COLE'S NEWSWIRE, February 28, 1996

February 28, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 9

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APPLE COMPUTER INC.
Without hardly a hint of the Macintosh operating system, Apple has released its newest computer and it runs on IBM's flavor of UNIX.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based company introduced the Network Server family yesterday at Seybold Boston. It is a PowerPC-based server that is priced around $11,000 and has a number of features designed specifically for the publishing industry.

The storage system in the Network Server 500 and 700 systems are Fast/Wide SCSI-2 and memory can support up to 512 megabytes. The systems include two Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) buses and slots for up to six PCI cards. Many components of the servers are redundant, with easy access for quick replacement: power supplies, disk drives and cooling fans are all "hot-swappable."

The storage bays are easy to access and flexible, giving users the ability to install seven 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch half-height drives or three 5.25-inch full-height SCSI devices. Drives from third-party manufacturers such as FWB Inc. and MicroNet Technology Inc. are supported.

Apple has licensed IBM's AIX 4.1.4 UNIX operating system to use the in Network Server family. The company said it chose AIX "because many publishing customers current use UNIX-based servers in demanding server environments."

The Network Servers support AppleTalk services, allowing the servers to be managed from a remote Macintosh or PowerBook.

The company also announced its new line of Mac OS-based Workgroup Servers that provide faster PowerPC performance with expanded flexibility using the PCI bus architecture. The new servers come bundled with one of three software packages tailored to small- and medium-sized businesses, schools and publishing organizations. These solutions provide web publishing, Mac OS-based application services, and high-performance AppleShare file and print services.

The new Workgroup Servers 7250/120 and 8550/132 are Apple's first server products to feature the PCI bus, allowing customers to take advantage of a broad range of expansion cards. The servers use the 120 MHz PowerPC 601 processor in the Workgroup Server 7250 and the 132 MHz PowerPC 604 processor in the Workgroup Server 8550. Both run System 7.5.3 which includes Open Transport 1.1 for faster and more reliable networking. The Workgroup Server 6150/66 remains in the product line as Apple's lowest cost Internet server.

And the company announced a new World-Wide Web server package, the Apple Internet Server Solution for the World-Wide Web.

Apple Internet Server Solution 2.0 couples award-winning software from industry-leading Internet developers with Apple's powerful new Workgroup Servers to provide webmasters with a complete web server for creating multimedia-rich sites.

The CD-ROM contains this software: WebSTAR 1.2.5 from StarNine, a Quarterdeck company; PageMill 1.0, from Adobe Systems; RealAudio Server 1.0 from Progressive Networks; NetCloak 2.0 from Maxum Development; Apple's MacDNS domain name server software for the Mac OS; ServerStat 1.0 from Kitchen Sink Software; BBEdit 3.5.2 from Bare Bones Software Inc.; Netscape 2.0 from Netscape Communications Corp.; AppleSearch 1.5.1; Acrobat Pro 2.1 from Adobe Systems; MapServe and WebMap, image map software from CityNet Express and Kelly A. Campbell; Tango and Butler SQL from EveryWare Development; Email CGI from Eric Lease Morgan, and HyperCard and AppleScript from Apple Computer.

CAMERON COMMUNICATIONS
The operator of the CompuServe Journalism Forum has opened a new site on the Internet's World-Wide Web. The site offers information about the Darien, Conn.-based firm's media services, which include on-line workshops in media relations; media and speech training; voiceovers and announcing on videos, and hotlinks to JFORUM and other public relations sites.

The Camcomm home page can be found at http://www.camcomm.com. Founded in 1982, Cameron Communications Inc. provides media consulting services to major public relations firms and corporations worldwide. Its founder and president, Jim Cameron, established the firm after an award-winning journalism and broadcasting career. Cameron has served as sysop of CompuServe's Journalism Forum since he began it in 1985.

DATAWARE TECHNOLOGIES
Dataware Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., has announced the first group of customers for its recently launched NetAnswer "super server" software for the World-Wide Web.

Major web sites have been established for: -- Gale Research Inc. (), an International Thomson Publishing Information/Reference Group company which provides over 480 active databases in print, on-line and CD-ROM.

-- Copyright Clearance Center Inc. (), a not-for-profit corporation which facilitates compliance with U.S. copyright law by providing collective licensing systems involving the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted materials worldwide.

-- HealthGate Data Corp. (), provides on-line access to biomedical information, including bibliographic databases, full-text journals, reference books and continuing education programs to libraries, physicians, nurses, researchers and consumers.

-- American Mathematical Society ().

Dataware also provided "Intranet" applications for Exxon Research & Engineering Co.; the U.S. Air Force Legal Information Services, and Rohm & Haas (). The NetAnswer "super server" is a robust information management, query and retrieval system for the World-Wide Web. It enables large-scale information providers to distribute large volumes of data, text and multimedia content via the Internet. NetAnswer prices start at $15,000.

EDGIL ASSOCIATES INC.
Tribune Co. has purchased Chelmsford, Mass.-based Edgil Associates Inc.'s WebCentral software system as a corporate interactive World-Wide Web advertising solution.

WebCentral will process ads from the FORT LAUDERDALE (Fla.) SUN-SENTINEL, ORLANDO (Fla.) SENTINEL, CHICAGO TRIBUNE and NEWPORT NEWS (Va.) DAILY PRESS. A user on the Internet will be able to access the advertising databases and search on such topics as automotive, employment and real estate. WebCentral will be used for displaying the database contents from multiple Tribune sites, and will support optimized database query capabilities and ad placement.

Edgil's AdParse feature will index and normalize each ad as it is received, freeing the newspapers from having to deal with variations in the way ads are entered. These data are fed into a Sybase relational database referred to as the WebOptimize database which, in concert with the Edgil Access Processor, supplies Tribune with high on-line performance under extreme user load, and meets the specific needs of the World-Wide Web application environment.

ENCAD INC.
San Diego-based Encad has introduced the 50-inch NovaJet Pro 50, billed as the widest low-cost large format color inkjet printer. Twelve kinds of media are matched to the ink set, and Macintosh and Windows printer drivers are provided. An automatic media feed and take-up device permits unattended printing overnight or on weekends.

The NovaJet Pro 50 has a printable area 49.5 inches wide and can handle 150-foot rolls of media. Encad's proprietary inkjet cartridges provide long-term operation from four 500 ml reservoirs, which can be refilled while the machine is running.

JOHN JULIANO COMPUTER SERVICES CO.
Decatur, Ga.-based JJCS has announced that its Atex-to-Quark XPress product, Atan EXPRESS CD, is in production at the weekly CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Atan EXPRESS executes Atex markup formats within XPress, which the CHRONICLE uses in Quark Copy Desk as part of the Quark Publishing System environment.

The CHRONICLE said that with EXPRESS, a 48-page calendar supplement that used to take five days to produce now takes only three.

LEXIS-NEXIS
Several publications have recently purchased one or more of the NewsView Solutions products from Lexis-Nexis of Dayton, Ohio.

Purchasers of NewsView 4.0, a text archiving system, include the NAPLES (Fla.) DAILY NEWS (44k morning), STUART (Fla.) NEWS (33k morning) and SASKATOON STAR PHOENIX, a 58k morning paper in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The STAR PHOENIX was among three purchasers of PhotoView 4.0, an image archiving system. The other two were the DUBUQUE (Iowa) TELEGRAPH HERALD (34k evening) and THE COLUMBIAN, a 54k evening daily in Vancouver, Wash.

The Dubuque paper was one of four that purchased NewsView Connections, a distribution management system for moving text and images to an on-line environment. Also acquiring NewsView Connections were the READING (Calif.) SEARCHLIGHT (38k evening); ANNAPOLIS (Md.) CAPITAL GAZETTE (45k evening); ASHEVILLE (N.C.) CITIZEN-TIMES (68k morning); LAWTON (Okla.) CONSTITUTION (24k morning), and New Times Inc., publisher of a weekly paper in Phoenix, Ariz.

MISSION CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Faxmeister Mission Critical of Concord, Mass., has announced three recent sales of its AdFAX and AdFAST products.

The AUSTIN (Texas) AMERICAN-STATESMAN (173k morning) bought both PC-based software products. AdFAX handles incoming faxes from advertisers, converting them into text files for later verification by ad takers. AdFAST enables advertisers to file text directly to the AdServe database from Mission Critical in the paper's classified department.

The WASHINGTON POST (814k morning) bought an upgrade of AdFAX, while the DAYTON (Ohio) DAILY NEWS (172k morning) has installed AdFAST to complement AdFAX, which the Cox paper has been using since June 1995.

TV DATA
Television listings supplier TV Data of Queensbury, N.Y., has inaugurated ClickTV, a World-Wide Web site that provides daily listings for viewers in the continental United States.

ClickTV, at http://clicktv.com, features national and regional listings for more than 50 channels. Also available are articles about television, regular columns from TV Data Features, and puzzles.

Listings are organized by grid, for morning/afternoon/evening/late night, and by category -- children's shows, sports, specials and movies. Listings are updated daily.

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