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Retail Banking in Europe 4 to 5 March 2008 Retail Banking in Europe, United Kingdom Website: http://www.marketforce.eu.com/rbe/ Contact name: Rory McNeil In today's increasingly competitive marketplace retail banks are facing the challenges and opportunities associated with sector consolidation, as they forge a place for themselves in tomorrow's retail banking landscape. Expanding into new m Organized by: The Institute of Economic Affairs'

Dedicated world-class exhibition on information technology, communications and networking, from wired to wireless to satellite applications to next generation network, that is designed, programmed and packaged to meet the needs of Indonesia's vast and varied business communities. Developed for the purpose of transferring advanced technology, increase productivity, improve service quality and business facilities, enhance work processes and standards of operations. Driven by relevant government agencies and key industry players in Indonesia to be the ideal platform on which businesses in the country could be largely enhanced, aided by the ease of advanced communication and enterprise information technologies.

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have seen rapid growth and development in the recent past. This has led to their wide diffusion and application, increasing their economic and social impact, ultimately giving rise to a Knowledge-Based Society. ICT systems have become ubiquitous and pervasive today. The biggest challenge faced by researchers is not only to make such systems feasible, but also to make them secure and dependable. The aim of the Conference is to provide a stimulating forum for representatives from industry, academia and government agencies to share ideas, report findings and discuss products, thus defining future directions in these cutting edge technologies. The highlights of the Conference will include contributed papers, invited talks, vendor exhibitions, practical experience reports, tutorials, poster presentations and panel discussions on topics including but not limited to the following: • Distributed systems and computer networks • Adhoc networks • Wireless sensor networks • Location aware and power aware systems • Mobile agents • Ecommerce • Fault-tolerant systems • Information and network security • Web security • Trust modeling • Security measurement and analysis • Security testing • Multimedia communications • Storage networks

The 9th IBIMA conference on Information Management in Modern Organizations will be held in Marrakech, Morocco 5-7 January 2008. Marrakech "Red City or Al Hamra," founded the city in 1062 AD, is a city in southwestern Morocco in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. The famous town square of Marrakech, Jemaa l-Fna, owes little of its fame to its own beauty, but to the continuous day and night life. During most of the days, perfomers of every kind put up their shows, continuing until the food stalls start to move in. This major international conference will address a range of important themes with respect to Information management its impact on organizations, governments, and societies. The conference will include numerous papers and workshop presentations by academics and researchers from around the globe. Conference participants are welcome to submit full papers, short papers, extended abstracts, paper drafts, or invited session proposals. Submitted paper will be fully refereed and published in electronic formats. Please refer to call for papers. For those unable to attend the conference in person, virtual presentations are available. Virtual presentations allow participants to submit papers for refereeing and publication in the conference proceedings. Virtual participants will receive a full copy of the conference proceedings in electronic format by mail. The conference proceedings will be classified in EBSCO database Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) index CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) index InterDok Send Submissions to: Maroc2008@ibima.org Submissions instructions: Submit 2 files (in Microsoft Word OR in pdf) First file with just complete author(s) information and e-mail(s) Second file with just the paper without author(s) information for review purposes If you are submitting to a special track, please indicate that in your e-mail Conference Chair Khalid S. Soliman International Business Information Management Association, USA Hofstra University, USA khalid.soliman@hofstra.edu Program Chairs Ahmed El Abbouyi Université Chouaib Doukkali elabbouyi@hotmail.com Az-Eddine Bennani Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Reims Management School, France az-eddine.bennani@reims-ms.fr

Oversee.net Announces 2nd Annual DOMAINfest Global To Be Held in Hollywood California Company’s First European DOMAINfest Auction Brings Highest Recorded ccTLD Sale Los Angeles, CA (June 11, 2007) -- DomainSponsor™, the domain monetization business of Oversee.net, today announced that the next DOMAINfest™ Global will take place January 21-23, 2008. Due to popular demand, the event will return to the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, California where DomainSponsor plans to build on the success of its first global conference held earlier this year. The Company’s 3rd regional event, DOMAINfest Amsterdam, took place in mid-May and was an international success. The conference was attended by more than two hundred guests from nearly twenty countries across the globe, including Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, and Israel. In commenting on the event, Ron Sheridan, Director of Business Development for DomainSponsor said, “DOMAINfest Amsterdam connected international domainers with mutual interests. It was an intense learning and networking experience. With each conference, our goal is to offer more to the domainer community, and establish DOMAINfest as the premier conference and marketplace for the domain industry.” Speakers at DOMAINfest Amsterdam represented major industry players, such as Sedo, NICIT, NameMedia, EuroDNS, and Yahoo, who discussed today’s major domain industry issues. The leading domain conference premiered its first live auction in Amsterdam organized by show sponsor, NICIT. Twenty-seven domains were sold, totaling just under $1 million. While Liz Williams, Senior Policy Counselor at ICANN, reviewed the upcoming round of new TLDs in her keynote speech, DOMAINfest hosted the sale of the highest grossing ccTLD on record. Poker.de sold for over $937,000 at live auction. “It was exciting to hear the perspectives of European domain experts and learn from them,” Lawrence Ng, Oversee.net Chief Executive Officer, said. “This event helps lay the groundwork for a fantastic global event in January 2008. We understand how important our continued partnerships with top domain professionals are to the success of DOMAINfest events and we plan to nurture those key relationships to produce an event that’s important and pertinent to the industry as a whole.” Registration for DOMAINfest Global will open Monday, June 11, 2007. To register or learn more about DOMAINfest Global, visit http://www.domainfest.com or e-mail info@domainfest.com. DOMAINfest Global is open to all domain industry professionals. About DomainSponsor.com DomainSponsor is the leader in domain monetization, serving domain owners since 2002. It monetizes more than two and a half million domain names and has more than 100 million unique visitors per month. To learn more, please visit http://www.domainsponsor.com. About Oversee.net Oversee.net is a technology-driven company whose core businesses are domain services and online marketing services. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Company has over 160 employees and was recently named “Internet and New Media Company of the Year” by the Technology Council of Southern California. Oversee has been growing profitably since inception. To learn more, please visit http://www.oversee.net.

After the resounding success of KioskCom Middle East’s and Vending Middle East's Self-Service Expos' second edition in Dubai, the third expo and conference is scheduled to be held on Feb 6th-7th 2008 at the Dhow Palace Hotel in Dubai, to further prove itself as a colossal dais and an opportunity for the growing demand in Self-Service Technology in the Middle East. With repeat participation from the exhibitors, combined with new companies looking to foray in the Middle East regions, we foresee a growth of up to 70% in the event size in 2008, with attendees from Middle East and the neighboring regions. Under the patronage of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Supported by International Associations such as NAMA, European Vending Association, ATMIA, Euro Kiosks Network, Self Service & Kiosks Association and more...The show is set to attract top industry majors with objectives of seeking self-service solutions, entering into alliances and tapping the vibrant potential of the escalating industry in the Middle East market. We request you to kindly add the details of this colossal expo of the Middle East region on your website. Please feel free to contact us for any further information. Thank you in advance.

The Florida Linux Show is a must for all Florida companies whose technology and success, revolve around the Internet (this is everyone). With the power of the Internet reaching into global, national, and local markets it is important to remain vigilant and think strategically about how the Internet and its hardware and software will affect the next generation Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

CollECTeR 2007 - 10th Anniversary Collaborative Electronic Commerce Technology and Research -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 2007 CollECTeR Conference on Electronic Commerce in Australia will be held from December 9-11, at the Langham Hotel in Melbourne, in association with: the 5th International Supply Chain Management and I.S. Conference (SCMIS) the 2007 Australian Conference for KM and Intelligent Decision Support (ACKMIDS) The 2007 CollECTeR Conference is designed to be an interactive experience – an expert discussant will be assigned to each paper who will be asked firstly to respond directly to the paper, then to facilitate broad-ranging and extensive discussion. In the workshop spirit, ample time will be made available to allow for a full exploration of the ideas contained within – and the implications of – each paper and, where appropriate, for discussion on methodological issues arising from the research. As a consequence, research supervisors may feel that this workshop is a particularly useful venue for papers arising from doctoral/post-graduate research projects. The Programme Committee actively seeks papers describing novel, radical and, indeed, controversial ideas – papers may describe either competed research or work in progress. Researchers are encouraged to submit either “work in progress” papers (around 3,000 words), or full papers on completed research (around 5,000 words). Papers should be original and not previously published. All papers will be double-blind-reviewed by two members of the Programme Committee, experienced researchers with extensive expertise in the area. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings which will be available, in CD-ROM format, at the Conference itself; and from the CollECTeR web site. Additional copies of the Proceedings on CD-ROM will also be available for purchase. Authors will be required to transfer a non-exclusive right to publish the paper within the conference proceedings (in CD-ROM, WWW and paper formats) but this does not preclude the authors from later publication of the paper elsewhere. The highlighted topic area for CollECTeR 2007 is “E-Enterprise Integration” and suggested topics for papers include (but are not restricted to): Integrating E-Business into the organisation Effective E-Government Service Delivery Mobile applications for the Real World E-CRM Value creation for the E-Enterprise Integrating RFID into the Business Security and Privacy in the E-Enterprise Integrated Electronic Markets Using Electronic Documents to enable the E-Enterprise and other topics relevant to the workshop theme ... Additional Information Important Dates 14th September – Paper Submission Closes 5th October – Notification of Paper Acceptance 2nd November – Author’s registration & revised paper submission 9th November – Final date for early bird rego 9-11 December – Conference

Have you ever wondered how to get search engines to place your Web site or press release top in search results for certain keywords? This seminar will teach you just that. Success in communications depends on a completely integrated communications effort that includes SEO. When researching a product, person or company, most people search for information online. Your messages should be first in their results and this seminar is designed to help you achieve this. This is an interactive session and we encourage you to submit your Web site for analysis for a chance to have experts offer advice on your Web strategy. Topics include: • The basics of SEO • Writing a press release for search engines • Integrated communications planning involving the Web • Reputation management using SEO • Case study analysis INSTRUCTOR John Spagnuolo is president of the New Media Institute and frequently teaches search engine optimization and marketing to communication professionals. Prior to joining the New Media Institute, John served as a spokesperson for the insurance industry and consulted with top communications professionals around the world on using technology in their communications strategies.

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