CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – March 20, 2006 – PodZinger, the fastest, easiest, and most- reliable podcast search engine (www.podzinger.com), today announced that users can now use the search engine’s revolutionary search capabilities to find the video podcasts most important to them. For the more than 70 million iPod and MP3 player owners looking to fill their gadgets with the latest viral videos, video podcasts, news, entertainment and gossip, PodZinger’s new video search feature introduces the only available technology that allows users to search each and every word of audio segments of video, yielding quick, point-in-broadcast results from an ever-growing universe of online video.

“The new consumer is a now consumer, one who demands instant, relevant results for the information they deem most important. PodZinger once again demonstrates its commitment to deliver a superior user experience by enabling consumers to find the information they seek quickly and most efficiently,” said Alex Laats, president, PodZinger. “The rapidly growing adoption of online video has produced the need for a technology that goes beyond surface-level search, and by providing word-for-word analysis of what’s being said, PodZinger’s video search technology enables users to unlock a world of online multimedia content. We understand what it takes to make video search a reality.”

The explosion of online video content, fueled by the growing adoption of broadband technologies in the home and office, as well as through increased offerings from media outlets such as MTV, VH1 and ABC, has heightened the need for an effective, user-friendly search engine to help users find their favorite topics. With PodZinger users now can search the ever-expanding world of video content. In the universe of searchable podcasts and vodcasts, the categories of information range from sports and science to art and the absurd. Harry Potter fans can find the latest news and reviews on their favorite student wizard, while snowboarders can seek fellow enthusiasts, and brides-to-be can find wedding information. With PodZinger, users can also find their favorite independent video podcasts—or vodcasts—such as Rocketboom, Homestarrunner and Ask a Ninja, the likes of which have gained millions of devoted fans since the advent of the vodcast.

In addition to the benefits to millions of online video users, PodZinger’s video search technology provides new opportunities for enterprises wishing to make their video archives keyword searchable for in-house purposes or to make available to subscribers or consumers. Advertisers will also find a new, more-targeted method for reaching customers who use keyword-specific searches to find relevant content.

Until now, video search queries performed with other search engines were restricted to the text attached to the file, called metadata—or by a rudimentary, slow scan of the audio content. With PodZinger, speech-to-text technology creates a text index of the audio, enabling users to find relevant content anywhere within audio and video podcasts and jump directly to the point where the keyword is spoken. From the PodZinger site, users can also subscribe to podcasts, download, view or listen to them, and even have PodZinger automatically deliver new podcasts on their own topics of interest using standard RSS feeds.

About PodZinger
PodZinger is powered by BBN Technologies, leveraging its 30 years of speech recognition research to transform multimedia content into searchable words. PodZinger opens up a previously untapped source of content via a simple Web search. So when it comes to finding what you want in podcasts and vodcasts…just ZING IT!

About BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies, an advanced technology and research and development firm, is focused on solving some of the world’s most pressing problems. From national security, information security, speech recognition and language translation, to integrating disparate systems and networks, BBN has been at the forefront of technological change for more than 50 years.

Known for pioneering the development of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, BBN continues to create advances in Internet and networking technologies through its work on ad hoc networking, the semantic Web, quantum communications, and advanced protocols. Building on its substantial list of firsts, BBN operates the first metro quantum cryptography network, the first real-time foreign broadcast monitoring system, and has developed the world’s first stereoscopic digital mammography system. For more information on BBN Technologies, visit www.bbn.com.

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