michael White from <a href="http://www.e4strategies.com/">E4 Strategies</a> about some sweet deals for next year that&#8217;ll be available only to <a href="http://www.vuc.me">VUC</a> members, so take Allison Smith&#8217;s advice, &#8220;Look to the skies. Keep watching the skies.&#8221;</p>
<p>Delphi says, &#8220;I&#8217;m ??? OMG!&#8221; <em>Listen to the conversation while you read. <a href="http://www.theivrvoice.com/"><strong></strong></a></em></p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick</strong>: There&#8217;s no need to shout, Delphi. Suzanne Bowen, I&#8217;m so happy to have you here. Thank you for coming.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen</strong>: It&#8217;s a pleasure. I really appreciate you asking me.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> It&#8217;s great. I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask you for a long time. I know you follow the conferences. You&#8217;ve been kind enough to retweet stuff and write about VUC, and mention it in columns and your blogs.</p>
<p>You are all over the place. Before we get into what you do now, what is it with the career transformation? You were a fitness instructor, is that right?</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-12102" style="margin: 15px;" title="suzanne_didx_bowen" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/suzanne_didx_bowen-300x213.jpg" alt="suzanne bowen ctia wireless didx didxchange jonathan sowah astraqom" width="300" height="213" />Suzanne Bowen:</strong> Yeah, I was a fitness instructor for a while, managed a fitness center and I was a teacher for about 20 years. Those are a couple of my past careers, yes.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick</strong>: Right. That fitness instructor thing has got this image in my mind &#8230; let me just savor that for a second. Okay, let&#8217;s move on.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> (Chuckles.)</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> The name of the company &#8230; I keep thinking I should call you &#8220;Super Woman&#8221; because why? You co-founded the company Super Technologies, also known as SuperTec which is known as the nickname of that company. I guess that is part of the domain name, right?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> Gotcha. That&#8217;s right.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> Maybe the best known is DIDX, right? Best known offering of the company. Or not?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> I would say so definitely. People have never heard of Super Technologies or Suzanne Bowen, but they know about DIDX.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-12103" style="margin: 15px;" title="randulo_randyresnick_vuc" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/randulo_randyresnick_vuc.jpg" alt="" width="175" height="118" />Randy Resnick:</strong> We are going to talk about this a little bit later &#8230; DIDX. I wonder if it was DID X or DIDX, I wasn&#8217;t sure. DIDX is a subject that comes up very often on the Asterisk-Biz mailing list, and I warn you that we would ask about that later. Not a big deal, but it would be interesting to hear your take on that.</p>
<p>Aw, that&#8217;s the other Suzanne Bowen. There is another Suzanne Bowen as well. There is either an author or actress. Obviously there are different people by that name. Anyway Suzanne, back to you.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s talk a little about the beginnings of Super Technologies. So, can you tell us about that?</p>
<p>Romantic story?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> I wish I could tell you something like that. Everybody would go to sleep. Anyway, I think maybe back in 1994 or 95, I was playing around a lot with the Internet because as a teacher I got an Internet account called FIRN. I was really excited about it.</p>
<p>Using it in my classroom &#8230; I brought a computer from home, a Tandy I had into the classroom. I got a grant and put a phone line in there and connected over dialup. Had the students talking to people, families, businesses all over the world.</p>
<p>We were using voice over IP also. The Vocaltec&#8217;s Internet Phone, and I&#8217;m telling you my classroom just turned upside down. Everyone could not wait to come to school every day. I got to know people involved in VoIP.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a software developer, but I&#8217;m quick to see when something will basically empower people. That is how we met different people in VoIP , for example, Rehan Allahwala.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s the one that I eventually started the business with in 1999.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> I was trying to bring that URL up. It is S U P E R T E C dot com. I wanted to paste it into the IRC. DelphiWorld is talking about Virtualphoneline.com. I wonder if you remember &#8230; because my first memory was dialpad.com.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> Yes, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/cwalker123">Craig Walker</a>, yeah.</p>
<p>(Dit, dit, dit &#8230; sound.)</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> Woah, was that me? I heard a cell phone or mobile phone. Dialpad.com had &#8230; I was on the modem &#8230; you know, dialup at the time. So when we called using Dialpad, we were calling on 56K at the best. It rarely rarely worked. We&#8217;ve come a long way if you zoom forward to even to 2005 &#8211; 2010, where already most of us are on DSL or cable.</p>
<p>So, the <a href="http://www.dialpad.com">dialpad.com</a> days are over. There are a million operators out there. Let&#8217;s speak what DIDX is about because that is a wholesale operation which would be interesting to some of the people on this call.</p>
<p>Want to talk about how it got started?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> Sure. A lot of our clients in the beginning were in remote areas of the world, like very much emerging. To make a<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-12108" style="margin: 15px;" title="5dollars" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/5dollars.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="82" /> phone call with PSTN, it cost about $5 per minute to call from Vietnam to the USA. Places like that and Lebanon, Pakistan, places like that.</p>
<p>So, we were selling dialup Internet phone adapters to people in these areas. Many of them wanted to have a local presence in a country that they were not actually physically in. Rehan got together with some of our developers and created something called VirtualPhoneLine.com.</p>
<p>I think we had interconnected with around 10 different carriers for phone numbers. We thought &#8230; but again, this was really Rehan&#8217;s idea. He said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s ask them if they would like to be a part of an exchange where they could automatically have an interconnect. We had already completed an interop and interconnect with each of them.</p>
<p>Those ten said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Around the beginning of 2005, we formalized it into actual &#8230; had a webpage and everybody could log in. It&#8217;s kind of grown from there. Now, there are around 18,000 members from around 163 nations.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve had our challenges but also plenty of joy.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> Over the years, I have tried various services. Everybody remembers Nufone and everything that followed the &#8220;pay as you go&#8221; stuff.</p>
<p>This is actually a seriously professional-oriented service that has a minmum, right? You can&#8217;t just go get an account and buy one number?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> Correct. You&#8217;ve already got lots of companies who you can buy one number from. There are also groups that have more of a wholesale approach and problem. We want to keep <a href="http://www.didx.net">DIDX</a> as wholesale because if we say, &#8220;Anyone can buy just one number or spend just 10 bucks per month, then we are actually competing with our customers.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> <a href="http://www.zipdx.com/showcase">ZipDX</a> is presumably one of your customers, I guess, or at least that is the type of operation of someone who needs a bunch of numbers.<br />
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<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> Yes, I respect <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-frankel/0/82/5a3">ZipDX</a>, no doubt.</p>
<p><em>Think of David Frankel, well-known in the San Francisco area and around the USA for his emphasis on quality and HD sound in the ZipDX service. He shared his experience with DIDX, in particular, the excellent customer service that DIDX team member Muneeb Iqbal provided during ITEXPO West 2008 in video.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> (Chuckles) A lot of people have called into the 1567 number which must come from DIDX.</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> It is likely to be a fact. I know we&#8217;ve sold millions of those 1567 numbers. They seem to be just fine. I even have a 1567 number.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> I&#8217;ll have to look into that next time because everyone is complaining about that ours only starts at noon. I just changed that because people were calling in too early.</p>
<p>Are you interested in speaking about other products you are doing? There is even some medical stuff as I recall?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> I don&#8217;t mind taking questions. I can say we have an awesome group of researchers and developers. They are involved in all types of open source like <a href="http://www.freeswitch.org">freeSWITCH</a>, <a href="http://www.kamailio.org"></a><a href="http://www.kamailio.org">Kamailio</a>, <a href="http://www.digium.com">Asterisk</a>, so we have a lot of services that are in alpha, beta &#8230; We have the <a href="http://www.healthmanagementsystem.net" target="_blank">HealthManagementSystem</a> which recently won one of the Mob<a href="http://www.rcrwireless.com/ARTICLE/20100927/WIRELESS_FACTS_AND_FIGURES/100929970/mobile-monday-names-awards-finalists-at-10-year-event" target="_blank">ile Monday Peer Awards 2010</a>.</p>
<p>We started an online magazine called <a href="http://www.techistan.com">Techistan</a>. We have video production with a social media twist at <a href="http://www.muntwo.com">Muntwo.com.</a></p>
<p>We have a great time promoting our customers, people in the industry even if they are not our customer, different events that we think are really important to participate in. We do that with the media channels I just mentioned. We have a really fun podcast channel. It&#8217;s at <a href="http://www.didx.net/podcast/?p=archive&amp;cat=all">http://www.didx.net/podcast</a>.</p>
<p>Some of the people who have logged into this call, we have interviewed such as <a href="http://www.didx.net/podcast/?p=episode&amp;name=2009-07-30_leifmadsenjul312009.mp3">Leif Madsen</a>.</p>
<p>If you have more questions or anyone else, I&#8217;d love to answer.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> All questions are welcome. Karl has a question.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.voipusersconference.org/tag/karl-fife/"><strong>Karl Fife:</strong></a> Strange, huh? It&#8217;s the beginning of the call. Hi, Suzanne. How do you work around the legal restrictions that sometimes exist in different countries?</p>
<p>I know, for example, we&#8217;ve looked into getting a number in Germany, but I know that they have restrictions that say you must have a physical address in order to get a geographic number.</p>
<p>Are you able to offer numbers in such areas, and how do you work this out?</p>
<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> I think that is an important question, Karl. In the agreements that participants in DIDX sign off on, there is a section that states something about the responsibility of the members to follow the law. Also take a look at <a href="http://kb.didx.net">http://kb.didx.net </a>and click &#8220;Documents Requirements.&#8221; &#8220;KB&#8221; as in knowledge base &#8230;</p>
<p>You will find a list of countries, and it shows what that particular is requiring. If you use our API or manually login and buy a DID in one of those areas, you will see a &#8220;pop-up&#8221; that will say there are some government requirements, and in order to complete the purchase, there needs to be a conversation between our team and that buyer.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick:</strong> You mentioned Vietnam. Are you much in Asia? Is there much activity there?</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10116" title="rehanallahwala" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/rehanallahwala1.jpg" alt="" width="80" height="80" />Suzanne Bowen</strong>: Absolutely. As you know, Rehan and I were the ones who co-founded this company. He&#8217;s in the East. I&#8217;m in the West. He has a strong influence and great network in the eastern part of the world.</p>
<p>One of the guys from Asterisk (<a href="http://www.digium.com">Digium</a>&#8217;s Greg Vance) was in a meeting with Rehan and I (shame, shame, should be &#8220;me&#8221;) at Gitex in Dubai. He stated that some at Digium felt there wasn&#8217;t much participation in open source telephony (Asterisk) in the East and there was much more in the West.</p>
<p>But actually, just type in &#8220;Asterisk User Group&#8221; on Yahoo!, Google, or Dogpile, and you&#8217;ll get a huge plethora of user groups such as in Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, even Afghanistan.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick: </strong>Wow.<br />
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<p><strong>Suzanne Bowen:</strong> There are really sharp developers all over as well as people who are entrepreneurs, taking advantage of open source telephony &#8230; options they can choose from.</p>
<p>Like &#8230; <a href="http://www.communicasia.com">CommunicAsia</a> (which we are a media partner for) is a big conference in the East. It takes place in Singapore around May or June each year. Many in open source telephony participate in that conference every year now. It had doubled, tripled, quadrupled its participation since the first one I attended.</p>
<p>I think it is because of the growth of mobile, wireless, voice over IP, whatever, you know &#8230; in China, India.</p>
<p><strong>Randy Resnick</strong>: Many countries have jumped over the fixed line, and everyone is using mobile. Obviously in Africa, that is the case which has some problems with infrastructure. It is also largely the case, I guess in China because Chinese mobile accounts from what I was able to observe there in May. You can buy a SIM card cheaper than you can in Europe.</p>
<p>You can make calls incredibly inexpensively. So, how does that affect what you guys are doing?</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/suzanne-bowen-supertechnologies/" target="_blank">More transcript from this podcast soon.</a></em></p>
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Revolutionizing Telecommunications in Africa and the Middle East
Emerging service providers in the Middle East and Africa have struggled to provide low-cost alternative calling methods for years, due to government regulations and technical obstacles. The IPsmarx Callback Solution is the answer for service providers who need to deliver low-cost calling to their customer base without having [...]]]></description>
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</em></strong>Emerging service providers in the Middle East and Africa have struggled to provide low-cost alternative calling methods for years, due to government regulations and technical obstacles. The IPsmarx Callback Solution is the answer for service providers who need to deliver low-cost calling to their customer base without having to install costly hardware and phone lines in their country, itself.</p>
<p>By implementing the IPsmarx Callback Solution, service providers can now maintain their solution in the US or Europe, while offering VoIP calls to their customers in the Middle East or Africa at significantly reduced rates.</p>
<p>Because of the reversed call path and the savings of VoIP, providers are able to pass savings along to their end users, making Callback an attractive service for end users and providers alike.</p>
<p>This is particularly attractive to service providers who have customers in regions where phone line infrastructure is limited and costly or where VoIP is regulated. In addition, service providers and calling card operators who are located in the US or Europe may bundle Callback services with their existing product line in order to boost revenue and tap in to new markets. For example, an end user in the US who calls Ghana frequently may prefer to order a calling card for themselves and a callback card for their family in Ghana, resulting in increased revenue for the service provider.</p>
<p>Solution Overview<br />
<a href="http://www.ipsmarx.com" target="_blank">IPsmarx Callback Solution</a> is designed to entitle service providers with an all-in-one management tool for all various Callback services. IPsmarx Softswitch-based Callback Platform Solution integrates ANI, PIN, and WEB Callback Services with a Call Route Management, Client Management and a Reporting Platform to provide Enhanced VoIP-based Callback services.</p>
<p>Callback service allows the end-user a huge savings on international calling, without having to make an outgoing call on their landline or GSM phone.</p>
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		<title>Millions of Mobile Phone Service Customers will Switch Services in the Next Twelve Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>omar shaikh</dc:creator>
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<iframe style="width:0px;height:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden" frameborder="0" id="ispeech_iframe_15"></iframe><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11447" style="margin: 15px;" title="balanceworkhome_virtualphoneline" src="http://www.techistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/balanceworkhome_virtualphoneline.jpg" alt="Virtual Phone Lines Help Mobile Operators Keep Customers" width="300" height="130" />Be the one they switch to and stay with. One way to do this is to offer something that no one or hardly anyone else is offering, something that customers crave &#8230; like being close to their VIP, showing off that they have &#8220;presence&#8221; in more than one country, and being popular. We are talking love, friendship, pride and fame which often come with money, the things that people wish for and dream for. Owning a phone number from another city can do this.</p>
<p>But, telecommunications forums and mailing lists are rife with the ubiquitous requests for white routes, gray routes and A-Z for the past dozen years online. But <a href="http://www.didx.net">DIDXchange</a>, the world&#8217;s largest wholesale phone number exchange and ecosystem, has shared with the world in thousands of press releases, face to face meetings, conference exhibitions, event presentations, online videos, blogs, voice and instant message conversations that origination, SIP DID, IAX2 DID, voip phone numbers, call diversion, local presence in the form of a phone number, virtual phone line is the hot technology commodity, not minutes.</p>
<p>Why do businesses and individuals want phone numbers from a city or country that is different from the one they physically live and work in? Listen to <a href="http://www.cnnradio.com/cgi-bin/cnnradio.cgi" target="_blank">CNN Radio</a> and American Airlines&#8217; <a href="http://www.didx.net/podcast/?p=episode&amp;name=2011-02-08_virtualphoneline_cnn_radio.mp3" target="_blank">audio interview with an official of Virtual Phone Line service</a>.</p>
<p>Imagine being in Tokyo, Japan, and your child is accepted to Harvard and will be studying in the USA for at least six years. You the parents in Japan and your child in the USA will feel close because of a virtual phone line. Get a Tokyo, Japan virtual phone line. Set it to ring on your child&#8217;s Nimbuzz, Skype, fring, super phone, or any SIP on Xlite on her computer, netbook or smartphone.</p>
<p>You dial the Tokyo, Japan phone number which is a local call. It rings where your child has chosen it to ring to.</p>
<p>Every week, not just entrepreneurs, but also the largest mobile operators are adding a virtual phone line service such as is described. Note Starhub&#8217;s foreign number service at <a href="http://www.starhub.com/support/mobile/faq/valueaddedservices/foreignnumber.html">http://www.starhub.com/support/mobile/faq/valueaddedservices/foreignnumber.html</a>, for example. Congratulations, Starhub!</p>
<p>&#8220;Under non-disclosure agreement, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Technologies">Super Technologies, Inc.</a> cannot state which mogul entrepreneurs, incumbents, mobile operators and CLECs are starting their own virtual phone number service via our hosted for rebrand set up, but we can say that it is the most popular service of ours that we provide after DIDX. Businesses and individuals are mixing virtual phone lines with a special niche or market, such as mobile customers, tourists, traveling businesspeople, students, research scientists, gaming, social networks, and even find a wife or husband service. We host and connect to DIDX via API for phone numbers from 60 countries with Facebook integration and great ring to options like IAX2, SIP, many instant messengers, PSTN and more,&#8221; stated Suzanne Bowen, vice president of Super Technologies, Inc.</p>
<p>&#8220;To start a franchise of a communications service would cost millions of dollars, but to start a company or service that <a href="http://www.itsp.com/ws">rebrands our hosted virtual phone line service</a> is a tiny fraction of that cost. The telco, MVNO, entrepreneur, or SMB who is ready to get started should email We require a setup fee at start which is not refundable. We guide you through making choices from our many options already in place on exactly how you want your service to work. You should be in business within four weeks,&#8221; added Nauman Syed, Sales Executive at Super Technologies, Inc.</p>
<p>He continued, &#8220;Connect with me, our CEO Rehan Allahwala, and Suzanne Bowen on Linkedin to understand even more about the power of DIDX and call forward management for your own grand slam opportunity, not only in revenue and market but in knowing that what you provide brings people closer to those who are important to them, their VIP. Don&#8217;t wait and wait to start the business of your dreams. Call us to sign up, set up and roll out your International Phone Number business. Decide your niche, lifestyle and/or geo-area you want to serve and market to them. Be a winner. Get started before 2011, the New year.&#8221;</p>
<p>About Super Technologies, Inc.<br />
Incorporated in Northwest Florida since December 29, 1999, the company has a large research and development team, has an expertise in social/business networking media and telecommunications origination solutions such as the DIDXchange and Call Forward Management hosted/rebrand. It is an Inc.com 500 application partner, a sponsor of Linking Arms, Inc. (a Northwest Florida nonprofit organization), and has an A+ Better Business Bureau rating. Contact <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannebowen">SuzanneBowen</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rehanallahwala">Rehan Allahwala</a> (CEO) and <a href="http://pk.linkedin.com/in/muneeb" target="_blank">Muneeb Iqbal</a> on <a href="mailto:sales@itsp.ws">email</a> or on Linkedin.</p>
<p> <em>Written by EMEA Editor and CEO of Techistan <a href="http://www.facebook.com/rehan33" target="_blank">Rehan Allahwala</a> and edited by <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannebowen" target="_blank">Suzanne Bowen</a>, Editor in Chief and VP.</em></p>
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