COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Jan. 12, 2000

Jan. 12, 2000
Vol. 6, No. 2

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ADSTAR.COM
The former AdStar Services of Marina Del Rey, Calif., a provider of remote ad entry solutions for publishers and advertisers, has become a partner with CareerEngine Inc. of New York City, a subsidiary of Helmstar Group Inc., a publicly traded merchant bank.

CareerEngine will power AdStar's on-line job posting service and provide cross-marketing opportunities. Employers at any of the 23 CareerEngine category-specific career sites will be able to create, schedule and pay for recruitment ads and packages in the CareerEngine Network. In addition, CareerEngine's Network of sites will be available directly to advertisers from AdStar's Advertise123.com Web site.

AdStar.com is on the Web http://www.adstar.com/, while CareerEngine is at http://www.careerengine.com/.

CAREERPATH.COM
The Los Angeles-based CareerPath.com and Australia's CareerOne, the job site recently launched by News Ltd. subsidiary News Interactive, have agreed to an agreement where CareerPath.com will be introduced to job seekers in Australia as the preferred U.S. career site. In turn, Australians will have access to CareerPath.

News Ltd. is a subsidiary of News Corp. and publishes more than 120 daily metropolitan, regional and suburban titles in Australia, including THE AUSTRALIAN, the national daily broadsheet.

CareerPath.com also announced a series of agreements with content providers designed to provide job seekers with more career management services. New CareerPath partners include SalarySource, Brainbench and Yipinet.

CareerPath is on the Web at http://www.careerpath.com, while the CareerOne site is at http://www.careerone.com.au.

CCI EUROPE
JYLLANDS-POSTEN, Denmark's largest daily newspaper, is now in full production on a new advertising system from CCI Europe.

The CCI AdDesk Sales System integrates advertising workflow into a single advertising management system. Its features include ad order entry, ad sales prompting and selling acceleration functions, sales force automation tools, credit control and invoicing as well as management information systems (MIS) functionality such as advanced reporting and real-time operational statistics.

JYLLANDS-POSTEN is the first newspaper to install the CCI AdDesk Sales System. The project is a development project and JYLLANDS-POSTEN will have the next phases of the system installed during the coming years.

CCI Europe is based in Hojbjerg, Denmark, with U.S. offices in Roswell, Ga. JYLLANDS-POSTEN is on the Web at http://www.jp.dk, while CCI Europe is at http://www.ccieurope.com.

THE COLE PAPERS
The January number of the monthly newsletter of technology, journalism and publishing takes a hard look at why there was no chaos in the Year 2000 computer rollover.

Editor & Publisher David M. Cole speaks with a number of newspaper industry executives to determine what went right in the preparations for Y2K and he also monitored an international early warning system. Cole picks out the few bugs that were found and reports on the New Year's Eve dinner menu served in the newsroom of THE STAR-LEDGER in Newark, N.J.

Also in the January COLE PAPERS, Julius Duscha ponders why flexographic reproduction -- thought 20 years ago to be newspapers' savior from offset lithography -- hasn't taken off the way it was supposed to. Correspondent Steven E. Brier checks out the latest trends in digital cameras, while Correspondent Jay Small goes back to college to see what they're teaching about new media in journalism schools today.

THE COLE PAPERS, published by The Cole Group, purveyors of this very newswire along with other fine products such as NEWSINC. and COLE'S NOTES, is available on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

GROUP WEST SYSTEMS CALIFORNIA LTD.
This company, formed by the acquisition of Nova Publishing Systems and AISI, both of Auburn, Calif. by Group West Systems Ltd. of British Columbia, Canada, has announced a compliant, two-way transaction server for newspapers to provide consumer-to-business and business-to-business information exchange using newly published XML standards.

The Nova Connex XML Server enables publishers to integrate business systems or Web servers with classified advertising or editorial front-end systems. It supports both the Newspaper Association of America's ADEX standard for multimedia publishing of classified advertising and the International Press Telecommunications Council's News Industry Text Format and NewsML standards for the interchange of news data.

The Connex XML Server has three remote client applications that can be integrated with any existing front-end system: Web Connex for remote web classified entry, Ad Connex for agency remote entry and account management and News Connex for remote reporting.

Group West has signed an agreement with Global Digital Technologies for the underlying Connex technology.

Global Digital Technologies Inc. of El Dorado Hills, Calif., is on web at http://www.gdt-inc.com/, while Group West Systems California is on the web at http://www.gwcal.com/.

MANAGING EDITOR INC.
The Jenkintown, Pa. supplier of publishing system technology has released Roundhouse 2.0. The latest version of the digital workflow management program includes features such as automatic PDF and EPS generation, extensive preflight checks, font control and support for Adobe InDesign.

Roundhouse is based on a client/server architecture that combines a high-powered SQL database, Windows NT and a client interface to monitor and manage advertising production.

Managing Editor is on the Web at http://www.maned.com.

POWERADZ.COM
PowerAdz.com, a provider of on-line services to newspapers based in Rensselaer, N.Y., which counts several media companies as its investors, has announced that has gained $9 million in new private equity in December. The sum includes $7.5 million in new capital and $1.5 million in fully exercised warrants.

The investors include First Albany Enterprise Funding, Advantage Capital Partners, Hudson Venture Partners LP, Exponential Business Development and TS Capital. PowerAdz.com now has more than 1200 affiliated newspapers on its network of web sites which carry such brands as AdQuest, CarCast and AuctionHill.

The company also said that it signed 168 new newspaper affiliates in December, bringing total affiliates to more than 1200.

PowerAdz.com is on the Web at http://www.poweradz.com/.

PROIMAGE AMERICA INC.
The Israeli company with offices in Princeton, N.J., has announced that it has won the contract to supply USA TODAY with its NewsWay workflow automation and page transmission system as a part of USA TODAY's computer-to-plate project.

The sale was made in conjunction with the Pitman Co.

ProImage is installing a NewsWay version 3.5 workflow management system, including regionalization capabilities, at 33 USA TODAY printing sites in the United States and three sites internationally.

With annual revenues of $600 million, Totowa, N.J.'s Pitman Co. is on the Web at http://www.pitmanco.com/, while ProImage is on the web at http://www.newsway.com/.

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