This section provides IT journalists with an overview on the latest UpdateStar press releases. Click the link to view the press release in a separate window (PDF document) or right-click to download.

March 20, 2009

The newly released UpdateStar 4 provides software users with enhanced recognition of available updates and upgrades and a cleaner for more than 259,000 programs to maintain their software setup. Updates and patches for software often fix security issues and other problems. Updates appear almost on a daily basis for a software setup with 60 to 80 programs on a typical PC making it nearly impossible for a PC user to keep up. UpdateStar offers relief and is available as freeware as well as the commercial Premium Edition with additional security advice for program, a cleaner for system maintenance and more. UpdateStar is an important software add-on to every PC user's security strategy. The UpdateStar community already scrobbles more than 4.5 million user programs for available updates daily.
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January 28, 2009

The UpdateStar project, both the #1 software search engine and software updating service for PC users, recently welcomed its one millionth user. Started in early 2008 UpdateStar keeps gaining popularity among PC software users. The UpdateStar team celebrates the millionth user mark with newly published UpdateStar Collection as well as offering users attractive software bundles with products from industry leading software vendors. All special offers are available from the UpdateStar website. The UpdateStar software client provides users with all of their software and software updates from UpdateStar's crowdsourced software database. UpdateStar has already become the most complete software source world-wide with more than 135,000 recognized software products.
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December 4, 2008

Keeping PC software up-to-date and secure is a never-ending task for the user. Software upgrades and patches fixing security and other problems appear on a daily basis making it hard for the user to keep up. UpdateStar Premium Edition offers relief. It provides minor and major updates for more than 135,000 programs with 850,000 versions. UpdateStar Premium offers security advice for high priority updates and allows for the management and backup of one’s own PC software setup. With UpdateStar Premium the user is protected against security problems or system crashes caused by outdated software. UpdateStar already scrobbles more than 100 million user programs for available updates per month. UpdateStar is positioned as a preventive software add-on to the security strategy of serious PC users.
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August 20, 2008

UpdateStar's newly launched "Analytics" market research service lets software vendors know when they lose or gain market share. It offers insights into a software product's market position and user behavior. The Analytics reports offer answers to mission-critical questions for software marketers as well as for software market analysts. Based on anonymously-gained data from its world-class freeware update service, UpdateStar's reports keep software companies updated with critical and current market research findings about the success of their products with users. With Analytics, software vendors now have access to a cost-efficient market research tool based on up-to-date software user statistics for more than 95,000 programs.
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August 1, 2008

UpdateStar is the #1 source for complete software information – on the web as well as on a user's desktop. Software developers can now join the newly-launched "Share" program, an advertising revenue sharing program. Developers can register and use the updatestar.com portal as their download mirror and receive a significant portion of shared ad revenue created with their content – the software programs they produce. This way even freeware authors can establish a new, substantial revenue stream by partnering with UpdateStar. The Share program is open to commercial software vendors as well as shareware and freeware authors.
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June 26, 2008

Setting up a PC with software these days can be a repetitive, Sisyphean task. The new "UpdateStar Packs" bring an end to this toil. Users no longer need to spend endless hours searching for all the essential freebies and latest versions for their PC's. UpdateStar Packs offer a simple and intuitive way to import complete software setups via the UpdateStar application.
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June 4, 2008

The newly released version 2.2 offers additional import and export functionality for complete software setups. Users can now easily export their complete favorite software setup for backup reasons or easily migrate their software setup. The UpdateStar website additionally offers free downloads of UpdateStar Packs. These recommended software setups include top-rated freeware essentials.
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March 26, 2008

Keeping their PC software constantly updated is a never-ending Sisyphean task for most users. The UpdateStar project promises to help. The Freeware works silently in the background and delivers Update information for a user's entire software profile. In addition to much-improved software recognition, the new version 2.0 also allows users to rate their programs. 
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January 15, 2008
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With the new version 1.2, Berlin-based exono GmbH releases the enhanced Beta version of UpdateStar. The freeware UpdateStar eases every computer user’s software life by keeping all installed programs bang up-to-date. Enhancements to the new version 1.2 include improvements of the software recognition algorithms to maximize the number of correctly detected programs.
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December 21, 2007

Within the first three months since its initial release in September 2007 UpdateStar has so far gained a user base of 50,000 users. The UpdateStar software project, launched in Berlin, Germany, uses this growing user base to make sure it keeps software setups bang up-to-date.
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December 11, 2007

With the start of the UpdateStar partner program media partners can, with immediate effect, promote their very own version of UpdateStar and start making a profit with no time restrictions. The larger the installation base of a partner version, the more attractive the profit potential for the partner becomes.
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November 19, 2007

The company exono GmbH from Berlin, Germany introduces its freeware UpdateStar version 1.1 as a Beta version. With UpdateStar, users can make sure they keep their software bang up-to-date.
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