VIENNA, Va., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Convera Corporation , a leading provider of search technologies for professional workers, today announced it has signed an agreement with ProGames Network to develop a Web search solution for its new site for online gamers, http://www.progamesnetwork.com/. ProGames Network is a subsidiary of MobilePro Corp., (BULLETIN BOARD: MOBL) one of North America's leading wireless broadband companies based in Bethesda, Md.
Under the agreement, Convera will customize its TrueKnowledge for Web(TM) service to build a professional-grade search capability for ProGames Network's community of gaming enthusiasts. ProGames Network users will able to search deep into Web content, including a comprehensive white list of highly relevant sites, to find games, reviews, news, video feeds and other valuable content. The two companies will share advertising revenues.
"Serious online gamers spend up to 30 hours a week online and continually search for content that lies beyond the reach of most search engines," said Kurt Gastrock, Convera chief operating officer. "Convera is excited to partner with ProGames Network to build a search solution that will satisfy its users and provide a highly targeted audience for advertisers."
About Convera(R)
Convera(R) is a leading provider of search technologies for professional workers. Convera has developed a unified product platform that makes sense of vast amounts of information -- wherever it resides -- across multiple data formats, languages and meanings. Based on proprietary technologies that extract relevant results from public and private data, Convera enables professionals to quickly retrieve exactly the information essential for action. The Convera search platform, TrueKnowledge Platform(TM), is delivered as a hosted service, software or a bundled hardware and software package. Thousands of government and business professionals in 40 countries rely on Convera search solutions to power a broad range of mission critical applications.
About MobilePro Corp.
MobilePro Corp., based in Bethesda, Md., is one of North America's leading wireless broadband companies. The company serves more than 220,000 total customer lines throughout the United States, primarily through its CloseCall America, AFN and Kite subsidiaries. For more information regarding MobilePro, please contact Hawk Associates, 305-451-1888.
This release, including any statements from Convera personnel, contains statements about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans, and prospects, as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions and trends; the ability to continue funding operating losses; fluctuations in operating results including impacts from reduced corporate IT spending and lengthier sales cycles; continued success in technological advances and development including the TrueKnowledge Platform(TM); possible disruption in commercial activities caused by terrorist activity and armed conflict, such as changes in logistics and security arrangements; reduced customer demand relative to expectations; competitive factors; and other risk factors listed from time to time in the company's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Convera's filings with the SEC. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at http://www.sec.gov/. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements. "The Convera design logo and the following are trademarks of Convera in the United States and other countries: Convera(R), the Convera design logo, Screening Room(R), RetrievalWare(R), Excalibur(TM), Govmine(TM), baseRelevance(TM), TrueKnowledge Platform(TM), TrueB2B(TM), TrueKnowledge for Enterprise(TM), TrueKnowledge for Discovery(TM), TrueKnowledge for Web(TM), and Knewworld(TM)."