Audible Delivers Spoken Audio to New Windows-Powered Pocket PCs.Business Editors WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 Pocket PCs from Casio, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard Ship with AudibleReady E-book Reader Software for Listening to audible.com's More Than 20,000 Hours of Audiobooks, Audio Magazines and Newspapers, and RobinWilliams @ audible.com Audible, 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 : ADBL ADBL Agricultural Development Bank Limited (Nepal) ), the leading provider of Internet-delivered spoken audio (www.audible.com(tm)) for PC-based listening or mobile playback on AudibleReady(tm) portable digital audio players, announced today that Microsoft's Reader software ships with the ability to seamlessly play back spoken audio files downloaded from audible.com(tm). Now Pocket PCs will have the differentiating capability to act as go-anywhere audio playback devices that easily store six hours of Audible's spoken audio on internal RAM For other uses, see Iram. Internal RAM, or IRAM, is the address range of RAM that is internal to the CPU. Some object files contain an .iram section. Generally, IRAM is composed of very high speed SRAM located alongside of the CPU. and many more hours on optional CompactFlash(tm) memory cards. Pocket PC users can download audio on-demand or automatically via subscriptions, and listen to quality business, news and entertainment programming wherever they go, including the newly launched weekly series RobinWilliams @ audible.com(tm). Audible.com(tm) also features daily selected audio content from The Wall Street Journal and daily digests of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News is the major daily newspaper in San Jose, California and Silicon Valley. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group. Its headquarters and printing plant are located in North San Jose next to the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880). , Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , as well as The Economist Audio Digest, The Industry Standard, Forbes and Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and . The site also offers a powerful collection of audiobook bestsellers and classics by authors such as Stephen King <noinclude></noinclude>
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