COLE'S NEWSWIRE, June 3, 1998

June 3, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 22

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APPLIED GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
AGT, a New York-based provider of outsourced digital media asset management services, has completed its merger with Devon Group Inc. for about $220 million in cash and 4.4 million AGT shares.

AGT operates the Digital Link System, which ties magazine and newspaper publishers to sites around the country where tasks such as image editing, archiving and distribution of content are handled. AGT also provides volume reproduction of television and radio commercials.

AGT is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.agt.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.

CREATIVE NETWORKS INC.
Creative Networks, an Internet-extranet consulting firm based in Palo Alto, Calif., has announced that it has joined with the Andover News Network of Acton, Mass., to provide a free on-line news service offering newswire and original reporting about information technology. The site, http://www.cnilive.com/impact/, will offer news, analysis and research.

CSM
CSM, an Austrian supplier of Internet software with U.S. offices in Layton, Utah, has released CSM Proxy 4.1 Enterprise Edition, a product that combines several critical ÕNet functions -- firewall protection, access-control filtering, a gateway proxy, message privacy and data distribution.

Once installed, Proxy 4.1 can be managed remotely. It can handle up to 10,000 clients on Windows 95, Windows NT or DEC Alpha platforms. One feature, a cache server, can sharply reduce outbound requests to the ÕNet by storing frequently used sites for quick access in-house.

Proxy 4.1 is priced at $995. CSM is on the Web at http://www.csm.com/.

INTERACTIVE CONNECTION
New York-based Interactive Connection, an aggregator of newswire content, has announced that the New York Times Syndicate is now offering its content to corporate web sites and intranets, using technology from Interactive Connection. Its Content Engine culls articles from a daily database of more than 40,000 entries, then streams them to clients, who view content using Interactive Connection's Editor's Desk and then decide whether to post it to their web sites or intranets.

Interactive Connection is on the Web at http://www.interactive.line.com/.

MANAGING EDITOR INC.
Managing Editor, an advertising solutions supplier based in Jenkintown, Pa., has announced several installations in April and May.

Among 16 sites working with the Page Director Ad Layout System are the MIAMI HERALD (367k, morning), ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (318k, morning) and WICHITA FALLS (Texas) TIMES RECORD NEWS (38k, morning). Seven sites either bought or installed the Page Director Classified Layout System, including the KANSAS CITY STAR (286k, morning) and NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN (187k, morning). Using AdForce II were eight sites, including the HAWK EYE (19k, morning) in Burlington, Iowa, and NATCHEZ (Miss.) DEMOCRAT (12k, morning).

Managing Editor is on the Web at http://www.maned.com/.

METACREATIONS CORP.
MetaCreations, a graphics software supplier based in Carpinteria, Calif., has announced that its digital painting application, Painter 5, now is available as a stand-alone product running in Windows NT on Alpha workstations from Digital Equipment Corp. of Littleton, Mass.

Painter 5 provides digital artists with a range of brushes for art painting and photo editing, as well as layering tools, for producing items for print or the Web. Previously sold only as part of DEC's Creation Studio workstation, Painter 5 is priced at $299.

MetaCreations is on the Web at http://www.metacreations.com/.

TRENDWATCH CREATIVE
TrendWatch, a graphics industry trends monitor based in Harrisville, R.I., has released its latest survey, this one about server purchases. Among creative departments, the TrendWatch survey found, 68 percent were buying servers to provide multiple inputs to more than one output device. The second reason, cited by 52 percent, is to provide a database of client images. Third, cited by 40 percent of respondents, is for Internet access.

TrendWatch is on the Web at http://www.trend-watch.com/.

TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Chicago-based TMS has announced that America Online will provide TVQuest, TMS' on-line television listings service, to its 12 million subscribers. Daily updates of TVQuest listings will enable users to download listings, complete with their local cable lineups, either directly on-line or via e-mail. Users also will be able to create a Show Planner, which they may print, to use as a personal viewing guide.

TMS, which also will sell advertising for television programs into the AOL site via its TV Week Network advertising unit, is on the Web at http://www.tms.tribune.com/.

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