COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Feb. 5, 1997

Feb. 5, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 5

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AGFA DIVISION BAYER CORP.
Agfa, a digital imaging products supplier based in Ridgefield Park, N.J., has introduced SelectSupport Plus, an expansion of its SelectSupport program initiated in February 1996.

With SelectSupport Plus, customers can make one phone call to Agfa for support for third-party and professional services. Areas of support include networks (servers, multiplexers, modem hubs), products (Quark XPress, Adobe Photoshop and PageMaker), operating systems (UNIX, Windows NT, Macintosh, Novell) and general pre-press desktop products (IBM, Digital, Sun, Mac).

CYBERCASH INC.
CyberCash, an on-line enterprise based in Reston, Va., has introduced the Digital NewsStand, technology that enables web publishers to offer daily and/or limited time views of current digital content for instant sale.

With a click of a mouse, consumers can purchase a daily edition with CyberCash's pay-per-view service, CyberCoin. Digital NewsStand is an interface that enables a publisher to put content behind a payment screen, which is purchased using CyberCoin -- assuring payments as small as 25 cents immediately.

CyberCash may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://cybercash.com/.

DIGITAL ART EXCHANGE
Digital Art Exchange, a Boston-based provider of digital connectivity solutions, has formalized its leasing program for PRI and Multi-BRI solutions. Depending on the solution, the DAX leasing program allows lessors to get started for as little as $195 per month for BRI solutions and $450 for PRI solutions.

DAX integrates AT&T's high-speed digital network by providing technology, marketing and customer support, and installation and billing services. The company offers printers, separators, publishers, ad agencies and their clients scalable bandwidth solutions.

DAX may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.dax-it.com/.

EXTENSIS CORP.
Extensis, a software supplier based in Portland, Ore., has introduced CyberViewer, a freeware utility that maintains a visual display of World-Wide Web sites a user has visited using Netscape Navigator.

Users can drag thumbnail images of sites they have visited from the CyberViewer palette to Netscape's bookmark window to add them to the list. CyberViewer also permits dragging images to the Finder to create files that will launch Navigator and open the selected web page.

Other products available from Extensis at http://www.extensis.com/ include Fetch 1.5 for Macintosh PowerPC, PhotoTools 1.0 for Adobe Photoshop, QX-Tools 2.0 for Quark XPress and the web authoring tool CyberPress.

NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
The Newspaper Association of America, now based in Vienna, Va., has endorsed the "Proposal for Voluntary Model Banner Sizes" from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Coalition for Advertising Supported-Information and Entertainment (CASIE). The proposal is designed to help standardize on-line advertising banner sizes across web sites.

The NAA Online Advertising Task Force, comprising 24 executives representing major newspaper companies, groups and organizations with a wide range of circulation and market sizes, agreed to adopt the IAB/CASIE proposal and incorporate some combination of ad banner sizes into their web sites.

For details on the IAB/CASIE proposal, including a representation of the standard banner sizes and a roster of the Online Advertising Task Force, visit the Digital Edge -- the New Media Federation web site -- at http://www.naa.org/edge.html.

PLR SOFTWARE
Atlanta-based PLR Software has announced the beta release of PictServer, an ACGI tool for serving PICT and TIFF files from a WebStar-compatible web server. With PictServer, a MacOS-based web server can serve PICT and TIFF images to any JPEG-compatible web browser on any platform -- no plug-ins required.

Using suffix mapping, PictServer finds and converts PICT and TIFF images to JPEG format on the fly, with control over the bit depth of the resulting JPEG. To speed image conversion, PictServer is written in C++, is multi-threaded, and is provided as a "fat" binary. PictServer uses Apple's QuickTime technology to perform much of the image conversion work.

PictServer is available free at http://www.plr.com/. At the end of the beta program, PictServer will be distributed for a $15 shareware fee.

ROASTER TECHNOLOGIES
Roaster Technologies, a provider of tools for Java developers based in Cambridge, Mass., and ObjectSpace Inc., a Dallas-based provider of object-oriented technology, have announced a strategic licensing agreement.

ObjectSpace's Java Generic Library (JGL) will be included with Roaster Technologies' Roaster Release 3 development environment for Java. JGL provides developers with 11 data structures and 75 generic algorithms, comprising a comprehensive set of reusable containers and algorithms for Java.

To learn more about ObjectSpace, visit http://www.objectspace.com/. Roaster Technologies is found on the World-Wide Web at http://www.roaster.com/.

TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Chicago-based TMS has announced an agreement with Mercury Mail to develop personalized media products combining Tribune content with Mercury Mail's e-mail and database technology. Tribune also announced it has made a $2 million equity investment in Denver-based Mercury Mail.

Mercury Mail's technology allows users to create personal information profiles, specifying such things as sports teams, stocks and other topics of interest to them. Mercury Mail delivers tailored information packets via e-mail to its subscribers. To sign up for Mercury Mail's services, visit http://www.merc.com/ or send a message to signup@merc.com.

Tribune Media Services may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.tribune.com/.

WORLD-WIDE POWER CO. LLC
The World-Wide Power Co., a software distributor based in Arvada, Colo., has introduced HoloDozo, a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop for creating three-dimensional special effects in cyberspace. HoloDozo assembles a three-dimensional image by mapping it onto a box, cone, cylinder or other object. No modeling is required to apply shadow effects with multiple settings for light sources, work with layers or create transparency effects.

HoloDozo carries a suggest retail price of $149. For more information, visit the World-Wide Power Co. at http://www.thepowerco.com/.

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