COLE'S NEWSWIRE, April 2, 1997

April 2, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 13

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ATEX MEDIA SOLUTIONS
Atex, a pre-press solutions supplier based in Bedford, Mass., has announced these recent installations:

-- ANTIOCH (Calif.) DAILY LEDGER-POST (21k, evening): 33 DewarView editorial seats, including DewarView Workflow Manager for Workgroups and DewarView Pagination Edition software, running on PCs and an IBM RS/6000 server using a Sybase relational database. Installation is scheduled to be completed in April.

-- ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, Denver (331k, morning): R3-R5 Classified Pagination software upgrade with Atex Gateway software and hardware.

BITSTREAM INC.
Bitstream, a typography software supplier based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced that Be Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., has licensed Bitstream's TrueType and PostScript Type 1 font processors as well as a core set of fonts for incorporation into the Be operating system.

Bitstream's font processors will provide BeOS developers with a typographic technology solution and give BeOS users worldwide the ability to display industry-standard TrueType and PostScript Type 1 fonts. The implementation of Bitstream's technology was released to developers in March in the BeOS DR8.3 update.

For more information about Be, visit http://www.be.com/. Bitstream is accessible at http://www.bitstream.com/.

CE ENGINEERING PUBLISHING SYSTEMS INC.
CE, a publishing systems software supplier based in Loomis, Calif., has released an interactive spell check feature for its Decade 33 terminal emulation software. The new feature may be used to check for spelling errors in stories as well as system messages before they are sent internally.

Existing custom dictionaries may be downloaded to workstations and incorporated into Decade. Users also may add words to their personal dictionaries. Possible substitutions for misspelled words appear in a list from which a user may make a correction.

The Decade 33 Interactive Spell Check feature, available now, will be demonstrated at the vendors exhibit at the System Integrators Systems Users Group meeting April 20-21 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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

CYBERGRAPHIC SYSTEMS PTY. LTD.
Cybergraphic, a publishing systems supplier based in Melbourne, Australia, with U.S. offices in Burlington, Mass., has formally released its CyberPage editorial pagination application and the companion automation tool called NAILS.

NAILS -- Newspaper Automated Intelligent Layout System -- is a tool for expediting pagination. CyberPage is the pagination engine on top of which NAILS operates. Both are client/server applications running on Windows NT, using Microsoft's SQLServer relational database.

An interface to System Integrators' System/55 is being developed. Cybergraphic and Sacramento-based SII have a marketing agreement.

Cybergraphic is on the Web at http://www.Cybergraphic.com.au/.

DPS TYPECRAFT LIMITED
DPS, a London-based publishing systems provider that markets products made by Digital Technology International of Orem, Utah, has announced the sale of a 150-seat DT system to the DAILY POST (75k, morning) and LIVERPOOL ECHO (175k evening), both in Liverpool, England.

The $1.8 million system includes facilities for remote input and automatic archiving of stories and graphics to two 160 gigabyte Hewlett Packard optical jukeboxes. Client workstation software includes SpeedWriter reporter software, PageSpeed page makeup software, SpeedPlanner editorial planning and tracking software, and ImageSpeed graphics input software.

Output of about 500 pages a week is planned, through an existing Monotype MGS3. The network runs on dual Sun SPARC 1000e database servers with Axion's Open Vision high availability software, providing fault tolerance. Remote input comes from offices at the House of Commons and Chester, as well as from 14 reporters equipped with Apple Macintosh PowerBook laptop computers.

DT may be visited on the Web at http://www.dtint.com/.

NATURAL INTELLIGENCE INC.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Natural Intelligence has announced a strategic alliance with Productivity Point International, an international computer training services company. Natural Intelligence's Java Training Division will be exclusive providers of teaching personnel for PPI's Java courses at training centers in Atlanta, the Boston area, Washington, and Parsippany and Iselin, N.J.

Natural Intelligence developed Roaster, the integrated development environment for Java, which now is sold by Roaster Technologies Inc. of Cambridge. For information about course offerings and fees, send e-mail to training@natural.com, or visit Natural Intelligence at http://www.roaster.com/.

SEYBOLD SEMINARS
Seybold Seminars, a key educational conference and exposition for publishing professionals, has announced its lineup of keynote speakers for Seybold Seminars New York April 21-25 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Top executives from Applied Graphics Technologies, Apple Computer Inc., Marimba Inc., New York Times Electronic Media, Petersen Publishing Company and Ziff-Davis Inc. will discuss the technological challenges facing the publishing industry, forecast the future of their businesses and share their strategies for success in the publishing market of the future.

At 9 a.m. April 22, the keynote session will feature Kim Polese, CEO of Marimba, Inc.; Martin Niesenholtz, president of New York Times Electronic Media, and Eric Hippeau, chairman and CEO of the publishing firm Ziff-Davis Inc. Moderating will be Charles Geshke, president of Adobe Systems Inc., and Roger Black, conference chairman, of Seybold Seminars New York.

The panel will address the issues of audio, video, animation and 3D, and how these components factor into creating compelling digital content. The executives will focus on the next generation of tools and technologies for new media professionals, and what strategies they may use now to enhance their business positions.

Seybold Seminars may be visited at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, a publishing systems supplier based in Sacramento, Calif., has announced it has begun shipping Coyote/3, the client-based version of SII's Coyote text-editing terminal. Coyote/3 offers the functionality and ease-of-use of the original, running on a PC under Windows 95 or Windows NT, or on a Macintosh running SoftWindows.

Newspapers that have bought Coyote/3 include the ARIZONA REPUBLIC of Phoenix (366k, morning), SAN JOSE (Calif.) MERCURY NEWS (287k, morning), BUFFALO (N.Y.) NEWS (275k, all day) and most recently VERDENS GANG of Oslo, Norway (381k, morning). VERDENS GANG, a previous SII customer, is installing 359 Coyote/3 PC clients to replace a mix of Coyotes, CAT terminals, RoadRunners and CAT-ST boards.

The order was placed through ICL Grafimedia, SII's distributors in Scandinavia.

SII is accessible at http://www.sii.com/.

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