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Reardon takes top job at Atex
Chief operating officer of Atex Alan Reardon has been appointed chief executive of the 37-year-old newspaper systems development company.
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Viocorp holds news reporting forum, wins in business awards
Web broadcasting company Viocorp is among finalists in this year's Telstra Business Awards. Acknowledged in the two categories – the AMP innovation award and Panasonic Australia medium business award – the achievement vrowns an outstanding year for the company.
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Tera deal puts Miles 33 in pole position
After snapping up netlinx two years ago, UK newspaper systems vendor Miles 33 has now acquired Italian-headquartered Tera Digital Publishing and its US and UK subsidiaries.
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Flowing the e-paper updates
Finnish newspaper printer Suomalainen Lehtipaino is using Flowman’s ePaper addition to its Virtual Front Desk – based on ‘software as a service’ technology – to ensure its ePaper editions are up-to-date.
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Publishers relaxed over iPad apps
With Apple’s iPad finally on sale outside the USA, publishers have taken a relaxed view to making content available to users of the much-awaited tablet.
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Atex Blooms with new ad-serving partnership
Atex has announced a partnership with Bloom Digital Platforms to build the company’s AdGear ad serving, targeting and online inventory management technology into its digital product suite.
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Goss takes self-service QR codes global
Goss has made its QR code-based GossRSVP media link service available globally for advertisers, publishers and businesses which want to create mobile media to engage consumers.
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Time's iPad app unveiled (video)
New York-based digital design agency The Wonderfactory has temed with WoodWing Software to produce iPad content offerings for clients including a Time Magazine this week.
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Drought proofing through APN's Centro
A central sub-editing unit using a system based on a common database is ‘drought-proofing’ editorial production of APN Australian Publishing’s 14 daily newspapers and creating new opportunities for excellence and expansion.
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The new ‘rivers of gold’ that beckon us
Hints that new ‘rivers of gold’ may flow from the monetisation of digital content were everywhere to be seen at the Fairfax-sponsored Media 2010 conference in Sydney last month.
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Atex buys US classified platform Kaango
Atex has announced that it has bought US web classifieds software platform Kaango in a deal which keeps Hearst Corporation and MediaNews Group as shareholders.
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German order kicks off CCI's New Year
With vendor announcements scarce, CCI Europe has kicked off the year with the news that German regional Kieler Nachrichten will consolidate its print and online operations and prepare for multichannel publishing with a NewsGate installation.
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Systems sales drive a ‘boom’ for developer
It’s a little quiet at the modest Sydney offices of Pongrass Newspaper Systems, just around the corner from the busy Bondi Junction retail centre... and managing director Leslie Pongrass couldn’t be more delighted (writes Peter Coleman).
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Widget framework takes Atex CMS concept further
Atex has added support for a widget plug-in framework to its its Polopoly Web content management system enabling third-party components to be added to a website with little or no software development.
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Multimedia platform switches on at Murdoch’s WSJ
International financial daily the ‘Wall Street Journal’ – part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation – has started the systems transition which will see global print and online editions produced on EidosMedia’s Méthode platform by November.
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Free and premium content in Senor’s vision for online
A premium future for newspapers as ‘haute couture rather than ready-to-wear’ is envisaged by Innovations International partner Juan Senor in an introduction to the World Newspaper Congress being held in Hyderabad, India, at the end of next month (November 30 to December 3).
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AdsML media ratecard ready for public review
Interactive advertising now supported across the entire AdsML workflow under the Framework 3.5, Release 1 interim release. A number of new features that are being made available for public review and comment.
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DTI reckons to beat Google on ad-targeting
A new release of DTI’s AudienceReach software includes targeted email marketing, enabling news media organisations to know print and online readers better and target them more accurately.
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Roxen backs US newspaper growth with Chicago office
Swedish newspaper systems developer Roxen Internet Software – which has customers in Australia including AAP Pagemasters and Adelaide’s ‘Independent Weekly’ – has opened an office in Chicago to support its growing US user base.
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ppi reports strong support for next week's open days
manroland’s systems and workflow subsidiary ppi Media says registrations for its two-day presentations in Hamburg next week are at a record. Some 150 guests will listen to ten presentations over two days at the Hotel Hafen Hamburg on June 15-16.
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Text engine will analyse sentiment
An upcomingTME 5 upgrade to Nstein Technologies’ award-winning Text Mining Engine includes Web 3.0 compliance, linguistic enhancements and a suite of management tools to allow greater flexibility and control of semantic metadata.
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Time right for 'Le Temps' with Eidos online upgrade
Two new European sites have gone live with EidosMedia’s Web CMS. Swiss daily ‘Le Temps’ has launched production of its extended news portal with the Méthode portal server in Geneva, while in Genoa, Italy, regional daily ‘Il Secolo XIX’ has used the same system for production of its online editions.
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Nstein's Mojo gets your iPhone working
Nstein has announced WCM 4.1, a feature-rich upgrade to its award-winning content management system which now includes a portable mobile back-office version of WCM called Mojo designed to allow smart-phone equipped writers, journalists and editors to create, edit and publish content in the field.
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Resources publisher mines WoodWing for Perth
Perth-based Aspermont – which produces weekly and monthly titles for the resource sector in Australia and the UK – has gone live with a multimedia system based on WoodWing’s Enterprise platform.
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INMA, DTI team up on news media solutions
The US-based International Newsmedia Marketing Association (INMA) has signed a wide-ranging partnership agreement with Digital Technology International, supporting activities in the Asia-Pacific as well as North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
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Paid to be pushed: New smart phone marketing tchnology
A new system which delivers interactive advertisements to mobile phone users – including the Android platform and Google G1 smart phone – has been popping up at shows including Mobile Asia in Macau and the GSMA event in Barcelona
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DTI lures Nilan back to a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity
Newspaper systems specialist Digital Technology International has lured Steve Nilan back to the industry as its vice president of marketing. The last decade has seen him in entrepreneurial roles, and as advisor and investor to many high-tech software companies, where he has accumulated considerable digital and SaaS (Software as a Service) expertise.
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EidosMedia scores first Australian order with Fairfax's AFR
National business daily the ‘Australian Financial Review’ will be the first user of EidosMedia’s Méthode multiple media platform in Australia. The deal also includes other titles in the Fairfax Business Media 15-strong print and online portfolio.
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Timbuktu the last place for the Next big thing
Timbuktu might seem like the last place in the world to look for an editorial systems order, but that hasn’t deterred Digital Technology International, which has helped a West African publisher to its first web-first edition.
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Slippin' into neutral (IfraExpo retrospective)
Much of the IfraExpo buzz was about editorial and advertising systems ... and interest from major Australian publishers had added a frisson of excitement to the chase, writes Peter Coleman.
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SPH sharp with Web TV
Singapore Press Holdings has launched the island state’s first Web TV portal, ‘Straits Times Razor TV (www.razor.tv) in August using CoreMedia’s content management technology with support from implementation partner Ufinity.
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Softcare rebrands as vjoon
Don't expect to find the Softcare name at IfraExpo: The Hamburg-based K4 developer has rebranded as vjoon.
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Time to cash in on digital
This year’s ‘Beyond the Printed Word’ conference in Budapest (November 20-21) November) is all about business – about cashing in on digital services, extending reach and making advertising more successful, about making the most of digital opportunities.
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Digital deals expand network
A new partnership agreement which will expand the breadth of services and reach for both digital publishing companies sees PressTerra focus on reseller and publisher acquisitions while NewsStand will process publishers’ content and develop the electronic delivery platform.
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Ifra helps Döpfner with online priorities
Having famously put ‘online first’ in mid-2006, Axel Springer chief executive Mathias Döpfner has been busy making sure journalists in the giant publisher’s Welt group could follow the directive.
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Atex builds with Polopoly
Atex showed an integrated Atex-Polopoly web content management portal at Nexpo, a couple of weeks after announcing the Polopoly acquisition.
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Hosting a 'safe harbour' for DTI customers
An enterprise-wide ‘software as a service’ hosted platform called MediaHarbor has been introduced by Digital Technology International. Hosted environments are provides for all DTI’s products including editorial, advertising, web publishing and circulation
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XChange has adapted its CopyFit concept
XChange has adapted its CopyFit concept – previously only a QuarkXpress XTension – as a plug-in for Adobe’s InDesign CS2 and CS3. It detects and remedies overset (or underset) text using a set of definable attribute parameters including point size, scaling and leading as a guide. Each box in a layout can be ‘tagged’ with its own settings.
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