In Brief

ABB named Boris Falk head of sales at the firm’s Center of Excellence Printing in Switzerland.

Goss International Corp. said Ragy Isaac, the firm’s quality director, won certification from the IdeAlliance as a G7 Expert. G7 is an industry methodology governing how proofing and press systems are calibrated to ensure print quality and consistency.
www.abb.com

San Diego News Network named former San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun journalist Chris Jennewein president.

Chicago Tribune Media Group named Susan Jacobs vice president of retail advertising.

Inergize Digital added support for Google mapping technology to its Web content management system software.
www.inergizedigital.com

Le Temps of Geneva, Switzerland, extended its online news portal, with EdiosMedia. The publisher uses Méthode to produce its print edition and will use Méthode Portal Server for its online edition, Eidos said.
www.eidosmedia.com

PageSuite began publishing the free online editions of Associated Newspapers’ Metro U.K., Metro Ireland, London Lite and 7Days.
The free digital editions give the titles greater reach outside their traditional distribution areas, PageSuite said, and also allow readers who have missed printed editions to catch up on the day’s news.
www.pagesuite.co.uk

El Siglo de Torréon of Mexico installed Protecmedia’s Milenium Cross Media platform to integrate its newsroom, advertising and production operations, Protecmedia said. The paper will also use the app to share resources with three other papers — El Siglo de Durango, La I de Saltillo and La I de Laguna.
www.protecmedia.com

IFRA is offering tutorials for potential participants in its next round of International Newspaper Color Quality Club events (INCQC 2010–2012). Tutorials are scheduled for June in Darmstadt, Germany; July in Hyderabad, India; October in Darmstadt and Vienna; and in November in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Jakarta, Indonesia.
Additional tutorials may be scheduled upon request.
www.colorqualityclub.org
www.ifra.com

The Wall Street Journal launched a new culture blog, Speakeasy, that’s aimed at enhancing the site’s art and entertainment coverage. Meantime, three newspapers, the Flint (Mich.) Journal, the Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore., and Newsday in Melville, N.Y., will begin including Sunday Journal pages in their Sunday editions. Finally, Dow Jones said Hyatt Hotels & Resorts selected The Journal as the complimentary newspaper to be delivered to a majority of its Gold Passport members.

Baldwin Technology Co. Inc. announced an agreement with Tolerans to represent Tolerans’ in-line stitching products in the United States and Canada. Baldwin also said it will supply spraybar dampening and blanket cleaning systems to two Japanese newspapers, Yomiuri Shimbun and Nichinichi Shimbun.
www.baldwintech.com

Adobe Systems Inc. released a free preview of Adobe BrowserLab, a new hosted service that enables Web designers to view and test their sites on a variety of browsers and operating systems.
www.adobe.com

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it has commissioned a shaftless DiamondSpace press at The Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan. The conversion project retained existing RTPs.
www.mhi.com

Roxen Internet Software of Sweden opened a U.S. office in Chicago. Shaw Newspapers last year became the first U.S. newspaper publisher to deploy Roxen’s Editorial Portal.
www.roxen.com

The Associated Press said that its Mobile news widget is preloaded or available for download on the new Nokia N97 smart phone, which began shipping last week.
www.ap.org

Celsius Technology Group introduced Celsius Technology Platform. a hosted content management system that includes Celsius Publisher, Story and Pipeline applications. The system allows readers to add elements to an existing story. including photos and videos.
www.celsiustechnologygroup.com