COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Oct. 28, 1998

Oct. 28, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 43

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ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
San Jose-based Adobe has been putting its In-RIP Trapping technology through its paces at GraphExpo in Chicago. In-RIP Trapping, now being used by such OEM partners as ECRM Inc. and PrePRESS Solutions Inc., works with Portable Job Ticket Format files to generate device-specific trapping instructions.

In-RIP Trapping supports printing of composite PostScript 3 and Portable Document Format (PDF) files, as well as unlimited number of inks. The technology runs on three pieces -- the trapping engine, standardized files and controls within production applications such as Quark XPress.

Adobe is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.adobe.com/.

COMPUTER ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC.
Computer Associates, a developer of software management tools based in Islandia, N.Y., has announced the recent sale of its Endeavor product to NEWSDAY (571k, morning) of Melville, N.Y.

Endeavor is a software package NEWSDAY will use to manage change undertaken by its technological staff in creating and enhancing software for use by various departments at the newspaper.

Computer Associates is on the Web at http://www.cai.com/.

ECRM INC.
ECRM, a manufacturer of imaging devices based in Tewksbury, Mass., has unveiled its StingRay line of wide-format imagesetters at GraphExpo in Chicago.

The StingRay 6300 handles 25-inch media, enabling it to process broadsheet doubletrucks, while the StringRay 5200 works with 20.5-inch film. Each has 12 resolutions, ranging up to 3556 dots per inch, plus optional head and tail punches, and can output film, paper or polyester plate as fast as 32-inches per minute at 200 lines per inch.

ECRM is on the Web at http://www.ecrm.com/.

INFONAUTICS INC.
New York-based Infonautics has introduced a new web search service, Company Sleuth. After the Sleuth is set up to search for business information a user wants, it will seek documents on the Web that match the profile, then will deliver e-mail to the user listing items he or she may retrieve from the listed web sites.

For now, Company Sleuth tracks only publicly traded companies, but Infonautics plans to start tracking privately held firms as well. Sleuth looks for new patents and trademarks, and reports on such things as market activity and press releases.

Company Sleuth is on the Web at http://www.companysleuth.com/. Infonautics is at http://www.infonautics.com/.

IPA SYSTEMS LTD.
IPA, a publishing systems supplier based in Cheltenham, England, has announced the recent sale of its q-Edit to FISKAREN of Bergen, Norway. The paper recently was acquired by a long-standing IPA customer, NHST (Norges Handels og Sjoefartstidende).

IPA, whose U.S. affiliate Freedom System Integrators of Wichita, Kan., is on the Web at http://www.fsi-ipa.com/ipa.

LEXIS-NEXIS
LEXIS-NEXIS, a provider of on-line information based in Dayton, Ohio, has introduced LEXIS-NEXIS Universe, browser-based access to the company's databases.

Universe includes FOCUS, an assistant in conducting searches; More Like This, a tool for refining searches, and Personal News, a custom clipping service. With Universe LEXIS-NEXIS is marketing bundles of information-access tools tailored to business tasks.

LEXIS-NEXIS is on the Web at http://www.lexis-nexis.com/.

NEWSINC.
Smooth sailing now may give way to rough seas soon, warns David M. Cole as he surveys media companies' third quarter earnings reports. The editor and publisher of NEWSINC. spies perils on the horizon, including the erosion of classifieds. Inside, analysts find little to criticize in those earnings reports. Three companies reported record earnings, and most of the rest had gains over the previous year.

Correspondent L. Carol Christopher gives her rundown on the Associated Press Managing Editors conference, where recent journalism faux pas took center stage. Senior Editor Pete Wetmore offers a look at how readership surveys may be the coming thing, and finds that Sunday magazines are finding success even as one of their kind prepares to fold in a few weeks.

For more about the Oct. 26 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

ORLANDO SENTINEL ONLINE
The on-line service of the ORLANDO (Fla.) SENTINEL has launched complete coverage of the shuttle flight of U.S. Sen. John Glenn scheduled for Oct. 29.

Surfers can plug into live video of the launch of Discovery at http://www.orlandosentinel.com/space/glenn/. The site features articles about the mission, a profile of Glenn, and a comparison of this flight with Glenn's first voyage in 1962, when he took the nation's first orbital mission.

REAL MEDIA INC.
New York-based Real Media has announced it has upgraded its Open AdStream server software, which manages web-based advertisements.

The upgrade includes Privacy Proxy, software that will prevent third-party servers from tracking web surfers and building user profiles while still delivering ads; cross-referencing by ZIP code to a user's originating domain on the Web to ensure better targeting of ads; improved report-writing; consistency of ad delivery throughout the day, and limits on how often a user will see an ad.

Real Media is on the Web at http://www.realmedia.com/.

T/ONE INC.
T/ONE, a developer of archive solutions based in Quincy, Mass., has announced that the new Canadian national daily, the NATIONAL POST, is using T/ONE's Merlin System image archive. The POST system drew content from other Southam Inc. newspapers across Canada, amassing an archive of more than 500,000 images from their Merlin systems.

In addition its own Merlin, the NATIONAL POST bought Merlin Webmaster, for web-based access to the archives of other Southam newspapers, and the TRAX Assignment Tracking System. All nine Southam papers will have upgraded their Merlin systems with Webmaster by the end of the year, and once they have, they will have mutual access to more than one million images.

T/ONE is on the Web at http://www.t-1.com/.

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