And this was worthy of a press release? The addition of a few silly RSS feeds?
I thought it was 'All about the music'... Regards, Peter On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:14:39 -0700, "Jez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 9, 2006 /PRNewswire/ -- Slim Devices > announced that its customers will have access to news from the 2006 > FIFA World Cup through their Squeezebox starting today and through the > duration of the widely followed global sports event. The news will be > delivered to each home in nine languages (English, German, French, > Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese) through > RSS feeds hosted on SqueezeNetwork, Slim Devices' content service. > "With a global customer base and website visits originating from 172 > countries, it was a no-brainer that we needed to support the World > Cup," said Patrick Cosson, VP of Sales & Marketing. "We'll be following > the tournament intensely and rooting for our favorite teams." > SqueezeNetwork provides customers out-of-the-box access to Internet > radio, music services like Pandora, RSS feeds and nature sounds, even > when their computer is off. If they additionally install SlimServer, > Slim Devices' powerful open source software, users are able to access > through their stereo the music stored on their local computer. > By launching SqueezeNetwork, Slim Devices evolved its award-winning > network music player into an "always-on" home media device appropriate > for any room. "SqueezeNetwork makes Squeezebox the most flexible and > powerful media player in the world." added Patrick Cosson. > In January, Slim Devices introduced support for Unicode fonts making it > possible to display non-Latin characters such as the Asian languages > offered through the FIFA World Cup news feeds. > > > -- > Jez > > Jez Hildred > Senior Manager - Sales & Marketing > Slim Devices, Inc. > > http://www.last.fm/user/Kadosh/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jez's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4300 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24673 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
