This was Phase One of the POST AND COURIER's installation of a 180-seat ATS Publishing System. The advertising system includes the ATS Remote Ad Management system, including AdOnTime for web-based order entry and AdFax for fax-in/fax-out ad management. It also includes a credit card clearinghouse from Edgil Associates Inc. of North Chelmsford, Mass., and interfaces to an existing classified pagination system and an existing business system.

The entire installation will use client workstations from Dell Computers and servers running Microsoft Windows 2000 with Sybase 12.0 SQL databases. A Dell PowerVault 660 Storage Area Network (SAN) and Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Service Technology provide redundancy and reliability.

The site provides access to licensing to more than 7000 fonts as well as an assortment of typographic content, ranging from "Type 101" to custom font services and information about industry events.

The company said that since adopting the fonts.com web site, its traffic has increased more than 100 percent.

With two leading suppliers (Net-Linx Publishing Solutions and Unisys) each getting new top executives and two other leading suppliers (Geac and Harris) selling their publishing systems divisions to venture capitalists, August 2001 "had more things happen than have ever happened in 30 days in this business."

The newsletter interviews the new chief executives at Net-Linx and Unisys, as well as the new top executives at the companies that have purchased the Geac and Harris subsidiaries.

Also in the September issue is an article on relational databases and why some suppliers -- and some publishers -- have elected to standardize on certain products.

The agreement calls for digitizing 50,000 to 55,000 full-page images, running from the paper's founding in 1917 to 1937. The project is anticipated to be completed in December.

Font Reserve Server will continue to be available for Windows NT and Windows 2000 workstations or servers, and it will support clients running Mac OS 9.1 and earlier.

Font Reserve 2.6 for Mac OS X will take full advantage of the new operating system's Aqua user interface, and will support all Macintosh font types.

Users can browser for files by category or search across all media by name, file content or custom-defined fields. Files that are used frequently can be stored in a "media basket," which functions like an on-line shopping cart.

QuarkDMS Media Portal is based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and eXtensible Style Language Transformations Language (XSLT).

Both Knight Ridder Digital and Switchboard will sell display advertising in customized directories and will share in resulting revenues. Switchboard will also offer web site creation and hosting to local merchants in Real Cities markets. Switchboard will provide a suite of customer management tools and services in support of the sales efforts, and will migrate existing Knight Ridder Digital customers onto the new system.

Orkla Press Polska has signed a contract to purchase SAXoTECH's Publicus Online Publishing system for its papers, which have a combined circulation of 400,000.

The Orkla Press Polska contract includes the Publicus Base System as well as add-ons which include the Query Module, the Agenda Module, the Classifieds module, the Multi-Channel Module for multimedia, the Chat Module, the Forms Module and the Guides Module.

The sites are scheduled to launch this month. Orkla Press Polska is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Norwegian media group Orkla Press AS.

The Herenco contract includes all of the base SAXoPRESS system, as well as the Newsroom Planning Module, Quark CopyDesk SE integration, the Tansa Text Proofing System and the SAXoBRS Archive System. In addition, the papers have also purchased the Publicus Online Publishing System with add-ons including the Agenda Module, the Query Module, the Wire Services Module, the Advertising Module, the Multi-Channel Module and the Chat Module.

The Herenco system will be staged on a single-server cluster, for a total of 227 editorial users across the 10 newspapers. The SAXoPRESS clients will be run on Macintosh OS desktop computers.

The Piccolo devices are the size of car key and attach to the computer through the Universal Serial Bus (USB) port and are available in sizes from 32-megabytes to 256-megabytes.

On a Macintosh or Windows PC, the Piccolo mounts and appears on the desktop with no further user interaction and can be written to or read from like any other volume.

A 32-megabyte Piccolo is expected to retail for $99.95; a 64-megabyte Piccolo is to be sold for $189.95; a 128-megabyte device is priced at $349.95, and the 256-megabyte version is $599.95.

ZIP code-accessible TV listings and a search engine from Zap2it.com allow users to search for televised sports -- as well as all other television programming -- on the CBS site.

TMS has created a custom-built toolkit that allows CBS SportsLine.com to enter links within a week-at-a-glance grid, taking users directly to sport statistics and additional content from other sections of the site. The system is also designed to provide video links of sports highlights on the grid.