COLE'S NEWSWIRE, April 28, 1999

April 28, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 17

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CYBERGRAPHIC INC.
Cybergraphic, an Australian supplier of pre-press publishing solutions with U.S. offices in Burlington, Mass., has announced that the 286,000-circulation MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL has begun using its Cybergraphic advertising system to book all classified ads.

The 125-seat system, successor to an 11-year-old legacy front-end from Sacramento-based System Integrators Inc., includes CyberCla$$Page classified pagination and a CyberRep server for storing historical ad data.

Cybergraphic also announced that the 43,000-circulation SUN NEWS of Myrtle Beach, S.C., has gone live on its Genera Cyber$ell advertising system, an upgrade from the paper's Genesis system from Cybergraphic.

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

ECRM
ECRM, an imaging and output systems supplier based in Tewksbury, Mass., has introduced a new entry in its Mako line of imagesetters, the Mako 5625. The four-up device can image films as wide as 22.1 inches, with resolutions from 1000 to 3556 dots per inch and repeatability of 30 microns.

ECRM is on the Web at http://www.ecrm.com/.

INFONAUTICS INC.
Infonautics, a provider of on-line information services based in Wayne, Pa., has announced that it will begin using MSN LinkExchange's ClickTrade service to manage a program linking retailers and customers via the Infonautics network of web sites. LinkExchange is a subsidiary of Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp.

Under a program running through June 1, Infonautics is offering web site operators 50 cents for each new user signed up for Infonautics' Company Sleuth on-line information retrieval service. For details, visit http://affiliate.companysleuth.com/.

Infonautics also reported a smaller first quarter loss in 1999 than in 1998 (minus $2.5 million, up from minus $4.8 million last year) on sharply increased revenues ($5.2 million, up from $2.6 million).

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

KOZ.COM INC.
KOZ.com, a supplier of tools for on-line community self-publishing with headquarters in Research Triangle, N.C., has announced that San Jose-based Knight Ridder New Media has signed KOZ to provide community publishing tools for the Real Cities network of Knight Ridder web sites.

The 45 sites will use the Community Publishing System (CPS), joining Real Cities' Charlotte.com, where users have set up more than 200 web sites in the auto racing area alone.

KOZ.com also announced that CPS will be used by sites operated by MediaNews Group of Denver and Donrey Media Group of Little Rock, Ark. Together the two operate 175 local newspaper sites.

KOZ.com also announced it has completed its acquisition of the ichat line of chat software from Acuity Corp.

KOZ.com is on the Web at http://www.koz.com/.

NEWSINC.
Earnings up, credibility down: the newspaper dilemma. NEWSINC. Editor-Publisher David M. Cole writes about a time of good news (financial results) and bad news (the great credibility gap), suggesting that making money relies on staying credible. Stay tuned.

Inside, Cole details the finer points of first quarter financial reports by 11 newspaper-publishing companies, reports on the diversity discussions pervading the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and outlines the results of a survey of the American public (survey says: public lost trust).

For more about the Jan. 4 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

GEAC PUBLISHING SYSTEMS
Geac, a supplier of circulation and other business systems based in Tampa, Fla., has announced the recent sale of its VisionShift Circulation Director to the 123,000-circulation DAYTONA BEACH (Fla.) NEWS-JOURNAL.

Geac is on the Web at http://www.publishingsystems.geac.com/.

PUBLISHING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
PPI, an advertising solutions supplier based in Bedford, N.H., has announced the recent sale of its AD2000 ad system to Add Inc. of Waupaca, Wis. Add publishes more than 100 free and paid periodicals with a circulation exceeding 1.7 million.

The 90-seat system will manage ad order entry for both classified and retail, with on-line credit card checking. PPI's product replaces a 10-year-old DOS-based system.

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

SCREAMINGMEDIA
New York-based ScreamingMedia (formerly Interactive Connection) has announced that several newspapers have agreed to contribute their local content to the aggregation service operated by ScreamingMedia.

The papers include Blethen Maine Newspapers of Portland, the DAILY OKLAHOMAN of Oklahoma City, ALBUQUERQUE (N.M.) JOURNAL and BLACK WORLD TODAY. Using Siteware from ScreamingMedia, the papers will select and pass on copy to participating web sites, receiving a royalty in return.

ScreamingMedia is on the Web at http://www.screamingmedia.net/.

SOUTHWEST SOFTWARE INC.
Southwest, a provider of color calibration solutions based in Austin, Texas, has introduced NewsProofer, which uses Color Encore color calibration software to provide accurate color proofs on newsprint using a QMS color laser printer and measurement systems from X-Rite Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich.

Southwest is on the Web at http://www.swsoft.com/.

TRENDWATCH
TrendWatch, the monitor of trends in the graphic arts industry based in Harrisville, R.I., has announced the availability of a special report on digital asset management.

The report surveys the industry to find that 7500 creative and printing businesses plan to acquire digital asset management tools in the next 12 months, although making the sale has become increasingly difficult because of the linear nature of graphic arts production workflow.

TrendWatch is on the Web at http://www.trendwatch.com/.

VERITY INC.
Verity, an archiving solutions supplier based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced that the 304,000-circulation GLOBE AND MAIL of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has begun using Verity's products to index, search and retrieve information for the paper's national web sites, including GLOBEfund.com, GLOBEcareers.com, ChaptersGLOBE and GLOBEtechnology.com. The sites record more than 20 million page impressions per month.

Verity is on the Web at http://www.verity.com/.

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