COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Sept. 4, 1996

Sept. 4, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 38

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AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL
AII of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced these recent installations of its products, which include computer-to-plate imagers, OPI servers, document distribution systems and RIPS:

-- NEWS-GAZETTE, Champaign, Ill. (45k all day): one APS-SoftPIP/NT Alpha RIP, APS-6/3850 Turbo laser imager.

-- BLOOMINGTON (Ind.) HERALD TIMES (30k morning): two APS-SoftPIP/NT Alpha RIPS, two APS-6/3850T laser imagers.

-- ASBURY PARK PRESS, Neptune, N.J. (166k evening): one APS-SoftPIP/NT Alpha RIP, three APS-2000 printers.

-- CLARION-LEDGER, Jackson, Miss. (110k morning): one APS-SoftPIP/NT Alpha RIP.

-- AUSTIN (Texas) AMERICAN-STATESMAN (173k morning): one APS-SoftPIP/PowerMac RIP.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced these recent installations (not all products are listed for each site):

-- HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, Los Angeles (34k morning): 19 copies of DragX, 55 copies of NewsEditPro IQue and one copy of CommLink/Plus.

-- STONEBRIDGE (Mass.) PRESS (6k evening): three copies of ClassManagerPro and one classified accounts receivables package.

-- SALAMANCA (N.Y.) PRESS (2k evening): AdminPro, one pagination package and one copy of WireManager.

-- BLACKWELL (Okla.) JOURNAL-TRIBUNE (3k evening): one AdminPro, three copies of NewsEditPro and one copy of ClassManagerPro.

-- UNION (S.C.) DAILY TIMES (7k evening): AdminPro and style sheet package, two copies of NewsEditPro and three pagination packages.

THE COLE PAPERS
Newspaper & New Media Seminar, co-sponsored by the prestigious Seybold Seminars http://www.seyboldseminars.com/ and THE COLE PAPERS, will be held Sept. 9 in San Francisco. Held in conjunction with Seybold San Francisco (which includes other seminars, a conference and a large trade show), the Newspaper & New Media Seminar will focus on bridging the gap between ink-on-paper and on-line.

Scheduled speakers include Frank Daniels III, formerly of the NEWS & OBSERVER in Raleigh, N.C.; Howard Finberg, of Phoenix Newspapers Inc.; Bob Ingle, of Knight-Ridder New Media; Garrett Queen, of The Cole Group, and top executives from Autologic Information International, Cybergraphic, Managing Editor Software, Sysdeco Media Group and System Integrators.

More information is available at http://colegroup.com/ssf96/; on-line registration is at http://sbjdc.xweb.eds.com/seybold/. To speak with a real live person regarding Newspaper & New Media Seminar, call (800) 990-2653.

CE ENGINEERING PUBLISHING SYSTEMS INC.
CE Engineering of Loomis, Calif., a newspaper publishing system software and hardware supplier, has agreed to be part of the Apple Computer booth at the Seybold trade show to be held Sept. 11-13 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.

CE will demonstrate Decade Mac, a software package that allows Mac users to emulate terminals used by several newspapers. Last year, CE won a site license contract with the LOS ANGELES TIMES to install 1,600 Decade software packages on its editorial terminals to provide windows into its System Integrators System/55.

GEAC COMPUTERS INC.
Geac VisionShift, a division of Geac Computers Inc. based in Tampa, Fla., has announced international versions of its World Class Series Advertising (8.02) and World Class Series Circulation (7.01) software applications, part of the VisionShift Newspaper suite of products.

Hundreds of newspapers use the standard version of both products, including papers in Colombia and South Africa. Geac VisionShift has tooled the software to handle differences in addresses, currencies, date formats and languages found in other nations.

With the international version, for example, the World Class Series circulation system allows for multiple address formats; which one is used depends on the country in which the recipient is located.

World Class Series Circulation 7.01 is being beta tested by LA PRESSE in Montreal, Canada (186k morning). The TAMPA (Fla.) TRIBUNE (286k morning) is beta testing World Class Series Advertising 8.02.

MISSION CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES
Mission Critical, of Concord, Mass., has announced its first Canadian sale of AdFAX, its remote ad fax management system, to the TORONTO STAR (510k morning).

The system, a joint venture of Mission Critical and Edgil Associates of Chelmsford, Mass., will receive faxed ads and editorial copy electronically, translate them into ASCII files, post them to a database and then distribute them to appropriate locations in the advertising and editorial front-end systems. AdFAX also provides an immediate acknowledgment and tracking number for advertisers with an automatic FaxBack confirmation.

The STAR's PC-based AdFAX system, with four workstations and two servers, will replace a paper-based operation that receives over 1,100 faxed pages of ads per week. The STAR spends 200 hours a week processing faxes each week.

MULTI-AD SERVICES INC.
Multi-Ad Services, a supplier of display ad makeup software based in Peoria, Ill., has announced winners in its Tear Sheet Competition. Criteria for judging entries included originality, effectiveness and quality. The competition was open to all sites using Multi-Ad products, which include Multi-Ad Builder, SCAN, Electronic Art Department, Ad-Builder Food Photography, Creator or ReCAS.

Best of Show went to the DAYTONA BEACH (Fla.) NEWS-JOURNAL (99k morning) for its "Miss A Day. Miss A Lot" classified promotion ad. Second place went to the QUINCY (Ill.) HERALD-WHIG (26k evening) for its "... Aaah Memories" retail display ad. Third place was awarded to the Sentinel Newspapers of Lanham, Md., for "Bridal Section."

NOMAD DEVELOPMENT CORP.
Nomad Development Corp. of Seattle has begun shipping WebDBC for MacOS, a database application development tool for World-Wide Web sites.

WebDBC now offers true scalability by supporting a broader range of computer platforms and the ability to access relational databases on several kinds of computer systems.

Providing higher performance than traditional Apple CGI (Common Gateway Interface) or Perl-based tools and enabling multilevel security, WebDBC is targeted at production-oriented web sites.

Available from Nomad and value-added resellers for $595, WebDBC offers sophisticated security features (per-database, per-table and per-operation level), and the ability to communicate with any ODBC database on a Macintosh, Windows, UNIX or mainframe computer.

WebDBC is available on Mac OS System 7.0.1 or later versions. WebDBC also supports Windows NT, Windows 95 and is in beta for Sun SPARC Solaris. WebDBC Developer software can be downloaded free from Nomad Development's web site at http://www.ndev.com.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
The Sacramento, Calif.-based supplier of editorial and classified front-end systems announced Tuesday evening that it had settled its "intellectual property rights" lawsuit with CE Engineering Publishing Systems Inc. of Loomis, Calif.

Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

The dispute centered on CE Engineering's Decade software that emulates SII's Coyote workstation functionality and was resolved after both parties agreed that continuing the lawsuit would have a negative impact on their customers.

"We feel the settlement is in the best interest of all involved parties -- SII, CE Engineering, and most importantly, our customers," said Steve Nilan, SII vice president of marketing and business development. "We look forward to establishing a cooperative relationship with CE Engineering, who agree that customer satisfaction has always been, and will continue to be, both companies' primary concern."

"Settlement of this suit is welcomed news," said Bob Waterhouse, president of CE Engineering. "We greatly appreciate the support our customers have given us throughout this dispute. We look forward to continuing to meet their needs and growing our customer base."

The agreement includes a provision which states no further legal action will be taken to prevent CE Engineering from distributing Decade software.

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