The MORNING NEWS has configured two Sun Enterprise 420 servers at its home office, driving computer-to-plate (CTP) and film imagers at its Plano printing site, as well as over 30 network proofing devices at various locations.

Sales Command will be interfaced to EL UNIVERSAL's Oracle financial system, replacing a Harris classified system. The Sales Command system includes more than 60 Cyber$ell and five CyberCla$$Page workstations.

Papers such as Minneapolis' STAR TRIBUNE (400k), the NEWS & OBSERVER (180k) of Raleigh, N.C., and the SACRAMENTO BEE (286k) will be able to offer employment advertisers a "one-stop" e-recruiting system and provide job seekers a confidential career service that focuses on local employers within a national recruitment network.

MSNBC.com will use Rightslink to instantly license digital content, such as interactive links and original news articles, directly to customers. An interactive link is a multimedia package placed on the licensee's web site; a visitor can use the link to receive a news presentation that combines audio, video and text on a particular topic. For example, the MSNBC interactive "On the Front Lines" shows deployments of troops in the Middle East against a map of the region.

Rightslink, CCC's digital rights management solution, licenses and delivers on-line content electronically to users. By clicking on a link located near a news item on MSNBC.com, customers can obtain instant permission to reuse that content in print and digital formats.

DER REPORTER will upgrade to AdSpeed 5, which uses Adobe InDesign and an extensive ad production database. AdProof, a plug-in to AdSpeed, will allow advertisers to proof their ads over the Internet. The paper will also upgrade to NewsSpeed 5, which will bring the design tools of InDesign into a multi-user production database. SpeedWriter integrates the text editing capabilities of Adobe InCopy.

Version 2.1 of ExtremeZ-IP gives administrators additional control and system status information, including detailed information and control over users, files, volumes, print queues and individual print jobs under management. The product also offers performance gains from directory index optimizations, improved support for the Service Location Protocol, better support for LPR printers, and an enhanced Windows Explorer plug-in for managing Macintosh file permissions. Version 2.1 of ExtremeZ-IP is a free upgrade to existing customers with maintenance agreements.

The company also said that it had released Version 3.1 of Imagexpo, its softproofing system. With Imagexpo, printers and other graphics professionals transmit digital "softproofs" over the Internet to their clients. Reviewers annotate images with comments, then return the marked up proofs.

The paper will also be using Mactive's Nomadic Client software to exchange information between AdBase and a remote client, as well as AdLink for ad production management. The system includes interfaces to PPI, Burt packaging system, a credit card clearinghouse and Faxmaker.

The company also said Capital-Gazette Newspapers of Annapolis, Md., has purchased a 36-workstation AdBase system for classified ad input, classified pagination and accounts receivable. The paper will use Microsoft Windows 2000 clients and Sun Microsystems (UNIX) servers with an Oracle database.

Capital-Gazette Newspapers publishes six newspapers and one magazine with a total circulation of about 300,000, including THE CAPITAL (50k), a daily newspaper serving the Annapolis area.

Singapore Press Holdings also purchased two additional Compaq NonStop ServerNet systems to extend its server farm and provide for a disaster recovery system at the print plant on the outskirts of the city. The project started in October 2001 by upgrading all existing systems to the same baseline and operating system level. The library system was also consolidated into one of the latest Compaq NonStop Servernet configurations.

The TRIBUNE joins the NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY DEAL, Canada's GLOBE AND MAIL, and a half-dozen overseas publications in using the service. Distribution via NewsStand counts as paid circulation under rules used by the Audit Bureau of Circulations of Schaumburg, Ill.

The first phase of the deployment will focus on the requirements of the STAR TRIBUNE's direct marketing and interactive media services. Noosh will help automate the workflow of the entire ad lifecycle, from initial order to scheduling and placement. STAR TRIBUNE managers will rely on Noosh reporting tools to identify workflow bottlenecks and establish benchmarks for improvement.

The second phase of the deployment will concentrate on print services that the STAR TRIBUNE provides to its customers. To date, more than 100 STAR TRIBUNE personnel and 25 suppliers have been trained to use Noosh.

With .EDIT, companies can create web sites with a library of well-designed document templates and allow any authorized web site visitor to create customized versions of these documents, containing full-featured typography and graphic design elements, using nothing more than a web browser and an Internet connection.

Pageflex .EDIT combines the features of Pageflex's XML-based NuDoc composition engine with Java applet technologies to deliver documents to Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers for both PC and Macintosh platforms.

PRESSPOiNT, PEPC's interactive kiosk, prints the latest edition of 75 newspapers from 38 countries, including Paris' INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, USA TODAY, the LOS ANGELES TIMES, Spain's EL PAIS, Italy's IL GIORNALE, Germany's DIE WELT, Turkey's HURRIYET and EL ECONOMISTA of Mexico.

In India, the first PRESSPOiNT was installed at the ITC Maurya Sheraton Hotel & Towers in New Delhi. PEPC expects to install about 50 PRESSPOiNTS in India this year. The first Indonesian PRESSPOiNT was installed at the Mercantile Athletic Club in Jakarta; about 15 PRESSPOiNTS will be installed this year at Surabaya, Bali, and Yogyakarta.

The print and on-line employees of THE ITEM and THE MESSENGER (a semi-weekly publication in Hartsville, S.C.) will use one 30-workstation SAXoPRESS system to write, edit and produce all of its print and on-line products. The Publicus system will help automate the production of the company's two web sites. SAXoPRESS and Publicus will be integrated with THE ITEM's Mactive AdBase system.

The Item's SAXoPRESS system will be a mixed Mac OS and Windows 2000 solution. It will be staged on Windows 2000 servers running an Oracle8i database, with a mix of Mac OS and Windows 2000 reporting, editing and pagination workstations.

THE ITEM's Publicus system will be hosted and managed by SAXoTECH at its North American data center in Reston, Va.

The primary SCS/ClassPag server is a Hewlett-Packard tc2100 server running Linux; an IBM e-Server provides backup. Using Linux facilitates file sharing among Times Community Newspapers's PC and Macintosh workstations.

At Times Community Newspapers, SCS/ClassPag accepts ads from a Unisys/PPI order entry system where agate ads are built using Microsoft Word and classified display ads are built in QuarkXPress.

WeatherWatch offers prediction and reporting services for a newspaper's specific community, including long-range (seven day), short-range, local, national and international forecasts.