SII is incorporating Newsflash in its Insiight Internet suite, which supports content creation and management for on-line publishing.

Designed to mimic newsroom workflow procedures, Newsflash's "Copydesk Manager" acts as a digital hub for managing components that comprise an on-line newspaper, the company said. The software can publish, rotate and promote new news and advertising by automated routines or at preset times. Insiight Internet solutions will allow community-building opportunities, with tools to create calendars and on-line communities, it said.

Adhesive is on the Web at http://www.adhesive.com/, and SII is at http://www.sii.com/.

Recruitment Marketplace will drive "help wanted" advertising to publications it represents via a soon-to-be-released web site http://www.recruitmentmarketplace.com/. There solicited advertisers will be able to create, schedule and submit ads directly to the newspaper. AdStar.com's Internet ad taking service will power the site.

AdStar.com (formerly Ad-Star Services) is on the Web at http://www.adstar.com/.

The employee-owned, 22,000-circulation newspaper will produce daily, Sunday and on-line editions with a 30-user OpenPages system running on a Local Area Network.

ACI is on the Web at http://www.aci-openpages.com/.

Lee will feature CityXpress.com on its on-line sites starting this month. The co-branded portal sites will offer regional business directories and e-commerce tools, including XpressSites, which allow local businesses to build on-line stores, and XpressCoupons technology that adds coupon delivery to banner ads.

The Vancouver company said it targets products for mid-sized markets across North America. The first CityXpress.com/Lee sites will be in Nebraska, Oregon, Montana and Iowa, where local portals already offer news, movie listings, community content and weather reports. Training for on-line and newspaper sales people is part of CityXPress.com's services.

Lee Enterprises owns 21 daily newspapers and more than 75 other weekly, classified, shopper or specialty publications, as well as nine network-affiliated and seven satellite television stations and a commercial printing division.

CityXPress.com is on the Web at http://www.cityxpress.com/.

Under their agreement, Belo and Geocast will form a long-term partnership in which Belo will contribute bandwidth, content and promotional opportunities. In addition, Belo will invest in the privately held Geocast and participate in revenue streams associated with its content. Robert Decherd, Belo's chairman, president and chief executive officer will sit on the start-up's board, subject to formal approval.

With 17 TV stations, Belo reaches nearly 13.6 percent of U.S. households and brings Geocast's potential reach to a third of U.S. households, the company said.

The broad-band delivery approach will bypass Internet congestion and make customized information, entertainment and commerce instantly available to a mass audience of PC users, Geocast said in its announcement.

Geocast is on the Web at http://www.geocast.com/.

Along with complete ICC support for custom profiles, the iPROOF system offers standard profiles to provide out-of-box simulations of the most popular analog and digital proofing systems and presses. It uses IrisSCREENs screening technology, to simulate the results of more extensive Iris systems.

Complete with a powerful print server, the Iris iPROOF system allows multiple users on a network to create an unlimited number of hot folders customized for different printing and proofing standards, the company said. This means a single Iris iPROOF system can be used for proofs tuned to simulate different presses, proofers and paper stocks.

Iris Graphics is a subsidiary of Scitex Corp. Ltd., an Israeli imaging device supplier with U.S. offices in Bedford, Mass.

Iris is on the Web at http://www.scitex.com/.

Under their agreement, the companies will combine their operations under the Prograph name, with Prograph's Marc Olin as president and chief executive officer, and nth degree President Bill Guttman as vice chairman. Robert Berkeley, previously nth degree Europe's Managing Director, will oversee Prograph Systems Europe, based in London.

Prograph will develop and market cross-platform solutions for publishers under the Proteus brand. These solutions will include the four versions of Proteus (for Macintosh, Windows 98, and Windows NT), the MagPRO book makeup management software (for Win 98 and NT), Imposition Builder (for Mac, Win 98 and NT), MakeEPS and Xport XTensions (for QuarkXPress for Mac) and several other software tools for publishers.

Prograph Systems is on the Web at http://www.prographsystems.com/; Nth Degree is on the web at http://www.nthzone.com/.

Under the terms of the plan, PrePRESS is now 100 percent owned by Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., and becomes a member of the United Kingdom-based IPA Group of companies. Monotype will market the complete PrePRESS product line through its direct sales and distributor networks. PrePRESS will continue to manufacture the Panther line of products in the Billerica facility; products from other IPA Group companies will be manufactured there as well.

PrePRESS is on the Web at http://www.prepress.pps.com/, while Monotype is on the Web at http://www.monoexpress.com/.

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