COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Sept. 10, 1997

Sept. 10, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 37

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ABC INTERACTIVE
ABC Interactive, a subsidiary of Schaumburg, Ill.-based Audit Bureau of Circulations, has announced more clients for its service of providing audited usage figures.

The LAS VEGAS SUN asked ABC Interactive to audit its Vegas Deluxe web site, joining other such sites, including Houston Chronicle Interactive, Seattle Times Extra, Nando and the Newspaper Association of America. ABC Interactive was created in response to demand from the advertising community and ABC members to provide independent third-party audits and industry-developed standards for web site and other on-line advertising. ABC Interactive is on the Web at http://www.accessabc.com/.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York-based AP has announced that AP AdSEND, its digital advertising delivery service for U.S. newspapers, is now compatible with iSDN Manager, made by 4-Sight of Woburn, Mass.

With several Primary Rate (PRI) ISDN receive units now installed at AP's technology center in Cranbury, N.J., all 4-Sight ISDN users can use AdSEND without having to buy additional equipment. For example, pre-press houses using 4-Sight to electronically deliver advertising materials to printers now can also send display advertising to newspapers via AdSEND.

Customers now can send jobs directly to remote sites point-to-point, or send the same files through AdSEND to designated newspapers. Files sent by 4-Sight customers via AdSEND will be delivered via broadcast satellite or terrestrial network.

4-Sight also was chosen by Xerox Business Services, a division of Xerox Corp. of Rochester, N.Y., to support delivery of advanced document management outsourcing solutions. Under this arrangement, Xerox will use 4-Sight's peer-to-peer file transfer solution, which communicates to over 42 countries, to expand its Documents Direct electronic distribute-and-print service.

4-Sight is on the Web at http://www.4sight.com/. Xerox is at http://www.xerox.com/

THE COLE GROUP
The publishing and consulting organization that publishes the newsletters NEWSINC. and THE COLE PAPERS (not to mention this very NEWSWIRE), has moved. The new mailing address is P.O. Box 3426, Daly City, CA 94015-3426; the new phone is (650) 994-2100 and new fax is (650) 994-2108. All Internet-related addresses remain the same.

The September issue of THE COLE PAPERS features a roundup of automation tools for the newsroom, circulation and photographers -- and ad reps, who seem not quite ready for such help, one supplier reports. Correspondent John Bryan takes a gander at two new editorial front-ends based on Lotus Notes, while Senior Editor Pete Wetmore details data-entry tools gaining favor with circulation managers.

Correspondent George Powell ("a professional newsperson who has taken photos") reports on new developments in digital cameras, and Correspondent Christopher J. Feola finds that one development in the office automation realm is not a push toward laptops for ad salespeople.

For more about the September issue of THE COLE PAPERS, visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

ECRM
ECRM, a manufacturer of high-resolution color imagesetting and platesetting systems based in Tewksbury, Mass., has unveiled the new punchless version of its KnockOut 4550 imagesetter, which includes the KnockOut's production capabilities for less money.

The punchless KnockOut 4550 can image 18-inch wide media with variable resolutions from 1000 to 3556 dpi. The punchless version, which is available for $64,000, can be upgraded in the field with standard head and tail punches for $6,000 or with custom punches for $7,500. The new version comes with a Power Mac RIP, but is available with Windows NT or Digital Alpha NT RIPs for an additional $3,500.

Visit ECRM's web site at http://www.ecrm.com/.

MACTIVE INC.
Mactive, a pre-press solutions supplier based in Melbourne, Fla., has announced the signing of its first contract for an AdBase system in the United States. The installation, which will be NT/Oracle based with both Windows 95 and Macintosh clients, will be at FOSTER'S DAILY DEMOCRAT of Dover, N.H. (22k, evening).

With Mactive's AdBase system, the paper will have an integrated advertising solution, placing on one database all functions from advertising sales through the sales ledger process. Included in the contract is Mactive's classified pagination solution.

Mactive is on the Web at http://www.mactiveinc.com/.

PrePRESS SOLUTIONS
PrePRESS Solutionsā an imagesetter supplier based in Billerica, Mass., has announced it has successfully passed the stringent Adobe Systems certification process for PostScript 3 integration. PrePRESS now is shipping Panther RIPs with PostScript 3 software on Power Macintosh and Windows NT RIPstations.

PrePRESS Solutions is on the Web at http://www.prepress.pps.com/.

USA TODAY ONLINE
USA TODAY Online has launched a partnership with University Wire (U-Wire), a student-founded newswire covering the nation's college campuses, to provide readers with daily college news stories and feature articles. Located at http://www.uwire.usatoday.com/, USA TODAY's "On Campus" section seeks to reach alumni, parents, college students and others interested in university news.

Stories will appear in eight sections, conveying the top news stories from the nation's college newspapers; pieces about campus life; articles about the search for employment, and stories covering academia, research on campuses and developments at university labs.

The Off Beat presents news about the lighter side of college life, while Free Time offers movie and music reviews, and Campus Opinion supplies student opinion pieces.

U-Wire, at http://www.uwire.com/, is the first news service to link college newspapers through the Internet.

UNISYS CORP.
Unisys Corp., which has U.S. offices in Irving, Texas, has announced that has sold to News International plc, the European subsidiary of global media giant News Corp., a publishing solution to produce THE SUN, THE NEWS OF THE WORLD, THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES.

Based in Wapping, London, News International will be one of the largest Unisys Publishing Solution installations in the world, with more than 1200 workstations for the editorial staff. The system will be used to produce 10 publications including four major national newspapers in the United Kingdom.

Included in the purchase is a Unisys Hermes editorial production system, Unisys WireCenter for routing incoming copy and Unisys DocCenter, a multi-media archive system. The hardware and system software platform will consist of two Sun E10000 and two E5000 servers, with an Oracle database for Hermes and Basis Plus database for DocCenter.

Unisys is on the Web at http://www.unisys.com/.

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