Asahi Shinbun, The Leading Newspaper In Japan, To Use EBT's DynaText And DynaWeb In An Experiment To Provide Real-Time News Via The World-Wide Web; Asahi Shinbun Will Publish "Online Top Ten News" on the Web in Japanese.PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 15, 1996--Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. (EBT EBT See: Earnings Before Taxes ), the premier international supplier of integrated CD/Web publishing solutions, today announced that Asahi Shinbun, the leading newspaper in Japan, will use EBT's DynaText and DynaWeb online publishing software in an experimental program aimed at publishing Japanese language news articles on CD and the World-Wide Web. Asahi Shinbun, which has an average daily circulation of 8.25 million (4 1/2 x larger than the Wall Street Journal), is participating in the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (日本電信電話株式会社 (NTT) fiber-optics network "Multimedia Cooperative Communication Experiment." As part of the experiment, Asahi Shinbun is using EBT's DynaText Professional Publishing System to create electronic versions of Japanese-language articles for subsequent distribution on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). . Asahi Shinbun also plans to implement EBT's DynaWeb server software, to enable real- time publishing of the Japanese "Online Top 10 News" via the World-Wide Web. "It is extremely satisfying to see Japan's explosive growth in the adoption of SGML and online publishing solutions extend to a major newspaper such as Asahi Shinbun," said Morihiro Kinjo, General Manager of EBT KK, EBT's Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo. "Asahi Shinbun is demonstrating its vision and leadership by adopting a standards-based approach to online news publishing." Asahi Shinbun's experimental publishing system is connected to the existing online news gathering system, "ANDES." News articles are downloaded from ANDES every 6 hours and converted from plain text into SGML format. In addition to Asahi Shinbun, EBT KK currently supports customers and distributors in this region such as Canon, Fujitsu Ltd., NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Novell Japan Ltd., NTT, SunSoft Japan, TOYO, and Toshiba Advanced Systems. EBT's underlying multi-byte technology is capable of handling a variety of Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The forthcoming DynaText version 3.0, due at the end of the first quarter in 1996, is a Unicode- based, multi-byte-enabled internationalized application that will enable EBT to maintain and ship a single version of DynaText to the entire world market. DynaText is currently the only SGML-based publishing system capable of handling the full range of multi-lingual documents. EBT's publishing tools provide professional publishers with a standards-based solution for the next-generation of integrated CD/Web publishing. EBT, a founding member of SGML Open and the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C), develops and markets a product suite engineered from the ground up around standards such as SGML. EBT's cross- platform software tools enable customers to manage and publish information to CD-ROM, World-Wide Web, LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. , and print from a single, standards-based source. EBT information can be accessed on the Web at http://www.ebt.com. EBT is privately held and headquartered in Providence, RI, USA. -0- Standard Generalized Markup Language (language, text) Standard Generalized Markup Language - (SGML) A generic markup language for representing documents. SGML is an International Standard that describes the relationship between a document's content and its structure. (SGML) is an international ISO standard for document markup used in the publication and delivery of electronic information. Universal Text Format (UTF) is the SGML standard for the News Distribution Industry, adopted by the International Press Telecommunications Council The International Press Telecommunications Council, based in Windsor, United Kingdom, is a consortium of the world's major news agencies and news industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by virtually every major news (IPTC) and the Newspaper Association of America The Newspaper Association of America is a United States trade association that represents the country's largest daily newspapers and provides services including market research, technology education and support, minority hiring and representing publishers in Washington, D.C. (NAA). HyperText Markup Language (hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard) Hypertext Markup Language - (HTML) A hypertext document format used on the World-Wide Web. HTML is built on top of SGML. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or more parameters and a ">". (HTML) is an application of SGML for marking up and rendering documents within the World-Wide Web environment on the Internet. DynaText, DynaWeb and EBT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company Ltd. All other company, product or service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Paul Lamoureux (pcl@ebt.com) Morihiro Kinjo EBT EBT KK Providence, RI, USA Tokyo, Japan (401) 421-9550 +[81] 3 3230 3861 or Mr. H. Tokui Gakken Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan +[81] 3 3447 8161 |
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