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Pongrass scores 500-seat systems deal for South Africa's 'Citizen'
Australian systems developer Pongrass Publishing Systems has scored a major for a 500-seat editorial system at a South African publisher.
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New trends examined in WAN-Ifra’s Hamburg newsroom summit
WAN-Ifra’s annual global Newsroom Summit last week examined major trends facing editors-in-chief today (writes Larry Kilman).
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Hothouse joins Netbiscuits’ extended network
Sydney-based HotHouse Interactive is one of two members of a new ‘global partner network’ announced by Netbiscuits.
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News commits to $60 million editorial upgrade in Australia
News Limited will spend a reported $60 million to install a new cross-platform editorial system across its Australian print and digital publishing businesses.
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Turnkey Roxen system deployment starts in US
Swedish systems developer Roxen has started deploying its turnkey Editorial Appliance package in the USA, starting with privately-owned Colorado Community Media.
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Roxen’s Red Herring chase ends in success
Swedish software developer Roxen has won the 2012 Red Herring Europe award for which it was shortlisted as a promising new company.
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Peer39 deal puts DG ahead in online bidding
Advertisement management provider DG will build Peer39 – the webpage data company it bought for US$15.5 million – into its MediaMind online division.
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Atex joins Brightcove video alliance
Systems developer Atex has teamed with cloud content services provider Brightcove to integrate its video platform with the Polopoly web CMS interface.
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Android devices get iPad features in PressReader upgrade
NewspaperDirect has followed its new iPad reader with a major update of its PressReader for Android devices.
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Norwegian publisher adds Atex’s browser-based ad framework
Atex has converted Norwegian advertising systems user Polaris Media Nordvestlandet to its OneView framework.
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Advanced features in Star Malaysia’s new replica edition
Star Malaysia has launched an enhanced digital replica version of the top-selling English-language daily tabloid.
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New owners, partnerships put Van Gennep in the multiplatform game
Dutch workflow developer Van Gennep has launched a new publishing platform based on digital asset management technology from Adam Software, which bought the business last month.
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Eidos adds tablet extension in pursuit of iPad ‘holy grail’
EidosMedia says an extension to its Méthode publishing platform comes close to the ‘holy grail’ of effortless creation of dedicated tablet editions from existing content.
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Web systems vendor Roxen chasing a red herring
Web-based newspaper systems developer Roxen has been named one of Europe’s “most promising” private technology businesses.
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‘Star’ app a Philippines chart-topper
The ‘Philippines Star’ has added digital and HTML5 editions, as well as a dynamic app, one of five developed for Star Group.
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Server-based solution puts Scandinavian journos in the cloud
A new cloud-based Roxen editorial solution provides access to its bigger portal system without the need for local installation, systems management or software configuration, the company says.
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Tianjin evening takes Atex into Chinese advertising
Atex has installed its first advertising system for a Chinese customer at ‘Jin Wan Bao’ evening newspaper in Tianjin.
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MindTree, Netbiscuits partner for large-scale mobile web developments
Indian IT and product engineering services company MindTree is partnering with web app platform provider Netbiscuits to develop and deliver ‘reusable solutions’, templates and development methodologies for its customers.
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At the centre of things: John Juliano on opening up publishing
The wall between the public and the media organisation has changed to a wire mesh fence and at some organisations, customers are invited into the newsroom and editorial meeting (writes John Juliano).
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Gisborne pushes content online with Digital-enabled ‘audience first’ model
New Zealand tabloid daily the ‘Gisborne Herald’ will switch to an ‘audience first’ business model with the implementation of Digital Technology’s editorial and advertising systems.
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Cloud peers honour Digital Technology initiative
DTI and its infrastructure partner Internap have scored technology industry recognition with a cloud computing excellence award from ‘Cloud Computing Magazine’.
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Digital to fore in new DTI branding strategy
A new DTI logo and tagline are central to a digital branding strategy which builds on history while looking to the digital future, the company says.
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Froelich, Juliano to team up in new mobile reader engagement initiative
It could radically change the ‘conversation’ between newspapers and their audience: Industry veterans John Juliano and Jo Ann Froelich are teaming to bring publishers a new app-based mobile tool which engages readers and recruits them as exclusive contributors.
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NYT's Sulzberger joins London Digital Media line-up
Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr, chairman and chief executive of the New York Times Company, has joined the programme for Digital Media Europe, the digital publishing event being organized by WAN-Ifra in London in April.
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You knew it: Report says digital products, platforms get priority for 2012
Digital products and platforms rate high the among the new business opportunities and revenues publishers plan to give priority to this year, according to a WAN-Ifra report.
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DTI scores enterprise-wide circulation deal with McClatchy
The US' third-largest newspaper publisher, McClatchy Company,will use a cloud-based DTI Circulation system across all its 30 titles.
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DTI tools deliver ‘one-two’ marketing punch in El Salvador
Audience engagement tools are at the core of an order announced by DTI for Central American publisher Grupo Dutriz.
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Swift makes ‘strategic move’ of 34 titles into DTI’s Cloud
US community newspaper and multimedia publisher Swift Communications has signed with DTI to put all it content, circulation and advertising systems on the company's Cloud ‘software-as-a-service’ platform.
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Time-lapse tablet shows the cartoonist’s art develop (video)
An insight into cartoon creation comes this week from ‘Canberra Times’ editorial artist David Pope, who has produced a video showing the stages in the development of his daily cartoons.
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Atex takes browser CMS route via plug-in
Atex has announced a new browser-based content management system based on a plug-in, which it says will enable users to manage entire workflows in a single.
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iOS/Android app takes Miles’ GN4 newsroom on the road
Miles 33 has placed an editorial content submission app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices on Apple’s AppStore and the Android Market.
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New PressReader app gets flow, depth (video)
Digital newspaper specialist NewspaperDirect has added intelligent ‘SmartFlow’ reading capabilities to its iPad reader upgrade.
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Beanbag hack: Elements of NSTP's e-media success
It took an enlightened publisher to put a lively Gen-Yer in charge of dragging its 166-year-old business into the digital age. And a beanbag or two.
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How BostonGlobe.com pitches to all mobiles, great and small
Launching a second site for the ‘Boston Globe’ has given the US publisher an opportunity to do more than just address demographic and monetisation issues.
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Ad software gets more customer smarts
New Miles 33 advertising software provides the ability to book radio and TV slots, as well as improved customer relationship functions including cloud-based integration.
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INMA London mobile masterclass takes you to TMG
If you find yourself in London at the end of next month, a one-day INMA workshop at Telegraph Media group could be a unique event.
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APN, Beacon go ‘self service’ with Wave2’s real estate solution
Real estate self-service software provider Wave 2 has announced sales to APN News & Media and privately-owned New Zealand publisher Beacon Media.
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Adobe nets ad buying algorithm expert Efficient Frontier
Adobe will extend its digital marketing activities with the agreement to buy Efficient Frontier, a privately-owned specialist in multichannel advertising buying and optimisation.
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Atex teams with Zissor on digitisation, partners Dell in China
A digitisation project in Brazil will be the first outcome of a partnership between systems developer Atex and digitisation specialist Zissor.
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World-first Fairfax AirLink code ‘goes straight to app userbase’
A sophisticated quick response code built into Fairfax Media tablet and smartphone apps is a world-first, the Australia-based newspaper publisher claims.
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SPH, Kompas, Star shine bright in the second Asian Digital Media Awards
Nineteen companies shared the honours in this year’s second Asian Digital Media Awards.
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Keep taking the tablets… one way or another
After effectively just 22 months of tablets – the time since Apple’s iPad launch – there was no shortage of content or questions in a day devoted to the subject at Digital Media Asia in Hong Kong.
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Simply genius… the best ideas open Digital Media Asia in Hong Kong
The best – and often the simplest – ideas have you kicking yourself, asking ‘why didn’t I think of that… and the online and social media-focussed first day of WAN-Ifra’s Digital Media Asia event in Hong Kong had a raft of them.
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Fifteen into three will go under Potsdam systems ‘treaty’
A leading German regional daily will reorganise its news operations with EidosMedia’s new-generation editorial platform, the company says.
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Atex upgrade allows News to decommission mainframes, build on integration
Atex has announced that it has signed News Limited – the Australian publishing business of News Corporation – for a 2700-seat upgrade as part of plans for a single national advertising system.
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Auditude buy puts ads into Adobe’s ‘TV everywhere’
Adobe is pushing itself closer to the centre of the crossmedia publishing revolution with the acquisition of video platform developer Auditude.
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Singapore office latest move in a busy year for Atex
New Asia corporate headquarters for Atex are the latest in a succession of changes since director Jim Rose was announced as chief executive in January.
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Guardian taps Operative for crossmedia business management platform
The UK’s Guardian News & Media has signed advertising business management company Operative to provide a platform to consolidate and run its digital and print media businesses.
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Netbiscuits teams with Google on ‘GoMo’ initiative
Mobile developer Netbiscuits has teamed with Google on its ‘GoMo’ initiative to help make websites more mobile-friendly.
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Reader app mimics print’s story presentation (video)
A new version of NewspaperDirect’s newspaper reader app for iPad and iPhone provides a glimpse of features which mimic the way a print edition reader navigates the issue.
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Now get ready for WAN-Ifra’s Hong Kong digital media event…
With the IfraExpo, World Newspaper Congress and Editors Forum over in Vienna, attention turns to Hong Kong, where WAN-Ifra holds its Digital Media Asia conference and Asian Digital Media Awards in late November.
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Share a news story you’ve seen in print (video)
A partnership between Kooaba and digital newspaper distributor NewspaperDirect delivers the technology to access a digital copy of a newspaper article you’ve seen in print.
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EidosMedia picks manroland exec for Australia launch
Systems developer EidosMedia, creators of the Méthode editorial platform – have established a Sydney-based subsidiary, headed by former manroland executive Lodovico de Briganti.
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Roxen gets Metro’s mobile order
Developer Roxen says free newspaper ‘Metro’ – credited with being the world’s largest – will use its technology for a new tablet edition.
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Android, iPad apps as Adobe heads in cloud
Six low-cost apps which run on both iPad and Android tablets will take Adobe into a new cloud-based creative hub initiative.
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CCI, Poynter team for newsroom training
Systems developer CCI is teaming up with the Poynter Institute to provide news organisations with its signature journalism and leadership training.
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WoodWing bows out of content delivery with Adobe deal
WoodWing is getting out of the content delivery business following an agreement which will see users switch to Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite and the .ofip format retired.
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First speakers announced for Hong Kong digital conference
WAN-Ifra will bring media experts on the latest innovations in tablets, social media, online and mobile to its Digital Media Asia 2011 event in Hong Kong from November 23-25 November.
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Consultation deal puts CCI NewsGate into Gruner + Jahr for German 'FT'
German media corporation Gruner + Jahr, said to be the largest in Europe, has signed for a 120-user CCI NewsGate system to be the editorial cockpit for print and digital editions of ‘Financial Times Deutschland’.
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DTI signs ‘West Australian’ for circulation product
West Australian Newspapers has signed with systems developer DTI to streamline its circulation, distribution and business operations.
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Mobile apps take newsroom on the road
Miles 33 is to launch a suite of mobile apps, starting with native iOS and Android versions, based on its GNPortal acquisition product.
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Non-app tablet solution claims HTML5 first
UK-based developer PageSuite have launched what they claim is the first non-app HTML5 solution for tablet publishing.
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Tribune plans own tablet, CNN reports
US-based Tribune Company, which owns the ‘Los Angeles Times’ and the eponymous Chicago daily is reported to be developing its own Android-based tablet.
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APN New Zealand puts APS ad layout and viewer systems into 23 sites
APN New Zealand has signed Australian software development company APS to install its advertising layout and web-based management viewer across the company’s newspaper operation.
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Digital media: ‘Trying things’ in trying times…
Entries are being sought for the Asian Digital Media Awards, which will be presented at WAN-Ifra’s Digital Media conference in Hong Kong (November 23-25).
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Cloud helps DTI to best-ever go-live total
Systems developer DTI is bucking a trend with the biggest year of installations in its 30-year history.
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Juliano reinvents his JJCS business with new website, mobile products
His international responsibilities having dwindled following the acquisition of Tera by Miles 33, systems industry veteran John Juliano has reinvented his JJCS consultancy business with a new website and a new team.
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Deadline extended as cross-media judges are announced
WAN-Ifra has extended the deadline for entries in its 2011 XMA Cross Media Awards to July 15.
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News/APS integration brings an end to 'sad ads'
Five years of planning and customised integration has brought a decades-old ambition of real-time centralised advertisement booking to reality for Australia’s News Limited publications.
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WoodWing app, CDS upgrades bid to keep up with tablet formats
Developer WoodWing says new tablet reader app features and a major upgrade of its content delivery service address the growing proliferation of tablet formats.
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‘Old-fashioned internet’ shows media world is changing faster than ever
When a speaker at a media conference refers to the traditional desktop-based internet as ‘the old-fashioned internet’, you know that the media world is evolving faster than ever.
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NSTP invests in text mining for Malaysian titles
The ‘New Straits Times’ and sister publications in Malaysia has opted for Atex’s Polopoly web content management solution to manage its online initiatives.
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Beta ‘dynamic app’ system controls content, branding
UK-based PageSuite says it is developing a dynamic content delivery system, in which interactive content such as videos and rich media can be simultaneously published across mobile apps and digital editions, and layout and branding can be customised without resubmission.
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Touch optimisation essential for mobile sites, says developer
Mobile software service Netbiscuits says five out of six new sites on its cloud-based service use touch-enabled features.
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Supercar publisher takes on image ID response system
The independent publisher of a magazine for supercar enthusiasts will be the first in Australia to take up an image-based response code technology which enables smartphone users to interact with advertisers.
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Developer WoodWing declares its tablet format ‘open’
Software developer WoodWing has made its publishing format for interactive publications freely available in a move to encourage industry standardisation.
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System puts digital newspapers into TV talk shows (video)
Software to allow TV talk show hosts to display newspaper pages as they discuss the stories is being previewed at an exhibition in Las Vegas.
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Atex launches HTML tablet solution
Developer Atex has launched a new system for tablet editions built using HTML5 and designed to integrate with its ad management solution for the platforms.
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Second iPad app gives Malaysia the ‘editor’s choice’
A new ‘editor’s choice’ iPad version of Malaysia’s ‘Harian Metro’ gives the country its first Malay-language app for the platform.
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Miami project shows strength of data centre model
US publisher McClatchy has switched editorial production of its ‘Miami Herald’ to its new North Carolina data centre, a process IT vice president César Mendoza says was as easy as deciding to do it, acquiring the licenses and “going right head and do it”.
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Online industry sets behavioural advertising guidelines
Newspaper publishers Fairfax Media and News Limited are signatories to new voluntary guidelines aimed at showing internet users how to opt out of online behavioural advertising.
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User interfaces inspire as XMediaLabs thought-leaders gather
Speakers at the Fairfax-sponsored DigitalDirections11 event mapped a route for mobile and digital publishers, writes Peter Coleman
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Dimaps deal helps DTI users send out the news
A partnership between DTI distribution and digital mapping specialist Dimaps will lead to enhanced distribution solutions for newspaper publishers.
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Colorado upgrade puts everything in the Cloud
DTI is hailing as an industry first, an agreement under which Colorado’s Grand Junction ‘Daily Sentinel’ will switch all its publishing systems to the vendor’s Cloud-based software service.
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IBM shows off its iPad expertise at Australian Open
Computer giant IBM is using the Australian Open tennis championships to show what can be done with iPad app technology.
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Fairfax ‘Digital Directions’ event on again in March
Following the success of Media2010, Fairfax Digital is again teaming up with X-MediaLab to present Digital Directions in Sydney in March.
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NY readers get to take hometown edition with them
A new iPad app for the New York ‘Daily News’ provides commuters with the opportunity to download the whole paper to read on the way to work.
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Belgian pioneer takes Méthode to bilingual news operations
Pioneering Belgian newspaper publisher Corelio is to use EidosMedia’s Méthode platform for its bilingual multiple-media news operations.
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Ad serving integration is new Atex offering
A new module for Atex advertising users will integrate with major ad serving systems including Dart For Publishers, Yahoo APT, Open AdStream and Bloom AdGear.
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Polopoly wins more new customers for Atex in Asia-Pacific
Atex says daily newspapers in Australia and Malaysia have signed for its Polopoly web CMS, while a customer in Vietnam has gone live with a new website.
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Good news in iPad research, says News’ Oakley
In the ‘bottom-up’ world of publishing, the customer has all the power, “and we’d better get to know them intimately,” says News Limited group digital executive editor Alan Oakley (writes Melissa Hardcastle).
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'Blistering' pace hots up for 'WSJ' post-Murdoch takeover
A year after reorganising its newsroom with new systems technology, the ‘Wall Street Journal’ is poised to take advantage of local markets neglected by struggling publishing companies.
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Circulation go-live makes Freedom DTI’s biggest Cloud user
With the ‘go-live’ at the ‘Orange County Register’ in California, DTI says Freedom Communications has become the industry’s largest software-as-a-service circulation deployment.
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Filloux, Kafka lead media transformation summit
Media technology commentators Frédéric Filloux and Peter Kafka are the speakers at INMA Euope’s ‘Transformation of News Summit’ in Cambridge, UK, in December.
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Leading the charge: Crovitz joins digital line-up in Singapore
Former publisher of the ‘Wall Street Journal’ Gordon Crovitz – who founded an e-commerce platform which counts over 1500
affiliates and launched on news sites across the US this year – has joined the line-up for next month’s Digital Media Asia conference.
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Cultural convergence spices Istanbul digital event
Istanbul, Europe’s ‘capital of culture’ for 2010, is the host city for WAN-Ifra’s 18th World Digital Publishing Conference (October 27-28).
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WAN-Ifra brings news website experts to KL
WAN-Ifra is bringing two new media training sessions to Kuala Lumpur later this month.
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WAN integrates advertising in new CCI go-live
West Australian Newspapers has gone live with CCI’s AdDesk advertising system in a multisite implementation integrated with its existing CCI editorial.
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Websend company takes over Vio Worldwide
Once they were keen rivals in the same market, then business partners. Now Omnilab – which owns the Australian Websend technology – is to buy Vio Worldwide through its Sydney-based digital asset management and content distribution company Dubsat.
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Answers on content economics at summit
The recurring theme of how to get online readers to pay for content was prominent at WAN-Ifra’s ninth International Newsroom Summit in London last week.
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Newsroom integration: The heaven and the hell
All the technology in the world cannot solve the birth pains of a cross-media integrated newsroom when human factors go wrong, writes Peter Coleman.
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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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APN group editor-in-chief Owen joins Publish Asia line-up
APN group executive editor Peter Owen – interviewed in GXpress earlier this year – has joined the line-up for next month’s WAN-Ifra Publish Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur.
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‘Kompas’ first with iPad edition
Indonesia’s largest daily newspaper, ‘Kompas’ has scored an Asian multimedia ‘first’ with a dedicated iPad app.
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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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Leadership role for Financial Review Group
Time is money and a newspaper’s team of specialist writers its differentiating asset, so it wasn’t hard to make a case at Fairfax Media’s Financial Review Group for a system which saved duplicated workflows by integrating newspaper, magazine and online publishing.
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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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DTI shows Cloud video capability with conference TV
Crossmedia systems developer DTI showcased a new digital video facility it calls DTItv at INMA’s congress in New York last week.
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Cross-media and workflow at ppi’s open days
Four international speakers will provide perspectives on their cross-media ad and production strategies at a two-day ppi Media event in Lübeck, Germany.
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100-plus on a cloud with DTI, but no Asia-Pacific rollout yet
Digital Technology International says it now has more than 100 users for its hosted Cloud publishing environment.
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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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How data portal puts Tera at the heart of Italy's flagship titles
Tera Digital Publishing says a striking success at Italy’s RCS Media Group - one of Europe's biggest publishing empires – will help the group keep an ambitious multi-media growth plan on track through key software which will centralise data handling.
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Atex follows Kaango with $18 m development spend
Atex says it doubled its digital sales in 2009, outselling its competition five to one.
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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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Freedom takes to the clouds with circulation upgrade
US-based Freedom Communications is migrating its circulation management and marketing to DTI’s Cloud hosted software-as-a-service environment as part of an upgrade to version 3.5
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WAN-Ifra workshop overview of contextual advertising
Personalised advertising and content for individual readers offers huge potential for advertisers and publishers alike, and WAN-Ifra has organised an overview of the automated tools available.
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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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WoodWing, Adobe address iPad issues in New York
WoodWing Software talked iPad at its New York ‘road show’ event, telling users of its Content Station software how they could work with what they’ve got.
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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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Atex called for extension as 'Nase Adresa' goes national
Hyperlocal news publisher PPF Media has signed with Atex for a system to support the extension of its ‘Nase adresa’ (‘Our address’) project across the Czech republic.
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DTI 'on target' with Cloud rollout
Systems developer DTI says it ended its 2009 financial year on target for revenue, growth and strategy goals.
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Clever Guardian app personalises readers' iPhone experience: See video
A clever iPhone app which personalises daily news and features could be a big winner for the UK’s Guardian News & Media, which earlier this month reported a £57 million loss.
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See Telegraph Media, then tackle newsroom issues with WAN-Ifra
WAN-Ifra’s Newsroom Summit in London in April is being preceded by a visit to Telegraph Media’s world-leading set-up.
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WoodWing sees multichannel growth in marketing and PR markets
WoodWing's Enterprise 7 publishing system – shown at IfraExpo in Vienna last year – has been released.
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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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PressTerra 'up 146 per cent' on 2008
Digital delivery specialist PressTerra says it expects to finish 2009 with 'sold newspapers' growth of 146 per cent on the previous year.
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Global go-lives make Atex's year happy
Three major-clienmt 'go lives' have rounded out a successful year for Atex, the company says.
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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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Paywall on PageSuite e-edition produces encouraging results
The success of a UK newspaper group’s trial of a paywall-based e-edition may provide the encouragement needed for other puiblishers to charge for content.
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Vietnamese publisher goes with digital delivery solution
Vietnam’s largest magazine publishing house, Sun Flower Media is working with Pressmart to deliver its publications on digital channels including web, mobile and e-reader.
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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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Australia’s ‘Financial Review’ online with Méthode, with print to follow
Fairfax Media’s the ‘Australian Financial Review’ has gone live with EidosMedia's Méthode web delivery platform as the first stage of a multiple-media project.
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Google’s Emilia Ong helps newspapers with online change
The need for targeted newspaper websites – focussed more closely on tight segmentation – was a recurring theme at the Digital Media Asia conference last week.
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Nstein has first customer for text mining product
Nstein has launched its 3S Semantic Site Search text mining product, announcing Gesca Digital as its first user.
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Online matches and despatches do it for India's 'Slumdog' market
Mobile is set to be "the next big thing" in India, Mariam Mammen Mathew, chief executive of Manorama Online, told WAN-Ifra's World Digital Publishing Conference in Barcelona.
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American shopping: Cox spends circulation millions with DTI
Systems vendor DTI says it has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Cox Media Group to install its suite of circulation, distribution, marketing, and reporting software.
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Ifra explores opportunities for newspapers in mobile publishing
Two new reports from WAN-Ifra (the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers) examine opportunities for newspapers to built income and audience through digital media.
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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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Pick your digital platform at Ifra’s Singapore conference
Three dedicated one-day conferences make up Ifra’s Digital Media Asia 2009 event in Singapore from November 18-20.
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DTI customers are virtually at new user conference
DTI's two user-groups, DTUG and InPUT have combined as DTIConnect, and will hold a first conference online on September 15-16.
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About aboutness, the technologies to monetise online
In the news for its contribution to the tracking of swine fever – but not the appropriate placing of online advertising – text mining is a technology to help monetise web publishing, Peter Coleman learns.
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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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Multi-million deal puts DTI across News Limited in Australia
A multimillion deal with systems vendor DTI will provide a single nationwide circulation, distribution and marketing solution throughout News Limited’s 11 major Australian operating divisions.
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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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Holy orders: Pope goes with Ted and Fred
The Vatican has chosen Tera’s GN3 as the new editorial publishing system for its worldwide, multi-language newspaper ‘L'Osservatore Romano’.
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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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Ezinemart works to drive digital reading interest
Indian online publishing, distribution and retail-services company Ezinemart has made more than 75 magazines titles available free online in an effort to drive interest in digital reading.
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Greased Lightning suits DTI, Scots
DTI is using its own Lightning content management system for a new interactive website served through its Cloud SaaS platform.
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Guns for hire: vjoon’s K4 facilitates tests and growth
German developer vjoon (formerly SoftCare) is the latest to offer its software as a rental option.
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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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'Search as you think' archive system for IHT
A new Tera automated archiving system has gone live at the ‘International Herald Tribune’, one of the world's most widely read English-language international newspapers.
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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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Transcontinental extends DTI circulation across sites
Digital Technology International is to install its circulation solution throughout Transcontinental Media Newspaper Group in Quebec, Canada.
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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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No joy for Asia-Pacific in Ifra's XMA crossmedia awards
There was a shortage of good news for Asia-Pacific publishers when IfraExpo in Amsterdam opened this morning with the announcement of winners in its XMA Cross Media Awards.
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DTI scores 1000-user editorial order across 17 sites
Digital Technology International has announced an order from German newspaper publisher Madsack for a group-wide editorial system.
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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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K4 Xanthos a breakthrough, claims SoftCare
K4 developer SoftCare says it has reached a new benchmark with the introduction of a new publishing platform codenamed Xanthos.
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Systems ideas from the PANPA exhibition
Three innovations which caught our eye in the Panexpo hall
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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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Tera integrates web CMS
Tera has introduced integrated web content management for its GN3 editorial system.
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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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Audience Database to be Washington centrepiece
DTI says the ‘Washington Times’ is to make its Audience Database the technology centrepiece of a new marketing strategy to gain greater market penetration both locally and nationally.
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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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