FlashNews transmits data as XML e-mail attachments that can be read by any system that accepts the established News Industry Text Format. As other front-end systems evolve, they will be able to take advantage of the newly adopted International Press Telecommunications Council News Markup Language. Photographers can take the Compact Flash card from a digital camera, insert it into a CF slot on the PDA, attach IPTC header information to a picture and transmit it to the office. Reporters can submit copy using a widely available attachable folding keyboard with standard header information. SpeedURL Linker and the SpeedURL database.
Creator is the application a publisher uses while preparing articles or other material.
It is available via a Web browser, and allows editors with the correct user privileges to type in a URL of any length and have a unique code generated. This code is then be pasted or typed into the text that ends up being printed. Linker is added to the publisher's Web site in the form of a simple HTML entry box. The URL and its related code are stored in a database by the Creator application, and resolved when queried by the Linker application. Publishers could host their own copy of the SpeedURL database and the Web-based applications on their Web server, or all of this could be done remotely by an application service provider.