COLE'S NEWSWIRE, June 18, 1997

June 18, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 24

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ASSOCIATED INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL INC.
AISI, a software supplier based in Auburn, Calif., has announced that the DENTON (Texas) RECORD-CHRONICLE (16k, evening) has purchased WebPub, a classified ad system for the World-Wide Web, and AUTObase, an automobile dealer catalog and transmission system.

AISI may be visited on the Web at http://www.aisipub.com/.

THE COLE GROUP
The Cole Group, the San Francisco-based publisher of THE COLE PAPERS and COLE'S NEWSWIRE, says it will provide its readers with more comprehensive coverage than ever before of NEXPO '97, the annual trade show and conference sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America.

THE COLE PAPERS, the monthly newsletter of technology, journalism and publishing, has prepared its readers with its seventh annual NEXPO preview issue. The June number provides a rundown of 70 of the more than 150 pre-press suppliers who will be exhibiting their products June 21-24 in New Orleans.

Copies of the NEXPO preview -- featuring a full-color map of the show floor, for years judged the best map NEXPO map available -- will be at more than 20 booths at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, including Seybold Publications at Booth 1946, with which THE COLE GROUP is affiliated.

During the show, updates will be posted on THE COLE GROUP web site, http://www.colegroup.com/, and the June 25 edition of COLE'S NEWSWIRE will be devoted to breaking news from NEXPO '97.

The newsletter's July and August issues will be devoted to coverage of NEXPO '97. Post cards inviting new subscribers to send in for a trial subscription including those issues will be on the show floor.

DATA DIMENSIONS INC.
Data Dimensions of Bellevue, Wash., has introduced Interactive Vendor Review, a supplier review service for the newspaper industry devoted to monitoring the progress suppliers make -- or fail to make -- in preparing their products for the Year 2000 rollover.

Interactive Vendor Review, which will be demonstrated at NEXPO '97, June 21-24 in New Orleans, is an on-line subscription service which assesses the millennium compliance status of newspaper-related products and services. A collaborative effort that will include input from newspapers, IVR will provide information on systems, products and services, primarily in pre-press, production, finance, circulation, advertising and Internet/Web areas.

The SEATTLE TIMES has signed up and has urged other major U.S. newspapers to join in. A password account will give each client access to Data Dimensions' IVR and its Ardes2k Vendor Review. Clients can tap into three categories of information: Vendor View, for products or services provided by a specific supplier; Product/Service View, for information on a specific product or service, and Comments-by-Subscriber View, for comments made by a particular subscriber for any or all products.

Data Dimensions may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.data-dimensions.com/.

LEXIS-NEXIS
Dayton, Ohio-based LEXIS-NEXIS, an on-line provider of archival content, has announced its participation in the Individual Reference Services Group, a collection of companies that have created a set of industry-wide self-regulatory practices concerning "the collection, compilation, sale, and use of computerized databases that contain what consumers may perceive as sensitive identifying information."

Other companies include ChoicePoint, Database Technologies, Experian, First Data InfoSource/Donnelly Marketing, IRSC Inc., Metromail and Information America.

LEXIS-NEXIS is on the Web at http://www.lexis-nexis.com/.

MONOTYPE SYSTEMS INC.
Monotype, an imaging systems supplier based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., has announced it will show its newest offering for the computer-to-plate market at NEXPO '97 in New Orleans. Monotype's Sun-based PrintExpress features the capability to add registration marks and color bars to each plate, provides page-pairing and imposition for multi-page jobs, and offers an option to output bitmaps multiple times to produce additional plates as needed.

Monotype also will be showing its Futuro drum recorder, ProofExpress II full broadsheet proofing device and PrintExpress remote transmission system, as well as products made by the Israeli imaging systems supplier Scitex Corp. and Gannett Media Technologies International of Cincinnati.

Monotype may be visited on the Web at http://www.monotype.com/

SCITEX CORP.
Scitex, an imaging systems supplier with U.S. offices in Bedford, Mass., has announced that its Ripro Server and Scitex Ripro Archiver product lines will support the network acceleration utility product NetDoubler, made by Asante Technologies Inc., a global company with U.S. offices in San Jose, Calif.

Asante makes high-performance, end-to-end intranetworking solutions for graphics and image-intensive applications. The company offers LAN switches, hubs and adapter cards, as well as web-based network management software and network acceleration tools.

NetDoubler increases communication speed by up to five times between a Macintosh client and a server, sharply reducing waiting time during file transfer. The new software option for the Scitex products is set for release in July 1997.

Scitex may be visited on the Web at http://www.scitex.com/. Asante is at http://www.asante.com/

TANDEM COMPUTERS INC.
Tandem, a systems supplier based in Cupertino, Calif., has announced a co-marketing agreement with Santa Monica, Calif.-based ISOCOR that will bring several of ISOCOR's messaging and directory products to Windows NT Server-based systems from Tandem.

ISOCOR messaging and backbone products include the N-PLEX family of Internet/intranet servers: N-PLEX Global for commercial service providers and large organizations; N-PLEX Enterprise for corporate and enterprise network environments, and Global Directory Server, N-PLEX Hub and ISOPLEX for X.400 messaging.

Tandem is on the Web at http://www.tandem.com/.

TRIBUNE SOLUTIONS
Salt Lake City-based Tribune Solutions has announced development of a billing and tracking system for newspaper sites on the World-Wide Web called NewsView iBill. It will be introduced at NEXPO '97, June 21-24 in New Orleans.

With NewsView iBill, electronic publishers can control reader access to web sites. The software can be configured to create hundreds of products, with fees ranging from free on up, and billing options. Customers can pay by credit card, purchase order or through a company's existing billing system. iBill can link directly to existing SQL-based circulation systems, or can import subscriber records from older circulation systems.

The iBill system will see its first use in July at Utah Online, http://www.utahonline.com/, the soon-to-be-launched web site of the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. At NEXPO, iBill can be seen at the LEXIS-NEXIS / NewsView Solutions booth.

NewsView Solutions may be visited on-line at http://www.lmtribune.com/TS/index.html.

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