COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Sept. 8, 1999

Sept. 8, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 38

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THE COLE GROUP
The publisher of THE COLE PAPERS, NEWSINC. and this newswire has announced a new book in its COLE'S NOTES series, NEW(S) MEDIA.

The 72-page book details 16 stories about how newspapers are moving to on-line. The stories include case studies of operations in Palm Beach, Fla., and Needham, Mass., as well as providing insight into software for web-site building and maintenance as well as extensive commentary about newspaper new media operations.

Writers of the book include Steven E. Brier, John Bryan, Julius Duscha, Christopher J. Feola, Marion J. Love and Jay Small.

COLE'S NOTES -- NEW(S) MEDIA will retail for $49; subscribers to THE COLE PAPERS or NEWSINC. can receive up to a 50 percent discount when copies are purchased in quantity. For more information, send e-mail to mailto:info@colegroup.com.

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EDGIL ASSOCIATES INC.
Edgil, the Chelmsford, Mass.-based supplier of business automation tools for newspapers, has licensed its EdgCapture system to the Tribune Co. of Chicago. Using EdgCapture, the Fort Lauderdale SUN-SENTINEL, the ORLANDO SENTINEL and the CHICAGO TRIBUNE will process classified advertising credit card orders through one centralized source.

Edgil is on the Web at http://www.edgil.com/.

HELIOS SOFTWARE
This provider of network and prepress server software, based in Garbsen, Germany, has updated the EtherShare OPI, PDF Handshake and Print Preview products, to provide a complete Portable Document Format-workflow solution for San Jose-based Adobe's InDesign page layout application.

Details are available on the Web at http://www.helios.com/.

GEAC COMPUTER SYSTEMS INC.
Geac Computer Systems, the Atlanta-based subsidiary of Geac Computer Corp. Ltd. of Markam, Ont., Canada, has agreed to purchase the financial and human resource management systems business from Clarus Corp., also of Atlanta.

Clarus has approximately 300 customers across North America and is a leading mid-market application provider with 1998 revenues in excess of US$40 million.

The transaction is valued at approximately US$17 million, and must pass regulatory and shareholder approvals.

This is the fourth company that Geac has bought this year. Previous acquisitions include: Matrix Publishing Systems Ltd. of Nottingham, U.K., by its Tampa, Fla.-based subsidiary, Geac Publishing Systems, in August; JBA Holdings PLC, by London-based subsidiary, Geac Computer Corp. Ltd., in July; and Cybergraphic Systems Ltd., also acquired by Geac Publishing in June.

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

GIST COMMUNICATIONS INC.
GIST, an independent on-line producer of TV listing guides, has announced that it will provide AltaVista Co. with personalized, daily local broadcast, cable and satellite TV listings. The relationship enables visitors to the AltaVista Network to access listings and premium entertainment content.

Among Altavista-partnered newspapers are the local Web sites for the WASHINGTON POST, ORANGE COUNTY (Calif.) REGISTER, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, TAMPA (Fla.) TRIBUNE, HARTFORD (Conn.) COURANT and SAN ANTONIO (Texas) EXPRESS-NEWS.

Under the agreement, GIST TV becomes the standard provider for the "TV" channel on AltaVista Homebase. With its listings, users will be able to personalize listings according to their preference of times, program categories and channels. GIST also will provide TV-themed editorial content from its staff of journalists, including daily gossip news, feature articles and program types.

The company is on the Web at http://www.gist.com/. AltaVista is at http://www.altavista.com/.

KOZ.COM
KOZ.com, a producer of on-line community software and sites based in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, has announced that Gray Communications Systems Inc., of Albany, Ga., will deploy KOZ.com's Community Publishing System for its four newspapers and 10 television stations, marking Koz.com's first foray into broadcasting.

In addition to using CPS, Gray also plans to use KOZ.com's ichat Rooms product to host community chats on local issues and events. Since many of Gray's television properties are located in college markets, Gray hopes to capture the attention of the student communities by hosting celebrity chat sessions.

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

PHOTOBETTY.COM
An e-zine developed by newspaper photographers with photographs taken by and about women is growing on the Web, with the opening of a new section for single examples of photographers' work.

PhotoBetty.Com http://www.photobetty.com/, which launched in April at the Women in Photojournalism Conference, in Albany, N.Y., now boasts these areas:

-- "The Spotlight" section features work by professional and student photographers, who include an essay of "telling the stories they would tell to their friends," as well as caption information.

-- "Singles" offers just one shot per camera person, which makes it easier for more people to submit work.

-- "In Charge," conceived by and first featuring Robin Daughtridge, the CHICAGO TRIBUNE's chief photographer/picture editor, includes women in the photography business who aren't shooters themselves.

-- "Before You" highlights historical women photographers, both their work and the forces that drove them in the male-dominated field.

Inspired by the mainly pornographic URL roster returned by crawler searches for "women" and "photography" on the Internet, Stephanie Sinclair created PhotoBetty with Candice Cusic and Heather Stone, all photographers at the CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

Shots by men will be included in the site, if they represent female issues, "from the birth of a child to a fashion shoot and/or anything else in between," as Sinclair put it.

The name derives from the slang "betties," a term for girls who hang out with skaters but don't skate themselves. It was adapted to the trans-gender term "photobetties" and adopted by the founder and her colleagues while students at the INDEPENDENT FLORIDA ALLIGATOR, the school newspaper at the University of Florida.

SPLASH TECHNOLOGY INC.
Splash, a supplier of color servers based in Sunnyvale, Calif., recently introduced its G Series family of color servers, designed to take advantage of the Apple Power Macintosh G3 platform. The Splash G Series includes the G610, for the new Xerox DocuColor 12 copier/printer generally used for proofing, comping and short-run production, and the G710, for the Xerox DocuColor 30 Pro and DocuColor 40 Pro copier/printers used in corporate repro departments, commercial printers, quick printers and copy shops.

For more information, visit Splash's Web site at http://www.splashtech.com/.

ERRORS & OMISSIONS
In the Sept. 1, edition of COLE'S NEWSWIRE, it was reported that the MIAMI HERALD had signed an agreement to purchase an OpenPages Web Content Management System from American Computer Innovators Inc. of Amherst, Mass. To clarify, the OpenPages system will interface with an existing System Integrators Inc. front-end editorial system and manage content for web page development only. SII products will continue to serve the newsroom for pre-press production.

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