COLE'S NEWSWIRE, March 4, 1998

March 4, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 9

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ADVANCED PUBLISHING TECHNOLOGY
APT, a publishing solutions supplier based in Burbank, Calif., has announced recent sales of its Windows-based ACT system, which has modules for editorial, advertising and pagination.

Installations have been completed at THE TIMES (23k, evening) of Gainesville, Ga.; THE HERALD-REPUBLICAN (7k, weekly) of Angola, Ind.; HERALD JOURNAL (6k, morning) of Monticello, Ind.; THE PALLADIUM-ITEM (19k, evening) of Richmond, Ind.; IOWA CITY (Iowa) PRESS-CITIZEN (16k, morning); DAILY STAR (12k, evening) of Hammond, La.; MONROE (Mich.) EVENING NEWS (23k, evening); TIMES HERALD (32k, evening) of Port Huron, Mich.; WEST CENTRAL TRIBUNE (17k, morning) of Willmar, Minn.; THE FORUM (54k, morning) of Fargo, N.D.; PAPILLION (Neb.) TIMES (4k, weekly); MEDINA (Ohio) COUNTY GAZETTE (16k, morning); CITIZENS' VOICE (36k, morning) of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and DAILY REPUBLIC (12k, morning) of Mitchell, S.D.

APT is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.advpubtech.com/.

AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INC.
AII, an imaging device manufacturer based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced recent sales of it Ad Manager production workflow software product.

AII listed recent customers as including the SAN JOSE (Calif.) MERCURY NEWS (290k, all day), which upgraded to Ad Manager SQL; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS (303k, morning) of Denver: SARASOTA (Fla.) HERALD-TRIBUNE (97k, morning), DAILY OKLAHOMAN (204k, morning) of Oklahoma City, and the COMMERCIAL APPEAL (185k, morning) of Memphis, Tenn.

Overseas, AII sold Ad Manager to the NEW ZEALAND HERALD (248k, morning) of Auckland, New Zealand.

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

BRITE VOICE SYSTEMS INC.
Brite, a multimedia publishing solutions provider based in Orlando, Fla., has introduced the BriteConnect Open Server, open-platform software for managing multimedia data for interactive voice response (IVR) and other information processing services. BriteConnect includes one or more voice/media processing units, an application server unit and Brite's Write-1 application development tool kit.

Each UNIX-based voice processing unit can handle 96 calls simultaneously, and units can be networked to handle thousands of calls at once.

Brite is on the Web at http://www.brite.com/.

CCI EUROPE
CCI, a publishing systems supplier based in Denmark with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., has announced that LIMBURGS DAGBLAD (80k, morning) of Heerlen, the Netherlands, has purchased a CCI NewsDesk editorial system. The 90-seat CCI system, running on IBM RS/6000 hardware and an Oracle database, will replace a Norsk Data editorial front-end.

CCI is on the Web at http://www.cci.dk/.

DUPONT COLOR PROOFING
DuPont, a color imaging solutions provider based in Wilmington, Del., and Seiko Epson Inc., an imaging device manufacturer based in Torrance, Calif., have announced a strategic alliance under which they will market a new color proofing system, the Epson Stylus Pro 5000, which uses imaging profiles and paper jointly developed by DuPont and Epson.

The 1440-by-720-dpi proofer and RIP will cost about $10,000 and will ship in mid-March. The special commercial proofing paper will be sold through selected DuPont and Epson dealers.

DuPont is on the Web at http://www.dupont.com/proofing/.

ELECTRONIC CLASSIFIEDS INC.
San Francisco-based ECI, a provider of on-line classified solutions, has introduced a new module that matches job seekers' resumŽs with job listings. ECI's product can be customized to each web site's needs, can import ad content from third-party sources, includes tools for selling on-line and permits self-publication of ads by job seekers and employers.

ECI is on the Web at http://www.eci.net/.

IONA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
IONA, a supplier of object middleware based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced that Nando.net of Raleigh, N.C., has chosen IONA's Orbix and OrbixWeb for linking various applications to dynamically maintain content on the web sites of newspapers owned by the parent company, McClatchy Newspapers Inc. of Sacramento.

By accessing the database in Raleigh over the Internet, editors at McClatchy papers nationwide will be able to publish and target content from their papers for on-line use. The multi-platform Orbix products can run in UNIX, Windows 95 and Windows NT.

IONA is on the Web at http://www.iona.com/.

NEWSINC.
Small papers alphabet soup takes three Cs: community, clustering and computers, David M. Cole writes in the March 2 issue of NEWSINC. Cole hones the edges smaller papers have over major metros -- community involvement, clustering possibilities and computer power.

Also in the March 2 issue of NEWSINC., Correspondent Julius Duscha reports on the impact that state publisher groups have had on placing ads, with the California unit handling $60 million worth of insertions in 1997.

Rounding out the issue are stories about the furling of the NASHVILLE BANNER, revisions to the Audit Bureau of Circulations' proposed market segment pricing plan, continuing robust classified sales and the unsolved firebombing of a Mississippi weekly.

For more about the March 2 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
Sacramento-based SII has announced that members of its board of directors will meet users at the spring meeting of the System Integrators Systems User Group April 5-8 at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego.

SII will detail its recent corporate recapitalization, unveil its latest Windows-based client software and discuss progress toward resolving Year 2000 compliance issues.

For registration information, contact Dulcie Shoener of the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL at schoener@onwis.com. For an updated schedule of user group sessions, visit SII on the Web at http://www.sii.com/.

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