From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #303 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, November 22 2001 Volume 06 : Number 303 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: more Beatnik in the news [Robin Thurlow ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:51:08 -0500 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: more Beatnik in the news Beatnik Audio Engine Enables Polyphonic Ring Tones, Game Sound and Multimedia Messaging for Symbian OS SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Beatnik, Inc., a leading provider of structured audio software solutions for mobile devices, today announced that the Beatnik Audio Engine (BAE) has been closely integrated with the Symbian OS to enable enhanced polyphonic ring tones, game sounds and multimedia messaging. Beatnik have produced a demonstration of the technology for the Nokia 9210 and Nokia 9290 mobile phones. Leading the open standards initiative, Beatnik is providing eXtensible Music Format (XMF) compatible audio capabilities for mobile phones to significantly improve the user experience through high quality sound. The BAE is a flexible and configurable software solution ideal for integration with the resource-constrained environments of current day mobile phones. The Symbian OS represents one of a number of environments supported by the BAE and has been licensed by the leading mobile device manufacturers including Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony. Nokia expects half of their third generation (3G) mobile phones to be based upon the Symbian OS by 2004 according to Jorma Ollila, Chief Executive of Nokia. "In our desire to enrich the musical experience for all mobile phone users, we are delighted that we will be able to offer users a true rich audio experience in our Symbian OS based devices thanks to the Beatnik technology solution," said Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president, Nokia Mobile Phones. "Beatnik is one of the many companies we are working with to continuously shape the Mobile Information Society." "Beatnik's proprietary technology significantly improves the sonic quality and musical variety of ring tones, at the same time enhancing mobile games and personal messaging capabilities," said Thomas Dolby Robertson, Chief Beatnik. "Today's ring tones are usually monophonic -- playing just one note at a time. Ring tones utilizing Beatnik's technology play four to 16 notes simultaneously, and can use real samples, not just beeps. It'll give you a slew of new ways to annoy the heck out of your friends and colleagues!" The Beatnik Audio Engine is available today to license to mobile device manufacturers and software platform providers. BAE enabled devices allow the delivery of rich musical ring tone services and peer-to-peer multimedia messaging, offering increased revenue opportunities for the wireless industry. Mobile device users will have access to a wide range of custom audio and music content, audio enabled applications and services. The Beatnik Audio Engine within a Symbian OS based mobile device provides an interactive audio resource that can be used by all applications on the device, enabling a richer user experience. As an example, interactive games applications will be able to deliver realistic sound effects and audio cues as well as graphical output. "The device market has discovered the critical importance of delivering high-quality audio solutions to consumers and has become increasingly fashion and youth driven. The market for ring tones and logos that personalize a user's phone has exploded over recent months," said Lorraine Hariton, president and CEO of Beatnik. "Beatnik is leading the way in providing a complete polyphonic audio solution for handset manufacturers to enable next generation services." The BAE enables users to experience instantaneous high-quality audio using extremely small file sizes. The BAE is a hardware-independent software solution that provides a complete audio sub-system including a wavetable synthesizer & sequencer, effects processor and stereo mixer. The BAE can play back and mix popular formats such as XMF, MP3, WAV, AIFF and MIDI. The BAE enhances MIDI by adding custom samples to recreate the original sound of the music or audio. It also circumvents many of the piracy concerns associated with file formats such as MP3 and MIDI by the use of a proprietary Beatnik security mechanism. For more information on Beatnik, Inc. go to: http://www.beatnik.com or contact: info@beatnik.com. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #303 ***************************