Emergency Telephony (ETel 2007).

The article features the Emergency Telephony (ETel 2007) conference that will be held on February 27-March 1, 2007 in San Francisco, California. Topics will include innovations and projects occurring in open source telephony, wireless mobility, mobile telephony, Wi-Fi VoIP (wireless fidelity voice-over Internet protocol), telephone networks as platforms, and the intersection of VoIP telephony with Web services. The special focus for this conference will be open source software and telephony. For the VoIP telephony/Web services intersection discussion, organizers seek submissions that explore what the future will look like when, for example, every site allows users to call someone's cell phone, or provides Web-calendar editing by just calling an artificial voice agent.