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.
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