COLE'S NEWSWIRE, April 7, 1999

April 7, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 14

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ADOUT
AdOut, an advertising production outsourcing company based in Van Nuys, Calif., has introduced a subscription-based service called Spec Dept. The new service offers an on-line library of ad ideas for generating ads on demand in sales presentations to advertisers.

Ads in the libraries can be opened and edited using ACE Engine, which is provided by AdOut. The service costs $50 a month for papers with less than 20,000-circulation to $495 a month for papers with circulations topping 250,000.

AdOut is on the Web at http://www.adout.com/.

AMERICAN COMPUTER INNOVATORS
ACI, a publishing solutions supplier based in Amherst, Mass., has announced the recent sale of its OpenPages content management and pagination products to the AMERICAN BANKER and BOND BUYER, two financial trade publications based in New York owned by Thomson Financial Services Publications.

The OpenPages installation will have 200 editorial and pagination users, who will have access to the World-Wide Web for newsgathering and publishing. The papers also will use the new installation to contribute to a central Thomson Financial archive.

ACI is on the Web at http://www.aci-openpages.com/.

THE COLE PAPERS
Quark's quake, in the form of a management shake-up, may do away with the anticipated "kinder, gentler" company, says COLE PAPERS Editor & Publisher David M. Cole in the newsletter's April issue. The response in Denver to the introduction of Adobe Systems Inc.'s InDesign page layout program was far from kind or gentle, as recently hired people were let go and the company seemed to panic.

Inside, Correspondent Steven E. Brier reviews happenings at Seybold Seminars/Boston, where InDesign was the talk of the show. Also, Correspondent Marion J. Love looks at how web-based delivery modes are competing heavily with the Associated Press' DataFeatures service, contributor Susan Cook examines new ways to sell classifieds on-line, and Correspondent L. Carol Christopher updates the future of flat panel display devices

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

HARLEQUIN INC.
Several companies have reached a post-trial settlement of patent disputes that have been outstanding since 1996. At issue were patents covering technology for trapping, color correction and halftone dot generation used in color production.

In papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Harlequin, a RIP maker based in Cambridge, Mass., along with Japan's Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Israel's Scitex Corp. Ltd., and two U.S. companies, Island Graphics Corp. and DK&A Inc., have agreed to cross-license the technology under Scitex's U.S. Patent Nos. 5,113,249, 5,323,248, 5,420,702 and 5,481,379 and Screen's U.S. Patent Nos. 5,249,067 and 4,992,864, protecting the parties to the accord as well as their sublicensee suppliers, original equipment manufacturers and end users against claims of patent infringement.

Harlequin is on the Web at http://www.harlequin.com/.

NEASI-WEBER INTERNATIONAL
Neasi-Weber, a Los Angeles-based supplier of management systems for advertising, circulation and pre-prints, has announced the recent licensing of its three key products to the 90,000-circulation CHRONICLE-HERALD of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Running on Sun UNIX servers with an Oracle database, Neasi-Weber is now installing its ADMARC advertising management, DISCUS distribution management and ADSERT pre-print management products at the Canadian paper.

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

NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
The NAA, a trade group based in Vienna, Va., has announced that sales of exhibit space at NEXPO '99 have exceeded those for NEXPO '98. NEXPO '99, the annual technology exposition and conference, will be held June 14-17 in Las Vegas.

More than 215,000 square feet of booth space has been sold to 373 exhibitors for positions on the exhibition floor, an increase of 8.6 percent over NEXPO '98, which was held June 20-23 in Orlando, Fla.

The conference portion of NEXPO '99 will feature a keynote address by Charles Geschke, president and co-chairman of Adobe Systems Inc. of San Jose, which recently introduced its newest page layout program, InDesign. Geschke will speak on June 14, the first day of NEXPO which this year falls on a Monday-Thursday schedule for the first time ever.

The NAA is on the Web at http://www.naa.org/; NEXPO has its own web site at http://www.nexpo.com/.

UNISYS CORP.
Unisys, a publishing solutions supplier based in Blue Bell, Pa., has announced the recent sale of its Hermes editorial production, WireCenter wire collection and DocCenter archiving products at the 130,000-circulation MORNING CALL in Allentown, Pa.

The 238-seat Unisys system, which has Windows NT clients and is being installed now, replaces one made by System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento. Ten of the seats are for use by librarians; others are to be used in four bureaus to produce five daily editions. The Hermes and WireCenter components will run on dual Sun E3500 servers, while the DocCenter unit will operate with dual Sun E450 servers.

The MORNING CALL joins NEWSDAY of Melville, N.Y., as newspapers owned by Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Co. to install Unisys systems.

Unisys is on the Web at http://www.unisys.com/.

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