COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Oct. 7, 1998

Oct. 7, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 40

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BELLATRIX SYSTEMS
Bellatrix, a supplier of circulation management systems based in Bend, Ore., has announced recent sales of its SINGLE-TRAK single-copy sales data system to the SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN (27k, morning) in Carbondale, Ill., and the LAKE CHARLES (La.) AMERICAN PRESS (37k, morning).

CCI EUROPE
CCI, a Danish publishing systems supplier with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., has announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Neasi-Weber International, an advertising and circulation solutions supplier based in Northridge, Calif.

The two companies will develop an advertising workflow product to be marketed in North America and Europe. The new package will be designed to handle all ad order entry, ad upsell prompts, sales force automation, ad production and tracking, credit control and billing.

CCI is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.ccieurope.com/. Neasi-Weber is at http://www.nwintl.com/.

THE COLE PAPERS
Spin city. Around and around, the industry goes, from one conference to another, laments COLE PAPERS Editor & Publisher David M. Cole. In his essay in the October issue, devoted to four conferences held in September, Cole suggests that too many gabfests are being held, causing declines in interest -- and attendance -- as a result.

Inside, Correspondent George Powell tours the trade show of Seybold San Francisco '98, concluding from the exhibits that The Revolution is over. Across the country in Philadelphia, Correspondent Steve Brier attends the worldly Society of News Design's gathering, where awards and a think-global reality are key topics.

Back in California, Correspondent L. Carol Christopher visits with people who attended the Association of Publishing Systems Users annual get-together, where worries about Atex Media Solutions Inc. of Bedford,Mass., have given way to concerns about the Year 2000. Finally, Cole treks to Reno, Nev., to attend America West, a confab searching for success that would equal that of the much older America East.

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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
DT, a publishing systems supplier based in Orem, Utah, has announced recent sales totaling more than 700 advertising and editorial seats.

The recent sales include 20 advertising and 34 editorial seats to the PUEBLO (Colo.) CHIEFTAIN (52k, morning); a 144-seat editorial system to the DESERET NEWS (64k, evening) of Salt Lake City, and a 125-seat editorial system to the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE (131k, morning).

DT is on the Web at http://www.dtint.com/.

EMAIL PUBLISHING INC.
Email, a provider of message delivery and e-mail management services based in Boulder, Colo., has announced that USA TODAY (1.7m, morning) of Arlington, Va., has selected Email Publishing to manage the paper's e-mail alerts, beginning with the football-oriented Endzone E-news.

Email will deliver updates twice weekly to USA TODAY's list of e-mail subscribers, providing news about players, teams, the NFL draft and television listings.

Email is on the Web at http://www.emailpub.com/. Readers of USA TODAY may subscribe to the football service at http://profootball.usatoday.com/.

EXCALIBUR TECHNOLOGIES
Excalibur, a provider of media asset management solutions based in Vienna, Va., has announced that Copley Press Inc. of La Jolla, Calif., has selected Excalibur RetrievalWare for installation at Copley's papers in California and Illinois.

The Copley flagship, the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (386k, morning), will be the first to install RetrievalWare as its image, photo assignment and text archiving system. Associated Press photos will be channeled to the RetrievalWare system, as will photos by staff photographers.

Excalibur is on the Web at http://www.excalib.com/.

IOMEGA CORP.
Iomega, a supplier of removable storage devices based in Roy, Utah, has announced that it and Symantec Corp. of Cupertino, Calif., are giving away Norton Zip Rescue, a system-recovery solution for Windows-based PCs.

The rescue disk contains a bootable version of Windows, Norton software to identify and fix problems, and a copy of the computer's individual settings.

Norton Zip Rescue is available as a free download at http://www.download.com/,

IT NETWORK INC.
ITN, a Dallas-based supplier of on-line advertising sales products and services, has announced it will provide its LocalSource interactive media product to the San Francisco Newspaper Agency, the sales and operations arm of the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (490k, morning) and the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER (117k, evening).

ITN will install an audiotext and web-based system to complement its printed LocalSource guide and provide audio and on-line access to its guide, which will be distributed in the Bay Area beginning in January. Participating advertisers will receive print ads in the directory, insertions in the daily papers, and presences on the web site and audiotext service.

SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION CO.
SCC, the Atlanta-based provider of image archiving solutions, has announced a distribution agreement with Cybergraphic Systems Ltd. of Melbourne, Australia, a global supplier of publishing systems.

Cybergraphic will market SCC's MediaServer product suite worldwide, with exclusive rights to the South Pacific market. Included under the agreement are MediaServer, an archiving and multimedia management system; MediaGrid, a client for searching an SCC database of images, and MediaFactory, a batch processing application for indexing and storing images.

Cybergraphic will market the SCC products as an archiving solution to complement its production systems.

SCC is on the Web at http://www.swcc.com/. Cybergraphic is at http://www.cybergraphic.com.au/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, a supplier of publishing systems based in Sacramento, has announced that JAPAN TIMES (66k, morning) of Tokyo has bought SII's System/77 software for advertising, editorial and pagination. The TIMES, already an SII customer, will replace more than 100 seats with the Windows-based software.

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

THOMSONCONSULTING
ThomsonConsulting, a Rockville, Md.-based subsidiary of the global Thomson Corp. specializing in digital asset management tools, has announced its TEAMS unit has won a contract to supply Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive of Arlington, Va., with its on-line publishing software suite.

The TEAMS suite will consolidate storage of text, photos and eventually audio and video files, and provide retrieval interfaces for easily directing content to several sites.

ThomsonConsulting is on the Web at http://www.thomsonconsulting.com/.

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