COLE'S NEWSWIRE, April 1, 1998

April 1, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 13

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BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a publishing solutions supplier based in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp., has installed a circulation system at the GRIFFIN (Ga.) DAILY NEWS (11k, evening). The paper's circulation department now has five workstations running Baseview's CirculationPro Subscription Handler, Distribution Handler and Preprint Handler.

At the BRADFORD (Pa.) ERA (11k, morning), Baseview has installed advertising and editorial systems. Two AdManagerPro workstations are up in the classified office; 11 NewsEditPro and three pagination workstations are on-line in the newsroom.

Baseview, which worked at 36 other sites in February from California to Florida, is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

BITSTREAM INC.
Bitstream, a publishing solutions supplier based in Cambridge, Mass., that includes the Archetype Applications Division, has announced that it has selected the Microsoft SQL Server as its server of choice for running Archetype's MediaBank Enterprise digital asset management product.

MediaBank archives and retrieves documents and their associated elements, such as images, text and multimedia files, over a common network.

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

MEDIA PASSAGE
Seattle-based Media Passage, a newspaper ad services company, has launched e-velox, an Internet-based delivery system for transmitting publication-ready ads. Media Passage said companies such as US West, United Airlines and Ford are using e-velox to deliver ads to papers such as the ATLANTA JOURNAL AND CONSTITUTION, CHICAGO TRIBUNE and BOSTON GLOBE.

Advertisers upload Portable Document Format (PDF) files to the Media Passage web site, http://www.mediapassage.com/, from which newspapers retrieve them. Media Passage also offers such services as insertion order generation, tear sheet collection, consolidated invoicing and making payments to newspapers.

KNIGHT RIDDER NEW MEDIA
Mercury Center, the on-line unit of the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, in concert with Hot CoCo, the web arm of the nearby Contra Costa Newspapers group, have introduced HomeHunter and CarHunter, two web sites devoted to providing news and classifieds about houses and vehicles in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The sites join others around the country that comprise the Knight Ridder Real Cities Network. On the fully-searchable sites at http://www.mercurycenter.com/ and http://www.hotcoco.com/, house-hunters may find classified ad listings, pertinent stories from the newspapers about real estate, mortgage calculators and community profiles. Vehicle buyers also are shown classifieds, as well as the KELLEY BLUE BOOK auto-pricing guide and maps for locating auto dealers.

Real Cities is on the Web at http://www.realcities.com/.

NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Two executives of the NAA, a newspaper industry professional association based in Vienna, Va., will offer their views on the state of the industry and the role of the NAA at the association's annual convention April 19-22 in Dallas.

NAA Chairman David Cox, who is the former president and CEO of Cowles Media Co. of Minneapolis, will speak on Monday, April 20, about the state of the industry. Following him will be John Sturm, NAA president and CEO, who will talk about the NAA's activities and the direction it will take in the future.

For registration information, contact Jeff Sparks, the NAA's registrar, at (703) 902-1792. The NAA is on the Web at http://www.naa.org/.

NEWSINC.
From ABC rules to legal ads, the industry is in a maelstrom. The recent developments at the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which is trying to establish new ways of defining market segments, is indicative of the industry's woes, writes NEWSINC. Editor and Publisher David M. Cole in the March 30 issue of NEWSINC.

Inside, the travails of the ABC effort are detailed by Senior Editor Pete Wetmore, with news that an ABC task force has settled the market segment issue, and will try again to solve pricing issues. Also inside, the role of business journals in a community and their competition with newspapers are examined by writer Roger S. Peterson.

The impact of Times Mirror's acquisition of the Recycler group of classified publications is explored, as are the new links between two papers in Colorado owned by E.W. Scripps Co.

For more about the March 30 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

STARNINE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
StarNine, a web server solutions supplier based in Berkeley, Calif., has announced that a major upgrade of its WebSTAR web server software is now available. The Macintosh-based WebSTAR 3.0 features new File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Proxy servers, search functions, a streamlined interface for web site administrators and support for such software standards as HTTP 1.1 and JavaSoft's Java Servlet API and WebObjects.

WebSTAR 3.0 also supports IP Multi-homing, so that one server may run several web sites, each with its own IP address.

Available for immediate download from http://www.starnine.com/, WebSTAR 3.0 costs $499. Current users may download upgrades -- $199 for those using version 2.x and $299 for anyone on version 1.x

StarNine also announced a 50 percent discount for Rebound!, software made by Sophisticated Circuits Inc. that monitors web server activity and automatically reboots a server in the event of a crash. The price until mid-May is $50 to customers buying WebSTAR 3.0 or an upgrade to 3.0.

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