COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Sept. 30, 1998

Sept. 30, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 39

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
The New York-based newsgathering co-operative has announced it has completed its acquisition of Worldwide Television News from ABC News of New York. The AP will combine the resources of WTN with its existing APTV video news unit into Associated Press Television News (APTN).

APTN will have its own group of 83 news bureaus in 67 nations. In addition to breaking news, APTN will provide feature and archive stories as well as customized coverage of the Middle East. APTN also will provide clients with camera crews and other support for field reporting.

The AP is on the Web at http://www.ap.org/.

CANTO SOFTWARE
San Francisco-based Canto, a supplier of digital asset management tools, has announced it has formed a strategic relationship with iXOS Software Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., a provider of digital storage technology. Together the companies will market integrated, turnkey solutions for storing and retrieving digitized images.

The solutions will combine Canto's Cumulus Media Management system, an application managing the storage and use of images, and iXOS-JUKEMAN, iXOS products that include storage management hardware and software.

Canto is on the Web at http://www.canto.com/.

CCI EUROPE
CCI, a publishing systems supplier based in Denmark with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., has announced that two German newspapers now are producing their pages using CCI NewsDesk Editorial.

Completed in August, the installation at BERLINER MORGENPOST (202k, morning) and BZ (286k, morning) replaces a system made by System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento. The MORGENPOST now has 203 editorial seats from CCI, while BZ has 142 seats. Both papers also rely on CCI for advertising and pagination solutions.

CCI is on the Web at http://www.ccieurope.com/.

CE ENGINEERING PUBLISHING SYSTEMS INC.
CE, a supplier of integration services and publishing solutions based in Loomis, Calif., has announced an agreement with Reuters America for an unrestricted site license for Decade, CE's gateway into editorial publishing systems made by System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento.

Under the agreement, the London-based news service will be free to install an unlimited number of copies of Decade at its facilities in North and South America.

CE is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.ceengineering.com/.

EASTMAN KODAK CO.
Kodak, a photographic equipment and suppliers manufacturer based in Rochester, N.Y., has announced a partnership with Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., to co-develop new consumer products for taking, saving and reproducing digital images.

The companies will collaborate on creating newer, better-performing digital cameras, a market in which Kodak has been with the Associated Press for several years. Development will include use of Intel's image processors and Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor sensors.

Kodak is on the Web at http://www.kodak.com/. Intel is at http://www.intel.com/.

KOZ INC.
KOZ, a supplier of community-based publishing tools for the Web based in Research Triangle, N.C., has announced the launch of NJCommunity at http://www.njcommunity.com/.

The new site is sponsored by Macromedia Inc. of Hackensack, N.J., which publishes the BERGEN RECORD; the government of Bergen County, and the Bergen County United Way. Running under the KOZ Community Publishing System, NJCommunity focuses on the northern New Jersey area with the goal of attracting groups, government agencies and other nonprofit organizations to exchange information on-line in such areas as education, family concerns, real estate and shopping.

NJCommunity is hosted by Bergen Online, which Macromedia owns, at http://www.bergenonline.com/. KOZ is on the Web at http://koz.com/.

LEXIS-NEXIS
The on-line archive service based in Dayton, Ohio, has announced that its customers now can upgrade their LEXIS-NEXIS research software to a version that is Year 2000-compliant. Customers may elect to switch from proprietary software to browser-based access, the company noted.

For more information, visit http://www.lexis-nexis.com/.

NEWSINC.
The release of the Starr Report, the independent counsel's investigation into the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, may prove to be a key step in media evolution, writes David M. Cole, editor and publisher of NEWSINC., the biweekly newsletter of the business of the newspaper business. Why? The editor's role as gatekeeper has been challenged by web-based access to the report.

Senior Editor Pete Wetmore explores how the Associated Press transmitted such a huge amount of copy quickly, and what newspapers around the country went through to give their readers both the report and perspective about it.

The Sept. 28 issue of NEWSINC. also lays out the Audit Bureau of Circulations' latest proposal for reporting newspaper circulation to broaden a publisher's ability to market papers; the pending closure of the joint operating agreement in Evansville, Ind., and with it the evening paper there, and how clustering of properties is helping to expand the roster of weekend editions in the United States.

For more about the Sept. 28 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

QUARK INC.
Denver-based Quark, supplier of the widely used Quark XPress page layout program, has announced the largest sale yet of its Quark Publishing System, to Guardian Newspapers Ltd. of London.

When completed, the QPS system at THE GUARDIAN (392k, morning) and THE OBSERVER (455k, Sunday) will encompass 525 seats. The papers already use QPS; the new contract calls for total conversion to QPS, which Guardian Newspapers first used in a 1993 pilot program.

Press Computer Systems Ltd. of London is the system integrator that will oversee installation for Quark, which is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/.

USA TODAY
The Arlington, Va.-based national newspaper, a unit of Gannett Co. Inc. of Arlington, has announced that Big Entertainment, a media company based in Boca Raton, Fla., will be the exclusive entertainment-related e-commerce site on the web site operated by the USA TODAY Information Network.

The Big Entertainment site, which will sell licensed movie-related items and other consumer goods, will debut at Thanksgiving on the USA TODAY site, http://www.usatoday.com/. Links to http://bige.com/ will appear on the USA TODAY home page and on the front page of the on-line entertainment section.

Gannett holds a 10 percent equity stake in Big Entertainment.

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