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NewSoft and VIMA announcing joint development for desktop image search products,4 April 2008

VIMA Technologies today announced a multi-year contract with Keibi Technologies Inc. 1 March 2008

VIMA Technologies announced the expansion to its Research and Development center in China, 1 February 2008

ImageTrainer is an Industry First -- VIMA Releases Software so that "Anybody" Can Create Custom Image Classifiers, 30 May 2006

ImageFilter v4.0 for Objectionable Images is now in Public Release -- Still the Most Accurate, Fastest Image Filter, 28 April 2006

VIMA's CEO to Lead Discussion on Image Search at Next Annual ASPP Education Conference, 14 February 2006

Britannia Allied Industries is VIMA's First African Installation and Represents Installations in all Continents (Except Antartica), 31 January 2006

Gaggle Upgrades their Anti-Pornography Scanner (APS) by Replacing Existing Solution with VIMA ImageFilter 21 October 2005

Media Bakery Offers Revolutionary Visual Search, 8 August 2005

GenSWOT to Offer Desktop Software that Eliminates Family Un-Friendly Images, 15 July 2005

MailGuard Adds to Their Best of Breed Offerings with the Addition of VIMA ImageFilter to Stop Objectionable Images From Reaching Your Computer, 30 June 2005

DanitaDelimont.com launches visual search feature that actively learns; Innovative technology delivers faster, better results for creative professionals, 29 April 2005

Corbis and VIMA Technologies Sign Agreement to Conduct Joint End-User Testing of Active Learning Visual Search, 6 April 2005

VIMA David Telleen-Lawton Selected to Lead Discussion on Image Search Using Visual Clues at PACA Annual Meeting in Seattle, 15 March 2005

NameProtect Upgrades their Back Office Operations by Replacing Existing Solution with VIMA ImageMatch Library, 6 December 2004

20/20 Software, Danita Delimont, MediaBakery, and VIMA Technologies Agree to Integrate Active-Learning Visual Search into ProStock, the Leading Photographic Agency Management Software, 15 November 2004

GROUP Technologies Replaces Two Suppliers with One by Adding VIMA Image Filter for Linux & Windows, 30 September 2004

VIMA Image Filtering is Standard Feature in IntelliReach High Performance Spam and Content Filtering Appliance, 01 August 2004

VIMA Technologies’ Unique Visual Search Hailed as Next Major Change in Image Search, 01 July 2004

IntelliReach Ships 40,000th Seat Employing VIMA ImageBeagle for Filtering Objectionable Images, 30 June 2004

VIMA Technologies Consolidates and Expands Offices, 01 September 2003

VIMA Technologies, Inc. Elects David Telleen Lawton as President and CEO, 21 August 2003

VIMA Technologies Extends Its Image Filtering Product Portfolio with Launch of Pornography Detection Software, 10 July 2003

IntelliReach Chooses VIMA Image Filter to Combat Pornography in the Workplace, 01 June 2003

First closing of Series B financing, resulting in total investment of over $3 million in VIMA, 01 February 2002


Recent Relevant Articles

Porn Images And Movies Found In HPD Computers, 22 December 2005 (KNHL.com)

Image Search Requests Skyrockets 37 Percent, Followed by Double-Digit Growth of Local, General Web, and News Search Queries, 13 December 2005 (Nielsen//Netratings)

Police Computer Images Ruled "Objectionable" -- 12 August 2005 (Stuff/Top Story)

Searching for the Next Big Thing -- 08 August 2005 (InternetNews.com/Ecommerce)

VIMA Powers Image Search for Media Bakery -- July 2005 (LookSmart Tech and Games | Cameras (LookSmartCameras.com)

Nielsen//NetRatings points to image search as the main vertical that drove growth of four of top five search engines during Q2 as compared to Q1, 21 July 2005 (Nielsen//NetRatings)

AOL & Ask Show Growth in Searches, But Big Players Still Big -- 21 July 2005 (SearchEngineWatch/blog.searchenginewatch.com by Danny Sullivan)

Search Prototype Gets the Picture -- 31 March 2004 (CNET News.com)

VIMA Filter: Objectionable Image and Website Filter

Perception-Based Image Retrieval (PBIR)