PodZinger Announces Major Growth Milestone; Popularity of Podcasting Propels PodZinger

Business Wire, Feb 22, 2006

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- PodZinger, the fastest, easiest, and most- reliable podcast search engine (www.podzinger.com), today announced that users are now able to search more than 70,000 individual podcasts for the information they care about, making PodZinger the pre-eminent search tool of audio content. Since its launch in January, PodZinger is the only search engine that enables users to find the word or phrase they are looking for by searching each and every word in audio content. Other milestones the search engine recently attained include:

--A text index of more than 250 million words

--More than 45 affiliates have PodZinger featured on their site

--Podcast registrations have tripled

--Daily traffic has increased by 43 percent

--Number of searches has increased 450 percent

"PodZinger's growth is a reflection of the burgeoning interest in business, media and consumer podcast creation and use," said Alex Laats, president, Delta Division, BBN Technologies. "PodZinger has the most extensive text index in the world, making it possible for our users to perform the most relevant search of audio and video anywhere on the Internet. To help drive the continued adoption of podcasts, we are committed to continuously expanding this universe to ensure our users find the exact information they care about quickly and easily."

Compatible with most popular Web browsers, PodZinger uses speech-to-text technology to create a text index of the audio, enabling users to find content anywhere within podcasts and jump directly to the point where their keyword is spoken. From the PodZinger site, users can also subscribe to podcasts, download 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... 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 over 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.