COLE'S NEWSWIRE, June 11, 1997

June 11, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 23

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ACCUWEATHER INC.
AccuWeather, a content provider based in State College, Pa., has announced a June 30 launch date for Your Personal AccuWeather (http://personal.accuweather.com/), which will provide subscribers with forecasts and data tailored to their location and preferences. Offering real-time Doppler radar and 10-day forecasts, the service will be free of advertising.

Your Personal AccuWeather will convert to paid subscriptions on July 28. It is still in beta test and will continue to accept subscribers free. AccuWeather may be visited on the Web at http://www.accuweather.com/.

ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
Adobe, a software supplier based in San Jose, Calif., has announced that Adobe Acrobat Capture 2.0 for Microsoft Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 is now available. Acrobat Capture 2.0 offers a scalable solution for converting scanned documents into fully searchable Portable Document Files (PDF) that can be managed and distributed in web-based information management systems.

Capture 2.0 offers improved page recognition, recognizes documents in eight languages and offers automatic downsampling of images in documents. It is available at the suggested retail price of $895, which includes one software license and the ability to convert an initial 20,000 pages. Adobe Acrobat Capture 1.0 or 1.0 customers may upgrade to 2.0 at the suggested retail price of $169.

Acrobat Capture 2.0 is expected to be available in French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Italian and Dutch in July. Visit Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/.

AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INC.
AII, an imaging systems hardware and software supplier based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced results of operations for the second quarter of 1997. AII reported net income of $80,000 for the second quarter on revenues of $19,913,000. The comparable numbers for the 1996 quarter were net income of $150,000 on revenues of $25,833,000.

AII is on the Web at http://autoiii.com/.

CCI EUROPE
Arizona's Phoenix Newspapers Inc. will be expanding its use of products made by CCI Europe, a publishing systems supplier based in Marietta, Ga., and Aarhus, Denmark, with the purchase of a 200-user CCI NewsDesk Editorial System as an extension to PNI's existing CCI NewsDesk Pagination System.

Phoenix Newspapers publishes the ARIZONA REPUBLIC (450k, morning). The CCI NewsDesk Editorial system will replace the existing front-end on the copy desk, made by System Integrators of Sacramento, Calif., with Pentium PCs running Windows NT, CCI Edit/MS Word, CCI DB Access, and CCI Edit for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Quark XPress. Editors will have soft typeset view of all components, including full pages, through CCI ProofView.

PNI also will expand its CCI NewsDesk Editorial system to feed content to PNI's web site, Arizona Central, at http://www.azcentral.com/. Included are the CCI Electronic Media Server with automatic HTML Export functions and capacity for an additional 10 on-line editors.

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

COX INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Atlanta-based Cox has launched http://www.yall.com/, a free web site devoted to news of the New South. Yall.com offers electronic postcards; games like "Cowchip County Bottle Challenge"; shotgun weddin' jokes; Deep South adventure articles by John T. Edge; highlights of Jeff Foxworthy comedy routines; "Smash or Trash" on-line voting for new music releases; "The E-Files," featuring an archive of Elvis stories, photos and links; recipes about barbecue, grits and other Southern specialties, and Cityscapes, which includes a yall.com guide to traveling in the South.

ECRM
ECRM, an imaging device manufacturer based in Tewksbury, Mass., has terminated its private-label distribution contract with DuPont & Fuji Film Electronic Imaging. Following a review of recent management changes and the pending transaction between DuPont and Agfa, ECRM determined that it could not continue its current business relationship with DFEI. ECRM has established a relationship with the newly created Fuji Film Electronic Imaging (FFEI) company.

ECRM is on the Web at http://www.ecrm.com/.

SCITEX CORP.
Israel-based Scitex, which has U.S. offices in Bedford, Mass., has introduced the Dolev 2dry imagesetter, an internal drum imagesetter that integrates dry processed film and Scitex imagesetter technology.

Developed under an agreement with Imation Corp. of Oakdale, Minn., 2dry will be marketed by both companies. The two-up imagesetter exposes Imation's DryView film, producing a sharp dot for reliable imaging quality, consistency and predictability.

The 2dry imagesetter has no external processor. The internal processor reveals the latent image on the film after its exposure by the imaging system. While the imagesetter is optimized to produce dry output, it has an additional option that enables the use of wet processed film.

Visit the Scitex web site at http://www.scitex.com/. Imation is at http://www.imation.com/.

SEYBOLD SEMINARS
A day-long seminar devoted to new technologies for newspapers, co-sponsored by THE COLE PAPERS, will be held this fall in conjunction with Seybold San Francisco. The Newspaper & New Media Seminar will be Tuesday, Sept. 30 (it was previously announced that the session would be Sept. 29). The main Seybold conference starts on Monday, Sept. 29; the trade show opens Wednesday, Oct. 1.

The Cole/Seybold Seminars session will address issues such as acquiring a brand-name presence on the Web, intranet-based solutions, the relationship between a newspaper and its web site, and front-ends for the Web.

The sessions will be moderated by David Cole, the editor and publisher of THE COLE PAPERS, who is a Seybold Fellow. THE COLE PAPERS is a Seybold Affiliate.

For more information, write Seybold Seminars, SOFTBANK Expos, 303 Vintage Park Drive, Foster City, Calif. 94404, or visit the web site at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/.

TANDEM COMPUTERS
Tandem, a hardware supplier based in Cupertino, Calif., has announced a partnership with Mercantec Inc. of Lisle, Ill., to create an Internet commerce solution. The agreement with Mercantec allows Tandem to incorporate Mercantec's electronic commerce software into solutions on Tandem NonStop Himalaya servers and Windows NT Server-based systems.

These solutions include Tandem's iTP WebServer and iTP SET payment product family, designed to support the Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) protocol. The technology licensed from Mercantec includes Mercantec StateTrack session tracking technology, which is compatible with all Internet browsers and firewalls, and SoftCart, Mercantec's "virtual shopping cart."

To learn more about Mercantec, visit http://www.mercantec.com/. Tandem is at http://www.tandem.com/.

STARNINE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
StarNine, a subsidiary of Quarterdeck Corp. and a software supplier based in Berkeley, Calif., has announced version 2.0 upgrades to WebCatalog and WebMerchant, Internet commerce applications formerly marketed by Pacific Coast Software of San Diego, Calif.

When available in early July, WebCatalog 2.0 will dynamically generate pages simultaneously from multiple WebCatalog database files. StarNine will publish, market and support both WebCatalog and WebMerchant.

Visit StarNine through Quarterdeck's web site, http://www.quarterdeck.com/

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