COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Aug. 7, 1996

Aug. 7, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 34

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BELL & HOWELL
Bell & Howell Co. of Skokie, Ill., has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire DataTimes Corp. Oklahoma City-based DataTimes will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell & Howell's UMI business unit in Ann Arbor, Mich.

DataTimes provides on-line business information services to the corporate market, supplying tailored information feeds to corporate networks. It has a joint venture with News International to provide information to businesses in Europe.

UMI delivers information to customers in businesses, universities, libraries and schools in more than 160 countries. UMI's content includes more than 17,000 periodicals, 7000 newspapers and 1.4 million dissertations.

UMI may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.umi.com. Bell & Howell, which reported 1995 revenues of $820 million, may be visited at http://www.bellhowell.com. DataTimes is at http://www.datatimes.com.

DATAWARE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Dataware Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., has announced the acquisition of NTERGAID Inc. of Milford, Conn., a pioneer and former competitor in the hypertext publishing software market. The acquisition will aid in the development of Dataware's next-generation software products for publishing on the web and in other media.

NTERGAID's software products, designed for complex hypertext publishing applications, include HyperWriter! The product is used by more than 400 organizations, including commercial publishers, corporations, associations and government agencies.

Dataware acquired the stock of NTERGAID in exchange for cash and 100,000 shares of Dataware stock. The purchase price, including acquisition costs, is about $650,000. The acquisition will result in a one-time charge against Dataware's third-quarter earnings of up to the full amount of the purchase price; the amount of the one-time charge cannot be determined at this time.

NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION
The NPPA's Electronic Photojournalism Workshop No. 8 -- EPW8 -- will be held Sept. 27 to Oct. 4 in San Antonio, Texas. Hosted by the SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, likely story assignments range from life along Mexico's border to professional football and custom Internet assignments.

The newspaper workshop sequence is limited to the first 90 journalists who sign up. A separate web workshop can handle 30 people, while 10 more can register for a workshop in authoring CD-ROMs. Two NPPA staff newspaper archivists will conduct a two-day archiving seminar limited to 20 people.

As in years past, NPPA will take over a hotel ballroom and set up about $10 million worth in equipment configured as a newsroom for newspapers, Internet and electronic interactive projects. Teams will make story assignments, then teach new tools for seven days and produce a newspaper at the end of the week, while going live on the Internet almost immediately every day.

For more info, contact John Cranfill, EPW8 co-chair, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, Communications Center, PO Box 655237, Dallas, Texas 75265. Cranfill can be reached by phone at (800) 431-0010, or e-mail at jcranfil@ix.netcom.com. EPW8 in on the Web at http://sunsite.unc.edu/nppa/epw8home.html.

MAXUM DEVELOPMENT CORP.
Maxum, a developer of Macintosh server add-on tools for the World-Wide Web, has announced an upgrade to PageSentry, its Internet server monitor.

PageSentry 2.0 provides monitoring for FTP, SMTP (e-mail), DNS and Telnet services. Current license holders can upgrade by downloading the PageSentry 2.0 demo version from Maxum's web site and dropping their PageSentry Key on the demo app. PageSentry retails for $149; new customers can order by either visiting http://www.maxum.com or by calling Maxum Development at (630) 830-1113.

Maxum also has announced upgrades to two of its web server tools, NetCloak and WebLock. The key feature of these new versions, NetCloak 2.1 and WebLock 1.1, is support for Quarterdeck's WebSTAR Plug-In architecture. Both products now support the W*API (WebSTAR Application Program Interface) and offer improved performance over CGI (Common Gateway Interface) versions. The NetCloak 2.1 update is free to all registered users of NetCloak, including those who bought NetCloak as part of Apple's Internet Server Solution 2.0.

Current license holders can upgrade by downloading the NetCloak 2.1 and WebLock 1.1 demonstration versions from Maxum's Web site and dropping their product key on the demo application. NetCloak and WebLock each retail for $195.

Maxum also has introduced TagBuilder, a web page construction utility for PageMill 2.0. TagBuilder enables Macintosh webmasters to integrate Maxum's NetCloak and NetForms functionality into their web pages using PageMill. NetCloak allows web page designers to create pages that customize to individual users on-the-fly. NetForms allows them to create interactive forums and threaded discussions. TagBuilder will be included free with PageMill 2.0. Current PageMill users will be able to download demos from Maxum's web site.

MONOTYPE SYSTEMS INC.
Monotype Systems of Rolling Meadows, Ill., has announced the first U.S. sale of its new high-speed imager, NewsExpress, to the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES.

NewsExpress, which replaces Monotype's ExpressMaster 1000 and 1200 models, doubles the recording speed of the ExpressMaster 1000, thanks to holographic imaging technology. NewsExpress can output to film or paper as much as 60 inches per minute at 1000 dpi. NewsExpress supports resolutions of 1200, 1500, 1800 and 2400 dpi.

NewsExpress offers customer-definable punch pitch, as well as variable head and tail punch formats. Material widths for the capstan-driven imager range from 7.9 inches to 18.1 inches. NewsExpress is LaserBus compatible for fast transmission of data between RIPs, multiplexors and imagers.

SYSDECO MEDIA GROUP
Sysdeco Media Group, a supplier of pre-press systems based in Bedford, Mass., has announced that Horvitz Newspapers Inc. has chosen Sysdeco to install editorial and pagination software and servers at its two Washington state daily newspapers.

Sysdeco will install DewarView Windows and MacPagination software, totaling 82 seats, which will run on RS/6000 C10 model servers at the JOURNAL AMERICAN in Bellevue (33k morning) and VALLEY DAILY NEWS in Kent (30k morning).

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