COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Jan. 24, 2001

Jan. 24, 2001
Vol. 7, No. 4

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ADSTAR.COM
Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., has entered into a strategic alliance that will integrate the Kodak Picture Ready application service into this Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based on-line classified-ad placement service, Advertise123.com.

The combined services will give AdStar's Advertise123.com users the ability to create, schedule and pay for classified ads with pictures in dozens of newspapers representing the top markets in the United States.

The Kodak Picture Ready service gives companies and consumers doing business over the Internet a way to post pictures of their products on-line for buyers to see, and provides image management and hosting services.

The service lets customers add photos from computers, scanners, digital cameras, Kodak Picture CDs, Kodak Picture Disks or from Kodak PhotoNet, on-line to their products or service advertisements for publishing on-line or in print.

AdStar is on the Web at http://www.adstar.com/, while Kodak is located at http://www.kodak.com/.

ARTESIA TECHNOLOGIES
Time Warner Trade Publishing (TWTP) has selected this Rockville, Md.-based company's software to support a corporate-wide e-business initiative designed to expand the reach of its publishing holdings.

TWTP will utilize Artesia's TEAMS digital asset management systems to create enterprise-wide web-accessible digital archives for the storage and reuse of both print and audio books and their individual components. The system will also manage other related assets such as original manuscripts, book jacket and cover artwork, author biographies, fact sheets and editorial reviews.

Artesia is on the Web at http://www.artesia.com/.

CANOPY LLC
This Seattle, Wash.-based joint venture of PrimeSource and Xeikon NV has announced that it has successfully installed a number of digital printing systems. Canopy was able to leverage the combined resources to record significant new business and promising growth.

Kinko's installed three digital presses for its Corporate Printing and Finishing Centers (CPFC) in Atlanta, Los Angeles and San Jose. KP Corp. has identified opportunities for web-to-print, customized fulfillment applications in Milpitas, Calif. Additionally, Seneca Printing uses its Xeikon digital print capabilities in Franklin, Pa., for general commercial printing applications.

Canopy is on the Web at http://www.canopyprint.com/.

CAREERBUILDER
The full-scale expansion of this career network has been announced by the Reston, Va.-based company. Employers can now reach specific groups of candidates, across the country or around the corner from one source, the CareerBuilder Network.

Through the CareerBuilder Network's improved Mega Job Search technology, job candidates can easily run individually tailored job searches and pinpoint the right jobs for them. Employers on the CareerBuilder Network gain exclusive exposure to the best-known career centers on the Web.

CareerBuilder is on the Web at http://www.careerbuilder.com/.

COLD NORTH WIND INC.
This Canadian business-to-business supplier of web-based information has announced its continuing expansion into the United States with the opening of its Boston area sales office. With headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, the company will continue to increase its sales staff in Boston to keep pace with business prospects.

Cold North Wind is on the Web at http://www.coldnorthwind.com/.

DESKNET INC.
This New York City-based company has announced the shipping of version 2.5 of its DeskNetAPS cross-media publishing automation software.

Among the new features of DeskNetAPS v2.5 is an improved user interface, as well as movable and resizable automation windows; systematic linking of automation sequences; additional keyboard shortcuts and cascading menus, and new automation actions with color schemes to differentiate them. The upgrade to version 2.5 is offered free to all DeskNetAPS users with an active maintenance agreement.

Additionally, DeskNet has announced that the Retirement Plan Services division (RPS) of the Baltimore-based asset management firm, T. Rowe Price, has adopted DeskNetAPS to automate the production of its financial documentation and reports. Using DeskNet's robotic technology, T. Rowe Price has substantially reduced the production time of its sales box and client box pages, from 20 hours per fund to one-hour cumulative runtime. Also, Retirement Plan Services' customers now receive financial information sooner, enhancing their relationship with the firm.

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

INFINET
This Norfolk, Va.-based service provider to media web sites has expanded its offsite data center. The move gives InfiNet one-third more server capacity and doubles its data storage capacity at the Exodus Communications facility in Sterling, Va.

Throughput on InifNet servers has more than doubled during the past year, and because its core clients are newspaper web sites, the company must build significant excess capacity into its infrastructure to accommodate traffic surges resulting from breaking news stories.

After moving its data center to Sterling in late 1999, InfiNet has continued to upgrade its infrastructure at the site throughout 2000 using an ongoing demand forecasting process to project needs.

InfiNet is on the Web at http://www.infinet.com/.

PAGEFLEX INC.
In conjunction with this Cambridge, Mass.-based company, IT Mentor of Scandinavia, has announced the signing of a distribution agreement for IT Mentor to market, sell and support Mpower and Persona one-to-one business publishing software in Sweden.

Pageflex Mpower is a scalable document composition solution, while Persona is a variable content desktop publishing application. Both products include Pageflex's template technology.

Pageflex Inc. is on the Web at http://www.pageflexinc.com/, while IT Mentor is located at http://www.itmentor.se/.

SOFT SOLUTIONS INC.
This developer of information management systems has announced the purchase of the 4-Sight Fax product from WAM!NET Inc., a Macintosh client-server software application that allows users to convert a Mac computer into a fax server.

Based in Atlanta, Soft Solutions has acquired the licensing and trademark rights to the Macintosh client/server software application, a combination which allows users on an attached network to send and receive faxes from their desktops, managing all the queuing, imaging, sending and receipt notification of these faxes.

Soft Solutions is on the Web at http://www.softsinc.com/.

VIO WORLDWIDE LTD.
This global applications service provider (ASP) for the media production and graphic communications industries has moved its North American headquarters to Newark, N.J.

Vio Worldwide Ltd.'s move to larger offices in Newark gives access to the entire New York metro printing and publishing market and allows the company to consolidate its growing marketing, sales administration and customer care operations at one location.

Vio is on the Web at http://www.vio.com/.

WORD OF MOUTH
Based in Boulder, Co., this Internet company has established a nationwide network of local consumer-opinion web sites and has entered into agreements with the STAR TRIBUNE of Minneapolis (and DENVER POST to become the first distribution partners.

By creating co-branded Word of Mouth web sites, with links on the home pages of both newspapers' web sites, the STAR TRIBUNE (389k) and DENVER POST (420k) will offer consumers a forum for exchanging opinions about local merchants and services. The two newspaper sites will offer multiple ways for visitors to use Word of Mouth to find and evaluate their local service providers, as well as the ability to post a question on the site and let the community deliver the answer.

Word of Mouth is on the Web at http://www.wordofmouth.com/.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
The News Design Foundation and the Harte Chair for Innovation at the University of Missouri is sponsoring the third annual Tomrrow's Newspaper Design Content. The best of show prize is $1000.

The contest asks entrants to create a prototype of their idea; the concept must be unpublished but may incorporate already-published content and art.

There are no entry fees and people may enter as often as they wish; team entries are also accepted. A $500 prize is offered in both professional and student categories, in addition to the $1000 best of show.

The deadline is Feb. 12, 2001.

The contest is on the Web at http://digmo.com/tnc/.

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