This was Phase Two of the POST AND COURIER's installation of a 180-seat ATS Publishing System; Phase One was an 85-seat advertising system installed last summer.

The editorial system includes 95 editorial workstations and 15 Quark XPress pagination workstations; Tracker for monitoring pages, elements and deadline thresholds; Agate Processor for automatic agate file conversion and management; messaging with remote assistance, and web publishing configured to automatically send content destined for the Web to the Internet group.

Callas Software is on the Web at http://www.callas.de/.

Jazbox is a suite of three database-driven content management and publishing tools: Newsjaz, Webjaz and Jazstor. The three pieces can function independently, interface with other systems or be tightly integrated into a single system.

The analyzer can check on the quality of media coverage of a given company to see whether it has improved or deteriorated over time. The service also provides links to news articles used in the analysis, and track the company's stock price against the media favorability ratings.

The company also said that in 2001, it installed software on almost 1600 workstations at a wide variety of newspapers.

NewsEdge provides real-time news and information products to about 1500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits and professional service firms worldwide.

WireTracker, which allows each user to perform full-text searches of the wires, will alert users by e-mail, pager or mobile phone when a story matching specific search terms moves on the wire.

Story Studio, a hosted application that is used through a web browser, supports input from Rich Text Format files as well as regular text entry. The application also supports output in Quark XPress tagged format files, allowing stories that were originally entered on the web site to be published in the print edition as well.

The kiosks are positioned at hotels, airports, cruise ships and convention centers through a network of 31 dealers in 20 countries. The PRESSPOiNT network is expected to have more than 1000 kiosks in operation by year's end.

PEPC Worldwide is on the Web at http://www.pepcworldwide.com/.

SCS/ClassPag will interface with the paper's SII classified system, as well as the paper's Cascade ad database and Hermes editorial system.

The student magazine and web site produced by the editors of TIME Magazine, TIME For Kids will provide news to the KidNews OnePage and Kids Elements package syndicated by Knight Ridder/Tribune.

CNET will provide weekly content for US Express personal technology page, including personal and small business technology advice, technology product reviews and CNET's "Editors' Top Five" product rankings.

Reports on the Weather Channel's television broadcasts will now feature news from USA TODAY reporters, with the paper's television production unit, USA TODAY LIVE, providing scheduled reports on weather-related business stories to the Weather Channel each morning. In addition, the 22 television stations owned by USA TODAY parent company Gannett Co. Inc. of McLean, Va., will have opportunities to provide breaking news coverage to the cable weather outlet.

Wieck, which provides distribution of multimedia material for corporate media relations department and news organizations, manages the Michelin Media Center during the auto show. The company posts images on its own web site -- which has 4000 registered media users worldwide -- as well as on the sites it manages and maintains for its clients, which include American Honda Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Toyota North America.

The Agfa Phoenix is a four-up, internal-drum film or polyester plate imagesetter with a 68,000-revolution per minute spinner motor imaging 2400 dots-per-inch (dpi) plates in about 50 seconds. Xitron's interface supports the Phoenix recorders at full speed with data rates in excess of 13 megabytes per second.