COLE'S NEWSWIRE, March 26, 1997

March 26, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 12

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ACCUWEATHER INC.
AccuWeather, a content provider based in State College, Pa., has announced it will provide weather information for the Associated Press's on-line service, The WIRE. Included are forecast weather maps, temperature band maps, Doppler radar screens, satellite images and daily forecasts for more than 1000 locations around the world.

AD-STAR SERVICES INC.
Ad-Star, a supplier of remote advertising sales software based in Marina del Rey, Calif., has announced two newspapers have licensed its Ad-Star Fax Management System for automatic receipt, translation, storage and acknowledgment of faxed ads. The BIRMINGHAM (Ala.) NEWS (160k, evening) and the COLUMBUS (Ohio) DISPATCH (256k, morning) both licensed the fax system, while the DISPATCH also licensed Ad-Star's remote entry system.

APPLIED GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Applied Graphics Technologies Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., has introduced a family of digital photography systems to assist in moving away from traditional wet process film.

The systems integrate a suite of AGT's proprietary Digital Link software applications with specialized hardware to provide solutions for mass photo retailers and for use at special events. With the Digital Portrait System, a digital camera captures the image, the AGT Digital Link software processes it, and a print is output through a photographic-quality printer.

The Digital Events System makes the Digital Portrait System concept portable, allowing a system to be used on-site at special activities such as golf tournaments and other sporting events. The new digital imaging solutions were launched at PMA'97, the world's largest annual photo imaging exposition, sponsored by Photo Marketing Association International.

ATEX MEDIA SOLUTIONS
Atex, a pre-press solutions provider based in Bedford, Mass., has signed an agreement with CLARiiON, a supplier of open RAID-based storage solutions that is a business unit of Data General Corp. of Westboro, Mass., to resell CLARiiON RAID disk arrays.

Under the agreement, Atex Media Solutions will add CLARiiON disk arrays to its pre-press systems proposals for the newspaper industry. CLARiiON storage systems range from entry-level Series 100 disk arrays with up to 61 gigabytes of storage to the high-end Series 3000 model with 264 gigabytes.

CLARiiON may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.clariion.com/. Atex is accessible at http://www.atex.com/.

CCI EUROPE
CCI Europe, a publishing systems supplier based in Aarhus, Denmark, with U.S. offices in Marietta, Ga., has announced the sale of its Windows NT-based CCI NewsDesk Editorial System to the HARTFORD (Conn.) COURANT (212k, morning). CCI's editorial pagination system, which will total 350 seats at installation's end, will replace an Atex editorial front-end.

The COURANT will introduce CCI at its features desk, with CCI LayoutChamp page design workstations, CCI ArticleChamp WYSIWYG editing/design workstations, and CCI DB Access and Edit/MS Word editorial front-end software. The CCI NewsDesk servers will be based on an Oracle relational database running on IBM RS/6000 hardware.

CCI Europe may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.cci.dk/.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Harris, a pre-press system integrator and supplier based in Melbourne, Fla., has announced these recent orders:

-- SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, Carbondale, Ill. (30k, morning): conversion of a Harris 8300-based system to Harris' XP-21 Server; addition of IMAGES (Image Management and Graphics Enhancement System) workstation software, XP-Link applications including Native Mode File Database software; Mac Server and OPI Server software; Mac Browser software; Mac AdFlow software, and CASH Graphics Browser software.

-- THE PLAIN DEALER, Cleveland, Ohio (397k, morning): software upgrade for Harris XP-21 Server, XP-Link applications, expansion of NewsMaker Editorial system with additional NewsMaker Wire Server software and NewsMaker Editor software licenses.

-- RICHMOND (Va.) TIMES-DISPATCH (211k, morning): XP-21 Server software with Replication, 200-seat Harris NewsMaker Editorial system with NewsMaker Pagination software licenses.

-- MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL (309k, morning): Harris XP-21 Database Engine software and upgrades of Harris 2100 Pagination workstations to Harris Windows-based NewsMaker Pagination. Pagination software will be configured with CE Engineering's Decade/33 text editor to allow access into the paper's System Integrators editorial front-end. CE is based in Loomis, Calif.; SII is in Sacramento, Calif.

Harris may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.harris.com/hpsc.

IPA SYSTEMS LTD.
Furness Newspapers, publisher of the NORTH WESTERN EVENING MAIL (22k, evening) in Barrow-in-Furness, England, has signed a contract with IPA Systems Ltd. to install a 20-seat Q-Sales advertising system, including two remote sites. IPA Systems Ltd., a software developer and system integrator based in Cheltenham, England, may be visited on the Web at http://www.southwind.net/fsi/ipa.

PANTHEON INC.
Pantheon, a Seattle-based developer of web site management tools, has announced that it has licensed WebDBC from Seattle-based StormCloud Development Corp. as the search engine for Pantheon's latest release of Builder 2.0.

Builder enables newspapers to move their editorial content and classified line ads onto their web sites with minimal staff intervention, and lets them set up pages on their sites that can be maintained by community groups via e-mail.

Because WebDBC supports standard platforms (Windows 95, Windows NT-Intel, Windows NT-Alpha, MacOS, UNIX) and protocols (ISAPI, NSAPI, CGI, JDBC, ODBC, HTML 3.0) developers have the flexibility to put together a "best-of-breed" Internet/intranet environment.

For more information about Pantheon, visit http://www.pantheoninc.com/. StormCloud is at http://www.stormcloud.com/.

SENSENET INC.
New York-based SenseNet has introduced ActiveMap, a Java-based graphic utility that simplifies creation and enhancement of web pages. When a web surfer passes his or her mouse over a web page containing a map created with ActiveMap, the user will see pop-up graphics depicting the layout of a building as the mouse glides over that building's graphic -- instantaneously.

ActiveMap is available for $49. A demo may be downloaded from http://software.sensenet.com/.

SOFTWARE CONSULTING SERVICES
SCS, a publishing systems supplier based in Nazareth, Pa., has announced installation of its AdMAX retail and classified order entry/billing/accounts receivable package at the PALM BEACH (Fla.) JEWISH TIMES, ATLANTA JEWISH TIMES, BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES and MACOMB DAILY of Mount Clemens, Mich. (49k, evening).

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