by Deborah Cage
Cupertino, Calif.

Audio Highway has an interesting twist on the network computer: It considers NCs as palm-sized devices for downloading and storing audio from the Internet. "This is the Sony Walkman of the Internet," said Chief Executive Nathan Schulhof. "With headphones, you can listen to audio through your car radio, at work or wherever you happen to be." Cupertino-based Audio Highway's Listen Up Player holds up to 60 minutes of digital audio files that can be played aback at will. Like a CD player, it lets listeners select or skip through files. It is battery-powered and also can be plugged into a car cigarette lighter. The player also handles text-to-speech so customers can download and listen to E-mail. The player comes with a docking station that hooks to a personal computer through a pass-through parallel port. Audio can then be downloaded onto the PC's hard drive and then transferred into the player.

Tired of sitting in traffic listening to the same old drivel on your car radio? Soon you can program your own personal drivel to listen to in your car. The Cupertino, California-based Audio Highway (formerly Information Highway Media Corp., AW, Nov. 14, 1994) is ready to launch its new Listen Up handheld device, which stores an hour's worth of audio for playback through headphones or your car stereo. The product hits test markets in November, and goes on sale in 3000 consumer electronic outlets in January.

If you don't have time to read your Wall Street Journal in the morning, you can download it from your computer and listen to it on your way to the office.

"ARE THE NATION'S 60 million commmuters ready for the all-digital audio book? A company called Audio Highway in Cupertino, Calif., will find out at yearend, when it comes out with a palm-size gizmo that can store and play back as much as 10 hours of digitized speech. Called Listen Up, the device will be able to play its contents through a built-in speaker, headphones, or, using its internal transmitter, a car radio."

"Need an aural fix for those drive times when your compact disc collection is played out and the radio just isn’t doing it for you? Then a new audio subscription service now being developed might be your answer.

Taking the information highway concept a bit literally is a Cupertino, California, company called Information Highway Media Corp. The company is developing an interesting way of delivering aural entertainment to your ears while you’re driving on the highway.

The product is called Listen Up and it’s basically a portable recording device married to a subscription service."

"A Cupertino, Calif., based startup proposes a sound approach to the information highway.

Instead of entering the multimedia bottleneck, Information Highway Media Corp. will steer toward the audio highway end of the spectrum. Hoping to satisfy commuters and other travelers, the Listen Up Audio System and the Audio-On-Demand Subscription Service will provide customized audio programming.

A small, portable device will enable users to receive and store a wide variety of audio programming for later listening."