Vol. 4, No. 49
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The NEWSWIRE is a weekly distribution of information about the sales and installations of publishing technology and the latest news on new products developed by suppliers to the industry. To be removed from this list, send e-mail to: macjordomo@colegroup.com with the words UNSUBSCRIBE NEWSWIRE as the first line of the text. These missives are archived on the World-Wide Web at http://colegroup.com/NW/. To submit material for consideration, please deliver electronically to news@colegroup.com. AdOne, a New York-based provider of access to on-line classified advertising, has announced an alliance with Lycos Inc. of Waltham, Mass., under which AdOne's Classified Warehouse will provide daily classified content to Lycos, a major portal on the Web. More than 400 newspapers supply classifieds to AdOne in 11 categories, from employment and real estate to general merchandise. Users visiting Lycos or AdOne's site, http://www.classifiedwarehouse.com/, will be able to search a nationwide compilation of ads or drill down to specific regions of the country. Lycos is on the Web at http://www.lycos.com/. CCI, a Danish publishing systems supplier with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., has announced the recent sale of its CCI NewsDesk editorial system to the SEATTLE TIMES (228k, evening). The 275-seat installation will be used to produce the daily paper's five editions and maintain editorial content on its site on the World-Wide Web. The Windows NT-based system will include CCI ArticleChamp, a WYSIWYG editing and design module; CCI LayoutChamp, a page design module, and CCI Electronic Media Server, an on-line production suite. CCI DB Access, the database module, will access an Oracle SQL database. The system will replace a 20-year-old legacy Atex system. CCI Europe is on the Web at http://www.ccieurope.com/. CE Engineering, a developer of graphical user interfaces based in Loomis, Calif., has announced that it will develop a one-order, one-bill advertising insertion solution for the California Newspaper Network (CNN), a unit of the California Newspaper Publishers Association. CE will devise a Windows-based system to enable CNN to automate processes and handle a greater workload. CNN is the first client for CE's new division that is devoted to advertising services products, including electronic tear sheets. CE is on the Web at http://www.ceengineering.com/. MidSystem, a British systems integrator which has a U.S. distribution agreement with Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., has announced the installation of its display ad management system at the WICHITA (Kan.) EAGLE (88k, morning). Carrying Monotype's PowerLink brand, the system runs on a Sybase database with Sun UltraSPARC workstations running the Sun Solaris UNIX operating system. The system replaced one made by Information International Inc., now Autologic Information International Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif. Monotype is on the Web at http://www.monoexpress.com/. The merger of Chattanooga's two dailies points to frailties in the JOA concept, writes NEWSINC. Editor and Publisher David M. Cole in the Dec. 7 issue. With the demise of this joint operating agreement, the second in Tennessee this year and the fourth since October 1997, it would seem evident JOAs are an endangered species. Inside NEWSINC., Senior Editor Pete Wetmore talks with the publishers of Chattanooga's papers about how they will work to develop the new morning daily, which will have two editorial pages. Wetmore also writes about the personal impact of the sale of a newspaper and what goes on behind the scenes during a transaction, outlines the progress newspapers made this year in selling political ads, and asks, "Are fat Sunday papers choking their readers?" For more about the Dec. 7 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/. Foster City, Calif.-based Seybold has announced that its sessions next March at Seybold Seminars Boston/Publishing 99 will include a new, third conference, Best Practices for Publishing Workflows. The conference will focus on implementing change to enhance the workflow of a publishing environment. The two-day conference March 4-5 will help print and pre-press managers increase productivity with more than 20 sessions in one of three areas: infrastructure, management and processes. Seybold is on the Web at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/. SII, a global supplier of publishing systems based in Sacramento, has announced the recent sale of its Tandem- and Windows-based publishing solution to two Australian newspapers, the CAIRNS POST (31k, morning) and the GOLD COAST BULLETIN (38k, evening) in Southport. Both cities are in Queensland, and both papers are owned by the Queensland Press Group. SII also has announced that the latest version of its Open Pre-press Interface product, SCOOP II version 1.1, has been installed at two U.S. newspapers, the SACRAMENTO BEE (284k, morning) and TULSA (Okla.) WORLD (205k, morning), and now is being shipped to all SCOOP customers SII on the Web at http://www.sii.com/. Thomson Interactive, a provider of e-commerce solutions based in Stamford, Conn., has announced the release of HomeStretch, an on-line real estate tool collaboratively developed with Advantage Video Productions of Washington, D.C. HomeStretch combines the Thomson suite of e-commerce tools, including its Classified IQ text parsing and search engine, with Advantage's streaming video and 360-degree immersive photography capabilities for delivering residential real estate listings to either print or the Web. A search by an on-line user will return real estate classifieds with text, images and video. Thomson is on the Web at http://www.thomsoninteractive.com/. Unisys, a publishing solutions supplier based in Blue Bell, Pa., has announced the recent sale of its Hermes and WireCenter editorial publishing products to LE TELEGRAMME DE BREST (225k, morning) of Morlaix, France. The seven-day daily, which produces 17 zoned editions, will install Hermes version 4.0 running on an Oracle database through two Sun Microsystems E3500 servers. Unisys is on the Web at http://www.unisys.com/. --30-- COLE'S NEWSWIRE is compiled by Pete Wetmore and distributed by The Cole Group, publishers of THE COLE PAPERS and NEWSINC., and consultants to newspapers and magazines worldwide. To receive more information about The Cole Group, send e-mail to: info@colegroup.com. Copyright (c) 1998, The Cole Group. All Rights Reserved. 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