Part of that experience is bringing back this collegetour idea

Society InstituteRachel Hart, 1-212-548-0378, 1-917-543-1126, (New York),or Filip Medarski, 389 70 333 552, (Macedonia), both ofOpen Society Institute. David Cook, Last Season's American Idol Winner, Kicks off his first Headlinetour 'The Declaration Tour - 2009' in Tallahassee, FL on February 13thLOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ Reigning American Idol winner, DavidCook, has announced plans for his first ever solo tour to promote his debutself-titled album, released in November 2008. This will be first time thatCook has been on the road since headlining the American Idol season 7 tour.Cook exclusively unveiled his tour dates on AOL Music's PopEater onFriday, January 23rd.Cook entered the Billboard charts at 3 with David Cook (19 Recordings / RCARecords). The Rob Cavallo produced album also debuted as the 1 album on thedigital album chart and is the best debut from an American Idol winner since2006.

The first single, "Light On," dominated the AOL Top 40 radio chart with8 (non consecutive) weeks at 1 and is currently Top 10 at Hot AC radio andstill growing.In late September "Light On" premiered on AOL Music's popculture news site, PopEater , receiving over 1 million plays in less thanweek.Rolling Stone Magazine deemed Cook "the most imaginative American Idol talentto date.""I'm more than excited to hop on the road and support this record. This tourrepresents both a new beginning and a return to form for me," said Cook. "It's our first full tour, and we're all ready to pour whatever blood, sweat,and tears that we can muster into making this show, and every show from hereon out, an experience.Part of that experience is bringing back this collegetour idea.There's something inherently nostalgic about playing collegeshows.So many amazing acts used to do it, so it's nice to be able to bringthat ideal back, in some small way.And besides, touring on a bus beats whatwe used to do, which was cram five guys into a 7 passenger van for one show,13 hours away..."Cook's first single, "The Time of My Life" recently went platinum, with overone million tracks sold. "The Time of My Life" is not only the biggest singledebut but the highest selling coronation single in the show's history.

He visitedseven different bases, singing songs off his self-titled album.On February 12, Walt Disney World Resort will host the world premiere of theirnew blockbuster attraction, "The American Idol Experience" at Disney'sHollywood Studios. David Cook will perform live from the attraction on GOODMORNING AMERICA (ABC) that morning, and will headline a special guestperformance during the night's event. "The Declaration Tour - 2009" will kick off February 13, 2009 in Tallahassee,FL and will continue nationwide hitting various college campus and majorvenues.The full schedule for David Cook's tour is as follows:Friday, February 13th - Tallahassee, Fl - Florida State UniversitySaturday, February 14th - Biloxi, MS - Beau RivageSunday, February 15th - Oxford, MS - Ole MissWednesday, February 18th - Eau Claire, WI- University of WisconsinThursday February 19th - Cedar Falls, IA - University of Northern IowaFriday, February 20th - Green Bay, WI- University of Wisconsin- GreenBaySaturday, February 21st - Valparaiso, IN- Valparaiso UniversityMonday, February 23rd- Waverly, IA - WarlburgTuesday, February 24th - Fulton, MO- WestminsterWednesday, February 25th - Conway, AR- Central Arkansas UniversityFriday, February 27th- Portsmouth, OH - Shawnee State UniversitySunday, March 1st - Newburgh, NY- Mount St. Event Held in Romania, Where Tekelec Works with Top 6 OperatorsMORRISVILLE, N.C.(Business Wire)Tekelec (NASDAQ: TKLC) will discuss the evolution toward IP signaling and theneed for session control in next generation networks (NGNs) at CEE Telecoms2009, January 29-30 in Bucharest, Romania. Operators from Central Eastern Europe (CEE) will gain insight on the benefits ofan intelligent core network, the steps to evolve from SS7 to SIP signaling, andtechnologies enabling the inter-connection of different types of networksignaling. Matthieu de Parades, technical sales engineer at Tekelec, will givethe presentation on January 29 at 1:40 p.m.

"Tekelecs unmatched SIP expertise and solutions can provide carriersinteroperability between current and next-generation networks that allows themto gradually migrate to all-IP infrastructure," said Wolrad Claudy, Tekelec'ssenior vice president of global sales. For more information on SIP technology, Tekelec has launched the SIP Sessionsblog and made its series of four SIP tutorial webinars and its SIP Pocket Guideavailable online. The company has also published a series of associatedwhitepapers which can be downloaded at no charge: Upgrading the Next-generationNetwork Part I Part II Part III Part IV. About TekelecTekelec leverages its global leadership in core multimedia session control andnetwork intelligence to ensure scalable, secure and highly availablecommunications. For more information, please visit About CEE TelecomsFor the sixth consecutive year, the CEE Telecoms conference will offer aninformative insight into the Central Eastern Europe region, covering regulatorydevelopments, major players in the fixed-line, broadband, convergence and mobilemarkets, the development of new product offerings for the aforementionedmarkets, as well as presenting a wide range of industry related statistics inaddition to broadband penetration forecasts.