COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Sept. 22, 1999

Sept. 22, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 40

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DIGITAL ART EXCHANGE
DAX, a Boston-based provider of Internet services to the graphic arts industry, announced that DAX T1i is now part of the iSeries Internet line, offering full-speed T-1 access in a managed service package at $1,895 per month, regardless of usage.

DAX is on the Web at http://www.dax-it.com/.

EXTENSIS CORP.
Extensis, a supplier of image processing software based in Portland, Ore., has changed its name to creativepro.com Inc., and formed the Extensis Products Group to continue all development, marketing and support of Extensis tools.

The company said its new corporate name mirrors its new objective: to create a web-based future for creative professionals worldwide. Its web site will feature a collection of e-services, such as Designer F/X and myPortfolio, free to users.

Creativepro.com is a portfolio company of Adobe Ventures LP, the investment arm of Adobe Systems Inc. of San Jose.

Extensis Products Group is still on the Web at http://www.extensis.com/, the sister site to .

GUMPINGER & KOPPANY GBR.
The InDesign plug-ins are popping up, as companies rush to enhance the new layout program released just weeks ago by Adobe Systems Inc. of San Jose.

Calling itself Gumption PlugWare in English, this Munich, Germany, company has created Database Publisher V1.0, which imports database information from FileMaker Pro and other tab-delimited sources into InDesign documents.

Description, prices, demonstration downloads and on-line ordering are available on Gumption's web site at http://indesign.plugware.net/.

HARLEQUIN INC.
Harlequin, a RIP maker based in Cambridge, Mass., signed a marketing agreement with pre-press systems developer STORM CPD GmbH, for the Harlequin ScriptWorks RIP Management System, running on Macintosh platforms from Apple Computer of Cupertino, Calif.

The German pre-press supplier will use ScriptWorks in its ProofInk RIP to drive Epson color printers, including series 1520, 3000 and the six-color series 5000, 8000 and 9000.

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

KNIGHT RIDDER NEW MEDIA
The interactive electronic arm of San Jose-based Knight Ridder rolled out four of its Real Cities hubs on the Web, BayArea.com, Miami.com, Broward.com and TwinCities.com, and its local information network centerpiece, RealCities.com.

The hubs include local web directories, search, community publishing, e-commerce marketplaces, free e-mail, 24-hour national and local news, all accessible with a one-time Passport registration.

Knight Ridder's on-line newspapers are also integrated into the network, as are cites where newspaper corporate partners operate. Recent partnerships include A.H. Belo Corp. of Dallas, which launched DFW.com, and Central Newspapers Inc. of Phoenix, which will roll out Real Cities hubs Phoenix.com and Indianapolis.com.

Real Cities is on the Web at http://www.realcities.com/.

METACOMMUNICATIONS
The Iowa City, Iowa, software supplier has announced its upgrade to Virtual Ticket Production Pack will ship by the end of September. Version 2.0, an add-on product to Virtual Ticket, consists of a QuarkXPress XTension and an Adobe plug-in for storing full-size preview and document information prior to archiving or off-line storage.

The price for Production Pack 2.0 is $149.00 per seat, with upgrades from version 1.0 free to users who purchase at $99.00 per user before Sept. 30.

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

NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
The NAA, a trade group based in Vienna, Va., and Ifra, an international newspaper and media technology association based in Darmstadt, Germany, have co-produced a book showcasing the 37 winners of their latest International Newspaper Color Quality Club competition.

Newspapers submit examples of their best quality color reproduction to collect points, which at a certain level earn two-year club recognition. Submissions for the next competition are due Nov. 5.

Copies of the book are free to newspapers from Ifra's director of marketing.

For the list of club members, visit Ifra's web site at http://www.ifra.com/. The NAA is on the Web at http://www.naa.org/.

POWERADZ.COM LLC.
The Rensselaer, N.Y.-based on-line advertising network recently topped 200,000 daily, paid, newspaper-exclusive ads in categories ranging from automotive, real estate and employment, to merchandise, personals and announcements.

PowerAdz.com aggregates ads from newspaper affiliates through its AdQuest Classifieds service and makes the database available through their local web sites.

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

REAL MEDIA
New York-based Real Media, an on-line advertising go-between, has opened a Miami office for its Latin American operations.

Real Media Latin America has signed Miami-based print advertising rep firm Charney/Palacios & Co to help introduce advertisers to the Real Media Network and to create print and Internet advertising packages, a service the partners call Print+.

Meanwhile, the United Kingdom office of Real Media has sealed a deal with Bloomberg of New York to manage advertising sales across its key European web sites in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

With the exclusive, two-year agreement, Real Media will handle sales for the local language sites as well as traffic from those countries into Bloomberg.com.

Real Media is on the Web at http://www.realmedia.com/.

T/ONE INC.
T/One, a supplier of image transmission and archiving solutions based in Quincy, Mass., has announced the installation of Merlin and Merlin Webmaster systems for digital asset management and distribution at Bloomberg News, headquartered in New York City.

The Merlin System will manage Bloomberg's image archive and live photos; Webmaster makes images available to web-browser users on both intranets and the Internet. Bloomberg will use multi-CPU Compaq Proliant Server hardware.

Other recent T/One installations are Merlin and Webmaster systems at the 109,000-circulation daily POST AND COURIER in Charleston, S.C., and Merlin and the TRAX Assignment Tracking System at the 90,4000-daily WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL in North Carolina. Both newspapers will incorporate live Associated Press image feeds from their AP Servers.

T/One is on the Web at http://www.t-1.com/.

WAVO CORP.
Wavo, a digital media services provider based in Phoenix, Ariz., has partnered with the Virgin Entertainment Group of London to create a new company, JamCast.Com Inc., and Virgin JamCast, a web site that speeds downloads of MP3 and other popular digital music and games formats.

Virgin JamCast's Internet broadcasts make use of Wavo's Asynchronous Reliable Multicast proprietary technology for modem and broadband users, as well as Wavo's network using the unused portion of the Public Broadcasting System television signal for TV tuner card owners.

For details, visit Wavo's web site at http://www.wavo.com/.

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