COLE'S NEWSWIRE, May 27, 1998

May 27, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 21

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BASEVIEW SYSTEMS INC.
Baseview, a publishing solutions supplier based in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., has announced that it worked with 41 sites in April, including the MADISONVILLE (Ky.) MESSENGER (10k, evening). The MESSENGER now is using Baseview's AdManagerPro with the accounts receivable package as well as ClassFlow for classified pagination.

Other notable Baseview sites are the Pacific and European STARS AND STRIPES military newspapers, which also installed AdManagerPro and ClassFlow.

Baseview is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

CASCADE SYSTEMS INC.
Cascade, a supplier of publishing workflow solutions based in Andover, Mass., has announced an agreement to develop a system integrating Cascade's catalog production system with order-entry and direct-marketing software produced by Renaissance Software Corp. of Newton, Mass. The new product, to be installed in the third quarter of 1998, will permit users to sell merchandise, take orders and generate advertising products better targeted to customers.

The products to be linked include Cascade's DataFlow workflow and data management system and its SureCast ad planning software, and Renaissance DIRECT, which stores and retrieves data about products and inventory. When development is completed, the linked products will share access to databases on Cascade and Renaissance systems.

Cascade is on the Web at http://www.cascadenet.com/.

CLASSIFIEDS2000
Classifieds2000, an on-line purveyor of classified ads based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced agreements to provide classifieds to three web services" Infobeat, Quote.com Inc. and Microsoft Computing Central. The additional exposure gives Classifieds2000 more than 140 sites on the Web.

Classifieds2000 will provide Computing Central, the computer information site on the Microsoft Network, with ads for hardware and software, job openings and business opportunities. InfoBeat will get distribution of its classifieds through Classifieds2000, as well as jointly developing an e-mail ad-alert service with Classifieds2000. Quote.com will post Classifieds2000 employment ads on its home page.

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

THE COLE GROUP
The web site of the purveyors of this very newswire has been redesigned to provide users with easier access to the large compendium of newspaper and publishing technology information The Cole Group makes available on-line.

The new design -- available at http://colegroup.com -- incorporates a new navigational interface as well as reorganized sections.

The complete back issues of THE COLE PAPERS and NEWSINC. -- the Cole Group's two print newsletters -- as well as all the back issues of this electronic newsletter are now available on-line (access to the print newsletters is restricted to their subscribers).

In addition, the opening page of the site now contains a newspaper industry stock market graphic, provided by Media General Financial Services of Richmond, Va. The graphic shows a composite index of newspaper stocks versus the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as well as the industry's price/earnings ratio and a comparison with the overall stock market's price/earnings ratio.

The Cole Group's web site has been available since April 1995.

EXTENSIS CORP.
Extensis, a provider of software tools based in Portland, Ore., has announced that its plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop have been upgraded to work with Photoshop 5.0. The upgrades for the plug-ins -- Extensis Intellihance, Mask Pro, PhotoFrame and PhotoTools -- are free to registered owners of older versions.

They are available from the Extensis Web site at http://www.extensis.com/products/download.html.

INFINET
InfiNet, an Internet services provider based in Norfolk, Va., with newspapers as its core market, has announced an expanded capability to extend its offerings nationwide. InfiNet gained access to 250 more markets through a financial arrangement with NetworkTwo Communications Group Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich. NetworkTwo, formerly ADP AutoNet, will provide 340 points of presence on the Web.

InfiNet will sell its Network Services Division to NetworkTwo, including its nonstop network operations help desk and service center in Norfolk. The expanded NetworkTwo will have two 24-hour-a-day service centers, as well as four other staffed centers around the country.

InfiNet, a joint venture of Gannett Co. Inc., Knight Ridder and Landmark Communications, is on the Web at http://www.infi.net/. NetworkTwo is at http://www.networktwo.com/.

NEWSINC.
Now, even Sunday appears to be at risk of declining. NEWSINC. Editor and Publisher David M. Cole writes that Sunday circulation used to be a bright spot in the newspaper financial galaxy, but it's beginning to slip. Inside the May 25 issue, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore takes a tour of nine markets to learn how circulation executives are battling to win -- and hold -- circulation gains every day of the week.

Also inside, Correspondent Julius Duscha finds that CareerPath.com is going great guns, providing job-seekers excellent access to potential employers -- a new media bright spot.

In other NEWSINC. articles, Wetmore talks with executives about a new way to get Total Market Coverage in the Los Angeles area, combining the resources of the LOS ANGELES TIMES and the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. Wetmore also talks with executives of Zip2 and CitySearch about their canceled merger, and with Robert Jelenic, top man at the ever-expanding Journal Register Co.

For more about the May 25 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
The NAA, a professional society based in Vienna, Va., has launched a web site devoted to NEXPO '98, the annual technical conference and trade show to be held June 20-23 in Orlando. The site, http://www.nexpo.com/, provides information about the conference, exhibitors, hotels, tours and special events. On-line registration also is available.

NEXPO '98 is part of Discovery '98, a series of four conferences June 18-24 in Orlando. The other three confabs are the Cooperative Marketing & Sales Conference, June 18-20; Connections, the new media conference, June 18-21, and the Marketing Conference, June 21-24.

The NAA is on the Web at http://www.naa.org/.

PREPRESS SOLUTIONS INC.
PrePRESS, an imaging device supplier based in Billerica, Mass., has announced two recent installations of its Panther FasTRAK computer-to-plate imager. The customers are Thomson Newspapers Inc. of Stamford, Conn., which installed FasTRAK at its plant in Mansfield, Ohio, and Western Newspapers Inc. of Prescott Valley, Ariz.

Thomson's three newspapers in central Ohio -- the BUCYRUS TELEGRAPH-FORUM (7k, evening), MANSFIELD NEWS JOURNAL (34k, evening) and MARION STAR (16k, evening) -- now produce pages directly to metal plate, at the rate of about 200 a day.

PrePRESS is on the Web at http://www.prepress.pps.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, a Sacramento-based publishing systems supplier, has announced that lenders have forgiven $15 million of SII's $22 million debt. Frank Washington, SII's president, told the SACRAMENTO BUSINESS JOURNAL that the three creditors -- Bank of America, Chase Manhattan Bank and Cerebus Partners L.P. -- reduced the debt in order to help SII achieve three goals.

SII's goals are to become profitable enough to permit employees to buy as much as 10 percent of the company from the banks, to pay down the remaining debt, and to attract new investors.

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

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