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The NEWSWIRE is a weekly distribution of information about the sales and installations of publishing technology and the latest news on new products developed by suppliers to the industry. To get removed from this list, send e-mail to: macjordomo@colegroup.com with the words UNSUBSCRIBE NEWSWIRE as the first line of the text. These missives are archived on the World-Wide Web at http://colegroup.com/NW/. To submit material for consideration, please deliver electronically to news@colegroup.com. New York-based AdOne, a provider of on-line classified solutions, has announced a strategic alliance with ClickOver Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., a developer of electronic advertising solutions. Their goals are to enhance on-line ad management services for AdOne while expanding ClickOver's distribution channels by making AdOne a reseller of ClickOver's products to the on-line newspaper industry. AdOne worked with ClickOver to develop its initial product offering, ClickWise, and AdManager, AdOne's customized on-line ad serving solution. AdOne may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.adone.com/. ClickOver is at http://www.clickover.com/. DT, a publishing systems supplier based in Orem, Utah, has announced these recent installations: -- MONTEREY COUNTY HERALD, Monterey, Calif. (34k, morning): Classified advertising and Graphics database systems; 16 ClassSpeed for ad order entry and production; five Javelin for integration of third-party files; five ImageSpeed for graphics database management; Planbuilder for all ad planning and classified pagination; SpeedDriver with SpeedFTP for high-speed database OPI output; Internet Publisher HTML Converter software. -- GRANTS PASS DAILY COURIER, Grants Pass, Ore. (19k, evening): Classified System; seven ClassSpeed; ClassSpeed Pagination software; SpeedDriver with Speed FTP. DT will write an interface for the DAILY COURIER's Collier-Jackson billing system. -- MARSHALL (Texas) NEWS MESSENGER, (9k, evening): DT's client software for editorial, advertising and classified departments. Recently acquired by Cox Newspapers, the NEWS MESSENGER will operate as a satellite of the LONGVIEW NEWS-JOURNAL (29k, morning), sharing their DT editorial, pagination, ad, classified, and graphics databases. -- GEORGIA STRAIGHT, Vancouver, British Columbia, (103k, weekly): Classified and Graphics Database systems; seven ClassSpeed; seven Ad Order Entry; ClassSpeed Pagination software; SpeedDriver OPI output.DT may be visited on the Web at http://www.dtint.com/. Farrukh Systems, a British software developer with U.S. offices in Hopewell, Va., has introduced Imposition Publisher PagePairer, a newspaper imposition solution that imposes direct from PostScript files, not EPS files. By working with PostScript files, it's not necessary to enter page sizes and margins manually. PagePairer optimizes network performance by pairing pages prior to the low resolution picture replacement through OPI. PagePairer is available for $9729 (5995 British pounds), with which five titles may run concurrently, and $16,220 (9995 British pounds), which accommodates an unlimited number of titles simultaneously. Minimum system requirements are a Sun SPARC running Solaris 1.1 or 2.x with eight megabytes of available RAM and sufficient hard disk space to impose PostScript files. European customers include LE FIGARO of Paris (376k, morning) and HARSTAD TIDENDE (16k, morning) of Harstad, Norway. Farrukh may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.bridgehead.co.uk/. 4-Sight, a telecommunications software provider based in Woburn, Mass., has announced its 3000th U.S. customer, Anderson Lithograph of Los Angeles, a nationwide commercial printer. Anderson Lithograph's purchase is the result of a request of a client, who has been using 4-Sight's iSDN Manager and wanted Anderson to follow suit. Anderson purchased iSDN Manager v.4.0, a PCI Quatro board and four NT1s, enabling Anderson and its customers to communicate at rates up to 3.5 megabytes per minute. Anderson made its purchase through Color Networks, a systems integrator based in West Lake Village, Calif. 4-Sight may be visited on the Web at http://www.4sight.com/. NetMedia '97, the Internet conference for journalists, will be held July 3-4 in England. It is the third such conference organized by the Department of Journalism at City University. Last year nearly 250 journalists attended. NetMedia 97 will have forums on on-line newspapers, copyright in cyberspace, design in the electronic newsroom, computer-assisted journalism, broadcasting and the Internet, web magazines and the regional press on-line. Also planned are 10 hands-on Internet training sessions and 12 computer-assisted reporting seminars. An application form and details are available at http://web.soi.city.ac.uk/conference/netmedia/97/index.html. Los Angeles-based Open Door has begun shipping HomeDoor 2.0, a new release of its Macintosh multi-domain Internet services product. HomeDoor 2.0 works both conventionally and as a plug-in for WebSTAR and compatible servers. HomeDoor remains the only Macintosh product to offer "any browser, any server" compatibility, and with the 2.0 release it becomes the only product to provide webmasters with the option of implementing either or both of the two current mechanisms for providing multi-domain web service. HomeDoor 2.0 includes a redesigned Admin application, integrating both multi-domain web service techniques through a single, consistent user interface. An individual version of HomeDoor is priced at $399; HomeDoor Lite, which supports an unlimited number of host-field-mapped domains, plus up to eight "any browser, any server" domains, is priced at $139. Details of HomeDoor are available at http://www.opendoor.com/homedoor/. Philadelphia Online, the web site of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER and DAILY NEWS, has announced it will soon offer a new Interactive Yellow Pages service. Philadelphia Online is at http://www.phillynews.com/. The service provides consumers with business listings in Philadelphia and surrounding communities. Consumers will be able to search for businesses by classification; the service will provide the name, address and telephone number of the business, and a detailed map of the business' locations. If a consumer enters a starting address, the service will send door-to-door directions on how to get to the business. Free listings are available to any Philadelphia area business; expanded positions will be sold. Cambridge, Mass.-based Roaster has announced that Roaster Release 3 will include Object Design's ObjectStore PSE database for Java from Object Design Inc. of Burlington, Mass. Roaster is the Integrated Development Environment for Java on the Macintosh. Written in Java, ObjectStore PSE will enable Roaster users to access data from their Java applications easily, without having to map Java objects to sequential files or tables. In addition to licensing ObjectStore PSE for Java, Roaster Technologies will port Object Design's ObjectStore PSE Pro for Java to the Macintosh. ObjectStore PSE Pro for Java adds advanced transaction-level recovery and support for multiple databases from a single application. Roaster's edition of ObjectStore PSE Pro for Java will be available from the Roaster web site at http://www.roaster.com/. Object Design may be visited at http://www.odi.com/. Seybold has announced keynote speakers for Seybold Seminars New York, scheduled for April 21-25 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. The second keynote panel will address New Print, the future of the print publishing industry, at 8:30 a.m. April 23. The panel will feature Ellen Hancock, executive vice president for advanced technology at Apple Computer Inc.; Diane Romano, president of Applied Graphics Technologies, and D. Claeys Bahrenburg, president and CEO of Petersen Publishing Co. Moderators will be Tim Gill, chairman of Quark Inc., and Roger Black, conference chairman for Seybold Seminars New York. The closing session at 2:30 p.m. April 24 will address the winding down of the desktop color revolution. Panelists will include Roger Black; Arlene Karsh, director of content development for Seybold Seminars; Andy Tribute, international editor of Seybold Publications; Dave Winer, CEO of Userland Software, and Ray Hammond, an author and consultant in the United Kingdom. Moderating will be Craig Cline, vice president of content development and editorial director for Seybold Seminars. For more information, visit Seybold at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/. StarNine, a software developer based in Berkeley, Calif., has announced that the Microsoft Personal Web Server for the Mac will support StarNine's WebSTAR Application Programming Interface (W*API), allowing users to take advantage of a wide range of existing Plug-ins. The W*API is used by developers to extend the functionality of a web server, and is more efficient than standard CGI (Common Gateway Interface) applications. A full listing of W*API Plug-ins is available at StarNine's Web site at http://www.starnine.com/. --30-- COLE'S NEWSWIRE is compiled by Pete Wetmore and distributed by The Cole Group, publishers of THE COLE PAPERS, COLE'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING SYSTEMS and consultants to newspapers and magazines worldwide. 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