COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Jan. 31, 2001

Jan. 31, 2001
Vol. 7, No. 5

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ADSTAR.COM INC.
HR.com, a premier on-line community and e-marketplace for human resources professionals, has signed an agreement with this Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based company to provide HR.com's users with access to Advertise123.com's on-line newspaper classified-ad placement service.

As part of the agreement, AdStar.com Inc. has created a co-branded version of the Advertise123.com classified-ad sales channel that is integrated into HR.com's e-marketplace. The agreement enables HR professionals using HR.com to directly place classified advertisements into newspapers representing the top 100 U.S. markets in print and on-line through Advertise123.com.

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

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
North American Publishing Co., the Philadelphia-based publishers of PRINT MEDIA (formerly PUBLISHING AND PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE) magazine, BROADBAND SOLUTIONS, PRINTING IMPRESSIONS and numerous other titles, has installed LiveIQue cross-media publishing system from this Ann Arbor, Mich.-based supplier.

North American Publishing is currently using LiveIQue to publish web sites for PRINT MEDIA and BROADBAND SOLUTIONS, with plans to move all the company's web publications as soon as possible.

The company also said that six Colorado papers, a mix of weeklies and dailies formerly of the Stauffer group which are now part of Morris Communications Inc. of Savannah, Ga., have converted to Baseview's AdManagerPro for classifieds and have combined databases.

Baseview is on the Web at http://www.baseview.com/, while North American's web sites include http://www.printmediamag.com/ and http://www.broadbandsolution.com/.

COLD NORTH WIND INC.
MemorialsOnline.com Inc. of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, has entered into a business partnership with this Ottawa-based business-to-business supplier of web-based information.

Through this alliance, MemorialsOnline will gain access to death, birth and wedding announcements from thousands of North American newspapers, some dating back to 1750, as they are digitized in Cold North Wind's Paper of Record project.

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

FUSION SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL
This Portland, Ore.-based company has recently become a newly formed business entity. The company, formerly a division of graphic arts service provider Litho Development and Research, develops and delivers software and workflow systems for the photo imaging and graphic arts markets.

Fusion Systems provides a range of PostScript RIP (raster image processor) and digital pre-press workflow solutions for use with all digital proofers, film, imagesetters and computer-to-plate (CTP) devices.

Fusion Systems International is on the Web at http://www.fusiondfe.com/.

GDT-NOVA
The WASHINGTON POST (812k) has selected AdEZ remote classified entry product to allow the paper's existing front-end system to be used interactively for placing classified ads on-line. The AdEZ software, from Pleasanton, Calif.'s GDT-Nova, will enable the POST's customers to place classified ads using the Web with real-time pricing and proofing utilizing the POST's classified system.

The AdEZ application uses GDT-Nova's Connex XML Server, which integrates web servers with business systems, such as classified advertising or editorial front-end systems. AdEZ is a private party and commercial ad entry application allowing individuals and businesses to place classified orders (including photos and logos) through a standard Internet browser.

Gannett Media Technologies International (GMTI) of Cincinnati has chosen GDT-Nova's Connex XML Server technology to complement its Celebro.com Real Estate and Automotive advertising technologies. GMTI's Celebro.com enables newspapers to provide to their automotive dealers and real-estate customers easier ways to advertise in all of the newspaper's products. The Connex XML Server allows the advertiser's liner ads to be sent directly from Celebro to the newspapers' front-end classified systems without a need to re-key the data at the newspaper.

GDT-Nova is on the Web at http://www.gdtnova.com/, the POST is at http://www.washingtonpost.com/, while GMTI is at http://www.gmti.com/.

KNIGHTRIDDER.COM
This San Jose-based division of Knight Ridder has announced that the local news channels of its Real Cities network of city and regional web sites will be included in the Palm Mobile Internet Kit.

Under the arrangement, Real Cities will offer news channels optimized for Palm handheld users from leading U.S. newspapers nationwide as well as special interest sites such as Auto.com and the NASCAR-related site, ThatsRacin.com.

Palm handheld users with models other than the wirelessly enabled Palm VII series handheld, through the use of the Mobile Internet Kit and their data-enabled mobile phone, can choose to access local news by zip code, state or a pull-down menu of newspapers.

Real Cities is on the Web at http://www.realcities.com/, while KnightRidder.com is at http://www.knightridder.com/.

MONARCH BAY SOFTWARE INC.
Based in Houston, this software company has announced that it has expanded capabilities to its HelpTrac software product, which is a helpdesk program that allows businesses to better manage helpdesk problems and solutions, track calls, produce management information and build problem/solutions histories.

The enhanced web interface feature of HelpTrac allows technicians to read, open, close or edit tickets via the Internet, saving time and money. The main advantage of the new features is the ability to access HelpTrac from remote locations. Companies an now offer equal support to their employees in locations other than the central office.

Monarch Bay Software is on the Web at http://www.helptrac.com/.

NANDO MEDIA
Based in Raleigh, N.C., this interactive media division of Sacramento's McClatchy Co. continues to provide digital publishing solutions for the Web by announcing its fourth generation of publishing software.

Nando Media's Digital Workbench is a content management system and editing tool that extracts unformatted information from multiple databases and allows programmers, editors or page designers to manipulate the various elements in an automated production process.

The primary mission of the Digital Workbench is to minimize the programming support required by most publishing systems once they are deployed. The system allows changes and modifications to pages and sections within a web site to occur seamlessly.

Nando Media is on the Web at http://www.nando.com/, while its parent company is at http://www.mcclatchy.com/.

NEWSVIEW SOLUTIONS
The Salt Lake City-based supplier of archiving systems has announced that the ARIZONA DAILY STAR (94k) of Tuscon has purchased a full suite of NewsView Solutions products, including digital asset management, newsroom management and e-commerce systems.

Products that will be adopted by the DAILY STAR include NewsView 2000, PhotoView 2000, Assignment and SignUp.

NewsView Solutions is on the Web at http://www.newsviewsolutions.com/.

SAXOTECH INC.
This Danish company, which has U.S. offices in Rockville, Md., has announced that MORSO FOLKEBLAD (6k) has purchased a complete SAXoPRESS Content Management System, a suite of cross-platform and integrated tools for editorial print and on-line publishing, which will be used to publish the daily newspaper. SAXoPRESS will also be used to publish a weekly newspaper (18-40k). MORSO FOLKEBLAD is published on the island of Mors, which is in northwest Denmark.

The 25-seat system, which is to replace the newspaper's aging DDE system, will be running on Windows NT servers and an Oracle 8i database.

SAXoTECH is on the Web at http://www.saxotech.com/.

STORERUNNER NETWORK INC.
This e-commerce infrastructure company of San Jose, has announced its partnership with KnightRidder.com, founder of Real Cities. The partnership will allow both companies to work together to package merchant programs and sales initiatives, providing local and regional merchants with new opportunities to reach target customers.

The first phase of the partnership will be launched on such sites as BayArea.com, PittsburghFirst.com, Philly.com, NorthJersey.com, Miami.com and Indy.com. KnightRidder.com and StoreRunner will also co-sponsor merchant seminars in the cities served by the network.

As part of the venture, StoreRunner will develop a customized co-branded shopping channel with KnightRidder.com that includes new tools and host merchant promotions that will extend Real Cities' merchant platform and sales programs.

StoreRunner Network Inc. is on the Web at http://www.storerunner.com/.

WORLD ASSOCIATION OF NEWSPAPERS
The 54th World Newspaper Congress, organized the Paris, France-based World Association of Newspapers (WAN), will take the theme, "Reinventing the Newspaper Company: The Process Continues," and will focus on how leading newspaper industry decision makers are restructuring their organizations for growth by changing the way they do business.

The Congress, to be held with the Eighth World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo in Hong Kong from June 3-6, will have sessions focusing on how to reinforce and grow the core print business; how to provide both advertisers and readers with better service, and how they can build richer multimedia products, to name a few.

WAN is on the Web at http://www.wan-press.org/.

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