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NewsBot Date: August 24, 2005 02:00:00 AM
RKTI News Rocketinfo Partners with Viapoint Corporation to Provide News Search Adapter
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 2005--Rocketinfo (OTCBB:RKTI) today announced that it has partnered with Viapoint Corporation to provide a Rocketinfo current news search adapter for the Viapoint Smart Organizer. Viapoint also announced the availability of the Microsoft Desktop Search adapter. The adapters make it easier to organize files, emails and news content by saving desktop and web content from searches into Viapoint virtual folders.
"Viapoint is committed to delivering systems that enhance the value of popular desktop and Internet search engines. These new adapters from Rocketinfo and Microsoft demonstrate how Viapoint can be used to integrate applications, search and web services," said Dan Housman, VP of Marketing, Viapoint.
With the Rocketinfo adapter, Viapoint users can find and organize relevant news and weblog content. The Smart Organizer delivers full access to the 16,000-source Rocketinfo news database, along with content from thousands of weblogs indexed by Rocketinfo. The free version of the Smart Organizer features news search functionality from Rocketinfo, with results that include contextual advertising. The upgraded Rocketinfo adapter includes advanced search features and the ability to save searches, create alerts and share relevant items with colleagues.
"The Viapoint Smart Organizer is an intuitive, time-saving tool for organizing the flood of information we face everyday," said Rocketinfo COO Murray Owen. "Given the direct and immediate impact news has on the decisions people are being called upon to make, the Smart Organizer is a critical tool for delivering Rocketinfo's news content."
The Viapoint Smart Organizer is leading the charge to adopt desktop search tools as platform technology and is among the first applications using Microsoft's query API. The adapter eliminates the need for repeated searches of desktop content by filing search results. Using virtual folders, tagging and categorization, users can create relationships between their content and work.
About Rocketinfo:
Rocketinfo combines the industry's largest news and weblog index with advanced search technologies and real time delivery tools (including RSS). Rocketinfo provides database access and embedded search tools to search engines, portals, software vendors and corporations.
About Viapoint:
Viapoint is the pioneer in the emerging desktop organizer software market. The flagship Smart Organizer is powered by technology that continuously examines the relationships between desktop resources including companies, contacts, files, email, RSS, web pages, and search results to generate a workspace of virtual folders.
