Akamai Media Delivery Tapped to Enable Launch of Radiolibre.ca Streaming Music Service.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Through the Use of Unique Technology, Radiolibre.ca Offers an Innovative Personal Music Concept That Seeks to Promote and Expose Emerging Local Artists to a Wider Audience Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, announced today that Astral (language) Astral - A programming language based on Pascal, never implemented. ["ASTRAL: A Structured and Unified Approach to Database Design and Manipulation", T. Amble et al, in Proc of the Database Architecture Conf, Venice, June 1979]. Media, one of Canada's largest media companies, has chosen Akamai Media Delivery to enable the recent launch of its radiolibre.ca online music service. radiolibre.ca, a new personalized service of musical discovery on the Internet in both French and English, is supported by Akamai's secure media delivery and download service, giving subscribers a high quality, extremely reliable streaming service at all times. With a song list of more than 400,000 titles, comprising such genres as techno, rock, jazz, blues, hip-hop, classic, country and punk, radiolibre.ca allows users to tailor content to their interests. Along with being able to create their own music profiles, users will also have access to comprehensive editorial content, with artists' biographies and discographies, articles on the origin and history of the various music genres This list is split into four separate pages: "With RadioLibre, we wanted to reach a new breed of music lover who not only wants to listen to their favorite music, but also interact with fans, collaborators and guest-artists with similar musical interests," said Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Rozon, vice-president of radiolibre.ca, a member of the Astral Media Radio Inc. group. "After extensive research, we knew it was critical to have a solution like Akamai Media Delivery in order to not only successfully launch the service, but be able to scale and support the interest and growth we expect moving forward." radiolibre.ca is based on highly advanced technology developed in Quebec as part of the CIRANO CIRANO Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (French: Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations, Canada) (a research and analysis group) and is the result of breakthrough research by professors at McGill University McGill University, at Montreal, Que., Canada; coeducational; chartered 1821, opened 1829. It was named for James McGill, who left a bequest to establish it. Its real development dates from 1855 when John W. Dawson became principal. and l'Universite de Montreal, in collaboration with Double V3, a leading developer of applications for the music and media industries. "The digital media space continues to pioneer innovation, as witnessed by Astral Media's unique new online music service," said Thierry Curis, Digital Media and Streaming Product Manager at Akamai. "Akamai's Media Delivery platform already enables many digital media businesses, including two-thirds of the top Media and Entertainment businesses across both Canada and worldwide, to meet the needs of a new breed of consumers who increasingly accessing media content through multiple channels. Akamai's goal is to help our customers solve the complex business and technical challenges inherent in the changing digital media landscape." Akamai Media Delivery solves the challenges of media delivery by providing clients with an easy way to monetize and deliver digital media assets. The solution leverages the unmatched capacity of the Akamai EdgePlatform to enable businesses to deliver a range of media, including music, movies & video, sports, news, marketing information, advertising and games--without adding or maintaining infrastructure with ease. For more info please visit http://www.akamai.com/en/html/business/media_delivery.html About Astral Media Astral Media is one of Canada's largest media companies. It is active in specialty, pay and pay-per-view television, radio and outdoor advertising. The company's solid and dynamic presence in the country's major markets rests on its commitment to offer a unique combination of high-quality, targeted media for all its audiences. About Akamai Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. More than 1,800 organizations have formed trusted relationships with Akamai, improving their revenue and reducing costs by maximizing the performance of their online businesses. Leveraging the Akamai EdgePlatform, these organizations gain business advantage today, and have the foundation for the emerging Web solutions of tomorrow. Akamai is "The Trusted Choice for Online Business." For more information, visit www.akamai.com. Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s management that constitute forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. 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Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by unauthorized users or others, failure to have available sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , quarterly reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. , and other documents periodically filed with the SEC. |
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