ISTART BUSINESS IDEA COMPETITION SITE COLLECTS MORE THAN 1,200 BUSINESS IDEAS WORLDWIDE.

KANSAS CITY, MO -- The following information was released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation:

iStart, a customizable Web-based platform that simplifies how organizations market and administer business competitions worldwide, is picking up speed as students access the site to fulfill their dreams of becoming successful entrepreneurs.

iStart.org is a single resource that allows student entrepreneurs to share ideas and gain access to an international network of competitions and mentors. For administrators, the platform helps with complex tasks, including managing and monitoring applicant entries, establishing judging criteria and conducting online judging.

Since its launch in 2010, the website, hosted by the Kauffman Foundation, has gathered more than 1,200 businesses ideas from 44 countries, including Albania, Kenya, Afghanistan, Israel and Ukraine. Business idea categories include Internet (websites), Information Technology, Life Sciences, Social Entrepreneurship, Services, Green, Materials, Consumer Goods and Energy.

"We believe experiential opportunities are important for entrepreneurs to network and learn - especially for students and others in the idea phase. iStart creates a network of opportunities for student and aspiring entrepreneurs to get global exposure, make connections and learn through competitions," said Lesa Mitchell, vice president of Advancing Innovation at the Kauffman Foundation. "With their ideas accessible to mentors and investors and potential teaming partners, entrepreneurs can more quickly gain momentum in their business planning process."

Some 40 different competitions hosted by businesses and universities globally are currently using iStart. Rice University utilizes the platform for its annual intercollegiate business plan competition, which has the largest judging panel and distributes the most prize money of any such competition in the world. Other competitions include the Harvard College Innovation Challenge, Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award and Kellogg Cup.

"Business plan, pitch and idea competitions play a key role in entrepreneurial education and often kick-start an idea for an aspiring entrepreneur. That's why we want to make these competitions more accessible to students and easier for administrators," said Katie Petersen, who manages the iStart program for the Kauffman Foundation. "Our customizable platform is one-of-a-kind, and we hope becomes the go-to site for entering business plan competitions around the world, browsing abstracts and networking with innovative, energized entrepreneurs. We want to help make dreams a reality."

To learn more, visit: www.iStart.org.

Advanced 3G Services to Boost Indian Mobile Gaming Industry.

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According to our latest research report "India Mobile Gaming Analysis", the mobile gaming market has emerged as the most vibrant and transforming division of the overall Indian gaming industry. The economic slowdown had no effects on the industry's growth and the market performed remarkably well compared to the other major mobile gaming markets including the US, Japan, and the UK. With increasing penetration of the Internet & broadband services, and rising mobile user base, the market for mobile gaming in India is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of around 74% during 2010-2013.

As per our research, introduction of 3G mobile services will propel the growth of mobile gaming industry in the country. With the operations of 3G mobile business, mobile games services are expected to be the next goldmine after PC games. As per our team of experts, the number of 3G mobile handsets will cross the mark of 16 Million in 2011 and are anticipated to grow rapidly, which will lay a good foundation for the development of online games.

Further, our study indicates that the domestic companies account for majority of the Indian mobile gaming market. These homegrown companies have been witnessing rapid growth in their overall revenue compared to their foreign counterparts. However, it has been anticipated that, during the forecast period, the entry of international majors will somewhat balance the market dynamics and will result in competitive product pricing and overall improved quality. These proceedings will benefit the consumer most and will help propel industry's future growth.

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WARDEN MESSAGE NO. 137: POTENTIAL FOR MORE ELECTIONS-RELATED CIVIL UNREST.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti -- The following information was released by the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Princem, Haiti:

U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince issued the following Warden Message on December 17, 2010:

The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince is issuing this Warden Message to remind U.S. citizens of the potential for additional elections-related civil unrest in Port-au-Prince and throughout Haiti, particularly in connection with major announcements. Demonstrations (including violent protests) have resulted in barricades and road closures, making travel hazardous and even impossible. They have also caused the shut-down of airports and roads to the Dominican Republic, making it impossible for Americans wishing to depart Haiti to do so.

U.S. citizens in Haiti should consider stocking up on essential provisions - drinking water, food, fuel for generators, etc. - to be well prepared should civil unrest require them to shelter in place. They should also ensure they have all necessary medicines. U.S. citizens planning travel are advised to contact their airline directly for up-to-date flight status and availability and consider travelling earlier in the event airports are closed.

In the event of civil unrest, U.S. citizens in affected areas are advised to remain indoors and to seek safe havens in their current areas. They should not attempt to "run" roadblocks or work their way through areas of unrest; doing so may put their lives at immediate risk. The Embassy urges U.S. citizens to exercise special caution and avoid areas where demonstrations are taking place or crowds are forming and to maintain a low profile. The Embassy does not have the capacity or infrastructure to evacuate U.S. citizens and relies on the Haitian National Police to provide assistance. They, with support from UN Police, are responsible for keeping peace in Haiti and rendering assistance during times of civil unrest. The local equivalent to the "911" emergency line in Haiti is 114.

U.S. citizens are advised to maintain an increased level of vigilance when traveling in and around Port-au-Prince. They should be aware of their surroundings at all times and are encouraged to register with the U.S. Embassy. They can do so at https://travelregistration.state.gov/ibrs/ui/.

Americans traveling abroad should regularly monitor the U.S. Embassy's website the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs' website www.travel.state.gov, where the current Worldwide Caution, Travel Warnings, Travel Alerts, and Country Specific Information can be found. The U.S. Embassy also encourages U.S. citizens to review "A Safe Trip Abroad," found at http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/safety/safety_1747.html, which includes valuable security information for those both living and traveling abroad. In addition to information on the Internet, travelers may obtain up-to-date information on security conditions by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the U.S. and Canada, or outside the U.S. and Canada on a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444.

For emergencies involving American citizens, please contact the American Citizens Services (ACS) Unit of the U.S. Embassy's Consular Section, located at Boulevard du 15 Octobre, Tabarre 41, Tabarre, Haiti; telephone (509) 2-229-8000; after hours emergency telephone (509) 2-229-8000; ACS Unit fax (509) 2-229-8027; and e-mail at acspap@state.gov.

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CommandAware[R] Incident Management System Used for Emergency Response in Great California ShakeOut Earthquake Drill.

Concerro, Inc., the market leader in enterprise-wide hospital shift and emergency workforce management software, is pleased to announce the successful use of its CommandAware[R] hospital incident management system during the Great California ShakeOut - the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history - held October 15th to help improve disaster preparedness. More than 6.8 million people throughout California took part in the first statewide earthquake drill, organized by The Earthquake Country Alliance.

Over 400 individuals from 26 hospitals, including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, City of Hope National Medical Center, Glendale Memorial Hospital, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, UCSD Medical Center, and USC University Hospital, activated the CommandAware web-based incident management system to ensure effective emergency response and collaborative networking for the drill.

"During the Great ShakeOut earthquake disaster exercise, our plan was to attempt to utilize the CommandAware program hospital-wide," said Linda Dobie, incident commander and administrator of risk management at Torrance Memorial Medical Center. "We were pleased that 68 medical departments logged in and accessed CommandAware and 21 incident command system positions fulfilled their assigned roles. CommandAware is a substantial program in that the tasks, documentation, tracking and communications that can be done with it appear to be limitless."

CommandAware made it possible for participating hospitals to access a common communications framework to manage their response capabilities, quickly coordinate emergency response and facilitate post-emergency after action reports.

"Using CommandAware greatly exceeded our expectations," added Judy Retter, RN, director of emergency management at Torrance Memorial Medical Center. "Users were able to log on and navigate the system with very little training, sending their reports, messages and requests in a much more efficient manner than in the past." Graham Barnes, CEO of Concerro, said, "Being able to effectively communicate and have as much situational awareness as possible is crucial to surviving a major disaster. We are pleased that CommandAware's communications platform enabled hundreds of hospital users to collaborate and respond in real-time throughout the ShakeOut exercise drill."

CommandAware is the most comprehensive and widely adopted hospital-centric incident management system available to hospitals today. Currently adopted in over 250 facilities and government entities across twelve states, CommandAware addresses all phases of disaster response including preparation, mitigation, response and recovery. For additional information, visit www.commandaware.com.

ShakeOut exercises are now being planned as annual events in California to occur on the third Thursday in October. The next exercise is scheduled for Oct. 21, 2010. About Concerro Concerro is a healthcare Cloud Computing (Software-as-a-Service) company that provides workforce and emergency management programs that facilitate collaboration, ease of use and real-time information access to improve the cost, efficiency and safety of patient care in over 400 hospitals nationwide. The company has won numerous awards and recognition, including being named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 in 2008 and 2009 as one of the most rapidly growing privately-held companies and Top 100 Software Companies, and receiving Red Herring's 100 most promising private technology ventures in North America and Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) awards. To learn more, visit www.concerro.com, or follow us on Twitter.

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First Computerworld National Customer Satisfaction Survey finds AT&T leads competitors in WAN Transmission Services.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1997--AT&T is the top-rated provider of wide-area network transmission services, according to Computerworld's first National Customer Satisfaction Survey. A wide-area network or WAN is a set of geographically separated computers connected together for a single organization. The survey also ranked vendors of computer networking hardware and software.

Within the WAN transmission section of the survey AT&T scored the highest in overall customer satisfaction, while also garnering top scores in 17 out of 19 product and services criteria. This performance is particularly remarkable since AT&T is also the clear market share leader, said David Moschella, senior vice president research, Computerworld, Inc.

Computerworld's Customer Satisfaction Survey polled nearly 1,700 US IT professionals from Computerworld's large proprietary database of IT executives, with influence over their organization's choice of products and services in a specific area of networking technology. Respondents rated their satisfaction with their computer networking vendors on quality of product, cost of ownership, service and support, and comfort with vendor. The survey results provide buyers with a quantifiable means to compare individual vendor performance.

Computerworld has inaugurated a quarterly research series studying IT buyers' satisfaction with the vendors that supply their IT products and services. Future surveys will focus on systems and servers, personal computers, and the Internet/intranet.

Computerworld, the leading weekly newspaper for information technology leaders, provides timely news and analysis on all aspects of the computer industry. Recognized three times by the Computer Press Association as the Number One computer newspaper, the publication has 147,054 paid subscribers (ABC June 1996 Publisher's Statement) and a total reach to 909,300 IT buyers (IntelliQuest CIMS v3.0, September 1996). Its publisher, Computerworld, Inc., is headquartered at 500 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701. Computerworld is a business unit of IDG, the world's leading IT media and research company. IDG publishes more than 275 computer magazines and newspapers and 430 book titles, produces 90 expositions, and provides IT market analysis through 41 research centers worldwide. Company information and access to more than 125 IDG World Wide Web sites is available at http://www.idg.com .

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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Feb 07, 2008 - China Direct, Inc. to Present at the ROTH Capital Partners 20th Annual OC Growth Stock Conference on February 19th, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. PST.

China Direct, Inc. (AMEX: CDS), a US company taking controlling interests in Chinese companies and providing business consulting services to China (the "PRC"), today announced that the Company will present at the ROTH Capital Partners 20th Annual OC Growth Stock Conference on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. PST. The conference will be held at the Ritz Carlton in Laguna Niguel, California.

The presentation will be held in the Ritz Ballroom Salon 3 (Track 1 - China Track). A breakout session will immediately follow and management will participate in one-on-one meetings with analysts and investors throughout the day. Mr. David Stein, Chief Operating Officer for China Direct Inc., will present at the conference. The conference presentation will be simultaneously web cast at the following link, http://www.wsw.com/webcast/roth16/cds/.

Management will discuss the Company's portfolio of majority-controlled businesses in China, provide an update on its consulting division, and the continued growth of the PRC's Small to Medium Sized Entities (SME's) sector in which the Company specializes.

Participation is by invitation only. For more information on the conference or to book a 1-on-1 meeting, contact your Roth representative or visit www.rothcp.com.

About the ROTH Conference: Now in its 20th year, the ROTH Annual OC Conference will feature presentations from over 300 small-cap companies including over 60 U.S.-listed Chinese companies. The distinguished list of presenting companies have been identified by the firm's award-winning research team and are representative of a broad spectrum of sectors, including Technology, Healthcare, Energy and Industrial as well as Consumer Products.

About China Direct, Inc.: China Direct, Inc. (AMEX: CDS) is a U.S.-based company doing business in China through two business divisions. The Company's management division takes controlling stakes in Chinese companies, provides investment capital and active management to enable these companies to thrive as our subsidiaries in their respective industries. The consulting division assists companies in China and the U.S. in establishing and maintaining a presence in the U.S. capital markets. As a direct link to China, China Direct serves as a vehicle to allow investors to directly participate in the rapid growth of the Chinese economy in a diversified and balanced manner.

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What pill can I take for cyber insecurity? Cybersecurity boils down to vulnerabilities and bad people, says Kevin Mandia.(LastWord)

Ahhhhh, the internet. We are hooked, and we better be prepared for the consequences. Real dollars are being lost, identities are being stolen, botnets are running rampant, consumer ATM cards are being compromised, spam is jamming our inboxes, the press is reporting stories that contribute to consumer cyber fears, and mankind again finds itself waging a protracted war--this time against internet insecurity.

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Currently there seems to be a swelling sentiment to enact additional legislative changes to make the internet a safer place for organizations as well as consumers. We all want to whip the complex information insecurity problems into submission. I have the gnawing premonition that something big, yet ineffective, is on the horizon.

One of the options routinely discussed is that the government should impose new regulations that would secure cyberspace faster. The question is: what would cybersecurity legislation or regulations enforce? Would they be aimed at strengthening the information security practices at organizations that might fall victim to the online threats? Would they be aimed at software vendors who create the programs and applications used by consumers? I believe neither of these options would yield the desired result of securing cyberspace faster.

I have heard people state that there needs to be an overall cybersecurity law, one that applies to all organizations, imposing minimum information security standards across all industries. Every few years, there appears to be a new law that requires two years to interpret, then another few years to determine how it impacts an organization.

There have also been public discussions of the government addressing software vendor liability. This may also be an ineffective measure to cure our security woes. Such legislation could easily cause U.S.-made software to be outpriced in the global software market. In addition to overpricing U.S. software, imagine the complexity of enacting software vendor liability. We would have to sort out the following: what is the difference between a coding flaw, configuration flaw and a security flaw? Who gets sued for flawed concepts such as the authentication schemes that are so wildly exploited today? What are the reasonable steps that a user should take to prevent misuse? What are the penalties for software that can be exploited? What if software, when performing its intended function, can be used for good as well as evil? This is just the tip of the iceberg. Consumers can already resort to tort laws and civil channels to address shoddy software, as well as elect to simply not buy it. Additional federal legislation to address software vendor liability will not resolve the cybersecurity issues.

So what can the government do to secure cyberspace faster? The government should continue programs that educate consumers on cybersecurity, secure coding and "safe" internet use via standards, seminars, conferences and publications. The government can also focus on the largest issue that contributes to the internet's lack of security--dismantling safe harbors. Nearly all the incidents we have responded to originate from these safe harbors--and corporations believe there is nothing our government can do about it. We have IP addresses and names of folks robbing American citizens, yet no capability to take the digital evidence and trace it to the bad people ruining our internet. Though there may never be world-wide cooperation in the cyber realm, the government can certainly make additional headway.

I think most of us agree that the majority of folks on the planet desire a world where there is no "buggy" software, no backdoors, no cyber intruders and no discernable security flaws in our software. It is time to salute smartly and prepare to battle on. Defending America's cyber infrastructure is going to be a lot like trying to cure a complex disease. The oldest known description of human cancer is found in Egyptian papyri written between 3000-1500 BC, and 3,500 years later we still do not have a cure. I expect similar results for cybersecurity. We can treat cyberinsecurity, we can survive it, but we must learn to live with the fact that there may not be a cure.

Kevin Mandia is president and CEO of Mandiant.