The weather forecasting service based in State College, Pa., has created AccuNet Online, a service that gives newspapers their own web pages with local weather forecasts, current local and regional color radar images, and other meteorological conditions for the area.

Options include automatically updated regional and national weather maps and forecasts, severe weather watches and warnings, and the latest NEXRAD Doppler radar and satellite imagery. Custom design of web pages is available.

Other content may include news, stock market updates, soap opera summaries, horoscopes, lottery results and sports. AccuWeather will custom design web pages that are based on a newspaper's format.

AccuWeather's e-mail is info@accuwx.com

Coatsworth, which is based in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, says its Solo for AP Kit is a low-cost interface between the AP PADRa Photostream Receiver or the AP/Leaf Picture Desk and the users' in-house Windows or Macintosh network.

Using off-the-shelf National Instruments TNT/GPIB boards and Solo Listener software, editors can undertake picture search and browsing. Compressed AP pictures are automatically processed into RichTIFF and placed into a designated drop folder through the Solo software, where they are sorted into sub-directories based on selected IPTC fields.

Under a site license that comes with each kit, a limited number of users can access the image folder where they can search, view, move, rotate, crop and size selected pictures. All users can see the results across the network. Each picture file carries an IPTC header as well as three image files -- high resolution, full screen, thumbnail -- so that when full image editing is required, users can import the high resolution image directly into Photoshop.

More than 150 newspapers and news photo suppliers use Solo.

In other news from Coatsworth, Ed Kale of Newspaper Communication Services of Matthews, N.C., has been selected to represent Coatsworth in the United States. Kale can be reached at (704) 847-8773.

The nonexclusive contract formalizes previous activity between Dewar, a subsidiary of Sysdeco Inc. of Oslo, Norway, and DEC, which already has sold and installed more than 800 seats of DewarView at publishing sites across the United States.

The LANCASHIRE EVENING TELEGRAPH has become one of the first evening newspapers in the United Kingdom to create a presence on the global Internet using an editorial and pagination system from DT. The EVENING TELEGRAPH system carries the DPS Typecraft brand, as it is the company licensed by DT to sell its systems in the U.K.

The paper, whose offices are in Blackburn, England, began its service in August. News stories are selected as the print edition is being made up, and an automated transfer system reformats the copy, then moves it to a Web server for worldwide access.

The EVENING TELEGRAPH daily on-line file includes about 15 news stories, business news, sports, letters, a feature, and an opinion column. The TELEGRAPH's address on the net is: http://www.reednews.co.uk./let

To see copy from a stateside paper using DT to get on the Web, visit the ROANOKE TIMES for calendars of events, local sports, top news and classifieds. The address for the ROANOKE TIMES on the net is: http://www.infi.net/roatimes.

The AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN and the Newspaper Agency Corp., which publishes the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE and DESERET NEWS in Salt Lake City, have purchased Edgil's AdCentral. Using AdCentral, the newspapers will transfer all their classified ad data from their front-end systems to a Sybase relational database.

Through the Sybase database, reports will be generated for such things can be used for a number of reporting applications such as lineage, sales activity and commission reports. The STATESMAN-AMERICAN will run AdCentral on a Sun platform for classified pagination from its Atex Integrated Advertising System. The Salt Lake papers have a Novell network as their platform.

Both sites bought Edgil's High Availability Atex Link for a hot backup of the extraction process, in which a PC monitors Atex for continued extractions. If activity stops, this workstation will continue with the extraction.

The STATESMAN-AMERICAN also has purchased Edgil's EdgCapture for a real-time authorization and funds transfer of classified advertising and circulation credit card transactions.

Visitors to the site can obtain information about Harris, such as an events calendar, reprints from trade publications and information on Harris products. Detailed product data are available in Adobe Acrobat format; the free Acrobat reader can be downloaded directly from the Harris site.

The Harris home page also has links to other industry sites including two lists of newspapers publishing on the Web, the Newspaper Association of America home page and trade publications including THE COLE PAPERS.

By browsing over to http://www.scitex.com, ÕNet surfers can access three areas established by Bedford, Mass.-based Scitex:

-- About Scitex offers corporate information, such as a company profile, financial data and press releases.

-- Scitex Companies presents home pages for each subsidiary, where each can add relevant information.

-- Customer Support has information about the services, tools and products offered by Scitex at the corporate level. (Support by subsidiaries is under the home page of each company.)

Four additional buttons open up Hot Topics, a revolving door for new and interesting information; Products, with thumbnail information about every Scitex product; Search, which assists in locating a product or family of products based on key words, and Tidbits, which has such things as a demo version of the Scitex MaskCutter application, video clips of new products, and a multimedia presentation introducing computer-based training for two Scitex scanners.

The combined effort will feature advertising sales seminars and consulting to full, on-site advertising sales support.

TV Publications Services has more than 13 years of advertising sales experience at newspapers, including seven years selling advertising for TV magazines in more than 60 markets.

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