New Wall Street Journal Streaming Audio Content Now Available on Portable Devices With Voquette

Business Wire, Jan 17, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2001

Voquette Inc., the leader in the delivery of personal Web audio and Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ), today announced an agreement to make new audio content from The Wall Street Journal available for online listening or downloading and playback on portable devices. This agreement extends the current relationship between Voquette and The Wall Street Journal, and includes new audio reports from The Wall Street Journal not previously available.

With Voquette, users have access to these new programs free of charge and the free Voquette Media Manager(TM) software enables them to automatically record the audio from the Web and play it back on portable audio devices such as MP3 players, minidiscs, cassette recorders, CD players and laptops.

"The Wall Street Journal is one of the most respected sources for business and financial news available, and these audio programs are a perfect example of the valuable audio content business professionals can find on the Web. The problem for business professionals is finding the time to listen to it," said Philip Monego, chairman and CEO of Voquette. "Voquette's recording and personalized delivery capabilities will make The Wall Street Journal content more accessible to time-strapped business professionals."

New audio content from The Wall Street Journal will be available to Voquette users at www.voquette.com. Free registration is required to download the software and create custom compilations of informative audio from name-brand sources.

About Voquette, Inc.

Voquette, www.voquette.com, is expanding the potential of Web audio with new technologies that enable people to find, capture, organize and listen to all forms of Internet audio content on their computers and a variety of portable audio devices. Voquette has partnered with leading consumer electronics manufacturers, including Philips Electronics and Sharp Electronics, and major content providers and Web audio leaders such as MP3.com. Voquette is venture backed by a group including 21st Century Internet Ventures, Citigroup Investments, MP3.com, Inc., Philips Electronics, iMinds Ventures and Voquette's CEO and Chairman, Philip J. Monego, Sr. Based in San Mateo, CA, Voquette is led by a team of industry veterans from highly successful Internet, computer, networking, database and consumer electronics companies.