COLE'S NEWSWIRE, July 15, 1998

July 15, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 28

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ATEX MEDIA SOLUTIONS
Atex, a publishing systems supplier based in Bedford, Mass., has announced nine recent sales:

-- VENTURA COUNTY (Calif.) STAR (95k, morning): 60-seat Enterprise advertising system with classified pagination.

-- HARTFORD (Conn.) COURANT (209k, morning): 100-seat Enterprise advertising system.

-- NEW HAVEN (Conn.) REGISTER (100k, morning): 60-seat Enterprise advertising system with classified pagination; 100-seat DewarView editorial system with 15 pagination seats.

-- LOUISVILLE (Ky.) COURIER-JOURNAL (228k, morning): additional seats for its classified pagination and Press2Go editorial systems.

-- NEWSDAY (565k, morning), Melville, N.Y.: A 252-seat Enterprise advertising system, 40 additional Atex IAS seats.

-- NORTH COUNTY NEWS (9k, weekly), Yorktown, N.Y.: 25-seat Enterprise advertising system.

-- THE SUN (38k, morning), Bremerton, Wash.: 23-seat Enterprise advertising system.

-- SEATTLE TIMES (227k, evening): additional Enterprise advertising seats with Contact Manager and Contract Management software.

Atex is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.atex.com/.

BROADVISION INC.
BroadVision, a supplier of web publishing tools based in Redwood City, Calif., has announced that the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL will use BroadVision's City Pages Plus to set up pages on the paper's web site, http://www.jsonline.com/, to provide access to area business information and related editorial content from the paper.

The site also will use BroadVision One-to-One to permit users to fashion their own customized access to the JOURNAL SENTINEL on-line. Also featured will be a calendar with local events and user-defined important days, and a tickler file that will automatically alert users to events they don't want to miss -- and bring up related commerce pages, such as a flower shop on Mother's Day.

BroadVision is on the Web at http://www.broadvision.com/.

CASCADE SYSTEMS INC.
Cascade, a supplier of archiving systems based in Andover, Mass., has announced it has licensed its Cascade PhotoTrak photo and graphics assignment and tracking software to the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE and the NEWS & OBSERVER of Raleigh, N.C. PhotoTrak is a module integrated into Cascade's MediaSphere archiving system.

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

THE COLE PAPERS
Seven nights, six days is the name of a current film, but it's also how long some people spent in Orlando, Fla., attending Discovery '98, the four-part conference sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America.

The July issue of THE COLE PAPERS delves into NEXPO '98, examining the change in relations between suppliers and newspapers, reporting on the progress of the NAA's Classified Task Force, cruising the market for computer-to-plate equipment and discovering new ways the Portable Document File (PDF) format is being used in workflow at newspapers.

For more about the July issue of THE COLE PAPERS, visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

FUTURETENSE
FutureTense, a supplier of tools for publishing on-line based in Acton, Mass., has announced recent installations of its Internet Publishing System, a networked multi-user software package that separates design from content in displaying web pages, and other news.

Community Newspaper Co. of Needham, Mass., has agreed to assist FutureTense in enhancing Internet Publishing System. Community has posted 39 of its 100-plus daily and weekly papers on-line and is seeking a more scalable solution to replace a custom-built system.

The HARTFORD (Conn.) COURANT is phasing in FutureTense's AdOnTime software after having served as a beta test site. AdOnTime is used to post classified ads on a web site and send confirmations to advertisers who post the ads directly. The COURANT is on the Web at http://www.courant.com/.

The Washington Post Co.'s Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive subsidiary will install the Internet Publishing System, including IPS Designer and IPS Content Server. The company is on the Web at http://www.washingtonpost.com/;

FutureTense is on the Web at http://www.futuretense.com/.

MEDIASTREAM INC.
Philadelphia-based MediaStream has announced that subscribers to its PressLink Online service may access the 115,000-item Reuters photo and news graphics archive on an a la carte basis.

MediaStream is on the Web at http://www.krmediastream.com/.

NEW HORIZONS TEAM
New Horizons, a software and publishing services supplier based in Pottsville, Pa., has announced three recent sales of its INFO-CONNECT audiotext system.

Buying the Windows NT-based product were three papers owned by Seattle-based Pioneer Newspapers: IDAHO PRESS-TRIBUNE (21k, all day) of Nampa, Idaho; IDAHO STATE JOURNAL (18k, evening) of Pocatello, Idaho, and SKAGIT VALLEY HERALD (21k, evening) of Mount Vernon, Wash.

SEYBOLD SEMINARS
ZD Events, the Needham, Mass.-based exposition sponsor, has announced that Seybold San Francisco will have two conference programs Aug. 31-Sept. 4 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. A trade show will be held all five days.

The Seybold Web Publishers Conference will focus on developments in publishing on-line Aug. 31-Sept. 1. The Seybold Publishing Systems Conference will examine print and pre-press products and news Sept. 3-4. Overall, the five-day event will address the impact of the revolution in digital technology.

Seybold Seminars is on the Web at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, a publishing systems supplier based in Sacramento, has announced that the LOS ANGELES TIMES has signed a letter of intent to buy new System/77 servers using Compaq/Tandem's ServerNet technology. Two servers will replace four boxes that now meet the needs of 1400 users in Los Angeles and Orange County.

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

TRENDWATCH
TrendWatch, a monitor of trends in the graphics industry based in Harrisville, R.I., has announced that its recent survey shows an increasing number of technology seats for creative professionals.

The growth among corporate designers is 18.4 percent over their 1998 figure. Other numbers: commercial photographers, 15.3 percent; graphic designers, 12.4 percent; advertising agencies, 8.7 percent; catalog publishers, 7.9 percent, and general publishers, 7.2 percent.

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

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