COLE'S NEWSWIRE, March 31, 1999

March 31, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 13

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BANTA INTEGRATED MEDIA
Banta, a provider of web publishing tools based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced that the 72,000-circulation CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR of Boston is using its software to deliver tailored news packages to its on-line subscribers.

The custom software was developed for Monitor Extra, which assembles news reports as specified by subscribers and delivers it either by e-mail or via web site. E-mailed versions of Monitor Extra retain the look-and-feel of the on-line MONITOR.

Banta is on the Web at http://www.banta-im.com/. The MONITOR is at http://www.csmonitor.com/.

CASCADE SYSTEMS INC.
Cascade, a supplier of archiving and workflow solutions based in Andover, Mass., has announced the recent acquisition of $6 million in venture capital from San Jose-based Adobe Ventures and H & Q Venture Associates of San Francisco.

Five-year-old Cascade said it will use the new funds to enhance its MediaSphere multimedia digital archive system and DataFlow workflow tracking and management product.

Cascade is on the Web at http://www.cascadenet.com/.

CYBERGRAPHIC INC.
Cybergraphic, an Australian publishing systems supplier with U.S. offices in Burlington, Mass., has announced that the 54,000-circulation EVERETT (Wash.) HERALD has purchased an upgrade to its existing Cybergraphic classified system.

Last upgraded in March 1994, the 19-seat solution has software for pagination, ad entry and credit checking. The upgrade will include an unspecified number of additional seats and implementation of Cybergraphic Cla$$Page in Windows NT.

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

FREEDOM SYSTEM INTEGRATORS
FSI, a publishing systems supplier based in Wichita, Kan., has announced the recent sale of its METS Editorial System to THE INDEX-JOURNAL, the 15,000-circulation evening and Sunday daily in Greenwood, S.C.

The purchase includes software for reporters, editorial pagination, scheduling and wire collection, as well as a Windows NT server with Oracle8. Installation is scheduled for May; the paper already uses FSI classified pagination, ad sales, ad layout and on-line products.

Also buying a METS Editorial System is the 5,000-circulation evening VERNON (Texas) DAILY RECORD. The paper had been a customer of FSI's antecedent, Mycro-Tek, for 20 years.

Freedom System Integrators is on the Web at http://www.fsi-ipa.com/.

NEWSINC.
Billboards in Toronto put more on display than a front page, writes NEWSINC. Editor-Publisher David M. Cole in the March 29 issue. A marketing campaign in the Canadian city is using Xerox technology to put the front page of the GLOBE AND MAIL on seven billboards every day for eight weeks, and Cole points out that such thinking outside the box is the kind of marketing flair newspapers could be using.

Inside the March 29 issue, Correspondent Julius Duscha details a street corner battle that pits cities against newspapers over the matter of newsracks -- where they go and what they'll look like, with costly results for publishers.

Also inside, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore reports on an expanded base of newspapers the Newspaper National Network is offering to advertisers, how readers and advertisers were primed to accept a new newspaper in Evansville, the impact of the Web on some help wanted advertisers, and new ideas for making money through e-commerce.

For more about the March 29 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

PUBLISHING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
PPI, an advertising solutions supplier based in Bedford, N.H., has announced an agreement with Nova Publishing Systems of Auburn, Calif., to resell several advertising products marketed under the Nova banner.

PPI will resell FaxAction, software for submitting ads via a number of media and channels, developed by Competent Consulting of Sacramento; WebPub, tools for publishing ads on the Web; AutoBase, an on-line auto inventory package, and RealtyBase, a 'Net-based real estate listings solution.

PPI is on the Web at http://www.ppius.com/. Nova is at http://www.novapub.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
Sacramento-based SII has announced that its subsidiary in France has sold a major upgrade to LE MONDE, the 385,000-circulation Paris daily that has been an SII customer since 1989.

The upgrade to the Coyote/3 editorial client will include offices across France and at 20 bureaus overseas, a total of 380 seats running on Windows. Currently, 70 percent of the newsroom continues to use brown Coyote terminals.

A separate, unnamed production system will handle pagination and production tracking.

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

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