COLE'S NEWSWIRE, April 30, 1997

April 30, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 17

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ADONE CLASSIFIED NETWORK
AdOne, a New York-based on-line classified ad purveyor, has announced the posting of the 2 millionth ad in its aggregate classified network. The milestone ad was posted by the PRESS DEMOCRAT of Santa Rosa, Calif. AdOne recorded its first million ads in 18 months; it took five months to reach the second million.

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

THE COLE GROUP
The Cole Group, the San Francisco-based publisher of the annual COLE'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING SYSTEMS and the weekly on-line COLE'S NEWSWIRE, has announced it is shipping the 1997 edition of its directory of suppliers and products.

The new edition has more than 220 pages and includes basic information on more than 300 suppliers of products to newspaper and magazine publishers. Of the 300 listed, more than 170 also have full product, customer and supplier profile information. And of the 170, more than 70 come complete with commentaries on the companies and their products, written by Cole Group editors, writers and consultants.

COLE'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING SYSTEMS retails for $697, but subscribers to THE COLE PAPERS can receive a substantial discount. For more information, see the web pages at http://www.colegroup.com/cg97/.

CORBIS CORP.
Corbis, an on-line provider of digital images based in Bellevue, Wash., has introduced Corbis View, a service through which designers and editors may view and order images via the Internet from Corbis' sizable digital image pool, Corbis Archive.

Corbis Archive features a large number of historical, photographic and fine art images from more than 450 sources around the world. There are no research or membership fees for the service. Users can register as members or guests of Corbis View at http://www.images.corbis.com/members.

CYBERGRAPHIC INC.
Cybergraphic, a publishing systems supplier based in Melbourne, Australia, with U.S. offices in Burlington, Mass., has announced that the MELBOURNE TRADING POST (110k, weekly) has begun taking live ROP advertisements on Cyber$ell, Cybergraphic's advertising entry and production system.

The TRADING POST, the first site to go live with Cyber$ell, is running six ROP ad booking workstations, including one remote site. Classified is slated to go live on 60 seats late this year, when training is completed.

The system -- a total Windows NT environment -- runs on a DEC AlphaServer 1000 with 256 megabytes of memory. The operating system is Microsoft's Windows NT Advanced Server software (V3.51). The database engine is Microsoft's SQLServer V6.5. Client PCs are Pentium 150s configured with 32 megabytes of memory and 1 gigabyte of disk space, running the Windows NT Workstation operating system (V3.51). The CyberOPI server, which serves a Macintosh display ad make-up subsystem, is configured with 40 gigabytes of disk space.

The TRADING POST went live with a 176-page issue, produced to imposed-pair negatives in four hours using CyberCla$$Page, Cybergraphic's classified pagination product.

Cybergraphic may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.cybergraphic.com.au.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
DT, a publishing systems supplier based in Orem, Utah, has announced that London's Telegraph Group Ltd. has chosen DT's ClassSpeed as its new advertising sales system. The order will be filled by DT's United Kingdom licensee, DPS Typecraft Ltd., replacing Atex equipment at THE TELEGRAPH (1m, morning).

The system will include 150 ClassSpeed users on-line to dual Sun SPARCCentre 4000 database servers with two 40 gigabyte SPARC storage arrays. Output will be to Monotype MGS3 OPI devices and Monotype RIPs. The system is expected to be fully operational by October 1997.

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

4-SIGHT
4-Sight, a high-speed telecommunications software supplier based in Woburn, Mass., has announced that digital imaging equipment manufacturer Agfa has selected 4-Sight's iSDN Manager as the digital link for its world-wide digital print network service, PrintCast.

PrintCast is a distribute-and-print network with a hub based in AgfaÕs Wilmington, Mass., headquarters. The hub receives electronic job orders from corporate customers, then pre-flights, processes and proofs the job files, and contracts with Chromapress providers to print and deliver the jobs according to customer requirements.

Chromapress is a digital color printing system that creates high-quality, four-color printing directly from PostScript files. For more information on Chromapress, visit http://www.chromapress.com/. 4-Sight is at http://www.4sight.com/.

OPEN DOOR NETWORKS INC.
Open Door Networks, an Internet software supplier based in Ashland, Ore., has announced that Apple Computer Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., will bundle Open Door's LogDoor multi-domain web site monitor with Apple's new AppleShare IP 5.0 server.

LogDoor, a general purpose log monitoring and analysis tool, works with Mac web servers to provide a real-time display of server activity, including activity display on a folder-by-folder basis, remotely accessible activity reports and support for multi-domain web servers.

Visit LogDoor at http://www.opendoor.com/logdoor/.

MEDIA MARKETING, INC.
Media Marketing, the Boulder, Colo.-based developer of imMEDIAte Integrated Sales Automation, has announced recent installations of its products, including Macintosh and Windows versions of imMEDIAte Research Manager, imMEDIAte Ad Director and imMEDIAte Media Analyst including Radio Analyst, Television Analyst, and Cable Analyst.

Some or all of these products have been installed at:

-- BLOOMINGTON (Ind.) HERALD-TIMES (30k, morning).

-- Fort Wayne (Ind.) Newspapers Inc., publishers of the JOURNAL GAZETTE (62k, morning) and the NEWS-SENTINEL (53k, evening).

-- CHARLOTTE (N.C.) OBSERVER (240k, morning).

-- PORTSMOUTH (N.H.) HERALD (16k, morning).

-- Thompson SouthWest Ohio Newspaper Group -- GREENVILLE DAILY ADVOCATE (9k, morning), PIQUA DAILY CALL (9k, evening) and XENIA DAILY GAZETTE (11k, evening).

-- Erie, Pa., MORNING NEWS (32k) and ERIE DAILY TIMES (37K, evening).

-- Spartanburg, S.C., HERALD-JOURNAL (62k, morning).

-- THE MONITOR, McAllen, Texas (36k, morning).

-- MIDLAND (Texas) REPORTER-TELEGRAM (23k, morning).

-- YAKIMA (Wash.) HERALD-REPUBLIC (41k, morning).

NANDO.NET
Raleigh, N.C.-based Nando.net, a provider of news and sports information on the World-Wide Web, has introduced Techserver, a web site dedicated to following the information technology and computer industries.

Techserver -- http://www.techserver.com/ -- features reports on information industry news, posted as news breaks. Sections track developing stories about the Internet, business technology and consumer electronics.

QUALCOMM INC.
San Diego-based QUALCOMM, a supplier of messaging solutions for the Internet, has announced an agreement with Apple Computer Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., to develop and distribute the Apple Internet Mail Server, a freeware Macintosh-based electronic mail server. The free-distribution product will be renamed the Eudora Internet Mail Server for Macintosh. It is now available at .

QUARK INC.
Denver-based Quark Inc. has disclosed new features of Quark XPress 4.0 for Macintosh OS and Windows-based systems.

Quark XPress 4.0 has more than 75 significant new features, including Bezier-based drawing; enhanced layout and design tools for additional versatility; a suite of features geared to long document producers and networked corporate workgroups, and a redefined interface boasting pop-out tools and tabbed dialog boxes for easier navigation.

Quark XPress 4.0 is suited for long-document production and multiple document management with such features as comprehensive indexing, and list and table-of-contents generation.

XPress 4.0 and XPress Passport 4.0 will be released for Windows and Macintosh OS platforms simultaneously. Quark XPress 4.0 for Windows will be a true 32-bit application and require Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows NT 3.51 to operate; it will not be compatible with earlier, 16-bit versions of the Windows OS. The Macintosh version will be fat binary, allowing customers to install XPress on either 68K Macs or Power Macs.

XPress 4.0 will be shipped on CD-ROM only and have a suggested retail price of $995 (U.S.).

Quark may be visited on the Web at http://www.quark.com/.

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