RuleSpace’s Web Categorization Solution Chosen By Bell Mobility For Its Parental Control Service

Beaverton, Oregon – March 3rd, 2009. RuleSpace announced today that Bell Mobility will be using RuleSpace’s web categorization data and technology for their Parental Control product for mobiles. This solution will enable parents to control access to inappropriate content on the Internet. RuleSpace’s products to power Bell Mobility’s solution to help parents manage children’s wireless access, ensuring a safer and friendlier Mobile Internet experience.

RuleSpace Releases Updated Web Categorization Solution And Receives Premium Certification

Beaverton, Oregon (PRWEB) October 28, 2008. -- RuleSpace LLC, the global leader in OEM URL categorization databases and real-time technology, today announced a number of improvements to its web categorization solution. New features include major enhancements to its real-time web page analysis technology and the introduction of new categories in the RuleSpace Web Categorization Database. RuleSpace is also pleased to announce that CensorNet, one of its OEM customers, has received the Checkmark Premium certification from West Coast Labs for its web filtering product powered by RuleSpace technology.

RuleSpace Appoints Gary Thomassen as Vice President of Enterprise Products to Spearhead Continued Expansion into Web Security OEM Market

May 08, 2008. Beaverton, Oregon. RuleSpace LLC, a global leader in OEM URL categorization databases and real-time web page analysis technology, today announced the appointment of Gary Thomassen as vice president of enterprise products. Thomassen will drive product strategy and ensure continued market share expansion in the internet and web security URL filtering market.

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.

British telecom deploys RuleSpace technology within parental controls

London, England, Sunnyvale, Cal. and Portland, Ore. - June 16, 2003 - BT has joined forces with Yahoo! to launch the BT Yahoo! Broadband service. RuleSpace’s Online Lookup Service provides BT's 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, BT Yahoo! Broadband provides a pop-up blocker, virus protection and spam blocking.

RuleSpace and Broadcom announce strategic license agreement

Portland, Ore. And Irvine, Cal. - June 6, 2003 - RuleSpace, LLC, and Broadcom Corporation have launched a program to provide embedded Parental Controls on all Broadcom-based cable modems. Broadcom will integrate RuleSpace's Online Lookup Tool Kit (OLTK) on their DOCSIS chipset. This will allow all Broadcom-based cable modems and home gateways to access RuleSpace's Online Lookup Service (OLS). The OLS is a globally distributed database containing over 50 million accurately categorized URLs.

RuleSpace to power Overture's filtered search engine service

Portland, Ore. & Pasadena, Calif. - January 20th, 2003 - RuleSpace, LLC, and Overture (formerly Fast Search and Transfer) have announced that Overture's Filtered Search Service has launched, and is powered by RuleSpace’s Online Lookup Service, (OLS). Incorporation of the RuleSpace OLS into this service will enable Overture to access over 50 million accurately categorized web sites in 14 languages to aid Overture in detecting and eliminating pornography and other inappropriate material from its paid placement and in search results. RuleSpace's support in 14 languages, including of all major Scandinavian languages, will enable Overture to detect inappropriate content in languages that are unsupported by any other Parental Controls product.

Netspective webfilter integrates Contexion online lookup service from RuleSpace

Alanta, GA - February 06, 2002 - Telemate.Net Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise resource management solutions and a Verso Technologies, Inc. company, announced today that NetSpective WebFilter has enhanced its URL content categorization capabilities by incorporating Contexion™ Online Lookup Service, a web content recognition subscription service, from Rulespace, LLC. NetSpective WebFilter is the first high performance, passive, filtering appliance to deploy Contexion, which also powers filtering solutions offered by America Online and Intel. By pairing Contexion Services' continual discovery of inappropriate web sites and subdirectories with Telemate's own patent-pending Adaptive Filtering technology, NetSpective WebFilter provides a unique "dual inspection" process to deliver comprehensive web content filtering and reporting for enterprise, government, education and services provider networks.

DoBox integrates RuleSpace Contexion services technology into internet gateway parental controls solution

PORTLAND, Ore. and SALT LAKE CITY - January 8, 2002 - RuleSpace, LLC, the leading provider of automated Web content recognition, and DoBox, Inc., a leading provider of Internet gateway software for homes and schools, today announced that DoBox has integrated RuleSpace's Contexion™ Online Lookup Service (OLS) and Contexion Embedded Analysis Toolkit (EATK) into its innovative Internet gateway software. The integrated solution, available to OEMs and broadband service providers in February, provides unparalleled control and security of home and school Internet systems.

RuleSpace wins PC Magazine technical excellence award

Portland, Ore. - November 13, 2001 - RuleSpace, LLC, the leading provider of automated Web content recognition, today announced that Contexion Services received the prestigious PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award in the Internet software and services category. Winners were announced last night at PC Magazine's 18th Annual Technical Excellence Awards ceremony held at Fall Comdex.

Filtering: The Next Generation - by Samuel Greengard

September 2001 Article:
Web filtering software has always been a dicey proposition. You plunk down money and spend time setting up the program only to find that your kids can't get to information about breast cancer, but they can view pictures of scantly clad women. "The problem with most filtering programs," says Brian Burke, a senior research analyst at market research firm IDC, "is they block specific URLs or use a control list with specific words to determine whether a site should be blocked. It's easily defeated." Web filtering software has always been a dicey proposition. You plunk down money and spend time setting up the program only to find that your kids can't get to information about breast cancer, but they can view pictures of scantly clad women. "The problem with most filtering programs," says Brian Burke, a senior research analyst at market research firm IDC, "is they block specific URLs or use a control list with specific words to determine whether a site should be blocked. It's easily defeated."

Rulespace granted US Patent for automated content recognition technology

Portland, Ore. - July 24, 2001 - RuleSpace, LLC, the leading provider of content recognition technology, today announced that the US Patent Office has granted the company a patent for its unique methods of categorizing digital content in real-time data streams. These methods automatically categorize content such as web pages pertaining to pornography, illicit drugs, or hate-mongering subject matter.

Cerberian adopts RuleSpace technology to enable next-generation internet access management

Salt Lake City and Portland, Ore. - July 10, 2001 - Cerberian, Inc. and RuleSpace, LLC today announced that Cerberian has incorporated RuleSpace's Contexion™ Services Web content recognition technology within Cerberian Internet Manager, the first entirely Web-based, outsourced Internet management service. Cerberian's Internet access management service monitors, manages, and reports on Internet activity for enterprises and homes. Contexion Services provides Cerberian with real-time categorization of new and dynamically generated Web content, as well as access to the world's largest, continuously updated database of pre-categorized Web sites and subdirectories. This two-pronged approach to content recognition considers both the content and context of a Web page and delivers a superior alternative to traditional Internet filtering products and services that rely only on static lists of inappropriate Web sites.

RuleSpace expands Contexion™ Services

PORTLAND, Ore. and LAS VEGAS - May 8, 2001 - Networld+Interop, Booth 3305 - RuleSpace, LLC, the leading provider of automated content recognition, today announced the availability of Contexion Services Version 3.1. This latest version includes Contexion List Service, a new implementation option that enables Internet access control vendors to build more effective Internet filtering applications with minimal development effort. In addition, Contexion Services Version 3.1 features recognition of content written in multiple languages, enabling filtering solutions offered by both Internet access control vendors and Internet service providers (ISPs) the broadest available coverage of web content. The latest version of Contexion Services also includes 13 new productivity categories for vendors providing filtering solutions to enterprises concerned about employees "cyberloafing" on the job, and includes network infrastructure enhancements for improved service availability and reliability.

AOL deploys RuleSpace technology within parental controls

Dulles, Va. and Portland, Ore. - May 2, 2001 - America Online, the world's leading interactive service, and RuleSpace, LLC, the leading provider of content recognition technology, today announced that AOL has integrated RuleSpace's Contexion™ Services technology into the web content filtering feature of AOL Parental Controls. RuleSpace's automated, neural network technology affords AOL a flexible and scalable solution that will keep pace with the Internet's rapid growth while maintaining the highest standards for protecting children from inappropriate online content. In addition, AOL will also continue to use member recommendations of web sites to supplement its automated web filtering.

Intel selects RuleSpace technology for AnyPoint™ home network

Portland, Ore., September 26, 2000 - RuleSpace LLC, the leader in instant Web content recognition, today announced that Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has integrated RuleSpace's Contexion Services within Intel's AnyPoint Home Network Connectivity Software Suite. Intel is using RuleSpace's technology to automatically recognize and filter out objectionable Internet content for networked PCs in the home.

RuleSpace closes $12million in series c funding

PORTLAND, OR (August 21, 2000) - RuleSpace LLC, the leader in instant Web content recognition, today announced the closing of $12 million in Series C funding. Madrona Venture Group led the round. Additional investment was provided by America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL), FBR CoMotion Venture Capital, Millenium Technology Ventures, and existing investors from Portland and the Bay Area. In conjunction with the funding from Madrona Venture Group, Will Glasgow, Madrona Managing Director, will join the RuleSpace Board.

RuleSpace categorizing the world wide web

LAS VEGAS, (May 8, 2000) Networld Interop, booth #7931 South Hall - RuleSpace, LLC, the leader in instant Web content recognition, today announced it is categorizing the World Wide Web. The company's Contexion™ Services provides automated categorization of Web content for Internet applications and services, enabling network access vendors, online marketers, portals and dot-coms to deliver more relevant content and keep pace with the explosion of the Web. The speed and scalability of RuleSpace's Contexion Services addresses the ever-increasing problems of crude Internet filtering, irrelevant search engine results, poor content discovery and seemingly random banner ad placement.

RuleSpace closes $8million in series b funding

PORTLAND, Ore. (April 28, 2000) - RuleSpace LLC, the leader in instant Web content recognition, today announced the closing of $8 million in Series B venture funding. The round was filled in less than one day, with investments from Northwest-based FBR CoMotion Venture Capital, Pillar Management, as well as individual investors from Portland and the Bay Area. RuleSpace has raised $13 million in total financing to date. This latest round of funding will support increasing sales and development efforts as the company continues its aggressive pursuit of solving the management, organization and categorization challenges brought about by the information explosion on the Web.

Internet Companies Complete Draft of Standards-Based Protocol for Delivering e-Services

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- March 20, 2000 - The ICAP Forum of leading Internet companies today announced the completion of the first draft of a protocol aimed at enabling Internet e-services.

France telecom taps RuleSpace to provide internet protection to france's schools

Portland, Ore, Feb. 17, 2000 - RuleSpace LLC, the leader in automated web content recognition, today announced that France Telecom, the world's fourth largest telecommunications carrier, has selected RuleSpace's technology to ensure safe Internet access for thousands of academic institutions in France as part of its Scol@gora project. RuleSpace's technology provides instant recognition of inappropriate web content enabling France Telecom to filter out objectionable material such as pornography, weapons and hate speech in real-time as students surf the Internet.