COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Oct. 22, 1997

Oct. 22, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 43

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CYBERGRAPHIC INC.
Cybergraphic, an Australian publishing systems supplier with U.S. offices in Burlington, Mass., has announced that Fairfax Community Newspapers in Dandenong, Victoria, began paginating classified ads using Cybergraphic products in October.

The first editorial section to be paginated will go live the third week of October, the last in mid-November. They will use NAILS, Cybergraphic's comprehensive production system.

Fairfax has circulation of 249,000 over six free weekly publications that include an average of 60 full-color pages and 75 spot-color pages each week. Its new Cybergraphic systems, serving more than 110 users, replace ones made by CText, Atex and Pongrass.

Cybergraphic also announced at IFRA 97 in Amsterdam that it has discontinued its technology and marketing alliance with System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento, Calif.

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

GANNETT MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL
GMTI, a publishing software supplier based in Cincinnati, has announced 10 recent installations of its Digital Collections multimedia information management system. Each site captures copy distributed by wire services such as the Associated Press and archives images, text and pages (in the form of Portable Document Format files) produced by each paper.

Newly installed systems are at THE COLORADOAN, Fort Collins, Colo. (28k, morning); NORWICH BULLETIN, Norwich, Conn. (32k, morning); IDAHO STATESMAN, Boise, Idaho (66k, morning); ROCKFORD (Ill.) REGISTER STAR (75k, morning); JOURNAL AND COURIER, Lafayette, Ind. (37k, morning); ARGUS LEADER, Sioux Falls, S.D. (41k, morning); BURLINGTON (Vt.) FREE PRESS (55k, morning); THE OLYMPIAN, Olympia, Wash. (37k, morning); THE HERALD-DISPATCH, Huntington, W.Va. (38k, morning), and GREEN BAY (Wis.) PRESS-GAZETTE (59k, evening).

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

INFONAUTICS INC.
Infonautics, a provider of on-line content and archive services based in Wayne, Pa., has added three search features to its on-line archive service, EPP-Direct. Now in use on NEWSDAY's site, http://library.newsday.com/, Today's News Retriever, Headline Browser and Lookout give users tools to set up personalized searches, particularly for current news from an on-line archived news site.

With Today's News Retrieval, a user may access news files on many sites post in the previous seven days, while Headline Browser goes years into the past. Lookout watches for a user's selected topics and e-mails a tailored on-line newspaper.

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

JUNGLEE CORP.
Junglee, the creator of virtual database technology based Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced that it and Classifieds2000 Inc., a provider of classifieds content and distribution on the Internet also based in Sunnyvale, have joined in a strategic partnership to offer automated collection and distribution services to classified advertisers on the ÕNet.

Junglee will use JobCanopy, its line of products designed to collect and assimilate listings and related data from scattered web sites, to distribute over the Classifieds2000 Network classifieds that can be searched and collated.

Junglee is on the Web at http://www.junglee.com/. Classifieds2000 is at http://www.classifieds2000.com/.

LEXIS-NEXIS
Lexis-Nexis, an on-line archive service based in Dayton, Ohio, has added a directory to U.S. media services and content. The Working Press of the Nation includes access to 7,500 newspapers, 6,500 magazines, 1,500 newsletters and 2,500 other miscellaneous publications.

Each entry lists address, telephone and fax numbers, circulation data and personnel information; publishers and other content owners provide the information listed. The Working Press of the Nation file name is WPN; it is available in the BUSREF, CMPGN, LEGIS, MARKET and PEOPLE Libraries.

Lexis-Nexis also has announced the introduction of Marquis Who's Who in the Media and Communications, featuring 18,500 biographies of broadcast executives, software developers, editors, advertising executives, media consultants, and web experts.

Lexis-Nexis is on the Web at http://www.lexis-nexis.com/.

MISSION CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES
Mission Critical, a software supplier based in Concord, Mass., has announced the installation of a three-seat AdFAX remote ad management system at the PRESS-ENTERPRISE (164k, morning) in Riverside, Calif. The fax processing system interfaces with the paper's Atex IAS system, made by Atex Media Solutions of Bedford, Mass.

Mission Critical is on the Web at http://www.mctinc.com/.

SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
The Software Construction Company, a archiving software provider based in Atlanta, and Managing Editor Inc., a production software supplier based in Jenkintown, Pa., have agreed to integrate SCC's MediaServer production and archive database system with MEi's Roundhouse ad tracking system.

SCC's MediaServer holds libraries for pictures, pages, text, video and sound clips and other media files which may be retrieved by Roundhouse using search technology licensed from Verity Inc. MEi's ad tracking system uses off-the-shelf software to monitor and manage ad production components.

SCC is on the Web at http://www.swcc.com/. Managing Editor is at http://www.maned.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, a publishing systems supplier based in Sacramento, Calif., has announced that it will focus on publishing in the next millennium at its booth at IFRA 97 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. SII will show solutions publishers can use to produce paper-based and alternate media products.

Among the solutions to be shown are the Coyote/3 Windows-based client editorial software product, including several new extension modules for advertising and layout applications. Also featured will be MediaVu, a multimedia archive system; demonstrations of SII Gateway, software for extracting data from an SII system over the Internet, and SII Builder web site management software, which is based on SIIÕs earlier Web Link product and Builder software from Pantheon Inc. of Seattle.

SII also has announced that the FINANCIAL TIMES of London has signed a £1.9 million upgrade contract with System Integrators UK Ltd. The order includes more than 200 Coyote/3 networked editorial clients, 30 copies of Gateway and replacement of Tandem TXP processors with an eight-processor Tandem RISC-based Himalaya server.

SII is on the web at http://www.sii.com/.

UMI
UMI, a division of Bell & Howell based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has introduced ProQuest Full-Text Newspapers, a database that allows subscribing academic and government libraries to delve into 150 newspapers in the United States and abroad. ProQuest Full-Text Newspapers offers exclusive on-line access to the U.S., European and Asian editions of the WALL STREET JOURNAL as a result of UMI's recent cross-access agreement with Dow Jones & Co.

UMI is on the Web at http://www.umi.com/.

WIRED DIGITAL INC.
San Francisco-based Wired Digital, the on-line media division of Wired Ventures Inc., has introduced NewsBot, an Internet search service for scanning 200 news sites for constant updates. NewsBot continuously "crawls" the Web, creating an index of news as soon as it is published. Windows-based users enter keywords to view the latest headlines. (Mac and UNIX versions are promised.)

NewsBot, which can be accessed at http://www.newsbot.com/, is also available as a component of HotBot 4.0, the Wired Digital search site http://www.hotbot.com/. Also available is NewsBot Personal Agent, a downloadable, stand-alone version of NewsBot for personal notification of breaking news.

ERRORS AND OMISSIONS
The Oct. 15 issue of COLE'S NEWSWIRE incorrectly reported that Mission Critical Technologies had completed its first overseas installation. In fact, the site in Helsinki, Finland, was MCT's seventh overseas installation. COLE'S NEWSWIRE regrets the error.

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