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Monday, August 24th, 1998 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs E.N.E.N. and CMP Media To Launch Electronics Industry News Service The Education News & Entertainment Network (E.N.E.N.), an Internet broadcasting organization, has partnered with CMP Media, Inc., to produce the Electronics Industry News, a daily news program targeted directly to the electronics community. CMP's Electronic Design, Technology and News (EDTN) Network, an online news and design resource specifically serving the electronics industry, will co-produce the program with E.N.E.N. The audio-based news program can be found on the Internet at the E.N.E.N. Web site at http://www.enen.com/enews/index.htm or at RealNetworks' daily briefing website at http://www.dailybriefing.com. Daily Briefing generates approximately 500,000 hits per day from viewers visiting the site to download daily broadcasts on business and technology, sports, weather, national news and local news. Electronics Industry News will provide electronic professionals with updated industry developments in network news, products, technology and business in the electronics world. E.N.E.N. has partnered with the EDTN Network to deliver content for the daily news program. "With the core of our customer base located in the electronics industry, this program gives E.N.E.N. another opportunity to interact with our target demographic. Most importantly, we will provide viewers with an informative daily news service that hasn't been available until now," says E.N.E.N. founder, Robert Edelman. PriMedia to Launch Magazine for Building and Construction Materials Market Raymond E. Maloney, president and chief executive officer of PriMedia Intertec, the technical and trade magazine division of PriMedia Inc., announced that Building Materials International (BMI) will launch in January 1999. The magazine will make its debut at the BAU trade show in Munich, Germany, Jan. 19-24, 1999. The global construction market is estimated at US$1.5 trillion annually, with the building and construction materials sector accounting for US$600 billion. BMI will cover the complete global building and construction materials market and will provide information on the latest building materials technology, new products and techniques, safety and environmental topics, as well as analysis of the world building materials market. "The increasing globalization of the building and construction industry has generated a huge demand for quality information on the latest materials, products and services, as well as advances in the way these products are used," said Maloney. "BMI marks PriMedia Intertec's first global magazine launch through its new product development program." BMI will target contractors, architects, engineers, specifiers, government officials and agents, and other professionals involved with the purchase of building materials and associated services. BMI is being published by the PriMedia Intertec Mining & Construction Group within the Industrial Group. The magazine will complement PriMedia Intertec's International Construction, which serves the global construction industry with a concentration on plant and equipment. Peter Beckett, publisher of International Construction, will also head up BMI. Steve Burdett, a magazine veteran in the construction industry, will be editor of the new publication. The Industry Standard and AvantGo Team Up to Deliver News to Portable Devices AvantGo Inc. and The Industry Standard have teamed up to deliver a Channel of news on the Internet Economy to business executives who rely on handheld computers. Published by IDG, The Industry Standard is a magazine written for executives responsible for Internet business strategy. With this relationship, IDG is taking advantage of what industry analysts are calling a new publishing trend enabled by AvantGo's software. The Industry Standard Channel is available at http://www.thestandard.com/portable. "The Channels being developed for AvantGo foreshadow the route that the delivery of news will take in the near future," according to The Bulletin: Seybold News & Views on Electronic Publishing, dated August 5. "Both from marketing and technical perspectives, the creation of news channels for handheld devices warrants every publisher's attention." "We are pleased to be teaming up with AvantGo because it allows us to put the information our corporate executive readers need, literally into the palm of their hands, anywhere, anytime," said John Battelle, president and publisher of The Industry Standard. "Our readers are constantly mobile and constantly connected, it just makes good business sense for us to team with AvantGo." AvantGo software leverages Web technology so that companies can build, deploy and manage mobile applications on Palm Computing and soon Windows CE-compatible devices. Publishers' content is easy to access because mobile users choose the Web addresses or Channels they want to receive. Their specified Channels are then automatically updated each time the handheld device is synchronized. MecklerMedia Acquires CyberAtlas.com Website CyberAtlas.com, which will be added to Mecklermedia's Internet.com network of websites, compiles and analyzes research about the Internet and information technologies. Features include market reports on Web demographics, e-commerce, advertising, browsers, modems and servers. "CyberAtlas.com is used principally by Web marketers and Internet industry professionals to support business decisions," reports Alan M. Meckler, chairman and CEO, Mecklermedia Corporation. Mecklermedia's Internet.com provides real-time news and information resources for Internet professionals and Web developers. Internet.com sites currently serve approximately 18 million pages to 1 million unique visitors monthly. The site, internet.com, features other well-known brands including Web Developer.com, WebReference, InternetNews.com, The Electronic Commerce Guide and SearchEngineWatch. Mac Publishing Launches eMediaweekly Mac Publishing, L.L.C. released the premiere issue of eMediaweekly, a weekly news publication dedicated exclusively to multi-platform digital content creation. eMediaweekly debuts with a BPA-controlled circulation of 85,000 digital media managers across North America. "The digital media industry is projected to grow to more than $317 billion annually by 1999," said eMediaweekly Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Rick LePage. "eMediaweekly directly meets the needs of the influencers in this market -- digital media professionals who are responsible for making the buying decisions for their company's content creation and management products, whether it's for the Web, multimedia or traditional print publishing." The premiere issue of eMediaweekly features integrated editorial coverage of news, trends and analysis, product information, reviews, technology updates and solutions spanning the entire digital media spectrum. Regular weekly departments include Imaging, Print, Web, Multimedia, Systems, Assets, Reviews and Special Reports. While the premiere issue of eMediaweekly debuts today, the official launch of the new title is slated for Aug. 31, to coincide with the Seybold San Francisco/Publishing 98 conference whose audience is closely aligned with that of eMediaweekly. The publication's companion website is also now online at emediaweekly.com. eMediaweekly Online features eMediaweekly Resources, a digest of 500 related links to companies, standards and technologies. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
