COLE'S NEWSWIRE, March 20, 1996

March 20, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 13

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AMERICAN COLOR
Phoenix, Ariz.-based American Color has introduced digisite.com, a scalable server for the World-Wide Web. A kind of virtual service bureau, digisite.com provides such small things as an initial home page to such big things as content management and full transactional capabilities.

Digisite.com is a service of American Color New Media Services.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview Products, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., installed software and hardware and trained at these publications in December.

-- The Morris Newspaper Group of Savannah, Ga (COASTAL COURIER, Hinesville, 4k weekly, and STATESBORO HERALD, 7k weekly, both Georgia): additional training on DisplayManager.

-- BIG RAPIDS (Mich.) PIONEER (5k morning): converted to ClassManagerPro with Accounts Receivables, added one copy of ClassFlow.

-- GROSSE POINTE NEWS of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. (17k weekly): one copy of AdminPro, 10 copies of NewsEditPro, one copy of CommLinkPlus and three pagination packages (including NewsEditPro, DragX and QTools).

-- HENDERSON (N.C.) DAILY DISPATCH (9k evening): three copies of ClassManagerPro, one Classified Accounts Receivables module and one copy of ClassFlow.

-- MAYVILLE (Wis.) NEWS (4k weekly): Two copies of ClassManagerPro, one Classified Accounts Receivables module and in-house training.

BOSTON GLOBE ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING INC.
Boston Marathon wonks have a new ticket to the event, thanks to Boston.com's Marathon Central at http://www.boston.com keyword: marathon.

Boston.com is a service of Boston Globe Electronic Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of the BOSTON GLOBE.

Opened in January, Marathon Central has been a resource for participants and fans of the 100th Boston Marathon, which will be run April 15. Using a query form, visitors can search for information on marathon entrants by first and last name, age, sex, bib number, city, state and citizenship.

Marathon Central also contains BOSTON GLOBE marathon stories and video from New England Cable News and WBZ-TV.

CASCADE SYSTEMS INC.
Cascade, of Andover, Mass., has made several business and product announcements:

-- Cascade introduced MediaSphere/W3, which provides the browsing capabilities of its MediaSphere archiving system over the Internet. Its applications set includes Adobe Acrobat and Sun Microsystems' Java.

-- Cascade now is on the ÕNet itself, at http://www.cascadenet.com.

-- The direct sales force of VGC Corp. of Minneapolis now is selling Cascade's product line. VGC is a graphics art supplier with 270 employees at 13 locations.

-- Publication Directions, a New York-based integrator of Quark Publishing Systems, has become a reseller of Cascade products in the metropolitan New York Tri-State area. The target market is magazine and book publishers.

-- Cascade designated Sun Microsystems of Mountain View, Calif., as its chosen supplier for server products.

CE ENGINEERING
CE, maker of the Coyote look-alikes Decade 33 and Decade Mac, has signed a site license, its second anywhere, with the CAIRNS POST (27k, morning) in Queensland, Australia. CE Engineering's first site license was with the LOS ANGELES TIMES.

CTEXT INC.
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based CText has announced a marketing agreement with Virtual Resources to use VR's agent-based search engine with its classified systems, facilitating interactive classified advertising on the World-Wide Web.

Virtual Resources develops agent-based interactive services, its first being CareerSite, a web site where job seekers are matched with job openings, including using agents to retrieve documents relevant to the job-seeker's profile.

Intelligent agents in this context use concept-based searches, so that a job description such as "programmer" is matched to a search for "software developer."

IMAGINA INC.
Imagina, of Portland, Ore., has announced development of Newstand, a Macintosh-based Usenet news server with EveryWare Development Corp.'s popular client/server database, Butler SQL, at its core.

Newstand, a high-performance news server, includes Newstand Server -- a background application running as the server -- and Newstand Admin -- the user interface to Newsstand Server. Separating the two functions makes it easier to provide enhancements and enable higher reliability and performance, the company said.

NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
The NAA, based in Reston, Va., has introduced The Digital Edge, a site on the World-Wide Web (http://www.infi.net/naa/edge.html) where surfers may be shown "the interactive world from the precipice" and given tools to work in this medium.

A kind of professional club, a password is required to enter this realm created by NAA's New Media Federation and 13 "new media innovators." Once in, members can access Presstime magazine's New Media Index; the Glovebox, a source for helpful hints and software discounts; Out There, links to sites newspapers should know about, and a preview of a jobs bank for the newspaper industry.

New Media Federation memberships are $75 a year; after April 15, $125. To browse The Digital Edge free for a limited time, use as your name learnd15 and as your password vi9tame. The site is optimized for Netscape 2.0.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
Sacramento-based SII has announced an OEM agreement with Netscape Communications, maker of Netscape Navigator, the most popular browser in use on the World-Wide Web. SII said it was the first alliance between Netscape and a "publishing industry integrator."

SII noted that the deal would give MediaBridge, its new media department, a key tool in helping newspapers and other publishers get on the Internet.

SII also announced that the DAILY OKLAHOMAN of Oklahoma City (220k morning) had contracted to use SII's I-4 News software package for publishing on the Internet. Connect Oklahoma Inc. thus became the first I-4 News site to use Netscape's commercial application suite.

SII also announced that it will introduce MediaVu, a text and graphics archiving package, at America East, March 26-28 in Hershey, Pa. MediaVu is the product of SII's new link to Grafmedia, a Finnish subsidiary of Britain's ICL plc Group. The MediaVu client runs on several Windows panes, Macintoshes and Unix, as well as Internet browsers.

TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Chicago-based TMS and Multi-Ad Services of Peoria, Ill., are jointly developing a new Internet service called WebCAS -- the Web Co-op Advertising System.

Using content from TMS' WebPoint Internet editorial product, sites on the World-Wide Web will be able to turn to WebCAS for access to Multi-Ad's advertiser database, including co-op advertising programs for use on-line.

Multi-Ad is lining up manufacturers to participate in what is intended to be an easy way to put local advertisers on-line. TMS is beta testing WebPoint at 12 U.S. newspapers.

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