COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Sept. 27, 2000

Sept. 27, 2000
Vol. 6, No. 32

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ADSTAR.COM INC.
The Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based channel for the placement of print and on-line classifieds, has announced that it has added newspapers representing 25 new markets to its classified-ad portal, Advertise123.com.

AdStar.com Inc.'s Advertise123.com offers advertisers the ability to create, schedule and pay for a classified ad in one or more of a growing number of print newspapers, as well as many on-line web sites, targeting more than 165 million people (76 percent of the U.S. metropolitan population).

AdStar.com Inc. is on the Web at http://www.adstar.com/.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Tennessee's CHATTANOOGA TIMES/FREE PRESS (41k) has installed the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company's editorial software, including the IQue Editorial System, complete with 71 NewsEditPro IQue workstations. Also in Chattanooga are DragX and QTools on 16 pagination workstations; Transporter and associated plug-ins; WireManager, and IQue Hot Backup.

Baseview is on the Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

CAREERBUILDER INC.
A provider of targeted interactive recruiting on the Web, the Reston, Va.-based company has announced the signing of an agreement with HireDiversity.com -- a partnership providing employers with a recruitment link for staffing diversity initiatives.

Employers posting jobs within the CareerBuilder Network will now be able to post their positions on HireDiversity.com, which will continue to drive active and passive job seekers to their site and Job Search pages that now include CareerBuilder Network Jobs.

CareerBuilder is on the Web at http://www.careerbuilder.com/, while HireDiversity can be found at http://www.hirediversity.com/.

DESKNET INC.
Launching its new product, code-named ContentWelder, the New York-based company is offering an XML-based design and editing tool that can be used within a browser. DeskNet also introduced the latest upgrade to its flagship product, DeskNetAPS v.2.5, which offers new user interface, enhanced looping capabilities and on-the-fly automation reloading.

DeskNet is on the Web at http://www.desknetinc.com/.

GROUP LOGIC COMMUNICATIONS INC.
The Virginia-based software publisher has announced that ExtremeZ-IP 1.1.3 is now available as a free upgrade, providing optimizations for Windows 2000 on Intel, features, as well as performance enhancements on Windows NT 4.0 for both Intel and Alpha platforms.

On Windows 2000, ExtremeZ-IP enables Macintosh workstations to access files from the server at least twice as fast as with Windows 2000's built-in Services for Macintosh (SFM). The software also supports the Service Locations Protocol (SLP) that allows users to browse the network for servers rather than having to remember their TCP/IP addresses. Support for SLP is still not available in SFM.

Group Logic is on the Web at http://www.grouplogic.com/.

MACTIVE INC.
Melbourne, Fla.-based provider of publishing systems for the newspaper industry has announced that Charleston Newspapers of West Virginia, which publishing a morning paper -- the CHARLESTON GAZETTE (51k) -- an evening newspaper owned by the Media News, Inc. group -- the CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL (40k) -- and a Sunday paper -- the GAZETTE MAIL (100k) -- has signed a contract for a 17-seat AdBase system for classified-ad input and classified pagination.

Clients and servers will use Windows NT software with an SQL database. The papers will be interfaced to an Admarc financial system, will be using Mactive's Fax Manager Software for fax-in/fax-out and will be on-line to a credit-card clearing house program.

Mactive Inc. is on the Web at http://www.mactiveinc.com/.

NET-LINX PUBLISHING SOLUTIONS
The publishing systems supplier that was formed last summer with Net-Linx AG's acquisitions of CText Inc. and System Integrators Inc., has announced a reduction in force as a result of refining the strategic direction looking specifically at supporting the install base and future products.ÊThis reduction affects approximately eight percent of the workforce.

The company said that the reduction did not affect research and development and that the continuing commitment from Net-Linx AG in terms of financial and technology resources "places Publishing Solutions in a strong, competitive position."

Net-Linx also said that the "total acquisition" of CompuText Inc. of Houston is being completed and that CompuText technology will be integrated into the Net-Linx product line.ÊFurther, the company said that it is also investing in Cytura Corp. of Heathrow, Fla. and that it will be presenting Cytura's web products at IFRA.

Lastly, the company said it was opening a new European headquarters in Dresden, Germany, which will house sales, marketing and engineering staff to deliver Europeanized products of the same standards as products developed in the United States.

Net-Linx AG, headquartered in Dresden, Germany, is on the Web at http://www.net-linx.com, while CText of Ann Arbor, Mich., is at http://www.ctext.com and SII of Sacramento is at http://www.sii.com; Cytura is on the Web at http://www.cytura.com/.

PAGEFLEX INC.
In conjunction with North Plains Systems Corp., the Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of web-based marketing on demand software and Persona variable content desktop publishing software has announced the availability of a plug-in that integrates North Plains' TeleScope media asset management (MAM) technology with Mpower.

Pageflex's Mpower gives companies the ability to create customized marketing collateral on demand from a web browser and tailors messages to a specific audience, delivering instantly over the Web or print. Telescope's "meta-data" tags integrate with Mpower's content decision rules to select variable content, enabling the generation of one-to-one marketing documents.

Additionally, Pageflex has announced that Konzept-iX will market and support Pageflex Mpower and Persona software in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Konzept-iX also maintains an internal department for developing Web-based application programming based on Pageflex Mpower and a certified reseller network in various locations of the above-mentioned countries.

Pageflex is on the Web at http://www.pageflexinc.com/., while North Plains Systems Corp. is located at http://www.northplains.com/.

REALTIMEIMAGE
With offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Israel, this company is offering its new collaborative Web-based suite with high-resolution imaging capabilities. The RealTimeProof suite includes three advanced remote hard and soft proofing solutions, RealTimeProof Classic, RealTimeProof.com and RealTimeProof Express. Companies and individual users are able to employ the systems according to their specific proofing and equipment requirements and each application allows users to proof documents in real time using RealTimeImage's core Pixels-on-Demand image-streaming technology.

RealTimeImage is on the Web at http://www.realtimeimage.com/.

TEAMASA INC.
Designers, developers and marketers of high-speed networking communications for pre-press and multi-media professionals, the San Diego, Calif.-based company will begin shipping cyanPrintIP, a Print-over-IPserver running on Windows NT/2000 for Mac and PC clients, and MacServerIP, workstation version.

CyanPrintIP includes an integrated suite of services and cross-platform compatibility. The print server allows managing of the printers on AppleTalk and Windows network and productions workflow, and can do PostScript analysis and preflight checking for all print jobs before printing. Additionally, it can display the analysis and resource information of these jobs graphically. MacServerIP is the first AppleShare type server for Windows NT to support the Apple File Protocol over TCP/IP and is 200 to 400 percent times faster than Windows NT Services For Macintosh (SFM). The workstation version turns an NT workstation into an AppleshareIP server, connects up to 10 users and has all the features of a full working version of MacServerIP.

Team ASA is on the Web at http://www.teamasa.com/.

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