COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Nov. 5, 1997

Nov. 5, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 45

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ADVANCE PUBLICATIONS INTERNET
Advance Publications Internet, a new media company based in Newark, N.J., that operates web sites in conjunction with Advance Publications Newspaper Group, has announced a free affinity e-mail service. Subscribers can create tailored e-mail addresses such as @rutgers.nj.com or @yankees.sportsny.com.

The free e-mail service will start with New Jersey Online (http://www.nj.com/), then spread to other Advance Publications Internet sites: Oregon Live (http://www.oregonlive.com/), Cleveland Live (http://www.cleveland.com/>), Alabama Live (http://www.al.com/), and Michigan Live (http://www.mlive.com/).

ASSOCIATED PRESS
The board of directors of the AP, a member-supported news cooperative based in New York, has approved a 2.9 percent general assessment increase effective Feb. 1, 1998, for its newspaper and broadcast members, excluding commercial radio, which will fall under a new formula yet to be announced.

The AP noted that next year, it will provide to its members such benefits as small-dish satellite delivery systems, and technological improvements within AP bureaus to improve reporting and picture-handling capability.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a publishing solutions supplier based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has introduced LiveIQue, software that updates a web site the instant fresh content is ready. The new text or images are flowed into templates, eliminating the need to place HTML coding. Baseview's Transporter utility picks up the stories and copies them to the LiveIQue database.

Baseview is offering LiveIQue at half price for a limited time; system requirements include Transporter. Baseview is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.baseview.com/IQue.html/.

THE COLE PAPERS
The fall conference season brings with it rejuvenation and talk of creativity. In its roundup of key autumnal sessions, THE COLE PAPERS attends the annual workshop of the newly renamed Society for News Design; hears plans for an expanded role for the Association of Publishing Systems Users, formerly an Atex domain; finds little that's big but much that's useful at the trade show at Seybold San Francisco, and wraps up the highlights of the Newspaper & New Media Seminar held concurrently with Seybold San Francisco.

THE COLE PAPERS also visits America West, where it finds System Integrators Inc. awaiting the arrival of its next new owner, with big plans to show off its new Coyote-true user interfaces.

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

COMPUTER ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC.
CAI, a business software supplier based in Islandia, N.Y., has announced a partnership with the Long Island newspaper NEWSDAY to develop and manage Internet commerce solutions for small to mid-range Long Island businesses.

The alliance will offer web development and marketing strategies for clients accessing the paper's web site at http://www.newsday.com/. NEWSDAY and CAI's NetHaven business unit will promote joint on-line and print marketing offerings. CAI is on the Web at http://www.cai.com/.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Harris, a publishing systems supplier based in Melbourne, Fla., has announced 12 add-on orders and these recent system orders: -- York Newspaper Co., York, Pa., a JOA that publishes the YORK DAILY RECORD (73k, morning) and YORK DISPATCH (40k, evening): 80-seat Harris NewsMaker editorial system, add-on XP-21 server software, NewsMaker wire server software and fax-out software.

-- LA PRESSE, Montreal, Quebec (284k, morning): Harris CASH classified advertising system, 47 CASH client software licenses, CASH Windows Browser, credit card interface software and CASH FaxIn/FaxOut software. Harris is on the Web at http://www.harris.com/hpsc/.

IPA SYSTEMS LTD.
IPA, a publishing software developer based in the United Kingdom, has released version 5 of its Q-View output management software. With version 5, Q-View Display becomes a stand-alone application, not just a Quark XPress XTension. It provides views of multiple publications, with displays of pages as imposed pairs or facing pages. Deadline alarms appear as changes in screen color 60 and 30 minutes before deadline, and at deadline.

IPA is on the Web at http://www.fsi-ipa.com/.

NEW HORIZONS TEAM
New Horizons, a subsidiary of the POTTSVILLE (Pa.) REPUBLICAN, has announced installation of its 110th INFO-CONNECT voice information system at the DAILY INDEPENDENT, Ashland, Ky. (25k, evening). The Ottaway property will introduce the service this month. It also is a beta site for INFO-CONNECT for Windows NT platform.

PUBLISHING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
PPI, a publishing solutions supplier based in Manchester, N.H., has announced these recent installations:

-- BANGOR (Maine) DAILY NEWS, (70k, morning): AD2000 Windows NT/SQL with 16 users, dual NT/SQL servers, classified advertising, retail advertising, credit card interface, WebLink Internet interface, Informatel pagination.

-- Upper Shore Maryland Division, Chesapeake Publishing Corp. (17k, daily; 120k, weekly) and Mid-Shore Maryland Division, Chesapeake Publishing Corp. (19k, daily; 59k, weekly): AD2000 Windows NT/SQL with 18 users, dual NT/SQL Servers, classified advertising, classified billing and receivables, Informatel classified pagination, Remote CrossSell.

-- Central Michigan Newspapers, Mount Pleasant, Mich. (15 weekly products): AD1000 System with 10 users, classified and retail order entry, classified/retail billing and receivables, Remote CrossSell, Informatel pagination.

-- Star Publications, Gaylord, Mich. (nine weekly products): AD1000 System with 18 users, classified and retail order entry, classified/retail billing and receivables, Informatel pagination.

-- TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Greensburg, Pa. (81k, morning): AD2000 Windows NT/SQL with 23 users, dual NT / SQL Servers, classified advertising, retail advertising, Collier-Jackson business system interface, Internet interface.

-- DAILY LOCAL NEWS, West Chester, Pa. (34k, morning): AD1000 with 17 Classified users, dual Pentium Novell servers with four gigabytes of storage, classified advertising, classified billing and receivables, MES classified pagination.

-- KENOSHA (Wis.) NEWS (27k, morning): AD2000 Windows NT/SQL with 11 users, dual NT/SQL Servers, classified advertising, retail advertising, classified billing and receivables, Weblink Internet interface, Informatel pagination, credit card interface.

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