COLE'S NEWSWIRE, July 7, 1999

July 7, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 28

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APPLIED GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
AGT, a New York-based provider of outsourced production services to newspapers, has announced that the recently acquired Wace Group plc of London has begun legal proceedings to close its operations in France.

AGT says the closing, which was considered as part of its due diligence in buying Wace, will have no material affect on the remaining operations in the United Kingdom or Australia, or planned integration of U.S. operations with AGT.

AGT is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.agt.com/.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a publishing systems supplier based in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a unit of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., has announced that it worked with more than 100 client sites in May and June.

Notable installations in the two-month period include 37 NewsEditPro IQue editorial workstations and 15 pagination seats at the 21,000-circulation APPEAL-DEMOCRAT in Marysville, Calif., and 40 NewsEditPro and 10 pagination workstations at the 34,000-circulation evening NEWS JOURNAL of Mansfield, Ohio.

Baseview is on the Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

ELECTRIC RAIN INC.
Electric Rain, a provider of web publishing tools based in Boulder, Colo., has introduced Font FX 2.5, a 3D text rendering and animation tool. Windows-based FX 2.5 uses TrueType fonts and offers precise control of colors, lighting effects and backgrounds.

FX 2.5 sells for $39.95 over the Web or $44.95 on CD-ROM. For a 30-day evaluation version, visit Electric Rain's web site at http://www.erain.com/.

FUTURETENSE
FutureTense, a supplier of web publishing tools based in Acton, Mass., has announced that it will use software to categorize and personalize content made by Autonomy Inc. of San Francisco.

With Autonomy's core technology included in FutureTense's Internet Publishing System (IPS), IPS users will have added capabilities to tag and hyperlink large volumes of information and advertisers will be afforded more targeted opportunities to sell.

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

HARLEQUIN INC.
Harlequin, a supplier of Raster Image Processor (RIP) technology based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced that its subsidiary in the United Kingdom, Harlequin Ltd., has been place into administrative receivership. A buyer for Harlequin operations in the U.K. and the United States is being sought while Ernst & Young UK serve as receivers.

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

MEDIASTREAM INC.
MediaStream, a Philadelphia-based provider of archiving services through its SAVEcentral facility and NewsLibrary web site at http://www.newslibrary.com/, has announced the addition of four newspapers to its archiving and document delivery service.

The papers adding their files to NewsLibrary are the 118,000-circulation SARASOTA (Fla.) HERALD TRIBUNE, 284,000-circulation KANSAS CITY STAR, 148,000-circulation BERGEN RECORD in Hackensack, N.J., and 36,000-circulation LIMA (Ohio) NEWS.

MediaStream is on the Web at http://www.krmediastream.com/.

NEASI-WEBER INTERNATIONAL
Neasi-Weber, a supplier of circulation and advertising systems based in Northridge, Calif., has announced the recent sale of its DISCUS product to the 359,000-circulation ST. PETERSBURG (Fla.) TIMES. DISCUS encompasses customer service, single-copy sales and distribution management.

The installation will run on a Sun UNIX platform and Oracle database. The circulation system will be operational later this year.

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

NEWSINC.
How vital are vital statistics? Some newspapers charge to print them, raising questions about community service versus profit considerations, writes NEWSINC. Editor-Publisher David M. Cole in the July 5 issue. With obit writing a fading art, Cole wonders about the wisdom of charging readers to carry what has long been news.

Inside, Correspondent Julius Duscha explores trends in how to handle obits, wedding announcements, births and divorces. Some papers charge for some items but not others -- and some have policies by category of information.

Also inside, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore looks at the whys and wherefores of double-digit percentage increases in national ad linage and revenues, talks with key people at dfw.com, sees a significant benefit coming from the development of asset management systems and scans three disparate ways newspapers are marketing themselves these days.

For more about the July 5 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

SEYBOLD SEMINARS
Seybold Seminars San Francisco, which will be held Aug. 30-Sept. 3 at Moscone Center, will feature three conferences, on the Web, best practices for print publishing and publishing strategies.

An accompanying trade show will showcase products and services from more than 300 exhibitors. Keynote speakers will include Steve Jobs, interim CEO of Apple Computer Inc. of Cupertino, Calif.

For more information, visit http://www.seyboldseminars.com/.

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