Newstream.com will distribute news releases, streaming audio and video, live webcasts, photographs, corporate graphics and logos, financial information, and other content required by the more than 6000 on-line news sites. The service will be marketed and sold to clients of both Business Wire and Medialink and is scheduled to launch in fall 1999.

With an initial investment of $2 million from each company, Newstream.com will have more corporate news content from a larger number of potential clients. Medialink said that Merrill Lynch Television became the first charter client of the new portal service. Its content will include daily financial analysis and commentary in streaming video to Newstream.com.

Business Wire is on the web at http://www.businesswire.com/, while Medialink is at http://www.medialink.com/

Job listings posted on the site came to an all-time record 382,367 during the first week of August 1999 -- a 25 percent increase in job listings from last year at the same time.

Forrester Research projects that employer spending on on-line recruiting will mushroom from $105 million last year to $1.7 billion in 2003.

CareerPath.com brings to the Web a database of job listings from nearly 90 affiliated newspapers across the United States, and was co-founded in 1995 by the BOSTON GLOBE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, the NEW YORK TIMES, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS and the WASHINGTON POST. Financial backing for CareerPath.com is provided by Knight-Ridder, New York Times Co., Times Mirror Co., Tribune Co. and The Washington Post Co., as well as Cox Interactive Media, Gannett Co. and Hearst Corp.

CareerPath.com is on the web at http://www.careerpath.com/.

The company says a user can enter the desired words or a phrase, and DocFindIt will tell the user which filename, folder, company and contact has documents that contain them. Results are displayed as the search progresses. After finding a document, DocFindIt lets the user instantly view both the document and the related contact.

DocFindIt works with all types of documents that contain plain text, including Microsoft Word documents, HTML web pages, e-mail attachments and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Advanced search features include the ability to limit the search to specific types of documents, your own documents, or all documents attached or linked to the contact database, and the ability to limit searches to a single contact, a set of contacts, or the entire contact database.

DocFindIt requires Windows 98/95/NT, and Act! 4 or GoldMine 4.0 and costs $39 for a single-user license. Multi-user and network licenses are available.

Thirty-day, fully-functional evaluation copies are available on the web site at http://www.crossproduct.com.

Software will include DTI's new version 5.0 NewsSpeed editorial and AdSpeed advertising systems together with integrated editorial, graphics, advertising, pagination and archive databases. Also to be used is DTIÕs ImageSpeed graphics management software, PhotoWire receiver, Librarian, Management Reporting and Full-Search software. Output will be through DTIÕs SpeedDriver database OPI solution.

The installation will include a mix of Windows and Macintosh workstations with four remote bureaus -- two in Kansas and two in Missouri.

In the newsroom the NewsSpeed system with PageSpeed pagination will be replacing a Dewar IV editorial system customized by the paper that drives Quark XPress, and in the ad services department XPress is being replaced by DTIÕs AdSpeed. The new DTI version 5.0 systems include AdobeÕs InDesign composition engine.

The KANSAS CITY STAR, a Knight Ridder newspaper, has a circulation of 281,015 daily, 313,217 Saturday, and 410,397 on Sunday.

DTI is on the web at http://www.dtint.com/.

Freidah had been director of digital business development at Global Graphics.

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

The standard 20-user license for EtherShare has a suggested retail price of $3900. Helios EtherShare 2.5.1 offers file, print, font, mail and time servers with extremely fast AppleTalk routing, AppleShare IP file transfers, and user-friendly remote administration. When combined with PCShare, EtherShare OPI 2.0, PDF Handshake and Print Preview, the Helios server suite provides a cross-platform solution.

Helios products run on servers from Apple Computer, Data General, Digital, HP, IBM, Motorola, a wide variety of Pentium-based CPUs, SGI, and Sun, providing reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows, Windows 2000, Linux and UNIX-based clients. The U.S. sales representative is European MikroGraf Corp., of Scotts Valley, Calif.

Helios is on the web at http://www.helios.com/, while European MikroGraf is at http://www.ugraf.com/.

Virtual Ticket Web Server 1.0 is an add-on product to Virtual Ticket that allows users to interact with digital assets through a web interface. The add-on leverages digital assets by providing a quick and easy method for publishing them to the Internet or to an Intranet site. Security features allow only authorized users access to the appropriate digital assets and file types referenced in Virtual Ticket.

Virtual Ticket Production Pack 1.0 is a set of Adobe Plug-ins and a QuarkXPress XTension which allows users to easily access information available within Virtual Ticket 2.0.

The Virtual Ticket base package for use with Microsoft SQL Server starts at $2950. Additional concurrent user license packs are available separately starting at $1995 for five users.

MetaCommunications is on the web at http://www.meta-comm.com/.

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