The main site, the NEWS-SICKLE-ARROW (3k) in Black Earth, houses the database, sharing it, via telecommunications and Baseview software, with SAUK PRIARIE STAR in Sauk City, the MIDDLETON TIMES-TRIBUNE in Middletown, the MOUNT HORAB MAIL in Mount Horab and the NEW GLARUS POST MESSENGER in New Glarus.

Indiana's ELKHART TRUTH (28k) installed Baseview's LiveIQue to serve up its web site with no manual HTML coding.

The company installed 26 other newspaper sites with software in February.

Baseview is on the Web at http://www.baseview.com/, with the TRUTH is at http://elkharttruth.com/.

The new offering will make available the royalty-free, or non-licensed, photographs and images within the Corbis Collection on a subscription basis to publishers, agencies and other creative professionals. The service subscriptions will be marketed and sold by both WAM!NET and Corbis to their respective existing customers and new prospects.

Corbis on the Web at http://www.corbis.com/, while WAM!NET is located at http://www.wamnet.com/.

Digital Goods will initially market 85 1stBooks Library tiles, from the library's base of 6000 published authors, primarily in the career, travel and self-help genres. Digital Goods will create on-line offers for each of the 1stBooks Library titles and package them with other related content for promotions in its Digigoods storefronts on pertinent sites among its on-line retail affiliates.

Digital Goods is on the Web at http://www.digitalgoods.com/, while 1stBooks is located at http://www.1stbooks.com/.

Updated versions of all Enfocus products, which run on any mainstream Windows or Mac OS desktop computer, are available for free to existing customers, downloadable on-line. Among Enfocus' new versions are Certified Workflow and Certified PDF, PitStop Professional, PitStop Server, PowerUp PDF and WebPerfect PDF.

Enfocus is on the Web at http://www.enfocus.com/.

Upon installation with an existing Quark DMS system, the company immediately gains an intranet site that can be used to access files from the digital media system. Quark DMS Media Portal allows users browse for files by category or search across all media by name or file content. It also allows users to store files in, or access frequently in, a "media basket" that functions like an on-line shopping cart, and create additional media baskets that can be shared with other users.

Additionally, Quark Inc. has announced the release of Quark CopyDesk Special Edition, a stand-alone text processing and editing application designed to meet the needs of professional writers and editors. Quark CopyDesk SE provides users with exact copy-fitting information and typographic control, but without the overhead of graphic features.

The Special Edition integrates with Quark XPress, and articles created in SE can be imported to Quark XPress layouts, with exact hyphenation, justification and line endings. Text can be viewed in WYSIWYG, full screen or galley view.

Quark is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/.

Version 1.2 offers enhanced capabilities for sorting and searching video frames, including varying frame thumbnail sizes and printing capabilities. Image quality is enhanced with a redesigned masking tool that allows users to mask out areas of the frame that are not relevant to the final image. Speed is enhanced through the addition of an application toolbar for faster navigation, and a floating menu for faster image creation. Version 1.2 includes a Quick Export feature that allows the user to save out a single frame of video similar to a frame grab but at higher resolution. VideoFOCUS 1.2 supports the input of both PAL and NTSC video formats and the output of IPTC headers with images.

Salient Stills is on the Web at http://www.salientstills.com/.

The merger will create a company with a powerful product range for the growing market for cross-media publishing and content management systems for corporate publishing. The new company will have its head office in Aalborg, Denmark, with subsidiaries in Norway and the United States.

Following the merger, the new company will aim to offer newspaper and magazine publishers a tightly integrated system for both print and electronic publishing, which allows efficient parallel publishing of news. The final agreement depends on WebPlan's shareholders being granted tax concessions by the Norwegian Department of Finance.

SAXoTECH is on the Web at http://www.saxotech.com/, while WebPlan is located at http://www.webplan.no/.

Because the STAR uses nearly all of the Software Consulting Services' (SCS) systems, the system conversions were completely synchronized. To provide service to advertisers while preparing for new page sizes, AdMAX was set up to use new sizes for any ad orders scheduled after Jan. 1, 2001. Additionally, new rate conversion, page formats, lineage of classified ads and ad cost all required adjustment.

Also, THE STAR-LEDGER of Newark, N.J., has signed a contract with SCS for an upgrade to its SCS/NPI newsprint inventory system. The upgrade includes the purchase of one Dell 2400 PowerEdge Pentium III server and five Laser Wand Bar Code Scanners. The SCS/NPI system tracks newsprint inventory and maintains a history of each roll of newspaper received. The newest version features GUI user interface, enhanced workflow for the entry of Used Rolls and increased data management for both new and used newsprint rolls.

SCS is on the Web at http://www.newspapersystems.com/.

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