-Presteligence Inc. integrated its ad infinitum e-tearsheet and invoice delivery software with AdMall. The company said the combined products will simplify verification, allowing AdMall’s co-op advertising clients to access their e-tearsheets for improved customer service, faster ad verification and a shorter payment cycle for publishers.

www.presteligence.com       

-The Daily Herald in Provo, Utah, The Daily Journal in Park Hills, Mo., and The World in Coos Bay, Ore., signed up with Boodle to use the firm’s online coupon service.

www.boodle.com

-The New York Times Co. reported that Internet-derived ad revenues increased 35.5 percent for November 2004 compared to the same month in 2003. The company credited strong growth in display advertising and all classified advertising categories. Overall advertising revenues for The New York Times Media Group increased 6.2 percent for November 2004 compared with November 2003.

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-The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, W. Va., purchased an AdPower system from Harris & Baseview. The newspaper will also use AdWebster for its online advertising. AdWebster allows Internet-connected customers to directly enter classified ad orders into an AdPower system.

The 17-seat AdPower workstations will help the Herald-Dispatch staff schedule and bill ads, target them for multiple publishing media, allow for fax input and output of classified ads and paginate classified ads. AdPower will run on Win2000 servers with a backup system supplied by Harris & Baseview.

The newspaper plans go live with its new software in this month.

Meantime, The Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal purchased a 40-seat AdPower system. The Gannett paper will use the app to marry pricing between workflow and Web components.

www.harrisbaseview.com

-Following the successful launch of Firefox V.1.0, The Mozilla Foundation announced the launch of its free e-mail app, Thunderbird. Designed to compete with Microsoft’s Outlook, it includes a built-in spam filter, an RSS reader and sophisticated search and sorting capabilities.

Thunderbird will automatically import addresses, mailboxes and account settings from competing apps such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Netscape Mail. Downloads are available from its Web site.

www.mozilla.org