COLE'S NEWSWIRE, March 12, 1997

March 12, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 10

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AMERICAN COMPUTER INNOVATORS
ACI, a publishing solutions provider based in Amherst, Mass., has announced these recent installations:

-- THE DAY, New London, Conn. (130k, weekly): OpenPages pagination, library, wire and ad tracking systems.

-- WATERBURY (Conn.) REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN (60k, morning): OpenPages library system.

-- DERRY NEWS, Derry, N.H. (biweekly): OpenPages pagination.

-- FOSTER'S DEMOCRAT, Foster, N.H. (22k, evening), and CITIZEN, Laconia, N.H. (12k, evening): OpenPages pagination, library, wire and ad tracking systems.

-- TIMES ARGUS, Barre, Vt. (12k, evening): OpenPages pagination.

-- RUTLAND (Vt.) HERALD (22k, morning): OpenPages pagination.

APPLIED SEGMENTATION TECHNOLOGY
Denver-based ASTech has announced that the PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER (470k, morning) is now using a reader-retention program developed by ASTech and delivered in concert with Acton, a Denver-based direct marketing agency.

New subscribers automatically are mailed a customized package, including a coupon for a free classified ad and a reader's guide to services at the INQUIRER. Each week, the paper sends new subscriber information via the Internet to ASTech, which prepares and sends the mailings.

DIGITAL ART EXCHANGE
Boston-based Digital Art Exchange (DAX) has announced that its 24/7 customer support service has gone live at 1-888-DAX-LABS (329-5227). DAX is a provider of digital connectivity products and services for the graphic communications industry, including technology, marketing and customer support, installation and billing services.

INFOSPACE INC.
InfoSpace, an Internet technology provider based in Redmond, Wash., has announced a strategic partnership with Guy Gannett New Media Development Group, the Internet division of Maine-based Guy Gannett Communications, which owns newspapers, television stations and on-line services in six states.

InfoSpace will provide its directory services to Guy Gannett's on-line service, Mnetwork, enabling Internet users to find people and businesses throughout the state. Guy Gannett New Media Development Group will use InfoSpace's white pages, yellow pages, maps and e-mail directories to provide listings for all businesses in Maine, opening the door for Maine businesses to advertise in one place on the Internet.

Users can access the directories from the NMDG site at http://www.mnetwork.com/ or from the InfoSpace site at http://www.infospace.com/.

MEDIA DESIGN IN*PROGRESS
San Diego-based Media Design in*Progress has announced the pending commercial release of Interaction/IP, software that adds chat rooms and other facilities to web sites. The $200 application can be downloaded from http://interaction.in-progress.com.

Macintosh-based Interaction provides services such as customizable chat rooms and threaded message boards for contact via a web browser. Most features can be configured using dialog boxes on the Mac. Message boards and chat rooms can be created without editing in HTML, and webmasters can get information about visitors and hit counts for each location on the site.

MEDIA-NETWORK
San Francisco-based Media-Network has introduced XTENSION.COM, a sales and information web site for Quark XTensions. The site -- http://www.xtension.com/ -- includes XTension descriptions, reviews and news from usenet newsgroups and listservs; Quark XPress tips and tricks, desktop publishing news, trade show listings, and threaded discussion groups.

Users can find and try demo versions, buy electronically at a discount with immediate delivery, or buy and receive the packaged product. The site is updated every 10 minutes.

MISSION CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES
Mission Critical, a publishing software supplier based in Concord, Mass., has announced these recent installations of its remote ad management products for classified advertising, including AdFAX for fax management, AdFAST for direct advertiser ad entry and AdFAST.com for advertiser ad entry over the Web:

-- SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (455k, morning): AdFAX and AdFAST, with redundant servers for 6 AdCheck workstations for AdFAX and a four-line AdFAST system with 150 advertiser licenses.

-- TAMPA (Fla.) TRIBUNE (350k, morning): AdFAX and AdFAST, with four MCT AdCheck workstations using two AdCOMMAND servers connected to a System Integrators Inc. classified advertising system.

-- STAR TRIBUNE, Minneapolis (390k, morning): AdFAST.com.

-- DAGENS NYHETER, Stockholm, Sweden (390k, morning): Sweden's largest morning paper will use AdFAX to process more than 5,500 faxes each week, using two AdCOMMAND remote ad servers with 11 fax input lines and nine AdCheck workstations, interfaced to an Atex Media Solutions Enterprise advertising system.

SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER DESIGN
SND, a professional association based in Providence, R.I., has announced the winners of its annual Best of Newspaper Design competition held Feb. 13-17 at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

The winners, in alphabetical order by state within category, are:

-- 175,000-circulation and over: ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, Santa Ana, Calif.; BOSTON GLOBE; THE OREGONIAN, Portland, Ore.; SEATTLE TIMES; GLOBE AND MAIL, Toronto, Canada.

-- 50,000 to 175,000: SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER; DAYTON (Ohio) DAILY NEWS; SPOKESMAN-REVIEW, Spokane, Wash.; DIEWOCHE, Germany; THE SCOTSMAN, Edinburgh, Scotland.

-- Under 50,000: LONGMONT (Colo.) TIMES-CALL; THE AMERICAN, Westhampton, N.Y.; CENTRE DAILY TIMES, State College, Pa.; THE SUN, Bremerton, Wash.; LE DEVOIR, Montreal, Canada; DIARIO DE NOTICIAS, Huarte-Pamplona, Spain.

SOFTAD INC.
SoftAd, a supplier of advertising sales software based in Mill Valley, Calif., has announced that the ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER of Santa Ana, Calif. (350k, morning), has licensed SoftAd's Media SalesExcelerator. Sales people will have remote access to customer advertising history, competitive media comparisons, standard and customizable presentations, electronic ad rating, and scheduling.

SoftAd may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.softadgroup.com/.

TVDATA
TVData, a TV listings supplier based in Queensbury, N.Y., has introduced a new version of clickTV, its local web site content feature. (For a look, surf to http://www.clicktv.com/.)

The on-line TV listings service has been enhanced with program searching, advertising, statistical reporting and the ability to provide unlimited cable system lineups and channels. For a limited time on-line publishers can add the service to their web sites for one month free of charge.

ClickTV, which offers more than two dozen pages of advertising banner space, features a newspaper's logo, unlimited cable system lineups and unlimited channels and weekly statistical reporting.

Among the newspapers offering clickTV listings on-line are the FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, http://www.startext.net/; NAPLES (Fla.) DAILY NEWS, http://www.naplesnews.com/; NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, http://www.mostnewyork.com/, and Salt Lake City's DESERET NEWS, http://www.desnews.com/.

Visit TVData on the World-Wide Web at http://www.tvdata.com/.

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