Audible Inc. Partners With Creative Labs to Deliver Wealth of Internet Audio to Portable Audio Playback Device Users.WAYNE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999--Audible Inc., the leader in premium spoken audio content delivered via the Internet, and Creative Technology Ltd., the renowned innovator of market-leading multimedia solutions for personal entertainment, and today announced a strategic partnership designed to bring Audible programming to the new line of Creative's portable digital audio players. Under the agreement, Audible has committed to making a portion of its content library available in the MP3 format and the two companies will collaborate to ensure that Audible's content can be securely downloaded to Creative's Project NOMAD Project Nomad is a 1993 computer game developed by Intense! Interactive and Papyrus Design Group, Inc. and published by GameTek. It is a cross between a simple space simulator, a trading game and an adventure. It has only been released for PC DOS operating systems. line of portable digital audio players. Creative's forthcoming Project NOMAD line will include a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). from the manufacturer that contains a selection of Audible's premium audio content in MP3 format. Titles such as 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 Audio Digest, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut Noun 1. Kurt Vonnegut - United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922) Vonnegut Jr. reading from Welcome to the Monkey House, and stand up comedy from Richard Belzer and Pat Paulson may be included on the CD among others. Audible.com is the one-stop shopping site for special delivery of the world's best spoken audio, including daily selected content from The New York Times Audio Digest and a powerful collection of audiobooks from proven best selling authors including Stephen King, John Grisham, Robert Ludlum, Jon Krakauer, Scott Adams, Sue Grafton, John Gray, Sidney Sheldon, James Redfield and James Patterson. The Audible Website also features The Economist Audio Digest and Harvard Management Update. With over 17,000 hours of audio newspapers, audio magazines, audio books, on-demand radio (including Marketplace, Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and , Fresh Air, Car Talk), speeches, lectures, and language learning, Audible.com offers the broadest range of audio available from one source. "It's exciting to witness the advances in Internet audio playback devices such as Project NOMAD line being developed by Creative," said Andy Huffman, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Audible Inc. "As a company leading the effort to 'teach the Web how to talk,' we at Audible are proud of this association with the creators of SoundBlaster and other technologies that taught the PC how to talk. Once the security issues are resolved, through the Audible partnership with Creative, users will be able to prgram their own listening time and take personalized audio away from the Web for playback whenever and wherever they want." "For mobile professionals, the need to download and take news and other forms of spoken-word content with them will drive demand for this new class of portable digital audio products found in Creative's Project NOMAD line," said Hock hock: see wine. Leow, vice president of the Multimedia Division at Creative. "We are very excited to be working with Audible to deliver a variety of content for this new platform." About Audible Inc. Founded in 1995, Audible, based in Wayne, NJ, aims to combine the growing popularity of spoken audio programming with the rapid development of commercial viability of the Internet. The company is focused on audio content sourcing, development, packaging, delivery and playback, as well as continued development of the platform, tools, services, and varied licensing opportunities afforded by the Audible MobileAudio(TM) System. The company services Internet-savvy business professionals whose primary needs are to stay informed of critical business and entertainment-based audio, which allows them to take better advantage of their commute and travel time. Audible provides unique content services that deliver premium information and entertainment when and where their customers need it. Audible.com's investors include AT&T Ventures, Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. , Hambrecht & Quist LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , The Intel Corporation, Ironwood ironwood: see hornbeam. ironwood Any of numerous trees and shrubs, found worldwide, that have exceptionally tough or hard wood useful for timber, fence posts, and tool handles. Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Patricof & Co., and TTC TTC Trying To Conceive TTC Toronto Transit Commission TTC Trans Texas Corridor TTC Toutes Taxes Comprises (French) TTC Trident Technical College (North Charleston, SC) TTC Temporary Traffic Control Ventures (The Thompson Corporation). About Creative Technologies Ltd. Creative Technology Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets a wide array of advanced multimedia solutions for the PC, entertainment, education, music and productivity tools markets. Creative's products are marketed through the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and , systems integrator and retail channels under a variety of trademarks, including the "Blaster" family name. With the new Sound Blaster(R) PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). standard, Creative has produced a solution that utilizes a combination of hardware and software for near-perfect compatibility with existing DOS and Windows titles. Creative's corporate headquarters and primary manufacturing are based in Singapore, with sales, distribution and research and development being carried out through an extensive, global network of subsidiaries located in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Sound Blaster and Blaster are registered trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized as such. |
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