COLE'S NEWSWIRE, March 13, 1996

March 13, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 12

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BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview Products Inc., a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., installed software and hardware, and trained personnel at these publications in December 1995:

-- MOHAVE VALLEY DAILY NEWS of Bullhead City, Ariz. (7k morning): seven pagination packages, including DragX, NewsEditPro and QTools; eight copies of NewsEditPro; one copy of CommLinkPlus; one copy of QSpool; one copy of AdminPro, and service contracts.

-- CARROLLTON (Ga.) TIMES-GEORGIAN (11k morning): added five copies of ClassManagerPro; one Classified Accounts Receivables module; one copy of ClassFlow, and one copy of ClassManagerPro for Receivables only.

-- DOUGLASVILLE (Ga.) COUNTY SENTINEL (9k morning): four copies of ClassManagerPro; one Classified Accounts Receivables module; one copy of ClassFlow; three pagination packages; six copies of NewsEditPro IQue; one copy of CommLink/Plus replaced with CommLinkPlus IQue; one copy of DisplayManager; one copy of AdForce; two copies of CirculationPro; Circulation Data Transfer, and one Classified Accounts Receivables module.

-- FREDERICK (Md.) NEWS-POST (29k morning, 14k evening): 18 copies of Circulation Pro.

-- FARMINGTON (N.M.) DAILY TIMES (16k morning): 25 copies of NewsEdit upgraded to NewsEditPro, five copies of DragX and one copy of WireManager upgraded.

-- Park Newspapers of St. Lawrence in Ogdensburg, N.Y. (COURIER-OBSERVER, 6k morning; THE JOURNAL, 5k evening; ADVANCE-NEWS, 11k Sundays): one copy of WireManager; one copy of CommLinkPlus, 12 copies of NewsEditPro, seven pagination packages, one copy of QSpool, four copies of ClassManagerPro, one Classified Accounts Receivables module, one copy of ClassFlow, one copy of ClassManagerPro Remote Merge, three copies of ClassManagerPro Remote Receivables and one copy of AdForce.

CE ENGINEERING PUBLISHING SYSTEMS INC.
CE Engineering, maker of Decade 33 and Decade Mac, a software package that emulates the Coyote terminal made by System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento, has opened an overseas office.

Under the direction of Gary Hall, vice president of European operations, the new office will be based in London, England. Founded in 1989, the company plans to add programmers and system engineers to its 25-person staff at its expanded headquarters in Loomis, Calif., just outside Sacramento.

DATA SCIENCES INC.
Data Sciences of Silver Spring, Md., has announced that THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW of Spokane, Wash. (125k morning), will be a beta test site for the company's Oracle7-based Advertising Management System.

Installation of the Windows-based system will include DSI's classified billing module with an interface to the paper's classified front-end made by Cybergraphic Inc. of Burlington, Mass. Completion is planned for the fourth quarter of 1996.

FREEDOM SYSTEM INTEGRATORS
FSI of Wichita, Kan., has released LiveWire 3.2, a link between such editorial front-ends as Dewar or Mycro-Comp and a pagination system such as the Freedom Series from FSI.

A LiveWire introductory kit ($3995) includes the 3.2 release, two licenses for Oracle database server software for Windows NT or Apple Macintosh, and two copies of either the Freedom Series ADvance Sales classified software or Freedom Editorial Pagination.

LiveWire deals with incoming and outgoing data. It can handle input from up to six modems, bringing in wire copy, remote transfers and/or data from an Internet gateway. On output from a front-end system, a single command sends files to LiveWire, which reads header information, formats text with Quark XPress tags and routes them to the proper queues in the Freedom Series database.

GANNETT MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL
Cincinnati-based GMTI has announced a joint initiative with the Hewlett Packard Co. of Atlanta to market HP hardware and GMTI's DiGiCol archiving software as a package for managing data -- text and images -- in a multimedia environment.

At first, both GMTI and HP will market DiGiCol; plans call for expanding uses of the software technology into related markets. DiGiCol, which is in use by more than 75 sites worldwide, is a client-server application running on HP UNIX servers and Windows-based HP Vectra PCs and Apple Macintoshes.

KNIGHT-RIDDER INC.
Miami-based Knight-Ridder, publishers of the MIAMI HERALD and a score of other newspapers, has formed a new company, MediaStream, to market text and image archiving solutions to newspapers.

The new enterprise will draw on products and services provided by current and former Knight-Ridder companies: PressLink, K-R's 11-year-old on-line image and graphics provider, and Vu/Text, a former Knight-Ridder company that makes SAVE, a text-and-image archiving solution.

Both the PressLink and SAVE product brands will be continued under MediaStream, which has introduced its first product, SAVEcentral. Several Knight-Ridder newspapers have chosen SAVEcentral as their core archiving system and server on the World-Wide Web, through which they can sell access to their archives over the Internet. All newspapers offering SAVEcentral access will cross-market other newspapers' archives that use the product.

More than 70 newspapers now using SAVE will continue to be supported by the new company. Rich Cates, former president of PressLink, has been named president of MediaStream. Joe DiMarino, former vice president of Vu/Text, has been named vice president of sales and marketing.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS SYSTEMS USERS GROUP
The System Integrators Systems Users Group (SISUG) has scheduled its only 1996 meeting April 21-24 at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento, Calif. The group usually meets twice a year, but is meeting only once this year because of the national elections in November.

The April meeting will be a joint session with the European System Integrators Users Group. The agenda includes a two-day supplier show, SII new-product demonstrations and a series of professional development workshops for user group members. SII also is offering two, one-day training seminars on April 25 and 26 at no charge to meeting participants.

Information kits may be obtained from the user group president, Barry Abisch. He can be contacted by phone at (914) 694-5094 or e-mail at babisch@westches.gannett.com.

SYSDECO MEDIA GROUP
THE POST-CRESCENT of Appleton, Wis. (59k morning), a property of Thomson Newspapers Group, has contracted with Sysdeco Media Group of Bedford, Mass., to install the DewarView editorial front-end package and Enterprise, the standards-based advertising sales and marketing system.

The goal is to have all pages go directly to film by the end of 1996. THE POST-CRESCENT produces an average of 145 color projects and 350 broadsheet-equivalent pages a week.

Under the two-step contract, the first by a Thomson-affiliated newspaper with Sysdeco, the DewarView editorial pagination system -- 30 reporter/editor and 19 pagination seats -- will be installed first, by mid-year. In the second phase, 22 Enterprise classified and retail seats will be brought in, by late in the third quarter.

Installation of Enterprise and DewarView will enable THE POST-CRESCENT to paginate from remote bureaus, perform remote page updates and establish an Internet site. The Sysdeco products are being introduced as part of a plan to overhaul the paper's pre-press system with new imagesetters, an ad tracking system, digital imaging of all photographs and graphics, and a color proofing system.

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