Kenamea Announces Entry Into Composite Application Suite Market; Need for Agility and Real-Time Interactivity Fuels Growth of Web-based Composite Applications.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Kenamea Inc. today announced its entry into the emerging market for Composite Application Suites. Composite Applications combine the power and productivity of client/server applications with the zero-client and cross-platform benefits of the Web. Composite Application Suites allow these applications to be developed and deployed quickly and easily with minimal or no custom programming.

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Composite applications are a central element in corporate and government organizations' drive toward greater agility. Agility, an organization's ability to rapidly and effectively respond to change, lies at the heart of business performance -- increasing operational effectiveness, improving service and product quality, and increasing revenues at reduced costs. Corporate agility is supported by composite applications that integrate all the systems and users involved in a business process together into a single, real-time application. Composite applications present users not only with a continuous view of the entire process, but also provide the system access and collaborative environment necessary to respond to events, exceptions, and opportunities as soon as they occur.

"In a drive to do more with less, businesses are looking to reuse proven functionality in new ways. Composite applications enable new methods for combining new and established functionality to deliver highly interactive event-driven Web applications," said Tom Lounibos, Kenamea CEO. "These applications provide higher levels of user productivity, increased application reuse and lower total cost of ownership."

Composite applications are characterized by their ability to integrate systems and users across enterprise boundaries, to support continuous real- time monitoring and control, and to allow rapid and ongoing evolution in function. The IT industry is responding to these needs through three major architectural advances. First, a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) delivers the necessary reach and flexibility by allowing systems to be accessed over the network through simple, standard interfaces. Second, event-driven design allows applications to support real-time information and interaction, with high performance and unlimited scale. And third, component-based development allows applications to be rapidly developed and continuously evolved as assemblies of standard high-level components, rather than slowly crafted from custom code.

Kenamea Enters Emerging Market for Composite Application Suites

Kenamea's newest product release, the Kenamea Composite Application Suite, combines these three architectural principles into a complete solution for developing composite applications. For the first time, composite applications can run within any standard Web browser, with no new application or platform installation on the user's device, and over any network connection (LAN, Internet, or mobile). While exploiting the company's established Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) product, Kenamea's product marks a milestone evolution for the company from infrastructure to a complete end-to-end application environment.

"Kenamea's mission is to enable rich and powerful enterprise applications that span business processes -- unrestricted by network or system boundaries," said Mr. Lounibos. "Organizations realize that agility demands applications that leverage their investments in infrastructure and Web services, but can also be rapidly developed and continually evolved. Kenamea now offers a complete solution for composite applications -- tools, infrastructure, and an extensive component library. We believe that the comprehensiveness of our solution, coupled with our ability to deliver applications within the standard browser, uniquely meets the business goal to build a more agile, responsive enterprise."

About the Kenamea Composite Application Suite

The Kenamea Composite Application Suite provides component-based development and an interactive runtime environment for composite applications. Composite applications that are developed and deployed with Kenamea uniquely deliver continuous real-time information delivery, cross-enterprise application interoperability, event-driven interaction, and increased security and reliability. These applications can be securely delivered to tens of thousands of users, through any channel, to an array of end user devices, and with zero client install.

Kenamea allows organizations to cost-effectively develop, deploy, and maintain composite applications in a matter of days versus months. The result is dramatic user productivity gains and increased operational efficiency, at a fraction of the cost.

About Kenamea, Inc.

Kenamea Inc. provides the market leading end-to-end solution for the development and delivery of highly interactive composite applications. Based on open industry standards, the Kenamea Composite Application Suite provides component-based development and an interactive runtime environment. Kenamea's software allows companies to equip their executives, distributed workforce, customers and partners with a new class of highly interactive Web applications that result in dramatic productivity gains and increased operational efficiency, at a dramatically reduced total cost of ownership. Founded in August 1999, Kenamea is headquartered in San Francisco with sales offices in New York, Boston, Atlanta, and San Francisco. For more information about Kenamea, please visit the company website, http://www.kenamea.com/ .

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CHINA LOOKING TO BOOST DEVT OF IT INDUSTRY UNDER 12TH 5-YR PLAN.

BEIJING, March 25 Asia Pulse - The wording "Establishing the next-generation information infrastructure, boosting the application of information technologies in different economic and social sectors, and enhancing the Internet and information security" has been written into the Outline of China's 12th Five-Year Plan for the five years from 2011 to 2015. These may serve as key guidelines to boost the development of China's information technology industry.

As China's strategic emerging industry, the new IT sector will be a key object to get government support, analysts say.

First, communications industry as the foundation for the development of the new IT sector has already commenced large scale infrastructure construction, and is of key importance in the 2011-2015 period.

Secondly, investment in fiber optical communications based on the "broadband China" strategy will go through the whole 12th Five-Year Plan period, and has great potential for further development.

Thirdly, Internet of Things and clouding computing are expected to be popular sectors for investment.

Moreover, the significance of e-commerce has shown in the Plan, which specifies to bolster the construction of e-commerce supporting system during the 2011-2015 period.

The Plan also emphasizes the importance of information security, specifies the request for the construction of e-government system, gives prominence to the geographic information industry, and adds contents on boosting the development of high-tech service industry as well as the construction of digital cities.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS : COMMISSION MOVES AGAINST TELECOMS TAXES'.

France and Spain were already in the European Commission's sights and have now been referred to the EU Court of Justice for refusing to abolish their telecoms tax', levied in both countries to compensate for the loss of earnings resulting from the discontinuation of paid advertising on public television. On 13 March, the Commission also opened an infringement case against Hungary, which applies a similar tax to bolster its tax revenues.

A telecoms tax was introduced in France in March 2009, another in Spain in September of the same year and a third in Hungary a year later: in all three cases, EU telecoms sector rules are overtly breached, according to the Commission, which is tracking down such practices. It argues that Directive 2002/20/EC on the authorisation of electronic communications networks and services is very precise: "such charges should be limited to cover the actual administrative costs" of the national regulatory authority - which is by no means the case here.

In the case of France, the tax came into effect after the government decided to abolish paid advertising on all France Televisions channels after 20:00, a flagship measure by President Nicolas Sarkozy. It was originally intended to extend it to daytime programming as well, but in the end the measure stopped there. The tax amounts to 0.9% of telecoms operators' total turnover in excess of 5 million. This new tax paid to the French state is expected to bring in around 400 million a year.

The Spanish legislation is based on similar logic: a tax of 0.9% on telecoms operators' gross earnings as a result of the abolition of all advertising on public radio and television channels. A few operators were spared due to the geographical scope and type of telecoms services they provide. The tax is expected to raise 230 million in 2010.

Both taxes were found illegal by the Commission, in July 2010, and the executive sent a final warning to both states, in October. Paris and Madrid were given two months to abolish the taxes, "but they are still in place," regrets the Commission. France and Spain apparently prefer to argue the case for their taxes before the EU court. "There is a real problem of law on the scope of the authorisation directive and it is our view that the Commission is going beyond this scope," notes a French diplomatic source, who adds that taxation is an area subject to unanimity of the member states.

The Commission is also tackling Hungary's special tax' on telecoms. The tax also concerns retail trade and energy and is meant to boost the country's tax revenues. In a request for information sent to Budapest, the Commission expresses its concerns about the compatibility of the tax with the EU's telecoms legislation. For telecoms operators, the tax rates vary between 0% and 6.5% based on gross earnings (excluding VAT). The Hungarian government hopes to raise 220 million a year with the measure. Operators have already paid the tax for 2010. If Hungary's explanations fail to convince the Commission, Budapest also risks a referral to the EU court.

The former telecoms monopolies are very pleased with the Commission's doggedness, in any case. Their European association, ETNO, argues that taxes like those levied in Spain, France and Hungary place a "heavy burden" on a sector that is supposed to be a driver of growth and employment. These measures risk hampering its capacity to invest in high-speed internet connections and endangering the EU's targets for coverage by 2020.

Mozilla Mitigates 8 Critical, 1 High Risk and 1 Moderate Risk Vulnerabilities.

M2 PRESSWIRE-March 3, 2011-: Mozilla Mitigates 8 Critical, 1 High Risk and 1 Moderate Risk Vulnerabilities(C)1994-2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS

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Recently, Mozilla released patch for 10 vulnerabilities. The addressed vulnerabilities pertain to Firefox 3.6.14, 3.5.17 and Thunderbird 3.1.8. The developer has rated 8 out of the 10 vulnerabilities as critical. Out of the remaining two, Mozilla has rated one as high and the other as moderate risk security flaw.

The vulnerabilities are associated with JPEG image, plugins and 307 redirects, text run construction, web workers, JavaScript atom map, JavaScript upvarMap and JSON.stringify. The security update also addresses numerous memory safety bugs associated with Firefox 3.6 and 3.5, which cause memory corruption. Attackers could exploit the bug to run arbitrary code. Security professionals at Mozilla also patched a security flaw caused by ParanoidFragmentSink. Usually, ParanoidFragmentSink class is used to clean unsafe HTML. However, it was identified that the class allows javascript URLs in chrome documents. The flaw could be exploited by a malicious extension code. The security update included a patch for a security flaw, which could allow an attacker to use a specially crafted JPEG image to store a malicious code in the memory and get it executed on a targeted computer system. Firefox and Thunderbird users must update their browsers to protect their computer system from security breaches.

The vulnerabilities were reported by security researchers affiliated to various organizations. Mozilla rates those vulnerabilities as critical, which may be exploited by attackers to execute code and install malicious software in computer systems of users performing normal browsing. The developer ranks those vulnerabilities as high, which track websites visited by a user to either steal information or to inject malicious code on the visited websites. The vibrant threats from cybercriminals could be tackled by proactive identification and timely communication of security flaws. Online degree and training programs may help security experts in improving their soft skills.

Security professionals at Mozilla have addressed the security flaws a week before the Pwn2Own contest, which would be organized as a part of the upcoming CanSecWest security conference. Ethical hackers, computer science degree holders, penetration testers and other IT security professionals are expected to exploit flaws associated with different web browsers such as Mozilla firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer along with other software applications during the contest. Developers and sponsors have announced cash prize and other bounties for experts, who manage to breach the security of the products.

Organizations require large number of cyber security experts to deal with the sophisticated challenges from attackers. Introduction of online university degree programs may encourage prospective science and engineering students to undertake research in cyber security and contribute in developing new secure technologies.

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EC-Council is a member-based organization that certifies individuals in cybersecurity and e-commerce skills. It is the owner and developer of 16 security certifications, including Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) and EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA)/License Penetration Tester (LPT). Its certificate programs are offered in over 60 countries around the world.

EC-Council has trained over 80,000 individuals and certified more than 30,000 members, through more than 450 training partners globally. These certifications are recognized worldwide and have received endorsements from various government agencies including the U.S. federal government via the Montgomery GI Bill, Department of Defense via DoD 8570.01-M, National Security Agency (NSA) and the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS). EC-Council also operates the global series of Hacker Halted security conferences. iClass is EC- Council's online training delivery platform. Students can attend live, or recorded training sessions for courses such as Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) or Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI).

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