From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #113 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, April 15 1999 Volume 04 : Number 113 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: more news [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: Beatnik, Inc! [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: more news [Brian Clayton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:37:00 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: more news a little about the name change.. Robin T Headspace Inc. Becomes Beatnik Inc. Continues Commitment to Bring High Quality Sound to the Internet SAN MATEO, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The company formerly known as Headspace, Inc., the industry leader in interactive audio technology and creator of the highly advanced Beatnik Player 2.0, today announced that it has changed its name from Headspace, Inc. to Beatnik Inc. to focus the company's commitment to deliver CD-quality interactive sound, music and digital content via the Internet. Beatnik Inc. provides interactive audio capabilities to a variety of users including web developers, video producers, advertising and broadcast companies, web surfers, musicians and sound designers. Beatnik provides a "one-stop-shop" solution that enables users to easily search, purchase and download high-quality audio to be used online or offline. Beatnik's technology weaves CD-quality music and sound directly into HTML code "turning on" music sound clips when users click on or pass over images on a Web site. The cost savings and efficiency of capturing audio online will revolutionize the broadcast and film industries. "With the leading interactive audio technology available and comprehensive music catalogues on the Internet, our name change will help us leverage the strong brand equity we already have developed in the Beatnik name," said Lorraine Hariton, president and CEO. Since the release of the Beatnik Player in 1997, the product has received nationwide industry attention for its ability to delivery CD-quality, interactive sound and music on the Web. Beatnik's family of products includes Beatnik Player 2.0, music composer tools, such as Beatnik Converter and Beatnik Editor as well as several web developer tools. Beatnik held the #1 position in C|Net's 'plug-in' download charts for more than 12 months, and in April, 1998 PC World named Beatnik the second-best plug-in on the Web. The Beatnik technology has been licensed to such industry giants as Apple, Microsoft, Netscape Communications Corporation, Oracle, Sony Pictures Columbia TriStar Interactive division, Sun, and WebTV, and built strong developer support via its relationships with tools vendors such as Macromedia and NetObjects. More than five million people have downloaded the Beatnik Player from the company's web site. About Beatnik From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Beatnik delivers interactive audio software technology, its flagship product Beatnik and musical content for the Web. The Beatnik audio engine has been licensed to an expanding family of strategic partners, including Sun Microsystems, Oracle/NCI, Intel, NetObjects, Macromedia, Be, Inc. Its Rich Music Format (RMF) is a platform-independent standard for music and audio on the Internet. By coupling expert engineering skills with an expanded catalogue of musical content, Beatnik is dedicated to realizing new possibilities for interactive music and audio within multimedia on the Internet. Beatnik was formed in 1993 with a team of musical innovators and world-renowned visionary, musician and composer Thomas Dolby Robertson. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:33:00 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Beatnik, Inc! More news about Beatnik Inc. (formerly known as Headspace)... they're taking over the world! Robin T Beatnik Inc. to Add Support for Microsoft Windows Media Technologies 4.0 SAN MATEO, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Beatnik Inc. (formerly known as Headspace), the industry leader in interactive web audio, today announced that it will support Microsoft's Windows Media Technologies v4.0 in addition to the many industry-standard file types it already supports. Beatnik Inc. intends to make available Windows Media as an option for compression and content protection of its music and sound effects for video productions and web sites. Beatnik Inc. provides interactive audio capabilities to a variety of users including web developers, video producers, advertising and broadcast companies, web surfers, musicians and sound designers. Web pages "sonified" with Beatnik are known for their consistently high quality audio experience over low bandwidths, along with a heightened level of user interactivity. The addition of Windows Media Technologies v4.0 in support of Beatnik's library of music content, will enable producers to quickly audition and license audio from large catalogs of music and sound. Many of these have previously been available only on CD, but Beatnik's online solution facilitates easy integration of these files into video and web productions. "The ability to hear music and sound reinforces brand awareness and increases traffic and click-throughs," said Lorraine Hariton, president and CEO of Beatnik Inc. "This is becoming increasingly apparent to content providers, advertisers and entertainment sites. In pursuit of the best way to add sound, the combination of Microsoft's Media Player v4.0 and Beatnik's rich content and interactivity will give consumers expanded choice and better quality. "Beatnik's system brings Web pages to life, making them more fun and more usable at the same time," said Will Poole, Senior Director Marketing and Business Development for Microsoft's Streaming Media Division. "Adding support for Windows Media Technologies v4.0 to Beatnik will increase the quality and performance of the user experience even further." The Beatnik Player 2.0 has recently been bundled with both Netscape 4.5, and Intel's Pentium III, in addition Beatnik tools ship with Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Director, and NetObjects Fusion. Beatnik technology was selected by Sun as the core audio engine in its latest Java 1.2 Virtual Machine. About Beatnik From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Beatnik delivers interactive audio software technology, its flagship product Beatnik and musical content for the Web. The Beatnik audio engine has been licensed to an expanding family of strategic partners, including Sun Microsystems, Oracle/NCI, Intel, NetObjects, Macromedia, Be, Inc. Its Rich Music Format (RMF) is a platform-independent standard for music and audio on the Internet. By coupling expert engineering skills with an expanded catalogue of musical content, Beatnik is dedicated to realizing new possibilities for interactive music and audio within multimedia on the Internet. Beatnik was formed in 1993 with a team of musical innovators and world-renowned visionary, musician and composer Thomas Dolby Robertson. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:37:33 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Brian Clayton Subject: Re: Alloy: more news > a little about the name change.. Good heavens! What became of the name "Headspace?" I rather liked it. I wonder if the domain beatnik.com became available or if its previous owner transferred it to Headspace (out of the goodness of their heart, of course... :) But the big question: Is there any Headspace merchandise left? I never got one of those caps... BC - --- Brian Clayton "The main motive for going beyond the Rim... stemish@lns.com there's a heck of a big Taco Bell out there..." -- jms ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #113 ***************************