The simulated cybertour showed off a prototype of The WIRE, a web site where AP news stories, photos, graphics, video and audio will be continuously updated. The new service will be accessible only through the web site of a member newspaper or broadcaster. It is scheduled for full operation in the fall.

The service will use text, audio and video produced by the AP. Features include headlines that scroll across the top of the front page and bells that alert users to breaking stories. The latest scores will scroll across the bottom of the sports page, and stock price updates will roll across the bottom of the business page.

James Kennedy, director of multimedia services and head of the AP team that developed the new service, said The WIRE is designed to complement local newspapers' own sites. Rates for the service have not yet been set.

The AP also has announced the introduction of a specially designed stocks page for smaller papers. Measuring a third of a page, the tailored table will give smaller newspapers a ready-to-use package of up to 100 local-interest stocks and market indicators.

AP also has announced it has reached an agreement with AT&T under which members can link their usage to AP's and get volume discounts on service.

-- WEST HAWAII TODAY, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii (11k morning): one AdminPro and StyleSheet package, five pagination packages, two copies of WireManager and one Baseview Library System.

-- JACKSONVILLE (Ill.) JOURNAL-COURIER (15k morning): 15 copies of NewsEditPro IQue, one IQue Server package, one CommLink/Plus and one Baseview Library System including Archiver.

-- BEDFORD (Ind.) TIMES MAIL (14k evening): 17 copies of NewsEditPro IQue, nine pagination packages, two copies of WireManager IQue.

-- SEDALIA (Mo.) DAILY DEMOCRAT (13k evening): four pagination packages, four copies of ClassManagerPro and one copy of Page Director ALS.

-- NORMAN (Okla.) TRANSCRIPT (14k evening): five copies of ClassManagerPro, one Classified Accounts Receivable module and one copy of ClassFlow.

-- THE MOUNTAIN PRESS, Sevierville, Tenn. (8k morning): five pagination packages, one IQue Server package, three copies of CirculationPro and one Baseview Library System.

Dataware is developing a server module for NetAnswer, its information management, query and retrieval system for the World-Wide Web. The plug-in will allow users of the next version of Adobe Acrobat software, Amber, to publish collections of PDF files on any major web server, search their content and retrieve documents across the Internet and Intranets.

Amber will provide enhanced PDF file viewing, such as page-at-a-time downloading from within popular browsers such as Netscape Navigator.

The VR30, which can be retrofitted with the visible red laser, has a maximum image width of 12 inches, with 11 resolutions from 600 dpi to 2540 dpi.

NewsCentral provides automated transfer of all electronic copy, connecting areas of a newspaper's editorial environment through data evaluation, categorization and routing. The newspapers will use NewsCentral as an interactive communications server to accept and route stories from any media source, including news wires and remote bureaus.

The newspapers can define categories of incoming electronic copy such as business, baseball or IBM, and NewsCentral will automatically categorize the incoming copy using full text searches, arrival statistics and keyword searches. Once categorized, the copy will be routed to a LAN, editorial front-end system, e-mail or on-line service.

The TRIBUNE has said it will use NewsCentral to receive and distribute its racing wire.

EveryWare markets Tango, a web/database integration application; Bolero, a web tracking, reporting and analysis tool, and Butler SQL, a relational database management system.

Products developed under the alliance will be focused on the needs of small and medium-sized newspapers, and will be marketed under the Info-Connect brand.

The first product is a web-based version of the POTTSVILLE (Pa.) REPUBLICAN's Easy To Read Telephone Directory. The on-line directory, which eventually will include classified ads, will be tested in the Pottsville market this spring. The REPUBLICAN can be visited on-line at http://www.pottsville.com/pottsville/.

Real Media operates MediaExpress, an Internet advertising planning and placement network that has more than 50 on-line newspapers and other publications. MediaExpress provides a revenue stream of national and regional advertising to local newspaper home pages on a non-exclusive, revenue-shared basis. The system gives advertisers and ad agencies a one-order, one-bill, one-check system to reach audiences on the Internet. Real Media can be visited at http://www.realmedia.com.

WebLock is a performance and security utility incorporating RAM-based file caching and security based on the Mac OS's built-in File Sharing and Users and Groups database. WebLock allows a user to simply click on the file folder he or she wants protected.

WebLock runs as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) or plug-in to Mac Web server software. Priced at $195, WebLock is used in conjunction with Quarterdeck's web server, WebSTAR. Maxum may be visited on-line at http://www.maxum.com/.

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