The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from March 1998

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from March 1998

An update on Seybold's electronic services.(Editorial)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Electronic delivery of SRIP. Do you wish your monthly issue of Internet Publishing would reach you just a little bit earlier? Ever missed an issue because you were out of the office? Now you can get your monthly issue over the Web the same day...

Internet showcase '98: tasting the future at the smorgasbord of demos. (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1998... David Coursey launched Internet Showcase last April as the Net's counterpart to Stewart Alsop's Demo-a two-day smorgasbord of new software and hardware products on the leading edge of the Internet industry. But if this year's Showcase, which...

Online newspapers forge ahead. (Interactive Newspapers conference) (includes related articles on New Century Network and Microsoft) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1998... Not long ago, it seemed possible that the newspaper industry would end up as a victim of the online revolution. Many papers lacked the technology, the business skills and the corporate culture to thrive on the Internet, and competitors moved in...

A report for the PMA Show in New Orleans. (Photo Marketing Association) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1998... At the annual gathering of the Photo Marketing Association, it was clear that digital technology is finally merging with the photographic mainstream. There's still plenty of innovation going on, and it's not just in new camera and camcorder...

XChange sold to World-Wide Power, GeneSys. (XChange NA) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 1998... The presidents of World-Wide Power Company, LLC, and GeneSys, LLC, have acquired Quark Xpress Xtension broker XChange U.S. and X-Ray Magazine for an undisclosed sum. The newly formed XChange North America (XChange NA) will immediately begin to...

Scanners poised for SOHO market explosion. (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1998... DESKTOP SCANNERS are poised to follow the trail blazed by color ink-jet printers and to explode into the SOHO market. Why? There are a number of factors. Scanners, once reserved for professional users with high-quality demands and even...

ScanJet optimizes for data types as it scans. (HP ScanJet 5100C color flatbed scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Hewlett-Packard's new ScanJet 5100C, an A4-size color flatbed scanner, is claimed to optimize all elements of a page during one scan, producing a file that is ready to be placed into desktop applications. It is the first scanner to use HP's...

Storm expands line with TotalScan, boasts CIS. (Storm Technology's CCD flatbed color scanner, Contact Image Sensor technology)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Storm Technology is hoping to boost its market presence in the personal scanner market with the introduction of TotalScan, a CCD flatbed color scanner with impressive capabilities for its strikingly low price of $149. Released this month,...

Adobe halts Photoshop scanner bundles. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Adobe has quietly pulled the plug on its program of bundling full-featured versions of Photoshop with scanners. The announcement, made privately to scanner manufacturers in January, has left many onlookers wondering if it is a wise move for...

Scitex morphs out dust and scratches. (FinalTouch image processing software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Although Scitex serves a different market from the scanner suppliers that we have been addressing so far, it has developed a new technology that fits our theme of simplifying scanner operation for the user. Scitex's software removes dust and...

No surprise: it's tough going in the professional market. (Web publishing) (includes related article on copyright issues and questions to ask when undertaking online products) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1998... Notes from the AAP winter meeting Judging from the presentations at the recent annual winter meeting of American professional and scholarly publishers, Web publishing is more difficult, more expensive and less well-understood than ever. Yet,...

ICEing the Web. (Inforamtion Content and Exchange protocol) (Technology Information)
March 1, 1998... Vignette, Firefly propose protocol for managing content, user information Syndicating content on the Web should become much easier from a production standpoint as a result of a new consortium of vendors and publishers. The group, led by...

Vignette embraces XML, extends StoryServer. (StoryServer 3.2)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 1998... Fine-tunes its template development tools, adds Mac client Vignette has released version 3.2 of StoryServer 3, which supports XML, and it announced the Information and Content Exchange (ICE) protocol, a proposed meta-tag specification for...

Quark addresses big-system customers with Coris acquisition. (Coris Publisher) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 1998... High-profile new home for Oracle-based, media-neutral asset manager In a dramatic move to address the emerging content-management market, Quark announced last month its plan to buy the Coris Publisher high-end asset management package,...

With dynamic HTML and JavaScript, HexMac "Challenger" animates Xpress pages. (HexMac's Challenger Quark extension)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 1998... Is this an interesting alternative to Immedia, or clutching at straws? HexMac, the German software developer, continues to test the limits of using Quark Xpress pages as the basis for creating Web pages. HexMac's latest product, code-named...

Audio added to FlashPix format. (Digital Imaging Group's standard) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Digital Imaging Group adds sound to images A new standard recently published by the Digital Imaging Group (DIG) will add sound to FlashPix images. The audio extension, the first extension to the base FlashPix format, will enable products...

Adobe eschews professional market with PageMill 3. (Web authoring tool)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 1998... Targets small businesses with office-friendly package for simple Web site construction Zeroing in on growing interest in the Web among small businesses, Adobe has introduced PageMill 3.0 for Windows, the first major upgrade to its Web...

Aeneid invests in a new kind of IRA. (Aeneid's Internet Research Assistant software)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 1998... Software gives business users a way around search engine roulette One of the stars at this year's Internet Showcase was a sophisticated alternative to the current crowd of Web search and navigation services. San Francisco-based Aeneid Corp....

Dataware acquires little-known electronic book developer. (Green Book International) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 1998... Part of push into financial services market Setting its sights on a new niche market-financial services-Dataware has acquired a little-known product that can be used to send financial prospectuses on diskette. In January Dataware bought Green...

Logo's WebSync: color management on the Web.(Product Announcement)
March 1, 1998... Simple, effective way to improve color in remote displays A simple way to improve color fidelity on the Web is expected to be introduced this month by Logo, a small German firm specializing in color-management software. The product,...

Encanto launches the $1,000 e.go Web server. (Encanto Networks e.go Webstation)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 1998... Small-business catalogs and commerce are the target market Encanto Networks has introduced e.go Webstation, a family of plug-and-play Web servers with prices starting at under $1,000. The companion e.go Commerce includes bundled catalog and...

News briefs. (News Briefs)
March 1, 1998... Online subscriptions on the rise Did you notice the flurry of activity in online subscriptions last month? Among those that formerly offered all content for free that began charging subscriptions were Slate, BusinessWeek and Sports...

Gigabit Ethernet for the long haul? (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Gigabit Ethernet isn't officially approved as a standard yet-the 802.3z committee postponed the vote until the June meeting. But a story in Electronic News suggests that it may become a bigger phenomenon than anyone expected. Packet Engines...

AT&T jumps into Net phone. (WorldNet Voice Service) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... AT&T surprised everyone last month by announcing a WorldNet Voice Service, which will be based on voice-over-IP technology. Although it won't be free, AT&T's service looks to be cheaper than any current long-distance plans. AT&T also claimed...

QuickTime selected for MPEG-4. (Apple's QuickTime) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... Although MPEG-2 sound and video compression is only now moving into mainstream consumer markets-thanks to DVD-the Moving Pictures Experts Group is already at work on a successor. Apple recently announced that QuickTime had been the basic...

Art and Info Mark 1998 Milia event. (Industry Trend or Event)
March 1, 1998... Milia, the European multimedia exposition which ran in Cannes, France, from February 8 through 11, was billed by Diego Piancentini, vice president and general manager of Apple Europe, as the show that "attracts some of the most influential...