COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Nov. 26, 1997

Nov. 26, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 48

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ADVANCED TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
ATS, a publishing systems supplier based in Wilmington, Mass., has announced that it has expanded its contract with EL NUEVO DIA (220k, morning) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for a NewsDesk editorial/pagination system.

A 40-seat system was installed over the summer at a new publication, PRIMERA HORA, a tabloid published by EL NUEVO DIA which debuted Nov. 17. The system runs on two Hewlett Packard 9000 UNIX servers with a Sybase SQL database and a RAID sub-system on a 100 megabit network. Twenty of the 40 HP Vectra PC workstations serve as pagination seats, running ATS's QuikLayout and Quark XPress.

Installation of the originally planned project at EL NUEVO DIA, replacing a 15-year-old Atex system, will commence in January. It will have 92 editorial workstations, 22 of them for pagination. The paper has used ATS's AdVisor advertising system since February; PRIMERA HORA will use the system as well.

ATS is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.atsusa.com/.

AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INC.
AII, an output device manufacturer based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced recent installations at more than 19 newspapers and printing plants in the United States, as well as two in Canada, five in Latin America, four along the Pacific Rim and six in other countries in Europe and Africa.

Major U.S. metros buying AII equipment included the LOS ANGELES TIMES, DENVER POST, HOUSTON CHRONICLE and SEATTLE TIMES. Major overseas customers included O GLOBO in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in Hong Kong, and Times Media Ltd. of South Africa.

AII is on the Web at http://www.autoiii.com/.

BITSTREAM INC.
Bitstream, a publishing solutions supplier based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced that Sun Microsystems Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., has adopted Bitstream's TrueDoc technology as the font subsystem for Sun's JavaOS 1.1 for the network computer environment. Bitstream also has provided Sun with a resident font set for incorporation into the JavaOS.

Sun is on the Web at http://www.sun.com/. Bitstream is at http://www.bitstream.com/.

DESKTOP DATA, INC.
Toronto-based Desktop Data and content provider Canadian Corporate News (CCN) have announced that CCN's news releases will be carried by Desktop Data's NewsEDGE product. As the news integrator for the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange, Desktop Data had been delivering CCN's releases to the two exchanges. This agreement expands CCN's feed to nearly 170,000 business readers in more than 400 corporations. NewsEDGE, which carries information from 650 content providers, is available on the Web at http://www.desktopdata.com/.

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP.
Digital's Multimedia Publishing Group, which is based in Piscataway, N.J., has announced the sale of a classified advertising system to the SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE (81k, morning) in northern Indiana. The 35-seat CompuClass 5.0 advertising system from Houston-based CompuText uses Digital AlphaServers running Windows NT Clusters and Microsoft SQL Server Database. Quark XPress with CompuClass XTensions will be used for classified pagination.

DEC also installed a DewarView editorial system at the TRIBUNE last June. Digital is on the Web at http://www.digital.com/.

NETOPIA INC.
Netopia is the new name for Farallon, the Alameda, Calif.-based creator of networking products for the Macintosh such as PhoneNet, EtherWave and Timbuktu Pro. The Farallon division of the 10-year-old company will continue to develop similar products.

Netopia is on the Web at http://www.netopia.com/.

NEWSINC.
The spirit of the '60s lives at a handful of newspapers that still employ ombudsmen, reports Julius Duscha in the Nov. 24 issue of NEWSINC., the newsletter of the business of the newspaper business. Duscha, a former WASHINGTON POST editor, talks with editors and ombudsmen -- past and present -- about the noble concept that neither really took hold nor just died.

NEWSINC. also reports on the pending sale of Cowles Media Co. to McClatchy Newspapers -- whose CEO is delighted to lay claim to the northern star, the STAR TRIBUNE of Minneapolis, as part of the deal; how circulation numbers sometimes convey an inaccurate message, and plans the new editor of the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS has for her paper.

For more about the Nov. 24 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AG
Heidelberg, the German parent of publishing systems supplier LinoPress Publishing System, and SAP AG have announced plans for a joint venture to develop integrated software solutions for media businesses. Heidelberg brings to the association its background in technical media systems, while SAP has expertise in creating software solutions.

They anticipate their market will include printing shops, TV and radio stations, and on-line service providers. Heidelberg and SAP will each hold 50 percent of the joint venture, which is to get under way in mid-1998. The first product to be developed is expected to be a "media-neutral" database which could store content for many media.

ROASTER TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Roaster, an on-line software provider based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced that Roaster Release 4 is written in Java, utilizes the Java Foundation Classes, and is the basis for its Data and Enterprise Editions. Release 4 is extensible, enabling the integration of a wide variety of technologies.

Release 4 is scheduled to ship at the end of the first quarter of 1998, with a public beta release in January. Release 4 will sell for $99; Release 3 owners will be able to buy an upgrade for $49.

Roaster is on the Web at http://www.roaster.com/.

UNISYS CORP.
Unisys, a global publishing systems supplier with U.S. offices in Blue Bell, Pa., has created what it calls its North American Center of Excellence. The unit, based in Blue Bell, will handle presales, sales, installation support, training, hot line support and marketing initiatives. Product development will remain in Unisys's center in Milan, Italy.

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

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