LONDON, September 19 /PRNewswire/ --     RAPID Browser features support for convergent newsrooms, enhanced
performance and extendibility, improved photo management and editorial
workflow automation functions. The software is already in use by more than
2000 editorial users in 30 media companies worldwide and is offered as part
of a standard upgrade to KnowledgeView customers.

RAPID Browser 1.5 offers dramatic performance improvements -- with search
speed increased by an order of magnitude-- and great extendibility, with a
connectivity toolbox that allows it to integrate with paper, web, mobile and
television production systems in a convergent newsroom work environment. So
far, plugins for Adobe InCopy and InDesign, Drupal web CMS and Picsel
Technologies mobile publishing have been completed using the XML-based
connectivity toolbox; other plugins are being developed.

For photo editors, RAPID Browser 1.5 offers 'Mosaic' views, and the
ability to apply common profiles to groups of photos -- a feature much
requested by users. The powerful and easy-to-use editorial actions have also
been extended to allow for cascading actions -- for example, journalists can
choose to tag, classify and send items with a single click. These features,
and many more, were in response to users' feedback from a number of workshops
held by KnowledgeView in the course of 2006-2007.

Steve Liles, KnowledgeView's Development Manager said: "RAPID Browser 1.5
is actually a significant re-write, providing many avenues for further
extensibility in the coming months. We have incorporated the superb Lucene
Full-Text Indexing engine to significantly speed up complex searches and
filters, improved our caching mechanisms to reduce load on the database, and
streamlined our Action framework to improve testability while reducing the
number of database transactions."

Hydar Al-Dewachi, in charge of software deployment and testing at
KnowledgeView added: "We have also implemented automated and rigorous testing
procedures over the last few months, to ensure robust software performance
and scalability, so that upgrading our existing customers is done as
efficiently as possible."

Guy Abou Jaoude, in charge of customer support at KnowledgeView said: "We
are working with our integration partners and customers to roll out the
upgrade in the coming weeks. We are also initiating RAPID Browser Users Group
meetings and online forum so that we continue to involve our customers in
defining functionality in future releases of RAPID Browser."

Nawal El Baba, marketing executive at KnowledgeView added: "We are very
excited by this significant upgrade that will add real value to our
publishing customers. RAPID Browser 1.5 will be showcased at Ifra Vienna on 7
October, and at the Ifra and KnowledgeView conference in Kuwait on the 31
October -- we invite publishers to join us at these events. At Ifra Vienna we
will also demonstrate the integration of RAPID Browser with an advanced
rich-media mobile application from Picsel Technologies."

Sarah and Samy Moukaddem-Hamzeh added: "Having our vision partly obscured
most of the day and night by milk bottle feeding made us appreciate the new
Mosaic views in RAPID Browser. We also can't wait to lay our hands on the
RAPID Browser application on Apple's IPod Touch so that we can follow easily
news of interest and latest nursery rhymes."

About KnowledgeView

KnowledgeView Ltd is a UK-based company with headquarters in London and
offices in the Middle East. The company was founded in 1995 to develop
cross-media publishing, news management and editorial sharing systems.
KnowledgeView's customers include Independent News and Media, and Media
Communication Group. In the Middle East, KnowledgeView is a leading newspaper
integrator providing consultancy as well as technology, acting as a marketing
and technology bridge between Europe and the Arab world.

KnowledgeView's RAPID Browser is a powerful news management and editorial
sharing system for automating acquisition, classification and enhancement of
news and media content; and creating packages for cross-media publishing
serving convergent newsrooms, designed to streamline production and create
additional revenues.

RAPID Browser has set the standard for the next generation of news
management systems with its ability to gather content from a wide variety of
sources such as news agencies, correspondents' reports, RSS feeds, video and
audio; and the power it puts in the hands of users to define their own ways
of filtering and acting on items that match their interests. By integrating
RAPID Browser with Adobe publishing software and with third-party publishing
systems such as web CMS, Adobe software and mobile applications,
KnowledgeView provides integrated editorial and publishing systems for
newspapers.

RAPID Archive, integrated with RAPID Browser and based on XML server
technology, provides strategic rich-media archiving for publishers.

For more information please contact:
    Ms. Nawal El Baba
    +44-(0)208-399-9734
    nawal@knowledgeview.co.uk

http://www.knowledgeview.com