COLE'S NEWSWIRE, July 9, 1997

July 9, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 27

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ADONE CLASSIFIED NETWORK
AdOne Classified Network Inc. of New York has announced it has signed 13 new customer publications for its on-line classified advertising solution: YUMA (Ariz.) DAILY SUN (17k, evening); THE COURIER, Russellville, Ark. (11k, morning); SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN (35k, weekly); DAILY SUN of Warner Robbins, Ga. (8k, evening); JOURNAL-WORLD, Lawrence, Kan. (18k, morning); FAYETTEVILLE (N.C.) OBSERVER-TIMES (71k, morning); Community News Group, Seatac, Wash.; HOOD COUNTY NEWS, Granbury, Texas (10k, weekly); Northside People and Park City People, Dallas; SKAGIT VALLEY HERALD, Mount Vernon, Wash. (21k, evening); SPOKESMAN-REVIEW, Spokane, Wash. (123k, morning), and WALLA WALLA (Wash.) UNION-BULLETIN (16k, evening)

AdOne is on the Web at http://www.adone.com/.

ALLAIRE CORP.
Allaire, a new media software supplier based in Cambridge, Mass., has introduced the Cold Fusion 3.0, a rapid application development system for the Web that allows developers to create scalable solutions for electronic commerce, collaborative computing and business systems.

New features include faster application development, increased scalability and more integration with Internet technologies to permit developers to integrate a wide range of browser, server and database technologies. Cold Fusion 3.0 includes extended support for Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, messaging and the Verity intelligent searching technology.

The Cold Fusion 3.0 Application Server, which runs on Windows NT and Windows 95, is available for a free 30-day evaluation from the Allaire Web site, http://www.allaire.com/. A Professional edition, compatible with all ODBC-compliant databases, is $995; a Workgroup Edition compatible with Access, Paradox, FoxPro and dBASE systems, is $495.

ASSOCIATED INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL INC.
AISI, a software provider and integrator based in Auburn, Calif., and Advanced Publishing Technology Inc., a publishing systems supplier based in Burbank, Calif., have agreed that AISI will integrate APT products into AISI publishing solutions.

APT is built on an open computing platform, using Windows '95, Microsoft Word, Quark XPress, Novell, NT and MS SQL Server. AISI is on the Web at http://www.aisipub.com/. APT is at http://www.advpubtech.com/.

ECRM
FUJIFILM Electronic Imaging Ltd. of Hertfordshire, England, and ECRM, an output device supplier based in Tewksbury, Mass., have signed an agreement for FUJIFILM to market ECRM capstan imagesetters.

Included are new imagesetters launched by ECRM at Imprinta, the PI-M 1400H and PI-M 1800H; they will join the PI 1400, PI 1800 and PI 2800, and FFEI's own family of Celix imagesetters. The PI-M 1400H (14-inch) and PI-M 1800H (18-inch) are available now from FUJIFILM and are recommended for use with FUJIFILM HQ System media.

ECRM is on the Web at http://www.ecrm.com/. FUJIFILM is at http://www.ffei.co.uk/.

INFONAUTICS CORP.
Infonautics, a provider of on-line services based in Wayne, Pa., and Prodigy Services Corp., an Internet services company based in Medford, Mass., have announced an agreement to provide access to Infonautics' Electric Library on-line reference service through Prodigy Internet.

Prodigy Internet subscribers will have unlimited access to the Electric Library service, which includes newspapers, magazines and reference works; international newswires; and thousands of photographs and maps. Prodigy, at http://www.prodigy.com/, will feature a direct link to the Electric Library, at http://www.electriclibrary.com/. The first 60 days will be free.

Infonautics is on the Web at http://www.infonautics.com/.

NEW CENTURY NETWORK
New York-based New Century Network, a consortium of major media companies, has launched the NewsWorks web site, http://www.newsworks.com/. The site features access to content from 125 daily newspaper web site affiliates.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
The ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS of Denver has purchased a substantial percentage of the outstanding shares of Colorado Real Estate Online Inc., whose web site contains listings for more than 80 percent of all Denver metro-area Realtor-offered properties. The sites are at http://www.corealty.com/ and http://www.denver-rmn.com/.

TRIBUNE SOLUTIONS
Tribune Solutions, a subsidiary of Salt Lake City-based Kearns-Tribune Corp., has introduced a new billing and tracking system for newspaper sites on the World-Wide Web. Newspapers or other web site owners can track and bill electronic readers with NewsView iBill.

iBill is a customizable package to control reader access to web sites. Electronic publishers can configure the software to create hundreds of products, all with different rates (including free) and billing options.

Customers can pay for their subscription by credit card, purchase order or through a company's existing billing system. iBill can either link directly to existing SQL-based circulation systems, or can import subscriber records from older circulation systems.

The software package runs on Microsoft's NT 4.0 server, IIS Web Server and SQL Server database. It utilizes credit card processing with either the Cybercash or VeriFone's vPOS system. The TRIBUNE's Utah Online is the first web site to use iBill.

Tribune Solutions may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.newsviewsolutions.com/.

WALL STREET JOURNAL
The WALL STREET JOURNAL has announced that beginning this fall, students who subscribe to the WSJ through its Journal-In-Education professor program will receive access to the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, http://wsj.com/, at no additional charge. Professors at the undergraduate and graduate-school level who are interested in participating in the program this fall may call 1-800-JOURNAL for information and order forms.

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