Xcavator technology featured in Japan's Nikkei Business Daily

CogniSign's xcavator visual search technology was recently featured in Japan's leading print newspaper: The Nikkei Business Daily. The wide ranging article focused on current applications like this stock photo search portal, and also discussed the future for this powerful technology, including search, advertising, expanded ecommerce, and mobile applications. Click here to read the English translation of the article.

Mobile camera phones and xcavator.net

CogniSign is proud to announce that Pierre Barbeau, CEO of Moblico, has been added to our company's Advisory Board. This officially launches our efforts to develop mobile applications that can be eventually integrated into our visual search services at xcavator.net.

Pierre is a former Sprint executive that made Sprint's Picture Mail the Number One camera phone photo service in the United States. He's as excited as we are about making both the web and mobile experiences more visual. Our company's future holds bright promise for many exciting enhancements at xcavator.net, and many new products beyond this site as well.

Thank you for your continued interest, and please stay tuned.

Bryan

CogniSign receives core xcavator search technology patent

CogniSign has been awarded its first patent from the U.S. Patent Office for the image search technology in use at xcavator.net. This core trajectory technology drives superior search results, and it is based upon more than a decade of research. The company has an extensive portfolio of patent applications and trade secrets.

CogniSign selected by Japanese government to be showcased at CEATEC 2008

The Japanese Export Trade Organization (JETRO) has requested CogniSign to participate at the JETRO CEATEC booth in order to showcase the xcavator technology to major companies in Japan. CEATEC is one of the largest consumer electronics shows in the world, and JETRO has a very large presence at the show. For more information, visit:
CEATEC Japan 2008

CogniSign's xcavator technology to be featured at InfoTrends Conference

We've been selected to present our technology at the InfoTrends Digital Imaging Conference, to be held October 15-16, 2008 in Burlingame, CA. This conference includes three 'Hot Looks' segments, where CogniSign has been selected as one of three top companies to present to a premium industry audience of C-level corporate executives, press, and market research analysts.

InfoTrends is the leading worldwide market research firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry. Check out InfoTrends and this two day conference at:
www.Infotrends.com

xcavator.net inventory approaching 7 million images

I'm pleased to report that our site now has 6,857,169 great stock photos from leading vendors in Rights Managed and Microstock. We'll be adding several new providers in early Fall, across three categories: Rights Managed, traditional Royalty Free, and Microstock. Where would you like to see the biggest increases in inventory? Which categories and subject matter? We're committed to meeting the needs of the busy stock photo buyer with one stop shopping. Have a great summer and search safely !!!

COMP images launched at xcavator.net

Based on a large number of user requests, we have added larger comp images to the site. To check it out, just place your mouse over any image, and you will see the option to click on the COMP button to bring up a large, watermarked comp image. This larger format really helps in buying decisions, and these watermarked images can also be dragged and dropped to your desktop or to graphical applications like Powerpoint and Photoshop when creating mock ups. Check it out !

To buy a photo, click on the COMP button then the AGENCY button that appears with the comp image.