COLE'S NEWSWIRE, May 12, 1999

May 12, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 19

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CANTO SOFTWARE
Canto, the San Francisco-based developer of the Canto Cumulus digital assets management product, has announced that it will begin to support the Linux operating system by the end of 1999.

Canto's Cumulus Network will be equipped to run on a Linux server supporting Macintosh and Windows clients. Linux will join Canto's current list of platforms, which includes the Mac OS, Windows NT and UNIX.

Canto also has announced that the FlexTight line of drum scanners, made by Imacon Inc. of Copenhagen, Denmark, now is being bundled with Canto's media management system, Cumulus Desktop 4.0.

Canto is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.canto.com/.

CCI EUROPE,
CCI, a Danish publishing systems supplier with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., has announced that the 274,000-circulation SUN-SENTINEL of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., will upgrade its CCI ad production system to the CCI AdDesk production package.

THE SUN-SENTINEL publishes 3000 ads a week, with 2200 pages output each week from the paper's CCI NewsDesk editorial system. The advertising upgrade uses an Oracle database.

CCI is on the Web at http://www.ccieurope.com/.

FUTURETENSE INC.
FutureTense, a supplier of web publishing tools based in Acton, Mass., has announced that it will partner with Granitar Systems Inc. of Framingham, Mass., a provider of e-commerce consulting and system integration services.

The two companies' clients include American Lawyer Media of New York, the Community Newspaper Co. of Needham, Mass., and the WASHINGTON POST.

FutureTense is on the Web at http://www.futuretense.com/.

HEIDELBERG COLOR PUBLISHING SOLUTIONS
Heidelberg, a color management software supplier based in Melville, N.Y., has introduced software called NewColor 4000, a TWAIN plug-in that replaces ColorFactory Pro as the color processing software included with such Heidelberg scanners as the SAPHIR Ultra 2 and OPAL Ultra.

NewColor 4000 has an improved user interface, a wizard for creating color profiles, batch scanning, soft proofing on a monitor and the LinoColor ColorAssistant for automated production.

Heidelberg is on the Web at http://www.linocolor.com/.

INFOPAGER TECHNOLOGIES
infoPager, an Israeli developer of revenue-generating web tools based in Jerusalem, has released newZPrint, a Windows-based application for collecting content from on-line news sources and then prepares it for printing as a personalized newspaper with the appearance of a printed paper.

A free introductory copy of newZPrint may be downloaded from http://www.newzprint.com/. infoPager is on the Web at http://www.infopager.com/.

MANAGING EDITOR INC.
Managing Editor, a supplier of workflow automation tools based in Jenkintown, Pa., has announced recent sales of its Page Director line of ad layout and classified pagination products to a half-dozen newspapers and several magazines.

Newspaper customers include the 43,000-circulation all-day NEWS-GAZETTE of Champaign, Ill.; 29,000-circulation PADUCAH (Ky.) SUN, and 101,000-circulation PATRIOT-NEWS of Harrisburg, Pa.

Magazine customers include Hachette Filipacchi Magazines of New York, which publishes more than 35 trade and consumer magazines, and the WASHINGTONIAN of Washington, D.C.

Managing Editor is on the Web at http://www.maned.com/.

NEWSINC.
Thought, planning, leadership mark NAA plans for growth, writes NEWSINC. Editor-Publisher David M. Cole in the May 12 issue. The Newspaper Association of America has shaken off its early-'90s laissez faire attitude and now is offering publishers ideas and leadership, writes Cole.

Inside, Cole covers the NAA's annual conference, detailing the association's plans for a marketing effort, certified classifieds and other initiatives. Also, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore rounds up the last of the quarterly earnings reports, talks with analysts about the significance of those reports, and takes a state-by-state tour of circulation numbers reported in the latest FAS-FAX from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

For more about the May 10 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

SOFTQUAD SOFTWARE INC.
SoftQuad, a Toronto-based supplier of web publishing tools, has announced a joint marketing agreement with NetNation Communications Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia. Under the agreement, the companies will co-market all their products.

NetNation customers will be offered a discount on SoftQuad's HoTMetaL PRO 5.0, an application for creating and maintaining transaction-oriented web sites.

NetNation is on the Web at http://www.netnation.com/. SoftQuad is at http://www.softquad.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, a publishing systems supplier based in Sacramento, has announced a strategic partnership with Market Power Inc., a Sacramento-based developer of sales force automation tools.

SII and Market Power will collaborate on using PowerSCORE, the Windows-based sales automation application developed by Market Power, as a sales force automation tool for publishers. SII will have exclusive marketing rights for the product, which will be called SalesSEEKER.

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

TEAM ASA INC.
Team ASA, a supplier of networking products based in San Diego, has announced the availability of Cyan Software's MacServerIP for the DEC Alpha platform.

MacServerIP runs Windows NT, supporting the Apple File Protocol over a standard AppleShare Internet Protocol (IP) interface. MacServerIP file transfer rates have been reported at 15 megabytes per second.

A 10-user application is priced at $695; an unlimited-user license costs $4175.

Team ASA is on the Web at http://www.teamasa.com/.

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