Philips Rush to Feature Audible's Internet Audio Service.Business & Technology Editors CES 2000 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2000 Digital Audio Player See digital music player, digital media hub and digital media server. to be AudibleReady(TM) and Play Spoken Audio From Audible.com: Best Selling and Classic Audio Books, Timely Newspaper & Magazine Audio Digests and Much More Demonstrations Available at CES 2000, Audible's Booth LVCC LVCC Las Vegas Convention Center LVCC Las Vegas Country Club LVCC Liverpool Victoria County Championship (England, cricket) LVCC Lakewood Village Community Church LVCC Lucas Valley Community Church (San Rafael, CA) 169 and Philips' Booth LVCC 926 Philips Electronics (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : PHG) and Audible, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADBL ADBL Agricultural Development Bank Limited (Nepal) ), announced today that the new Rush portable digital audio player will be AudibleReady(TM) and will feature Audible.com's Internet audio See RealAudio. service, which will be available when the Rush debuts during the first quarter of 2000. This will provide Rush customers with the ability to play any of the more than 20,000 hours of premium spoken word audio available at audible.com(TM). The AudibleManager(TM) application software, which supports automated delivery of audio subscriptions and advanced transfer functionality, will be bundled with the Rush, and a number of promotional audio titles offered to Rush customers. "Philips is one of the great brands of the consumer electronics industry, and we are proud to be working with them," stated Travis Millman, Vice President of Business Development at Audible, Inc. "We warmly welcome the new Philips Rush as a significant addition to the growing list of digital audio players that support the Audible Internet audio service and will offer our mutual customers a compelling listening experience." "We at Philips believe that spoken audio represents an important category of content for our customers," stated Andy Mintz, Vice President and General Manager, Audio, Philips Consumer Electronics Philips Consumer Electronics is a part of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (usually known as Philips); and is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. In 2005, its sales were € 30.4 billion (US$38. , North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "Philips is delighted to offer Audible's innovative Internet audio service and huge digital audio library to Rush owners." "This announcement clearly furthers Audible's mission to provide access to our Internet audio service from a wide range of devices," added Donald Katz, Chairman and Founder of Audible, Inc. "Philips is a wonderful company to work with, and we are glad to be offering this differentiating feature to the Rush." Audible.com features daily audio digests of The Wall Street Journal on Audible, The New York Times, The New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. 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). and The 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). ; The Economist Audio Digest, Forbes and Harvard Management Update. The site also offers thousands of audio books from proven best selling authors, including Stephen King <noinclude></noinclude>
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror and , John Grisham, Robert Ludlum, Jon Krakauer, Scott Adams, Sue Grafton. With over 20,000 hours of audiobooks, audio digests of newspapers and magazines, 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 digital spoken audio available for mobile playback. About Rush Rush, Philips' first introduction in the personal digital audio category, provides all the necessary hardware and software to immediately begin experiencing the power of digital audio. Connecting to a PC via a parallel port interface, Rush can store digital audio files downloaded from the Internet. Utilizing advanced micro-electronic circuitry, Philips' Rush is among the smallest flash memory player See flash player. in the industry (just under three inches square and less than one inch deep). A 32-megabyte version of Rush will be available in Q1 2000 while a 64 MB offering will be available in May 2000. About Audible, Inc. Audible is one of the Internet's largest and most diverse providers of premium spoken-audio content for playback on personal computers and AudibleReady(TM) mobile devices. Audible allows customers to take better advantage of their commute, travel and desktop computer time by delivering premium information and entertainment when their eyes are busy but their minds are free. Audible's content partners include leading audio book publishers, broadcasters, magazine and newspaper publishers, business information providers, and educational and cultural institutions. Visitors to www.audible.com can browse, sample, purchase, subscribe to, schedule and download more than 18,000 hours of audio content. The company's technology partners include AT&T Corp., Casio Inc., 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 $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. , Creative Labs Inc., S3/Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc., Everex Systems Inc., The Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Royal Philips Electronics, and RealNetworks, Inc. About Philips Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of US$ 33.9 billion in 1998. It is a global leader in color television sets, lighting, electric shavers, color picture tubes for televisions and monitors, and one-chip TV products. Its 230,700 employees in more than 60 countries are active in the areas of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances, components, semiconductors, medical systems, business electronics, and IT services (Origin). Philips is quoted on the NYSE, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and other stock exchanges. Audible.com and AudibleReady are trademarks of Audible, Inc. Philips is a trademark of Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. This press release contains information, which is not historical fact and may be deemed to contain forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, Audible's limited operating history, history of losses, uncertain market for its services, and its inability to license or produce compelling audio content and other risks and uncertainties detailed in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. |
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