COLE'S NEWSWIRE, April 25, 2001

April 25, 2001
Vol. 7, No. 14

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ARTESIA TECHNOLOGIES
This Rockville, Md.-based provider of digital asset management has announced that J.W. Cappelens Forlag AS of Norway, has implemented TEAMS digital asset management system across its Book Club magazine publishing division in order to streamline production.

The implementation allows graphic designers to drag-and-drop Artesia's TEAMS assets into the Quark XPress-based magazine design tool, while the TEAMS interface with Quark XPress allows image and text assets to be natively dragged-and-dropped into the layout tool along with the assets' descriptive metadata, such as pricing and ordering information.

Artesia is on the Web at http://www.artesia.com/.

ATEX MEDIA SOLUTIONS
This Bedford, Mass.-based company has introduced EnterpriseIAR (Integrated Accounts Receivable). Atex's EnterpriseIAR takes account information stored within the Enterprise advertising database and creates invoices, statements and dunning letters; continues with dispute management, and closes with general ledger transaction extraction.

The system also includes a new collection of tools such as to-do lists, activity diaries, tracking and customer assignments. The release of EnterpriseIAR follows a successful Beta installation at THE STAR (200k) of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Atex is on the Web at http://www.atex.com/.

CAREERBUILDER INC.
Based in Reston, Va., this Web-based recruitment firm has partnered with SiliconValley.com to bring tech job opportunities to its web site. The partnership with CareerBuilder Inc. provides job postings and technology news, and allows job candidates of SiliconValley.com to find interviews with industry executives. Employers are offered premium-advertising opportunities, job posting tools and resume database technology for locating job candidates. SiliconValley.com is a web site of KnightRidder.com.

CareerBuilder, the product of the merger last year between CareerPath.com (co-owned by Knight Ridder and Tribune Co.) and CareerBuilder, is on the Web at http://www.careerbuilder.com/.

CCI EUROPE
Danish software firm Basic Research in Computer Science (BRICS) has worked with this Danish software house to produce algorithms that will specifically allow newspaper publishers to minimize the time spent on, and optimize the space used in, advertising pagination. The partnership came to pass when CCI Europe sought expertise in algorithmic theory to utilize in minimizing the column space used during automatic pagination in CCI AdDesk.

The partnership has yielded an application that will save newspaper production staff both time and space in the pagination process, which in turn will provide publishers with a reduction in production costs.

BRICS is on the web at http://www.brics.dk/, while CCI Europe is on the Web at http://www.ccieurope.com/.

DALIM SOFTWARE GmbH
This privately held German company outlined its new product direction, including greater Web access and tools, along with more predefined workflows tailored to specific application environments, at its North American Users' Group conference, hosted by Blanchard Systems Inc.

DALiM Software provided insight into future direction of TWiST, is workflow software. DALiM also announced that it has received a 23 percent increase in software licenses in 2000 compared to the previous year.

DALiM is on the Web at http://www.dalim.com/.

DIGITAL GOODS
This Maynard, Mass.-based digital content marketing supplier has announced an agreement with Texterity Inc. of Southborough, Mass., which will extend the Amplifi content marketing/eCommerce system from the publisher's desktop to storefronts across the Internet.

Under the agreement, Texterity's TextCafe, an automated service that converts PDF (portable document format), Quark XPress or Microsoft Word files to XML (eXtensible markup language) and Open eBook formats, will be offered by Digital Goods to its content partners. Texterity also will make Digital Goods' Amplifi the recommended digital content marketing system for its content conversion customers.

Digital Goods is on the Web at http://www.digitalgoods.com/, while Texterity is located at http://www.texterity.com/.

MACTIVE INC.
Based in Melbourne, Fla., this provider of advertising systems for the newspaper industry has announced that a contract for its AdBase system was signed with the PENSACOLA (Florida) NEWS JOURNAL (83k).

The NEWS JOURNAL purchased a 28-seat AdBase system from Mactive for classified liner and display ad input and classified pagination. The system will feature fax in/fax out capabilities and an on-line credit card clearinghouse interface. Microsoft Windows NT clients and servers will be utilized with a Microsoft SQL database.

THE RECORD (73k) of Stockton, Calif. has also signed a contract for an AdBase system. THE RECORD purchased a 40-seat AdBase system for order entry of all classified advertising. The order also included PageLayout for classified pagination and Money Manager for accounts receivable.

Mactive is on the Web at http://www.mactive.com/.

PUBLISHING BUSINESS SYSTEMS
THE DAILY CAMERA (33k) of Boulder, Co., has licensed this Barrington, Ill.-based business software provider's MediaPlus Circulation Management and Circulation InSight products.

Among the key features important to the DAILY CAMERA is PBS's MediaPlus.Online product, which will allow the paper's customers 24-hour service access via the Internet. Additionally, PBS's Circulation insight will provide the paper with a management tool to analyze operational data used to augment strategic decision-making.

PBS is on the Web at http://www.pbs.com/.

STONE DESIGN CORP.
The availability of Stone Studio, which includes seven applications built to support Mac OS X, has been announced by this Albuquerque, N.M.-based company. The suite features Create and PhotoToWeb.

Stone Studio includes applications to do graphic design with page layout and Web publishing features, manage digital photos, track time and bill clients, and produce Portable Document Format (PDF) from PostScript files. Applications include Create 10.1 for Mac OS X; PhotoToWeb 1.2.4; SliceAndDice 2.3.5; PStill 1.7; PackUpAndGo 2.0; TimeEqualsMoney 1.3.3, and GIFfun 3.0.

Stone Design Corp. is on the Web at http://www.stone.com/.

SOFTWARE CONSULTING SERVICES
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE (700k) has signed a letter of intent to purchase ClassPag from this Nazareth, Pa.-based company. The SCS/ClassPag classified pagination system from Software Consulting Services (SCS) will be replacing SII's SCP pagination system.

SCS/ClassPag paginates more than 20,000 classified ads on 100 pages in less than one second, and can also paginate multiple papers differentiated by edition/date/zone, then combine them into one publication. The system runs on Sun Solaris, UNIX, Linux and Windows NT/2000 with workstations on PCs and Macs.

BUENOS AIRES CLARN (560k) is also using SCS/ClassPag for daily production of its classified sections. The SCS's system allows CLARN to produce classified sections in color, and also enables the paper to build interactive indices, banners and folios that are automatically updated for the current pagination run.

Lastly, the MINNESOTA DAILY, the University of Minnesota's newspaper, has purchased SCS's AdMAX advertising management system to manage its retail display and classified ads. AdMAX is a complete advertising management system that combines ad-order entry, billing and accounts receivable.

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

WORLD ASSOCIATION OF NEWSPAPERS
A new study of on-line classifieds has found that newspapers that take their classified advertising onto the Web do not lose print revenues. The study, undertaken by the Innovation International Media Consulting Group for the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), also predicts that, for the foreseeable future, print classified will remain a mainstay of the newspaper' business and should not be neglected as management attention shift to the Internet.

WAN is on the Web at http://www.wan-press.org/.

XITRON
This Ann Arbor, Mich.-based developer and integrator of Raster Image Processors has announced new RIP interfaces for the PrePress Panther Plus and Panther Pro, and Monotype PantherPro, Ultara, Catara and Pantara line of recorders. The interface is available on Xitron's Navigator NT/2000 Rip based on the Harlequin ScriptWorks core RIP and is added to the list of more than 100 recorders the Xitron Navigator RIP can drive.

The interface is also available with Raster Blaster, which outputs jobs from any workflow system that can generate screened raster TIFFs including Xitron's Xenith Workflow RIP, and XIP, which is Xitron's RIP based on Adobe CPSI, featuring the Adobe in-RIP trapping.

Xitron is on the Web at http://www.xitron.com/.

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