News

RuleSpace adds Catalan Language coverage and new Categories

December 20th, 2007. Beaverton, Oregon. Today, RuleSpace announces a further increase in its category and language coverage, with the completion of three new categories and another new language for current categories. RuleSpace now has over seventy-eight categories and seventeen languages.

Alltel Wireless to Launch ``Parental Controls'' Application Allowing Parents to Block Inappropriate Content from Child’s Mobile Phone

November 12, 2007. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--While more and more children use wireless phones to communicate with parents and each other, parents are growing concerned regarding the potentially harmful web content available on mobile phones. To assist parents in controlling their child’s mobile internet usage, Alltel Wireless, America’s largest wireless network, providing coverage across the nation, has teamed with Bytemobile, the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, to announce Alltel Parental Controls, a content filtering application available free of charge beginning in February 2008.

RuleSpace Sponsors Mobile 2.0 Conference

October 1st, 2007. Beaverton, Oregon. RuleSpace, the world's leading provider of categorization technology, today announced it will help sponsor the second-annual Mobile 2.0 Conference taking place at San Francisco's Grand Hyatt hotel on Oct. 15, 2007. Mobile 2.0 brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, mobile application developers and Web technologists. The one-day event will focus on the mobile Web, its future and disruptive mobile innovation.

RuleSpace continues to expand its Category & Language coverage

September 6th, 2007. Beaverton, Oregon. Today, RuleSpace announces another significant increase in its category and language coverage. With a number of major new categories and a further expansion in languages for current categories, RuleSpace now has over seventy-five categories in sixteen languages.

RuleSpace Joins the Internet Watch Foundation

July 1st, 2007. Beaverton, Oregon. RuleSpace has become a member of the Internet Watch Foundation and joins over 70 organisations working together to protect UK internet users and combat illegal content online. RuleSpace is the world’s leading provider of parental controls and has incorporated IWF list filtering into its patented categorisation technology. RuleSpace is the power behind the filtering solutions deployed by many leading ISP’s and mobile phone operators.

RuleSpace appoints General Manager to head-up Europe, Middle East and Africa operation

May 1st, 2007. Beaverton, Oregon. RuleSpace today announced the appointment of David Miles as its General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. It has also established establishes offices in the United Kingdom.

Verizon deploys RuleSpace technology to power its Internet Security Suite

January 10th, 2007. Beaverton, Oregon. RuleSpace can confirm today that its unique categorization technology has been implemented as part of Verizon’s Internet Security Suite. Available to all its DSL and FiOS users, it actively works to protect files and the whole family.

Filtering Company Eyes Wireless Space.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — September 28, 2005 — Filtering the wireless Internet is a priority for wireless carriers and most will have some sort of parental control filtering capability in place by the end of the year, according to one of the primary suppliers of the technology.

RuleSpace announces industry’s first realtime analysis software for mobile web content.

PORTLAND, OREGON — May 12, 2005 — Following up on its successful launch of the mobile Content Filtering Interface (CFI) in 2004, RuleSpace announced today the commercial release of the next version of the CFI with support for realtime analysis of mobile content.

This Phone Rated R For Nudity and Adult Content

PORTLAND, OREGON — October 20, 2004 — What is 13–year–old Johnny looking at while using the Internet on his mobile phone? What “hot, new Web site” is it that 12–year–old Sally wants to show all of her friends on her trusty PDA? Parents today have no way to know or control what their children view on their mobile devices. Are children simply looking at their friend’s latest blog, or are they looking at one of thousands of pornography sites developed specifically for the mobile Web? With the official launch of its mobile content filtering line, RuleSpace LLC will offer mobile carriers and system integrators the ability to offer the world’s first mobile–specific parental controls system

Bell South deploys RuleSpace technology within parental controls

Atlanta, Ga. and Portland, Ore. - March 8, 2004 - Bell South, serving nearly 50 million Internet, telephone, and wireless customers, and RuleSpace, LLC, the World’s leading provider of ISP Parental Controls solutions, today announced that Bell South has launched the BellSouth FastAccess with Parental Controls Plus product line powered by RuleSpace’s Online Lookup Service. RuleSpace’s Online Lookup Service provides Bell South’s Parental Controls users access to RuleSpace's globally distributed database of over 50 million categorized web sites. In addition to the Online Lookup Services web filtering features, Parental Controls Plus will allow parents to control the time and day the Internet can be accessed for specific applications such as Web browsing or instant messaging. The Firewall Monitor feature is included to protect users against hacker attacks.

Rogers cable to deploy RuleSpace technology within parental controls

Toronto, Canada, Sunnyvale, Cal. and Portland, Ore. - March 8, 2004 - Rogers Cable has joined forces with Yahoo! to bundle a collection of Yahoo services with Rogers' broadband internet access service. RuleSpace's Online Lookup Service will provide Rogers' Parental Controls users with access to RuleSpace's globally distributed database of over 50 million categorized web sites. In addition to the extensive Parental Controls feature, Rogers' broadband customers will have access to a pop-up blocker, virus protection and spam blocking. The parties have indicated that this is a "multi-year deal." Although a launch date has not been set yet, the service is expected to be made available in the latter half of 2004.

Yahoo! Launches more comprehensive and relevant search experience with new Yahoo! search technology with SafeSearch filter powered by RuleSpace's online lookup service and the RuleSpace embedded analysis toolkit

Portland, Ore. And Sunnyvale, CA - February 18, 2004 - Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has created a more comprehensive and relevant search experience for users through the deployment of its own algorithmic search technology on Yahoo! Search. Starting today, the company will begin rolling out the new Yahoo! Search Technology (YST) and expects to continue the process on a worldwide basis over the next several weeks. With the completion of the deployment, Yahoo! Search Technology will power nearly half of all online searches in the U.S.

Overture and Microsoft extend search distribution relationship in the US and UK

Pasadena, Calif. - October 17th, 2003 - Overture Services, Inc., a global leader in commercial search services on the Internet and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), today announced it has extended its RuleSpace-powered solution in support of its search distribution relationship with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) in the United States and United Kingdom through June 2005. Under the terms of the new deal, the Microsoft and Overture have entered into a paid placement search agreement to provide Overture search results to U.S. and UK users of MSN Search. The agreement provides for the companies to potentially expand into additional countries.

RuleSpace and Broadcom announce DOCSIS 2.0 qualification by cablelabs for parental controls on Broadcom cable modem chipsets

Portland, Ore. And Irvine, Cal. - August 9, 2003 - The Parental Controls solution offered by RuleSpace, LLC and Broadcom Corporation has achieved certification from CableLabs. The embedded Parental Controls application on the BCM3360 chipset which is used to power the world's first Multi-User advanced phy single-chip DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS Broadband Gateway cable Modem. With this announcement, Broadcom cable modems and home gateways are now shipping with code capable of accessing RuleSpace's Online Lookup Service to retrieve Parental Controls information in real-time.