GenSWOT to Offer Desktop Software that Eliminates Family Un-Friendly Images

"GenSWOT takes advantage of this advanced technology to create a solution for parents that want to automatically shield their children from pornographic materials"

Santa Barbara, CA - July 15th, 2005 - VIMA Technologies announced today that GenSWOT Incorporation of Panchiao City, Taiwan has signed an agreement to be the exclusive provider in Taiwan using VIMA’s advanced machine learning technology to protect family computers from objectionable images coming in from the Internet. GenSWOT is integrating VIMA’s ImageBeagle™, and iNetBeagle™, and ImageFilter™ into an easy-to-use, family friendly application that will provide a shield against pornography entering the home.

"We are delighted to work with GenSWOT to package our products for the consumer market. VIMA is known as the best commercial image filter solution available for software integrators and through GenSWOT’s work, it will be available to families, too,” explained David Telleen-Lawton, VIMA CEO & President."

"VIMA objectionable image and filtering software provides a highly efficient and accurate capability in analyzing image similarity. GenSWOT takes advantage of this advanced technology to create a solution for parents that want to automatically shield their children from pornographic materials coming into the home via the Internet," explained Jim Chang, President & CEO of GenSWOT. When downloading a web page from website, GemSWOT's application will use VIMA's image filtering technology to check the entire web page before showing it on the browser. If pornographic images are identified, GenSWOT’s solution will replace these images with other benign images."

GenSWOT plans to provide this product for families, small businesses, schools, other public locations, and corporations. GenSWOT expects to begin shipping product later this year.

About VIMA Technologies, Inc.
VIMA’s patented image search and image categorization processes allow it to lead the industry in content-based image search and categorization for both speed and accuracy. VIMA is probably best known for offering the only active learning image search solution in the market and the only company offering tunable image categorization and filtering solutions. VIMA Technologies, Inc. is a privately-held company located in Goleta, California, just across the street from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For more information, visit: www.VIMAtech.com.

About GenSWOT Incorporation
GenSWOT is an Application Service Provider (ASP) for middle and small size companies in Taiwan. Insurance agencies and home shopping companies are two major customer sources. Since many middle and small size company in Taiwan lack both budget and professional computer skill, GenSWOT provides middle and small Taiwanese companies with software applications without an investment in hardware, software, and developers. Back-up, system maintenance, and security are no longer a worry. GenSWOT Incorporation is located in Panchiao City, just across a bridge from Taipei in Taiwan. For more information: www.Usales.com.tw.

VIMA Technologies, Inc. is located at 120 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California 93117. You can reach us by telephone at 805-685-7067 or via email at info@VIMAtech.com.

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David Telleen-Lawton
Phone: (805)685-7067
Fax: (805)685-2178
DTL@VIMAtech.com