Atex Media Solutions announced that Atex has become a VAR for Engage Technologies, Inc. Atex Media Solutions will market and distribute Engage’s ProfileServer, AdManager, and DecisionSupportServer to their customers who seek profile driven solutions that allow them to reinforce their brand, leverage their content, expand their market position, and increase their advertising revenue. www.atex.com, www.engage.com
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Fatbrain.com debuted its eMatter content for sale at www.fatbrain.com. eMatter is a secure digital publishing solution that allows authors and publishers to publish and sell their works online, earning royalties of at least 50 percent on every copy sold. The eMatter program provides a new global distribution channel for works of all kinds, including books, magazines and articles. In addition, eMatter is ideal for specialty documents, which may include articles that are longer than a magazine but shorter than a book and out-of-print materials. To publish an eMatter document, the author simply uploads the document to Fatbrain.com as an PDF file, Microsoft Word document, Postscript file or text file, sets a price, provides summary information, and then places the work into one of the thousands of subject categories available through Fatbrain.com. The published eMatter document is posted for sale, where it may be found via normal search mechanisms and then purchased for download in electronic format. The author then receives a royalty check and a detailed sales report from Fatbrain.com based on the number of people who have purchased the work. To secure eMatter documents, Fatbrain.com has developed new patent-pending secure digital rights technologies to protect the ownership rights of the document, which is delivered in Windows versions of PDF. eMatter documents are expected to be available in Macintosh and UNIX versions in early 2000. Downloaded eMatter files have a persistent security wrapper that ensures that content is protected even if it is redistributed; only users who have purchased the eMatter file will be able to read it. If a copy of the eMatter file is opened on a different computer, the new reader is offered the option to purchase the work. www.fatbrain.com
The e-content company, a division of Interleaf, Inc. announced X-WAP (XML Wireless Application Product), a new BladeRunner application that will allow enterprises to distribute information to any wireless device, extending enterprise e-business. Through the power of eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), enterprises can now extend the reach of their intranets by transforming WML, HTML, and XML business content for presentation to wireless devices such as cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, pagers and e-books. The e-content company is debuting with demonstrations of content being served live to a variety of mobile and wireless devices including the One Touch Pocket cellular phone from Alcatel; the Palm VII PDA from Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com Company; the Nokia 9000il Communicator and the 7110 cellular phone; the StarTac cellular phone and PageWriter 2000X digital pager both from Motorola; and the Softbook electronic book from Softbook Press. To date, wireless access to the Web has required some type of gateway filtering technology or specialized site; neither of these flexibly adapt to numerous devices each with unique capabilities such as screen size. With X-WAP, content in XML, or structured HTML, can be efficiently transformed into output, exploiting the unique features of each device. In addition, with X-WAP’s XSL creation tools, content providers have control over how their content is rendered on all these devices. As part of this release, the e-content company is announcing collaborations with leading wireless communications companies to jointly develop solutions for delivering dynamic customized content on wireless devices. To date, participants include Alcatel, Motorola, Nokia, and Softbook Press, and will be expanded to include leading content providers, aggregators, Web portals, and telecommunications carriers who are all part of the X-WAP value chain. X-WAP will be available this quarter to participants of the Early Adopter Program as a Technology Preview. www.xmlecontent.com
eBusiness Technologies and Visionary Media, Inc. announced a technology relationship. The two companies are working together to integrate Visionary Media’s VIEWS technologies with eBusiness Technologies’ MediaBank digital asset management solution to deliver a complete workflow management system. VIEWManager enhances MediaBank’s workflow management capabilities, streamlining print production time for clients, such as corporate marketing departments and commercial publishers. VIEWPage adds automated page-building tools tailored to developing product advertisements. www.ebt.com, www.visionary-media.com
iCopyright.com, announced that it has signed two new alliances to simplify the process of obtaining reprints. Rapid Reprint and Reprint Services, sister divisions of Taylor Corporation, will fulfill reprint requests from iCopyright.com
Web2PCS.com announced a strategic alliance with 7am.com to provide Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) news for the Web2PCS wireless portal. This alliance will allow users of the wireless portal to receive both wireless “push” and “pull” based news from multiple geographical locations. Users of the Wireless Portal can now receive headlines specific to 4 different countries including New Zealand, United Kingdom, Australia and the United States with additional country specific information to come in the near future. www.web2pcs.com
TELUS Corporation and NCompass Labs, Inc. announced a strategic alliance to offer advanced Web hosting services based on the NCompass Resolution Web publishing and content management system. TELUS plans to make this new service available to its customers through its TELUS Advertising Services division. The new TELUS offering will take advantage of NCompass Resolution’s ability to create template-based Web sites for customers who need the ability to update and manage their own content. Customers of this new offering will also be able to take advantage of NCompass Resolution’s capabilities for personalization, scheduling, workflow and other advanced Web content management features. Initially, this service will be targeted at business customers who require robust, dynamic Web sites for their Internet presence or for intranet or extranet Web sites. www.ncompasslabs.com, www.teluswebsolutions.com
Mediaplex, Inc. announced that it will integrate its real-time online media buying solution with the Ariba business-to-business e-commerce solution. This integrated solution will provide businesses with an automated system for placing, tracking, changing and managing online advertising placements and expenses by leveraging the approval workflow and Internet order routing capabilities of the Ariba ORMS application and Ariba Network platform. The Mediaplex-Ariba integrated solution will utilize Mediaplex’s new technology, adXML, to enable advertisers and Web publishers to transmit and acknowledge advertising insertion and change orders in real time. Mediaplex and Ariba are working together to make adXML an open standard, and are sponsoring an adXML.org Web site to provide more information. The adXML committee, which includes Boris Putanec, Ariba software architect and a primary contributor to the cXML standard, and Art Scott, Mediaplex’s adXML project manager, is also working with a number of advertising standards groups, including international groups such as FOGRA to assist with print standards in Europe. www.mediaplex.com.
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