COLE'S NEWSWIRE, July 1, 1998

July 1, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 26

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ACCRUE SOFTWARE INC.
Accrue, a supplier of web site analysis software based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced sales of its Accrue Insight monitoring package to Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive and Mercury Center, the on-line endeavors of the Washington Post Co. and SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, respectively.

The new customers will use Insight to generate visitor profiles that track and evaluate how web surfers entered and exited their sites, which pages were called up, how the sites were navigated, how long each visit lasted and where each visitor went from the sites. Insight also will assist advertisers in determining prime ad space with various demographics culled from visitors.

Accrue is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.accrue.com/. The Washington Post Co. is at http://www.washingtonpost.com/. The MERCURY NEWS operates Mercury Center at http://www.mercurycenter.com/.

THE COLE GROUP
The staffs of THE COLE PAPERS and NEWSINC. provide extensive coverage on the World-Wide Web of Discovery '98, the Newspaper Association of America's four-way event in Orlando, Fla. NEWSINC. correspondents report from the Co-op & Sales and Marketing conferences, while COLE PAPERS staffers cover Connections '98 and NEXPO '98, the annual technology trade show and conference.

Eight full-length stories -- plus the NEXPO preview issue of THE COLE PAPERS -- are available for free at http://www.colegroup.com/tcp/specials/orlando98/.

EDGIL ASSOCIATES INC.
Edgil, a supplier of advertising and editorial communications tools based in Chelmsford, Mass., unveiled at NEXPO '98 in Orlando its prototype version of Ads to Go, software for creating searchable display ads on the World-Wide Web. The Windows NT-based product-in-development can extract the contents of display ads into ASCII files, with links to associated graphics, for posting on the Web.

When shipped on a date yet to be announced, Ads to Go will enable newspapers to take any ad and convert it for multi-media presentation. Ad order entry data also will be stored in a common database.

Edgil is on the Web at http://www.edgil.com/.

FREEDOM SYSTEM INTEGRATORS
FSI, a publishing systems supplier based in Wichita, Kan., has announced these recent installations:

-- DAILY TIMES (12k, evening) of Ottawa, Ill., and TIMES-PRESS (8k, evening) of Streator, Ill.: The papers, owned by Small Newspapers Inc. of Kankakee, Ill., installed an editorial system, including 27 Macintoshes for reporters and seven Mac pagination workstations. The sites are linked by a T-1 line, permitting pagination work for both papers to be completed at the Ottawa site.

-- LaPORTE (Ind.) HERALD-ARGUS (13k, evening): Replacing a Dewar System II, FSI installed a Mets editorial system with 14 editorial and four pagination workstations. Also installed were ROP Ad Layout and News2Web, which is software for posting classifieds on-line.

-- GREENWOOD (S.C.) INDEX-JOURNAL (15k, evening): Six ADvance Sales Windows 95 seats, ADvance Pro Set classified pagination and Class2Web were installed this spring. ROP Ad Layout is scheduled to be installed in September.

FSI is on the Web at http://www.fsi-ipa.com/.

EASTMAN KODAK CO.
Rochester, N.Y.-based Kodak has begun shipping two new digital cameras, the Digital Science DC220 and DC260. Using the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, the cameras have been optimized for use with Windows 98 so they can download images as much as 10 times faster than with a serial interface.

The DC220 provides one million pixels per image in an 1152-by-864-pixel format with a 2X optical zoom and a 4X digital zoom. It can take photos as quickly as a traditional 35mm camera while also imprinting a customizable watermark on the image.

The DC260 offers a 3X optical zoom and digital 6X zoom, with a three-image capture burst before data are written to memory. The DC260 also supports a flash attachment.

Suggested list prices for the cameras, which are shipped with cables, software and an eight megabyte Kodak Digital Science picture card, are $799 for the DC220 and $999 for the DC260. Kodak is on the Web at http://www.kodak.com/.

MANAGEMENT PROCESS INTEGRATORS INC.
MPI, a newspaper consulting firm and systems integrator based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has announced it has acquired EagleView Inc. of Waltham, Mass. EagleView's technology will be the basis for JobChooser, MPI's on-line help wanted classified advertising product.

MPI's plan for JobChooser anticipates that it will bring together the many pieces involved in job-hunting -- companies looking for employees, newspapers and other publications carrying help wanted ads, staffing services and job seekers -- with a focus on local markets. JobChooser will feature relevancy ranking for job applicants, as well as video interviewing.

MPI is on the Web at http://www.mpiinc.com/.

MEDIA PASSAGE
Seattle-based Media Passage, which provides newspapers with advertisement planning, placement and payment services, has added digital tear sheets to its service roster.

Media Passage will catalog digital images of tear sheets sent in by publications, then distribute them on CD-ROMs, which can hold more than 1300 tear sheets and will be viewable through standard web browsers. Paper invoices will accompany the CDs, whose contents will be organized by clients' order numbers.

The digital tear sheet service initially will be offered only to advertising agencies. Media Passage is on the Web at http://www.mediapassage.com/.

MONACO SYSTEMS INC.
Monaco, a color management software supplier based in Andover, Mass., has announced recent sales of its color calibration profile software to Gannett Suburban Newspapers Inc. (153k, morning) of White Plains, N.Y.; the BOSTON HERALD (290k, morning), and PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (433k, morning).

Monaco is on the Web at http://www.monacosys.com/.

QUARTERDECK CORP.
Quarterdeck, a telecommunications software supplier based in Marina Del Rey, Calif., has announced a rebate program to promote sales of its ProComm Plus communications package, which runs on Intel-based Windows machines and features fax sending and receiving as well as tools for surfing the Internet.

A $50 mail-in rebate on the customary price of $149.95 is available to users who upgrade from versions older than 3.0, or anyone who trades in a copy of WinFax Pro, pcAnywhere, LapLink, Carbon Copy or Communicate!

For more information, visit Quarterdeck's on-line store at http://store.quarterdeck.com/.

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