COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Feb. 3, 1999

Feb. 3, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 5

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COLE'S NEWSWIRE regrets the error.

AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INC.
AII, an imaging device manufacturer and output systems supplier based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced the recent installation of its equipment in Don Mills, Ontario, to produce the start-up national newspaper the NATIONAL POST by Southam Inc. of Toronto.

The installation, undertaken in the four months between the formation of the NATIONAL POST last summer and its introduction last fall, includes three APS GRAFIX RIPs and APS RIP to Local Area Network kits, as well as proofers, two APSCOM send units, a controller and a 32-port hub. The center in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto, generates pages for the nationally distributed newspaper which are transmitted to nine printing sites across Canada.

Each remote production site uses two of AII's APSCOM receive units, an APS 2500 color proofer, a 32-port hub and one or two APS 3850 laser imagers with media transports to speed processing.

AII is on the Web at http://www.autoiii.com/.

BLUESTONE SOFTWARE INC.
Bluestone, a supplier of on-line management tools based in Mount Laurel, N.J., has begun shipping its Bluestone XML-Server, which stores and retrieves data using the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). The company also has introduced Bluestone Visual-XML, a developer's toolkit for creating applications in the XML-and-Java environment Bluestone is fostering.

To further the use of XML and Java, Bluestone is giving away XwingML, a package that assists in learning how to use XML and Java-based applications in tandem. With XwingML, users can create a Graphical User Interface in Java without knowing how to write Java code directly.

XwingML is available free at Bluestone's web site at http://www.bluestone.com/.

EDGIL ASSOCIATES INC.
Edgil, a supplier of interactive editorial and advertising solutions based in Chelmsford, Mass., has announced recent upgrades to its WebCentral classified ad product by Cox Ohio Publishing, which produces the 160,000-circulation DAYTON DAILY NEWS.

The enhanced package channels incoming classified ads through AdParse, which plucks words from a narrative stream and puts them in a fielded database to permit on-line searching when ads are posted on the paper's web site. Cox Ohio also uses other Edgil products for employment ads, generating revenue through enhancements to the web site, automated query tools and a statistical report generator.

Edgil is on the Web at http://www.edgil.com/.

NEASI-WEBER INTERNATIONAL
Neasi-Weber, a supplier of solutions for circulation, advertising and preprint management based in Los Angeles, has announced recent sales of its DISCUS circulation system to two Hearst Corp. newspapers.

The two papers -- the 99,000-circulation ALBANY (N.Y.) TIMES-UNION and 59,000-circulation BEAUMONT (Texas) ENTERPRISE -- will be replacing circulation solutions from Geac Publishing Systems of Tampa, Fla. With these installations, Hearst will have completed the conversion to Neasi-Weber at many of its newspapers.

Neasi-Weber is on the Web at http://www.nwintl.com/.

NEWSINC.
The purchase of AdOne by a newspaper consortium shows wisdom, even if it's overdue, writes NEWSINC. Editor/Publisher David M. Cole in the newsletter's Feb. 1 issue. The move to acquire AdOne by five newspaper-publishing companies signals the industry's turnaround in cooperation since the failure of New Century Network and provides a strong presence on the Web to newspapers not in major markets, Cole writes.

Inside the Feb. 1 issue, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore talks with two of the companies involved in the AdOne deal. Wetmore also writes about the impact analyst estimates have on companies, describes how covering the shortened NBA season will affect several sports desks and rounds up earnings reports for the fourth quarter and 1998.

Correspondent Julius Duscha details the highs and lows of editorial writing in an era of diminished resources. Duscha talks with editorial page staffers at several newspapers, large and small, to find that the editorial and op-ed pages are not the darlings of publishers when it comes to budgeting their resources.

For more about the Feb. 1 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

ORACLE CORP.
Oracle, a database solutions supplier based in Redwood Shores, Calif., has announced that its new Oracle8i Appliance will be incorporated into new computers from the Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif.

Oracle will provide pre-packaged server software to H-P, enabling buyers to run Oracle's Internet database and on-line business application immediately.

Oracle is on the Web at http://www.oracle.com/. H-P is at http://www.hp.com/.

SEYBOLD SEMINARS
Seybold, a unit of Ziff-Davis based in Foster City, Calif., has announced two keynote speakers for the Seybold Seminars Boston/Publishing 99 conference and trade show March 1-5 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.

The opening keynote address will be given March 2 by two executives of San Jose-based Adobe Systems Inc., CEO John Warnock and President Charles Geschke. The next day, Tim Gill, the co-founder and chief technical officer of Denver-based Quark Inc., will offer a second keynote speech.

Seybold is on the Web at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/.

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