COLE'S NEWSWIRE, May 22, 1996

May 22, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 22

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York-based Associated Press and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting are sponsoring one- and two-day seminars on using computers for newsgathering. The seminars are open to AP staff, member newspapers, educators and journalism students.

Instructors from AP and NICAR will teach participants to use the Internet, on-line services, spreadsheets and databases to research stories. Emphasis will be on using the new tools to respond to breaking news and to cover daily beats. Participants will learn how to use the Internet to find government bulletin boards and data sources on a beat, solve the access/cost barriers to gathering government information, use data responsibly, choose among commercial on-line services, work with limited time and money, and integrate computer-assisted reporting with traditional newsgathering methods.

One- and two-day workshops are planned; the second day of the two-day workshop includes intensive computer instruction. The seminars are scheduled throughout the summer and early fall in selected domestic AP bureaus. For locations, contact the AP's Tori Smith at (212) 621-1720.

The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting is a nonprofit educational program of Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

DATAWARE TECHNOLOGIES
Dataware, of Cambridge, Mass., has announced the acquisition of S Cube srl, a developer of publishing software based in Milan, Italy. Dataware acquired the assets and assumed the liabilities of S Cube for $350,000.

Dataware and S Cube have collaborated before on a number of high-end applications with Dataware's BRS/Search and CD Author/CD Answer software.

S Cube, founded in 1994 by Giorgio Valtolina and Piergiorgio De Campo, develops custom multimedia, database publishing and full-text retrieval applications.

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP.
DEC, of Merrimack, N.H., has announced a contract with THE STATE of Columbia, S.C. (125k morning) to install a 130-seat DewarView newsroom system. DewarView will replace a 10-year-old Atex J11 system.

GANNETT MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL
GMTI of Cincinnati, Ohio, has released version 2.0 of MASS -- the Mobile Advertising Sales System, which provides current account information and remote ad order capabilities for sales staff using laptop computers. The new version of MASS features increased performance, more reporting capabilities and the Virtual Ad Space module -- a way to display spec and pickup ads on mock newspaper pages. MASS runs in Windows and on the Macintosh.

GMTI also has released version 4.0 of its AdLink for Real Estate, a Windows-based product with which real estate agencies can create display ads and transmit them to a newspaper for publication. The new version features Internet access.

GMTI also has announced that O GLOBO of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (500k daily), has purchased a DiGiCol multimedia information manager. The 350-user system will enable staffers to access text, photos and graphics from multiple databases.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Harris, of Melbourne, Fla., received orders for additional software and/or hardware in April 1996 from the DAYTONA BEACH (Fla.) NEWS-JOURNAL (99k morning); NAPLES (Fla.) DAILY NEWS (44k morning); GALLUP (N.M.) INDEPENDENT (15k evening); LA PRESSE of Montreal, Quebec, Canada (187k morning) and EL COMERCIO of Lima, Peru (185k daily).

Harris also announced two major orders:

-- BURLINGTON (Vt.) FREE PRESS (54k morning): Harris' XP-21 Server with Replication software, Mac Server software, Mac AdFlow software, OPI software, IMAGES (Image Management And Graphics Enhancement System) software, AP/Leaf Desk Input software, Mac Browser software, Harris NewsMaker Pagination software licenses, and a Harris NewsMaker Editorial system consisting of NewsMaker Copy Editor Workstation software licenses, NewsMaker Reporter Workstation software licenses and NewsMaker Wire Server software.

The FREE PRESS also will install Harris' CASH (Classified Advertising System by Harris), consisting of a CASH Server, several CASH for Windows client software licenses, CASH fax software, CASH generic credit card interface software, a custom billing system interface and C-PAG (classified pagination software).

-- MILWAUKEE (Wis.) JOURNAL SENTINEL (280k morning): XP-21 Replicated Server Database software, XP-21 Server software upgrade, Windows Browser software licenses, and upgrades of several 2100 Pagination workstations to Harris NewsMaker Pagination.

The NewsMaker Pagination software at the JOURNAL SENTINEL will be configured with the Decade/33 text editor, a software application from CE Engineering Publishing Systems Inc. of Loomis, Calif., permitting access to the paper's editorial front-end made by System Integrators of Sacramento, Calif.

LINOTYPE-HELL CO.
Linotype-Hell of Hauppauge, N.Y., has introduced its next generation of TOPAZ and TOPAZ Robot CCD flatbed/transparency scanners. The new TOPAZ units offer a speed increase of 150 to 300 percent, maximum optical resolution of 5080 dpi, a more affordable Robot automated scanning option, and the company's exclusive COPIX option for CopyDot functionality. (CopyDot enables precise digitizing of existing film separations and line art for use in digital production.)

The new TOPAZ incorporates a higher-resolution color CCD which can resolve 3-by-8000 pixels. Maximum optical resolution is now 5080 dpi, and can be interpolated to 11,000 dpi. TOPAZ can scan reflective, transparency, color, contone, line art and black-and-white originals, both positive and negative. It also can scan 3D objects up to 20mm in depth.

The new TOPAZ scanners include the newly released LinoColor 4.1, whose new features include background scanning. TOPAZ lists for $49,000; a TOPAZ Robot lists for $64,000. The COPIX option is an additional $19,000 for either model; a field upgrade costs $20,000. All TOPAZ family products include one week of training.

QUARTERDECK CORP.
Quarterdeck Corp. of Marina Del Rey, Calif., and Natural Intelligence have announced a strategic partnership to create World-Wide Web application development tools for the Macintosh. Natural Intelligence is developing a Virtual Machine plug-in for WebSTAR that will allow applets developed in Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to execute on the server via the WebSTAR Server API (WSAPI). The two companies plan to ship products based on the combination of WebSTAR and Roaster, the development environment for Java, by the end of the summer.

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