COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Nov. 4, 1998

Nov. 4, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 44

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ACCUWEATHER INC.
AccuWeather, a private supplier of meteorological data based in State College, Pa., has announced it has opened its on-line winter center at http://www.accuweather.com/, CBS MarketWatch Internet Daily has reported.

The site provides long-range snow and ice forecasts for hundreds of ski resorts, with location reports on the number of ski lifts and trails open. Soon, the site will offer graphics to help skiers plan their trips.

CANTO SOFTWARE
San Francisco-based Canto has announced a partnership with Intergraph Computer Systems of Huntsville, Ala., under which they will jointly market a turnkey digital asset management server. Canto will provide the software, Canto Cumulus 4.0 for Windows, and Intergraph will supply its InterServe server, running single or dual Intel Pentium II or Xeon processors.

Canto also has announced it is working with Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., and iXOS Software Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., to co-market their products -- Kodak Digital Science CD Library 54 and 144 CD jukeboxes, iXOS jukebox management software and Canto digital asset management software.

Canto is on the Web at http://www.canto.com/. Kodak is at http://www.kodak.com/. iXOS is at http://www.jukeman.com/.

THE COLE PAPERS
Hoosiers -- a new classified front-end and web design bring good ideas from Indiana. While doubleheader coverage from Indiana was unintended, writes COLE PAPERS Editor & Publisher David M. Cole, the result is good reading about good ideas in the November issue of the newsletter about technology, journalism and publishing.

Senior Editor Pete Wetmore visited the INDIANAPOLIS STAR and NEWS to see how Atex Enterprise is working out for the papers. What he found is that introduction of the classified workhorse led to major changes around the building. Also from Indy, Jay Small, the general manager of on-line work at the papers, writes about the differences between designing for print and designing for the Web.

Beyond Indiana, Correspondent L. Carol Christopher explores how newspapers are deciding which trade shows and conferences to send staffers. And Correspondent Steven E. Brier rounds out the November issue with a roundup of technologies being used to keep remote bureaus and writers in touch with the newsroom.

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

INFONAUTICS INC.
Infonautics, a provider of on-line research services based in Wayne, Pa., has announced an agreement with the Associated Press of New York to add AP national and international copy to Infonautics' Electric Library and Electric Library Business Edition.

Under the agreement, the AP will provide both a year's worth of archived stories plus daily updates to two sites, http://www.elibrary.com/ and http://www.business.elibrary.com/. The AP will send its AP Online roundup of general news, financial reports and sports, plus its AP WorldStream report of international news written from a global, not U.S., perspective.

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

PENTAWAVE
Pentawave, a provider of multimedia commerce tools based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has announced recent sales of its Core Commerce MultiPublishing software to the E.W. Scripps Co. of Cincinnati.

Scripps will use the software to post automotive and employment classified ads from its newspapers on the Web, as well as deploy MultiPublishing to some of its nine television stations.

Pentawave, formerly Management Process Integrators, also has announced the sale of its software and services to the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (330k, morning) and the VICTORIA (Texas) ADVOCATE (38k, morning). Each paper will use MultiPublishing to run automotive classifieds in print and on-line.

Pentawave is on the Web at http://www.mpiinc.com/.

SCITEX CORP.
Scitex, an Israeli imaging device manufacturer and digital workflow solutions provider, and British Telecom of London have inaugurated their joint graphic arts file transfer network in North America.

Called Vio, the private global TCP/IP service offers clients secure, high-speed transfer of production files. In use in Europe since September, Vio has been in beta use at 30 sites in the United States.

Vio via ISDN will cost U.S. clients $160 per month for 500 megabytes of file transfers without connection charges; additional megabytes will be transferred for 20 cents apiece. A higher-speed Vio also will be available for $2400 a month for 6000 megabytes of transfers.

Scitex and BT also announced formation of Vio Worldwide Ltd., a joint venture that will market Vio. Scitex is on the Web at http://www.scitex.com/.

SHIFTKEY SOFTWARE INC.
ShiftKey, a provider of on-line presentation software based in Cupertino, Calif., has announced recent sales of its ShiftKey SiClone data distribution package to Reuters, the London-based news service, and TheStreet.com, a New York-based web site devoted to the financial world.

SiClone is a Java-based application that supports most web file types and streaming audio and video, feeding files to web sites using the eXtensible Markup Language. Reuters uses SiClone to distribute its Planet Reuters multimedia news package, updating information dynamically as it is drawn from 163 Reuters bureaus.

ShiftKey is on the Web at http://www.shiftkey.com/. Reuters is at http://www.online.reuters.com/.

XT-NOW.COM
The San Francisco-based on-line site for buying Quark XPress XTensions has unveiled its redesigned e-store which features access to product listings and comparisons, and contact listings for product support. The site also offers access to product reviews and news from PUBLISH magazine.

XT-Now is on the Web at http://www.xt-now.com/.

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