America West, (916) 449-6000.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"Look at everything they accomplished for the cost of two postage stamps."

-- Anonymous source at Adobe Systems, referring to the two letters Quark Inc. sent suggesting a buyout.

Virtual vendors: At AdOne Classified Network Inc. of New York, Brendan Burns has been named president and CEO; previously Burns, who co-founded AdOne in 1995, was chief financial officer. ... At Iris Graphics Inc., of Bedford, Mass., Mark Doyle has been named president and chief executive. He will report to Michael Nagler, corporate vice president and general manager of graphic arts products, for Iris parent Scitex Corp. Ltd. of Herzlia, Israel. Previously, Doyle was vice president of marketing and strategic development at the company and has more than 15 years of industry experience, including senior management positions at Xerox, Agfa, Autographics and Eastman Kodak. ... At Kodak Polychrome Graphics LLC of Norwalk, Conn., David Bartram has been named computer-to-plate marketing manager for the United States and Canada. Previously Bartram was U.S. plate marketing director at Horsell/Anitec. Also at Kodak Polychrome, Kenneth Theodos has been named color proofing systems marketing manager for the U.S. and Canada. Theodos had been with Eastman Kodak for eight years. ... At Managing Editor Inc. of Jenkintown, Pa., Hector Lopez has been named market development manager for Latin America. Previously Lopez was with Quark Inc. of Denver. ... At Syntellect Inc. of Roswell, Ga., Peter Pamplin has been named chief financial officer. Previously the company's controller, Pamplin succeeds Neal Miller, who since April has been chief financial officer and president of Syntellect Interactive Services, the company's outsourcing business unit. Miller will remain president of Syntellect Interactive. ... At Thomson Target Media of Chicago, Lee Kantz has been named director of operations for Curiocity for Kids (which includes a web site and syndicated material). Previously he was director of product development at Encyclopaedia Britannica. Also at Thomson Target Media, Yvonne Levay has been named producer for Curiocity. Most recently, Levay was the production manager for the Microsoft Office web site. ... At Tribune Media Services of Chicago, George Ferone has been named administrative manager for TV Listings at its Glens Falls, N.Y., offices. Most recently in his 12 years at TMS, Ferone was operations director. Also at TMS, Brian Ward has been named operations director for TV Listings. Since 1994, Ward has served as operations manager for the TMS syndicate division, responsible for production, technical support, customer service and publications. ... At Xitron Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., Dick Steensma has been named president. Steensma, who has a long career in the industry (he was with Photon in the early '70s), has been acting president of the company since October. ...

Growth spurt: Neasi-Weber International of Northridge, Calif., has added 20 employees in the last six months. Among them: Perry Sapp has been named vice president of circulation systems; prior to rejoining Neasi-Weber, Sapp was a consultant to large metropolitan newspapers. ... Carita del Valle has been named marketing manager. Before joining NWI, del Valle worked for California State University, Northridge, on special marketing and public relations projects. ... Mobin Akhtar, Khaly Akhtar and Madhavi Neravetla have been named Discus software engineers in Neasi-Weber's Houston office. Previously Mobin Akhtar was with the Mobile (Ala.) Press Register, while Khaly Akhtar was with Hillco Ltd. and Neravetla was in the telecommunications industry. ... Marielle Horton and Barbara Ruehlin have been named Discus technical writers. Prior to joining NWI, Horton worked for a firm that published scholastic journals and textbooks; previously Ruehlin worked in a California bank. ... Wilfred Tanner has been named a Discus consultant supporting News International-related software developments utilizing Visual C++. ... Lara Gordon has been named Admarc product representative and will be involved in a number of upcoming projects including one at the St. Petersburg Times, where she worked as an accounts receivable supervisor before joining NWI. ... Mike Kim, Ramon Issakhani, Irina Kulman and Steven Heizer have been named Admarc software engineers; previously Kulman worked for Winston Tires, while Heizer worked for Hughes Corporate Financial Support Center and Kim worked for Computer Learning Center as a teacher. ... Anna Marie Heller has been named an Admarc technical writer; previously she was a writer at a local bank. ... Hao Lam has been named technical support for network servers. Lam had worked for the Los Angeles Housing Authority in a similar capacity. ... Barbara Yanez has been named an Admarc product representative; previously, she worked in vocational schools, overseeing their technical and business writing. ...

Confabs: "Innovation for success -- winning the battle for classifieds" will be a World Association of Newspapers' one-day executive visit Sept. 18 at Berliner Zeitung in Berlin. The newspaper's staff will discuss new pricing policies, improved page layout and design, and extensive promotional activities. For more information, send e-mail to contact_us@wan.asso.fr or call (011) {33} 1 47 42 85 00. ... Ipex '98, the big British printing show, will be Sept. 22-30 in Birmingham, U.K. For more information, ring them at (011) {44} 171-453-5360. ... Concurrent with Ipex will be a Seybold Seminar; contact the Seyboldians at (650) 578-6900. ... The World Forum on Newspaper Strategy will be Sept. 23-25 in Chantilly, France. Speakers will include Ralph Langer of the Dallas Morning News and Allan Marshall of Associated Newspapers of the United Kingdom. For more information, e-mail lkilman@wan.asso.fr or call (011) {33} 1 47 42 85 00. ... Managing Creative Services, a seminar on running a graphics shop, will be Sept. 24-25 in Denver. For more information, call the Dynamic Graphics Educational Foundation at (309) 688-8800. ... Fall Internet World will be Oct. 5-9 in New York City. Keynote speakers include C. Michael Armstrong of AT&T, James Barksdale of Netscape Communications Corp., Lawrence Ellison of Oracle Corp., John Gage of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. and John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., plus there will be six vertical tracks of seminars. For more information, call MecklerMedia at (203) 226-6967. ... The Managing Creative Services seminar will be repeated Oct. 8-9 in Orlando, Fla. (see above). ... The Project Management Institute's annual seminar and symposium, "Tides of Change," will be Oct. 11-14 in Long Beach, Calif. For more information, e-mail pmihq@pmi.org or call (610) 356-4600. ... The IFRA '98 exposition and congress will be Oct. 12-16 in Lyons, France. The exposition includes one of the world's largest newspaper equipment trade shows, while the congress will address topics such as improving color reproduction, newspaper intranets, technical innovations in covering soccer's World Cup and color management and image workflow. For more information, send e-mail to events@IFRA.com or call (011) {49} 6151-733-6. ... Concurrent with IFRA, the World Electronic Publishing Conference will be held Oct. 15-16 in Lyons. Sponsored by the World Association of Newspapers in conjunction with IFRA, the conference will address topics such as user attitudes and behaviors, on-line journalism, legal issues, advertising and e-commerce. For more information, e-mail events@IFRA.com. ...

Errors & Omissions: In last issue's roundup of suppliers using web browser technology to access their systems, we inadvertently listed an incorrect phone number for Prepress Solutions Inc. of Billerica, Mass.; the correct number is (978) 262-8300. Also, we neglected to credit Terry Hefferman, the photographer whose photo of the Apple iMac graced our cover. We regret the errors. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, September 1998, Copyright © 1998, All Rights Reserved.