
Yahoo has a press release from Liquid Audio, Inc. announcing it has been selected by Palm, Inc. to provide Palm handheld users with a solution for accessing digital music. Palm is licensing both Liquid Audio’s Secure Portable Player Platform (SP3) and the Liquid Store. Liquid Audio’s SP3 enables third party hardware developers to build digital music devices that will work with the full line of Palm handhelds. Shinei’s Porteson MP3 player for the Palm m100 series handhelds is the first device to take advantage of Palm’s SP3 integration with Liquid Audio. Palm has also licensed a customized version of Liquid Audio’s commerce solution, the Liquid Store, to create the Palm Music Connection. This new song download Web page gives Palm m100 series handheld users immediate access to thousands of secure digital downloads from a wide variety of artists and genres.