NEWSGATOR 1.2 RETRIEVES/INTEGRATES RSS NEWS INTO OUTLOOK.

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Reinacker & Associates, Inc. (RAI), Highlands Ranch, Colo., has released version 1.2 of NewsGator, the popular news aggregator for Microsoft Outlook. NewsGator retrieves news from news sites, weblogs, and other sources that support the RSS syndication format, and integrates the news items into Outlook folders.

NewsGator 1.2 adds the ability for users to post items to their own weblogs, directly from Outlook. Posting is done via external plug-ins; RAI released plug-ins today for the most popular weblog publishing tools, including Radio Userland, Blogger.com, DotNetWeblogs.com, and BlogX. Plug-ins for Movable Type and EraBlog are also available today from third-party development partners.

"We are excited to be partnering with RAI to provide publishing capabilities for EraBlog.NET within NewsGator," said Mike Amundsen, president of EraServer.NET. "With the new publishing features, NewsGator is the ideal information management solution for corporate users using Outlook, and fits well into the EraBlog.NET vision."

Also in version 1.2, the integration between e-mail and news posts is much tighter; users can reply to news authors via e-mail or instant messenger, post a mailing list item directly to their weblog, or save a news post to an Exchange public folder. Weblogs and syndicated news feeds are no longer a separate information source competing for a user's attention; rather, Outlook now serves as the central information store, allowing both reading and publishing.

NewsGator allows users to monitor the ever-growing number of information sources supporting RSS syndication, and allows them to leverage the powerful organizational capabilities of Outlook. News can be sorted, organized, grouped, or searched in countless ways, and features like offline reading make this information readily accessible at any time.

NewsGator 1.2 runs with Outlook 2000 or later, and is available immediately from http://www.newsgator.com. Pricing is $29 (US) per copy, with quantity discounts available.

For more information, call 303/683-0506 or visit http://www.newsgator.com.