COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Jan. 5, 2000

Jan. 5, 2000
Vol. 6, No. 1

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BELO INTERACTIVE INC.
Belo Interactive, the Internet subsidiary of Dallas, Texas-based diversified media company Belo Corp., and the Sun-Netscape Alliance have announced they will form a "media foundry" to develop next-generation media management solutions. America Online Inc. of Dulles, Va., and Sun Microsystems Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., formed the Sun-Netscape Alliance to provide comprehensive enterprise and e-commerce solutions to business partners and other companies doing business on the Internet.

Belo Interactive and Sun-Netscape say they plan to contribute resources to produce content management-driven products, services and solutions that can be used to meet the needs of various Belo divisions and can be commercially marketed by the Sun-Netscape Alliance. Belo's television group currently reaches 14 percent of U.S. television households, including four stations in the top 17 television markets, and its publishing division is headed by the DALLAS MORNING NEWS and Rhode Island's PROVIDENCE JOURNAL.

Belo can be found on the Web at http://www.belo.com/, while the Sun-Netscape Alliance is on the Web at http://www.iplanet.com/.

CASCADE SYSTEMS INC.
Cascade, a supplier of archive and workflow solutions based in Acton, Mass., and Breakaway Solutions Inc., a Boston-based company that provides integrated strategy, e-business, and application hosting solutions for growing enterprises, have forged an agreement that enables Cascade to offer its Merchant Publishing and Media Publishing solutions on the Web via Breakaway Solutions' Internet database management and administration services.

The combination of Cascade's MediaSphere media asset management system and Breakaway Solutions' ASP services enables customers such as publisher supplier Metro Creative Graphics of New York to provide on-line access to Metro's large database, where clients can perform a simple search to locate and download images, spec ads or editorial features.

Cascade is on the Web at http://www.cascadenet.com/.

EXTENSIS PRODUCTS GROUP
Extensis Products, a Portland, Ore.-based unit of creativepro.com Inc. that develops, publishes, markets and supports productivity software for creative professionals, has announced the release of Suitcase 8.2 software for managing and synchronizing fonts on individual workstations or across work groups. The updated product includes Suitcase Server, three free server connections, and compatibility with Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh OS 9.

Connections can be added to the server for the new price of $35 per connection. Suitcase 8.2 is a free update for users of Suitcase 8, while owners of Suitcase 3 may upgrade for $49.95. Suitcase 8.2 also comes with a new version of MenuFonts tailored for modern operating systems. Suitcase Server runs on a standard Macintosh or Microsoft Windows NT operating system with a connection to a TCP/IP network or the Internet.

English versions of Suitcase 8.2 were slated to be available this month and will support Macintosh OS 7.5.5 or higher. French, German and Japanese versions will be on the market in February.

Extensis can be found on the Web at http://www.extensis.com/.

HARLEQUIN INC.
Harlequin, a raster-image process (RIP) maker based in Waltham, Mass., announced that it has filed a lawsuit against San Mateo, Calif.-based Electronics for Imaging Inc. (EFI), a maker of RIPs for low-end color printing, claiming that EFI has violated the Lanham Act, a federal law which governs, among other things, false advertising.

In its complaint, Harlequin says EFI knowingly made false allegations in telling Harlequin's original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers that Harlequin's products infringe EFI's patents. The suit also claims EFI violated several Massachusetts state laws.

According to Harlequin, the suit was triggered by EFI's recent letters to several of Harlequin's OEM customers threatening them with legal action if they continue to sell Harlequin products that EFI claims infringe on its patents. Harlequin filed suit on Jan. 3, in the United States District Court in Boston, and seeks to prevent EFI from disseminating further such claims as well as recovery of unspecified damages.

Harlequin says EFI has been unable to find any legal support to prove its claims of patent infringement as alleged in its lawsuit filed on Nov. 6, 1998 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which said that three of Harlequin's products infringe patents owned by EFI.

Harlequin is on the Web at http://www.harlequin.com/, while EFI is at http://www.efi.com/.

TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Chicago-based TMS, a multimedia content provider and a unit of the Tribune Co. of Chicago, has announced that Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services now offers KRT OnePages and KRT Interactive Web packages on a spot-sale basis through the company's Web site http://www.krtdirect.com/. Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services is a partnership between Knight Ridder, the San Jose-based newspaper and new media company, and the Tribune.

The new service allows KRTDirect users to browse, preview and immediately download content for use in their newspapers or on their Web sites. When a product is selected, a "preview" link shows users a description of the product and price. After reviewing the terms of use, users can click "accept" to start an immediate download or "decline" to stop the process. Spot-sale charges will appear on the client's monthly syndicate bill from TMS.

KRT OnePages are full-color, paginated single pages and special sections including breaking news, features, sports and business as well as weekly features, and this year will offer monthly coverage of Campaign 2000 and a Summer Olympics Preview section. KRT Interactive Web packages use graphics, animation, photos, sound and interactivity on major breaking news, entertainment, sports and business events. Complete coverage of Campaign 2000 is now available and includes candidate profiles and positions, political primers, key primaries, congressional races and political trivia.

TMS is on the Web at http://www.tms.tribune.com/.

UNISYS CORP.
Unisys, a publishing solutions supplier based in Blue Bell, Pa., has announced that LE MONDE, a 500,000-circulation national French newspaper, has selected the Unisys e-@ction Publishing Solutions to produce its daily paper and supplements.

The system will allow LE MONDE to maximize editorial flexibility, accelerate the production cycle and better organize the increasing flow of digital information, according to Unisys. The Unisys solutions will replace the newspaper's current CCI pagination system as well its Systems Integrators Inc. editorial system, and will include multi-media archiving.

The new system will be installed on 400 workstations and will be powered by two Sun E4500 servers secured by a Sun E3500 Disaster Recovery system. The editorial system will rely on an Oracle8 database engine with users accessing all applications from their individual PC workstations. Journalists will access the archives via Internet browser interface.

LE MONDE officials said the decision to go with the Unisys system was based in part on a shared vision of the future that follows the market trend toward multiple media publishing.

Unisys is on the Web at http://www.unisys.com/biz/publishing/.

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