Cole's Newswire Aug. 13, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 33

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  • CLASSIFIND NETWORK
    San Diego-based ClassiFind Network has launched http://www.classifind.com/, a multimedia classifieds site that allows advertisers to place ads with streaming video, audio, color photos and 200-word descriptions.

    ClassiFind said its site is the first to offer streaming video. Every ClassiFind ad includes a 200-word description and is entered into a comprehensive database that allows users to search under multiple categories. For a fee, advertisers can add up to five color photos, Real Audio and 30 seconds of streamed video at 15 frames per second. The basic 200-word description costs $4.95 a month.

    ClassiFind Network seeks to work with new and traditional classifieds sources that are going on-line; joining the network is free. ClassiFind makes money on a revenue-sharing basis, sharing ad sales.


  • THE COLE PAPERS
    The wait's over for delivery of many elements of on-line and in-print publications, the August issue of THE COLE PAPERS reports in its second tour of NEXPO '97.

    Correspondent John Bryan takes an up-close look at digital delivery systems that make it easier than ever to get features, ads and photos from provider to production.

    Database-centric creation of products for the Web and print is the topic Correspondent Marion J. Love examines, with an accompanying profile of four solutions.

    Outsourcing, the process of sending some of a newspaper's dirty laundry out to be cleaned, is updated by Correspondent George Powell, while Correspondent L. Carol Christopher strolls through new communities on the Web that are themselves a form of outsourcing.

    To subscribe and receive a copy of the August issue of THE COLE PAPERS, surf to http://www.colegroup.com/.


  • CYBERGRAPHIC INC.
    Cybergraphic, a publishing systems supplier based in Melbourne, Australia, with U.S. offices in Burlington, Mass., has announced that the NORTHERN ADVOCATE (9k, evening) in Whangarei, New Zealand, is fully live on Windows NT-based CyberPage, Cybergraphic's editorial pagination tool. The NORTHERN ADVOCATE produces about 84 broadsheet pages and 16 tabloid pages weekly. The paper moved in one month to CyberPage from Cybergraphic's previous UNIX-based editorial system.

    Cybergraphic is on the Web at http://www.Cybergraphic.com.au/.


  • EXTENSIS CORP.
    Extensis, a production software supplier based in Portland, Ore., has announced it is shipping Extensis Preflight Designer, an inspection and collection tool that examines Quark XPress files for output problems before they are committed to an imagesetter.

    Preflight Designer, compatible with Quark XPress 3.31 or later, is available for Macintosh users for a street price of $99.95 (Extensis will guarantee compatibility with shipping versions of XPress 4.0). Upgrades to Extensis Preflight Pro are available for $299.95.

    Adobe PageMaker versions of Preflight Designer and Preflight Pro will be available later this year.

    Extensis is on the Web at http://www.extensis.com/.


  • GANNETT MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL
    Cincinnati-based GMTI, the software development unit of Gannett Co. Inc. of Arlington, Va., has announced that it is teaming up with Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP), an automotive computing services company, to produce an automated system that will enable dealers to manage inventory to produce advertising and marketing campaigns electronically.

    The system will provide dealers with links to several media for delivering ads to newspapers, photo magazines, broadcast organizations, audiotext/faxback services and Internet services. ADP Dealer Services Group provides turnkey systems to over 18,000 auto and truck dealers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

    ADP and GMTI will market complementary solutions, with ADP providing auto dealers with ADP Marketing Advisor, a turnkey system based on GMTI's Celebro relational database technology, for managing inventory, advertising, promotion and electronic commerce. GMTI will market host server systems through its MediaPartners program to media businesses, such as newspapers and advertising agencies.

    GMTI is on the Web at http://www.gmti.com/.


  • HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
    Harris, a publishing systems supplier based in Melbourne, Fla., has announced that its parent, Harris Corp., has ceased trying to find a buyer for the publishing systems unit and has transferred it within the corporation to the newly restructured Transcomm Division.

    The publishing systems unit had been under the Information Systems Division. The Transcomm Division will focus on commercial communications and information technology network integration.

    Harris Corp. said it has terminated discussions with a venture capital firm after four months, and does not anticipate any additional efforts to sell off the publishing systems unit. Harris is on the Web at http://www.harris.com/hpsc/.


  • ICANON ASSOCIATES INC.
    ICANON, a publishing software supplier based in Fort Washington, Pa., has announced that its line of business system software will run in a graphical user interface called NEWZware Multi-Client under either Windows 95 or NT early in the fourth quarter of 1997.

    With Multi-Client, one database and server will support both PC clients and dumb terminals running the character version of the program. Mac users will be able to access NEWZware over a LAN using either X-Windows or character-based telnet sessions. Multi-Client also will support remote users dialing into a network or modem pool.

    The NEWZware circulation system will be available first, followed by the advertising, general ledger, accounts payable and payroll modules. Customers also will have the choice of either UNIX or NT servers to host a NEWZware business system.


  • MONOTYPE SYSTEMS INC.
    Monotype, an imaging systems supplier based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., has announced that it will introduce the NT version of its Combo output software at Print'97, Sept. 3-10 in Chicago. Monotype will be showing both the NT and Sun versions of the PostScript-based software, which is a combination of a file, print and OPI server, software RIP and imposition station.

    Combo performs print spooling and OPI functions, can produce low-resolution color files after RIPping, and generates the color bars and crop marks that accompany imposition.

    Monotype is on the Web at http://www.monosys.com/.


  • NETGRAVITY
    NetGravity, an advertising management software supplier based in San Mateo, Calif., has announced that Knight-Ridder New Media of San Jose, Calif., will use NetGravity's solution on each of its 35 web sites, including Auto.com, Freep.com and Yak's Corner from the DETROIT FREE PRESS; MercuryCenter.com from the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS; Phillynews.com from the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER and DAILY NEWS; HotCoCo.com from the Contra Costa Newspapers in Northern California, and Herald.com and elHerald.com from the MIAMI HERALD and EL NUEVO HERALD.

    NetGravity's AdServer Network 3.0 provides for central management, targeting, delivery and analysis of ad performance across a number of web sites. Knight-Ridder will be able to generate aggregated ad reports that measure activity across multiple web sites.

    NetGravity can be found on the World-Wide Web at http://www.netgravity.com/.

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