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NewSoft and VIMA announcing joint development for desktop image search products

Santa Barbara, CA - April 4th, 2008: VIMA Technologies today announced a joint development project with NewSoft Technology Corporation, a publicly traded company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. In this project, NewSoft will use VIMA's industry leading FaceAnnotation, ImageFilter, and ImageSearch technologies in their newly developed desktop image search products. NewSoft has been offering award-winning document imaging, digital recognition, digital TV software worldwide and known for its integrative software solutions on Windows/Windows CE/Mac/Linux platforms.

"We are very excited to be a solution partner of NewSoft to produce the next generation desktop image search software for personal computer users worldwide. NewSoft is very experienced in developing and integrating innovative technologies for user-friendly software", said Roger Hsu, president of VIMA Technologies. "VIMA has been successful in working with our customers to deliver advanced image and video technologies. With NewSoft¡¯s excellent engineering capability and VIMA's advanced technologies, a killer application is around the corner¡±, added Hsu. "We are very happy to include VIMA's patented visual search technology into our next generation image search product.¡±, said Charles Hwang, Vice President of NewSoft Technology Corp., ¡°We believe this product will bring the user a brand new experience to easily find the images for delivering, printing or presentation. About NewSoft Technology Corp.

VIMA's new office is located at Room 907, Chuang Ye Building, Tsinghua Science Park, No.1 Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China, 100084.

About NewSoft Technology Corp.
NewSoft Technology connects creativity with its array of award-winning image, video, recognition, and digital TV software. Focusing on integrating hardware and software so it can provide the best solutions for its worldwide partners and customers, NewSoft is well known for its advanced technology, innovative design and diverse product lines. More information on NewSoft can be found on the Web at www.newsoftinc.com.

About VIMA Technologies, Inc.
VIMA patented visual search and categorization processes allow it to lead the industry in content-based visual data search and categorization for both speed and accuracy. VIMA is best known for offering the only active learning visual 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. For more information, visit: www.vimatech.com.

VIMA Technologies, Inc. is located at 5662 Calle Real #226, Goleta, California 93117. You can reach us by telephone at 805-681-1658 or via email at info@VIMAtech.com.