COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Aug. 12, 1998

Aug. 12, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 32

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THE COLE PAPERS
An iMac attack is about to strike, as Apple prepares to roll out its consumer-oriented one-piece machine. The August issue of THE COLE PAPERS focuses on the iMac and its pending impact on the newspaper industry as part of the newsletter's coverage of NEXPO '98.

In addition to a pro-and-con discussion of the iMac and Apple by Correspondent Christopher J. Feola, Correspondent Marion J. Love examines the latest and greatest in getting classified ads on-line, Correspondent L. Carol Christopher sends postcards from the edges of NEXPO (where she finds some fascinating products) and a new correspondent, Steven E. Brier, looks into the new roles web browsers are playing in publishing environments.

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

CTEXT INC.
CText, a publishing systems supplier based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced a contract to provide its AdVision and ALPS advertising solutions to newspapers owned by A.H. Belo Corp. of Dallas in Texas and California.

In California, CText will install 100 AdVision seats at THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE (167k, morning) in Riverside, with the system going live early in 1999. In Texas, CText will install a total of 250 AdVision seats at two sites serving the DALLAS MORNING NEWS (485k, morning) and Dallas Fort Worth Suburban Newspapers of Arlington.

The Texas installation will run on three IBM RS/6000 Model R50 servers with six 200-megahertz PowerPC CPUs and two gigabytes of RAM accessing 85 gigabytes of disk space. (One of the three machines will be at a disaster recovery site, the other two at the NEWS).

CText is on the Web at http://www.ctext.com/.

FREEDOM SYSTEM INTEGRATORS
FSI, a publishing systems supplier based in Wichita, Kan., has announced recent sales and installations at seven sites, among them these:

-- BOCA RATON (Fla.) NEWS (15k, morning): six-seat ADvance classified system with pagination and sales force automation tools.

-- CLAYTON NEWS/DAILY (7k, evening), Jonesboro, Ga.: Five Mets editorial seats, five pagination seats, three ADvance Sales seats and one classified pagination workstation. Five Mets and two pagination seats also were installed at a sister publication, THE HERALD, in McDonough, Ga.

-- Small Newspapers Group of Kankakee, Ill., will install three ADvance Sales for Windows 98 and one classified pagination seat at the DAILY TIMES (12k, evening) in Ottawa, Ill., and two ADvance sales seats at the STREATOR (Ill.) TIMES-PRESS (8k, evening).

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

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Harris, a publishing systems supplier based in Melbourne, Fla., has announced sales and installations involving 19 customers in June and July. Among them are these:

-- FLORIDA TODAY (93k, morning), Melbourne, Fla.: 25-seat Windows-based CASH advertising system with interfaces to the paper's Gannett Business System and its audiotext system from Brite Voice Systems Inc. of Wichita, Kan.

-- PLAIN DEALER (400k, morning), Cleveland: 32 additional NewsMaker editorial system software licenses, XP-21 server upgrade.

-- Sun Newspapers of Cleveland, publishers of 23 weeklies: 14-seat NewsMaker editorial system with wire service software and automatic fax-out; 28-seat AdPower advertising system with classified pagination.

-- LANCASTER (Pa.) NEW ERA (47k, evening): XP-21 server upgrade, CASH workstation software conversion to Windows clients, NewsMaker Pagination upgrade.

-- GREEN BAY (Wis.) PRESS-GAZETTE (60k, evening): 35-seat AdPower advertising system with WebCASH on-line links.

Harris is on the Web at http://www.harris.com/.

KNIGHT RIDDER NEW MEDIA
The San Jose-based on-line technology enterprise has announced improvements to the classifieds sections of its Real Cities web sites, including speedier searches and self-publishing of ads (both print and on-line) through Real Cities sites.

The new software relies on the ObjectStore database from Object Design Inc. and the NetOwl indexing engine from IsoQuest Inc. of Fairfax, Va. The first Knight Ridder sites to use the new software are run by California newspapers: CONTRA COSTA TIMES at http://www.hotcoco.com/classifieds/, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS at http://www.mercurycenter.com/classifieds/ and SAN LUIS OBISPO TELEGRAM-TRIBUNE at http://www.sanluisobispo.com/.

Knight Ridder New Media is on the Web at http://www.knight-ridder.com/. Object Design is at http://www.objectdesign.com/. IsoQuest is at http://www.isoquest.com/.

MARKZWARE SOFTWARE INC.
Markzware, a supplier of output preparation software based in Santa Ana, Calif., has announced the pending introduction of iScout, a tool for examining documents in native documents and separating jobs for output -- such as finding all RGB image files in a job pool of 1000 and removing them from the output stream. iScout can process documents created in Quark XPress, Adobe PageMaker, Macromedia FreeHand and other popular desktop publishing applications and formats.

iScout runs on either Windows or Macintosh platforms. Markzware is on the Web at http://www.markzware.com/.

TRENDWATCH
TrendWatch, a monitor of trends in the graphic arts industry based in Harrisville, R.I., has released results of a survey about popular suppliers to the graphic arts industry. The survey found the four most popular suppliers were, in descending order, Adobe, Quark, Apple and Microsoft. In shops of more than 50 employees, the top four were Adobe, Quark, Apple and Scitex.

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

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