COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Dec. 11, 1996

Dec. 11, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 53

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ACCUWEATHER INC.
AccuWeather, an on-line information provider based in State College, Pa., has introduced The Critic, a package of movie, music, video and book reviews for publication on paper or on-line.

Content for The Critic -- which is supplied digitally or as camera-ready copy, including pictures -- includes movie reviews and previews of coming attractions; music reviews by Stephen Israel; a weekly report on video releases, as well as sales and rental charts, and book reviews from PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY MAGAZINE.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced these recent installations:

-- QUINCY (Ill.) HERALD-WHIG (25k, evening): IQue editorial system, 25 copies of NewsEditPro IQue, two copies of WireManager IQue, nine copies of ClassManagerPro.

-- LAS CRUCES (N.M.) SUN-NEWS (20k, morning): IQue editorial system, 19 copies of NewsEditPro IQue, nine pagination packages, one copy of Transporter, one Baseview Library System, one classified accounts receivable module, seven copies of AdCreation Toolkit.

-- OBSERVER-REPORTER, Washington, Pa. (39k, morning): IQue editorial system, including IQue Server, 12 pagination packages, 32 copies of NewsEditPro IQue, three copies of WireManager IQue, one Baseview Library System.

-- FLORENCE (S.C.) MORNING NEWS (32k morning): IQue editorial system, 21 copies of NewsEditPro IQue, 26 pagination packages, one Phrasea archiving system, nine copies of ClassManagerPro, two copies of Page Director ALS.

-- POTOMAC NEWS, Woodbridge, Va. (30k, evening); IQue editorial system, 26 copies of NewsEditPro IQue, seven pagination packages, two copies of CommLink, one Phrasea archiving system, seven copies of ClassManagerPro.

CASCADE SYSTEMS INC.
Cascade, an archiving software supplier based in Andover, Mass., has announced support for Sun Microsystems' JavaStation in Cascade's MediaSphere i-station. The i-station, a Java-based front-end to Cascade's MediaSphere/W3 archive server, uses scalable thin client applications for distribution and Java applets for access to data stored by MediaSphere.

Cascade's location on the World-Wide Web is http://www.cascadenet.com/.

THE COLE GROUP
The San Francisco-based consulting and publishing company has announced the 1997 edition of COLE'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING SYSTEMS, a directory of suppliers to the industry. More than 170 suppliers will be listed in the 200-page directory and more than 100 of those will be given full commentaries, written by the consultants, writers and editors of The Cole Group.

Special pre-publication discounts are now available which reduce the GUIDE's price by more than 40 percent.

For more information on the GUIDE TO PUBLISHING SYSTEMS, point your browser at http://colegroup.com/cg97/.

GANNETT MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL
GMTI, a software developer based in Cincinnati, has announced a resale agreement with Journey Communications, a media development corporation based in Charlottesville, Va., to integrate Journey's SkedMaster into GMTI's DiGiCol archiving system.

SkedMaster is a management system for newspaper photo desks. It generates work schedules, imports photo requests and charts trends in photo assignments.

GMTI may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.gmti.com/.

INFONAUTICS
Infonautics, a provider of on-line reference services based in Wayne, Pa., announced that is creating an on-line archival service for BUSINESS WEEK magazine's new web site. Infonautics will provide BUSINESS WEEK with system maintenance, royalty reporting and customer billing and support.

The BUSINESS WEEK web site features content provided by the magazine's staff. On-line readers can search BUSINESS WEEK's five-year archive at http://www.businessweek.com. The site features daily business news, stock quotes and business school rankings.

Infonautics -- http://www.infonautics.com/ -- develops on-line reference services and information technology products for the consumer, educational and publisher markets. The company's reference services, Electric Library and Homework Helper, are marketed to schools, libraries and other academic institutions.

MISSION CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES
Mission Critical, a provider of pre-press software based in Concord, Mass., has announced these sales and installations of its remote ad management products for fax management and direct advertiser ad entry of classified ads.

-- Phoenix (Ariz.) Newspapers Inc. (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 348k morning; PHOENIX GAZETTE, 79k evening): AdFAX.

-- MIAMI HERALD (404k, morning): dual server MCT remote ad management system including both AdFAX, for processing classified ads received as faxes, and AdFAST, for remote digital delivery of ads.

-- PALM BEACH POST, West Palm Beach, Fla. (176k, morning): AdFAX.

-- COURIER-JOURNAL, Louisville, Ky. (236k, morning): AdFAX.

-- BOSTON GLOBE (508k, morning): AdFAST.com.

-- Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 487k morning; PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 198k morning): AdFAST.

-- WASHINGTON POST (814k, morning): AdFAST.

UMI
UMI, which recently acquired the DataTimes archive and is based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced it will help a major library in Bosnia rebuild its collection of literature. The National University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which serves the University of Sarajevo, lost hundreds of thousands of books, journals and priceless manuscripts, during fighting the past four years.

UMI will donate to the National University Library a CD-ROM image system and two databases -- General Periodicals On Disk, a collection of more than 1,000 journal titles, and Dissertations Abstracts On disk, a collection of more than 1.4 million doctoral dissertation abstracts.

UMI and DataTimes provide information to customers in businesses, universities, libraries and schools in more than 160 countries. Additional information about UMI is available on the Web at http://www.umi.com.

UMI also has migrated its ProQuest Direct on-line information system to the Web. ProQuest Direct is a search utility that can return to the user information in such formats as text, page image and UMI's Text+Graphics. For more information, surf over to http://www.umi.com/proquest/.

UMI also has announced that its president and CEO, Hank Riner, has been named to the board of directors of the Information Industry Association, which represents more than 500 companies working to generate, distribute and provide electronic products, services and technologies.

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