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Kaazing Websocket Platform Powers All Winners Of Code::Xtremeapps::2011 Competition

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and SINGAPORE – AUGUST 18, 2011. When over 100 competing teams were asked to develop applications based on personalized transportation, the top three winners all used the Kaazing WebSocket Platform. The platform enables highly efficient use of the web for real time communications.

The intense competition, Code::XtremeApps::2011, took place in one 24–hour period in Singapore and was sponsored by Singapore's ITSC (Information Technology Standards Committee). Winners were announced today.

The first place winner, Flag–xi, and the second place winner, Taxi Hunter, each wrote applications that use customers' mobile devices and mobile systems in taxicabs to match up customers with taxis.

The third place winner, Road Trip Amigos, finds rides for people in private automobiles going in their direction, with a real time auction as part of the system.

Jonas Jacobi, chairman and CEO of Kaazing, explained, There was no requirement that any of the teams use our platform. However, since today's living web applications need to work dynamically, in real time, these winning applications benefit significantly from Kaazing's ability to simplify the programming and make operations of applications much more efficient.

In addition to the winners of the general contest, a separate Kaazing prize was also awarded. The key criterion for this award was to develop an application that uses Kaazing to deliver substantial social benefits. The winning team developed an application that enables children to be led home on their smart phone by their parent or guardian – who may be located miles away – using different transportation options. Moreover, in real time, the child's location can be tracked by the parent, who can jump in with assistance as needed.

We are very proud of the work done by the team winning the Kaazing award. Enabling a parent to help and protect their children is very valuable; being able to do it in real-time, when the child is away, is critical, said Jacobi. We believe this has very broad applications for helping anyone find their way to a particular destination – whether they are tourists, seniors, commuters, or whomever.

Overall, said Jacobi, We were impressed with the creativity of the teams, and their ability to deliver a useful application within a short amount of time. This contest demonstrated how people can leverage the living web to solve very real world needs.

About the Kaazing WebSocket Platform and the Living Web

Kaazing's WebSocket platform solves a fundamental problem facing the Web today. The Web's architecture was originally developed in the 1990's and was designed to handle communication in one direction at a time, much like a telegraph system. Over the years, this architecture has remained essentially unchanged though it is has tried to keep up with evolving requirements. This design was fine when the Web was used primarily to share and retrieve documents and static pages. However, now we're entering the age of the living Web, where every application is dynamic, real-time, and interactive, and it's clear just how outdated and costly this original Web architecture has become. The design, in which every bit of data is treated like an individual telegram that's sent across the Web when it's requested, is inefficient and doesn't meet the demands of today's Web. Using the old Web architecture for the living Web is forcing companies and consumers to pay unnecessary bandwidth, energy, and hardware investment costs. Recognizing that adding more kludges to the Web's existing architecture won't solve these underlying problems, Kaazing's founding team played a major role in defining the HTML "WebSocket" specification. WebSockets enable full duplex (or simultaneous two way) connectivity over the Web. This means that for the first time, the new generation of web architecture works like a telephone, rather than a telegraph system.

The Kaazing WebSocket platform builds on that basic WebSocket specification in HTML5, but it includes enterprise-class features such as cross-browser support, high availability, failover, and load balancing support. The Kaazing platform is the foundation of an ecosystem that enables future uses of real time, dynamic, living Web applications that weren't possible until now.

About Kaazing

Kaazing is the leading company focused on enabling the living web – the nearly ubiquitous real time, interactive, collaborative applications that have become the norm. Kaazing's founders played a key role in defining the WebSocket standard and the Kaazing platform is the world's only enterprise solution for full-duplex, high-performance communication over the Web using the HTML5 WebSocket standard. Based in Mountain View, CA, Kaazing is privately held; some of its customers and partners include Informatica, TIBCO, and a variety of financial, ecommerce, and entertainment companies.