Digicom Systems to Bundle Audiohighway's AudioWiz Software with Modem Blaster Products

Strategic Insights -

Digicom Systems, a leading supplier of standalone and rack-mounted data/fax, T-1, and ISDN modems, has announced plans to bundle audiohighway.com's AudioWiz software with its Modem Blaster products. This partnership aims to provide customers with instant access to a broad range of audio files, including audiobooks, business, entertainment, music, news, sport, technology, and travel. By incorporating AudioWiz into the Modem Blaster line, Digicom is now able to offer its customers access to audiohighway.com's extensive digital audio library, which contains over 100,000 hours of free audio content.

Key Takeaways:

  • Digicom Systems will bundle audiohighway.com's AudioWiz software with its Modem Blaster products, allowing customers to access a broad range of audio files.
  • The audiohighway.com digital audio library contains over 100,000 hours of free audio content, including audiobooks, business, entertainment, music, news, sport, technology, and travel.
  • AudioWiz uses audiohighway.com's AudioCast system to deliver digital audio in a secure format that allows consumers to listen to music or news in real time via "streaming," or save the files for listening at a later time.
  • Digicom's Modem Blaster products feature V.90 and K56flex technology, offering superior price, performance, and quality.
  • The partnership between Digicom and audiohighway.com aims to provide customers with a truly unique and entertaining Internet audio experience.
  • Digicom's complete line of entry-level, mid-range, and high-end modems offer superior speed and reliability, ensuring that audiohighway.com's audio content will maintain the highest possible sound quality when streamed or downloaded for future use.
  • Penelope Dwyer, director of sales and marketing for audiohighway.com, stated that she is excited about the partnership with Digicom, which gives the company the opportunity to focus on enhancing its audio content offerings.
  • audiohighway.com is an Internet-based information and entertainment company that provides users with the ability to download and playback audio content, including audiobooks, music, news programs, and other forms of information and entertainment.
  • The company currently has available on its Web site audio content from providers such as National Public Radio, Newsweek On Air, Associated Press, Penguin Books, USA, ESPN, and Compact Classics.

Statistics:

  • Audiohighway.com's digital audio library contains over 100,000 hours of free audio content.
  • audiohighway.com has over 100,000 unique monthly users.
  • Digicom's Modem Blaster products feature V.90 and K56flex technology, offering superior price, performance, and quality.
  • Digicom's complete line of entry-level, mid-range, and high-end modems offer superior speed and reliability, ensuring that audiohighway.com's audio content will maintain the highest possible sound quality when streamed or downloaded for future use.

Sources:

  • audiohighway.com's Web site at http://www.audiohighway.com.
  • Digicom Systems, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd., headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., and producing a wide range of industry-leading communications equipment.
  • audiohighway.com's press release (January 12, 1999).