COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Feb. 2, 2000

Feb. 2, 2000
Vol. 6, No. 5

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ADVANCED TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
The Wilmington, Mass.-based software developer and systems integrator of advertising and editorial publishing systems said it has made these recent installations:

-- Suburban Newspapers of Greater St. Louis in St. Louis, Mo., with more than 42 SUBURBAN JOURNAL editions and a combined circulation of 1 million, is in production with an 80-seat ATS AdVisor advertising system. The system interfaces with a Northwood Publishing Systems Inc., ClassPage pagination system and Integrated Newspaper Systems Inc. (INSI) business system. The system is headquartered at an office in Deer Tracks, Mo., and provides remote access to its ad order processing and billing through a WAN network connected to the shared database.

-- The TIMES REPORTER in New Philadelphia, Ohio, with a daily circulation of 23,907, and 25,909 on Sunday, is in production with a six-seat ATS AdVisor advertising system. The system interfaces with a Northwood ClassPage pagination system and an INSI business system.

-- The STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER of Springfield, Ill., with a daily circulation of 62,000 and 73,000 on Sunday is in production with a 25-seat ATS AdVisor advertising system. The system interfaces a ClassPage system, Managing Editor's Ad Layout System, a Collier-Jackson/Geac business system and an ICVERIFY Internet credit card verification system.

ATS is on the Web site at http://www.atsusa.com/.

AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INC.
The digital imaging company says that the newspaper ZERO HORA of Porto Alegre, Brazil, has installed two APS 3850 CTP Imagers and in two weeks brought them up to to full production.

ZERO HORA is running as many as 200 plates per day, per device, the Thousand Oaks, CALIF. company said. The entire 90-page daily tabloid is printed via the two computer-to-plate imagers. Two Glunz & Jensen on-line processors are used to develop Western Litho LY5 plates.

The Brazilian paper has a weekday circulation of 150,000 and publishes an average of 90 pages a day, 50-70 of which are in color. A second site, located in the city of Cruz Alta, has ordered a third APS 3850 CTP which is expected to be installed soon.

Autologic is on the Web at http://www.autologic.com/ and http://www.3850ctp.com/.

COMMTOUCH SOFTWARE
The integrated e-mail outsourcing services company has said that it has signed 101 new customers, including 35 international sites within the three months ending Dec. 31st, representing a 46 percent increase over the previous quarter.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it had signed Microsoft, USA TODAY, Epinions.com, eHobbies.com, com and SciFi.com. New international business includes ASAHI SHIMBUN, Toshiba and Scandinavia Online.

Commtouch is on the Web at http://www.commtouch.com/.

CREATIVEPRO.COM
The Portland, Ore.-based company has said that a strategic business relationship has been established with Mac Publishing.

The two companies will cross-link the front pages of their respective sites and cross-license selected content targeted at the professional audience. In addition, Mac Publishing will also make an equity investment in Creativepro.com. Specific terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.

Mac Publishing LLC publishes the world's leading independent Macintosh publication and Web sites. MACWORLD magazine reaches 1.6 million readers and Mac Publishing's Web presence garners an average of 1.2 million unique visitors; the sites include: Macworld.com, MacWEEK.com, MacCentral.com, MacBuy.com and iMacworld.com. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mac Publishing is a joint venture between Ziff-Davis Inc. and International Data Group.

Creativepro.com provides on-line information, products and e-services and is the parent company of the Extensis Products Group, makers of software productivity tools for creative professionals.

HARLEQUIN
The Waltham, Mass.-based company has announced that it has signed an OEM agreement with Pixelis Ltd., the makers of digiSEPS for CopyDot scanning and proofROOM for color proofing. Pixelis will incorporate the Harlequin ScriptWorks RIP into its new proofCREATOR color proofing solution for the Macintosh which drives Epson, Canon and Hewlett-Packard printers. proofCREATOR uses the ScriptWorks PostScript LanguageLevel 3 compatible interpreter to read both PostScript and PDF files and uses Pixelis' color management and color look-up tables that work with Apple's ColorSync.

Harlequin's Web site at http://www.harlequin.com/, while Pixelis is at http://www.pixelis-online.com/.

MICROTECH INTERNATIONAL INC.
The North Branford, Conn.-based company says that it has released a digital photography accessory, a triple-slot PCD-47B SCSI reader/writer. The new model is equipped with an industry-standard Type III PC Card slot and dedicated built-in CompactFlash and SmartMedia slot, allowing the widest variety of digital film or memory cards to be accessed.

Designed specifically for use in high-volume digital photo environments, the PCD-47B provides an elegant way to transfer images quickly from any digital camera to the host system for processing.

The PCD-47B is available in an internal 3.5-inch-by-1-inch form factor or in an external enclosure including a universal 40-watt auto-ranging power supply and cooling fan..

Microtech International is on the Web at http://www.microtechint.com/.

NEWSINC.
The bi-monthly newsletter on the business of the newspaper business focuses on the issue of what ads newspaper will and will not accept.

The ARIZONA DAILY STAR in Tucson has banned individuals to sell firearms through its classifieds and other newspapers have turned up the heat on not only guns, but tobacco and a variety of other topics -- including "crystal gazers" (clairvoyants and fortune tellers).

The newsletter, published by The Cole Group -- purveyors of fine information about the newspaper and publishing industries, including THE COLE PAPERS, COLE'S NOTES and this very newswire -- also highlights the recent change in the offer to sell the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, a look at 1999 last quarter earnings of publicly traded newspaper companies and a lawsuit in Philadelphia designed to restrict the distribution of a new daily.

NEWSINC., based in Daly City, Calif., is on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

RAVE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS INC. The e-business consulting company has released it eBiz Admin Toolbox for Lotus Domino, which has five tools to assist the Notes administrator in day-to-day activities, as well as in server consolidation.

E-mail Deleter can automatically delete mail once it reaches a certain date; Last Log On identifies inactive users so they may be purged from the Domino directory; Knowledge Manager identifies what individual or groups are opening which databases; Password Synch automatically changes the web password once a user changes their Notes password, and One Touch is a client side tool that automatically reconfigures the Notes desktop during a server consolidation.

The pricing for the tools starts at $1995 each or $9500 for the complete Toolbox.

Rave Software, of New York City and Cambridge, Mass., is on the Web at http://www.ravesoft.com/.

SCITEX CORPORATION LTD.
The digital imaging company has said that it is completing development of the Leaf C-MOST, active pixel CMOS sensor, a 6.6-mega pixel CMOS sensor in an ultra-thin package. This is the first full-size, 35mm CMOS sensor to be commercially developed.

With its ultra-thin packaging, the Leaf C-MOST sensor can be positioned in the focal plane of a standard 35mm camera, allowing full-size, high-resolution images to be captured using standard 35mm lenses. The Bedford Mass.-based company said that the Leaf C-MOST sensor provides "exceptional image quality" when compared to other CMOS sensors because of the unique active pixel design. And its high sensitivity and low noise levels are comparable to CCD technology currently available.

Scitex collaborated with three innovators on the research and development activities: FillFactory of Leuven, Belgium for the design of the CMOS sensor; Tower Semiconductor Ltd., of Migdal Haemek, Israel for the wafer fabrication process and ShellCase Ltd., of Jerusalem, Israel, for the development and production of the custom packaging.

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

SWALLOW INFORMATION SYSTEMS
The provider of customer relations software says that the DAILY TELEGRAPH of London has purchased a customer feedback management system to give readers improved customer support.

The company, which has offices in Beverly, Mass. and Surrey, United Kingdom, says that Charter 2000 helps the reader relations' team follow up and respond to the hundreds of reader questions which are received daily.

The software allows the workload to be divided up equally among the members of the customer relations team and prompts them to investigate each question and send an appropriate response to the reader. Urgent situations can be flagged up as priorities to make sure that the reader is contacted straight away.

Swallow is on the Web at http://www.swallow-us.com or http://www.charter-2000.com/

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