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VeriSign Real-Time Publisher Services Announces Next Generation News and Blog Search Portal for Global Enterprises, CI-Newsdesk 3.0

Real-time Aggregation Platform Delivers Comprehensive, Critical Information

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– May 23, 2006 – Moreover Technologies, a VeriSign Company and the premier provider of online current awareness and business information, today announced the release of Connected Intelligence (CI) Newsdesk 3.0, an easy-to-use, customizable news and blogs search portal for up to the minute information essential to strategic decision making for global enterprises.  CI-Newsdesk is an example of VeriSign Real-Time Publisher Services, a suite of intelligent infrastructure services that allow organizations to review and organize massive amounts of constantly updated public information, and distribute links, in real time, to enterprises, Web-portal developers, application developers, and consumers.

“In today’s environment, keeping up with breaking industry news is vital,” said Mark McLaughlin, executive vice president and general manager of VeriSign Information Services. “Organizations need up to the minute information not only from standard news sources, but also from other forms of media like blogs and podcasts to effectively compete and respond to ever changing markets.”

Providing personalized viewing to more than 20,000 news sources and millions of blogs, CI-Newsdesk delivers a broad and comprehensive view of current events impacting an organization, enabling corporations of any size to make well informed decisions and execute initiatives more swiftly.  CI-Newsdesk requires no technical resources to install or maintain and can be customized to match operational and individual requirements.

“The CI-Newsdesk product delivers imperative, actionable real-time public information to knowledge workers around the globe,” said Michael Kopp, director of product marketing for Moreover Technologies.  “Its reliability and affordability allows organizations to deploy it company wide giving everyone access to the information that drives and influences business day to day and hour to hour.” 
The CI-Newsdesk conveniently combines several powerful features in a single, integrated, fully accessible interface:

Search

• A fully customizable search runs simultaneously across public news and blog information sources giving a clear view of breaking news by topic and source.
• Results can be viewed merged or separated while CI-Newsdesk’s 30 advanced filters further focus results.
• Search parameters are customizable.

Browse

• Viewing of newsfeeds, sources and other feeds allows the quick assimilation of information for faster, more accurate decision making..
• Users can select from more than 380 categories for searching, build a separate category or have one built for them. Categories can be refined or enlarged as needs change for access to the most relevant information for any organization.

Email Alerts

• Links to searches and newsfeeds can be set for automatic delivery as an email alert. Delivery frequency can be set to best match an organization’s or individual’s needs.

For more information on CI-Newsdesk 3.0 benefits and availability please visit: www.moreover.com/newsdesk.

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About VeriSign 
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the world’s voice and data networks. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com

Read more about VeriSign Real-Time Publisher Services at: www.verisign.com/realtime.

For more information, contact: 
VeriSign Media Relations, Brian O’Shaughnessy, boshaughnessy@verisign.com, 650-426-5270 
VeriSign Investor Relations, Tom McCallum, tmccallum@verisign.com, 650-426-3744

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause VeriSign's actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainty of future revenue and profitability and potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results due to such factors as the inability of VeriSign to successfully develop and market new products and services and customer acceptance of any new products or services, including VeriSign's Moreover CI-Newsdesk 3.0; the possibility that VeriSign’s announced new services may not result in additional customers, profits or revenues; and increased competition and pricing pressures. More information about potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results is included in VeriSign's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. VeriSign undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.