The hit comic-book drama Heroes is taking on the charts by releasing its first original soundtrack next month via NBC Records . The soundtrack will feature exclusive new singles from Wilco , Jesus and Mary Chain (their first new studio recording in a decade), and Death Cab , in addition to classics from Bob Dylan and the eponymous track from Ziggy Stardust himself.The anticipated soundtrack will be available physically at Best Buy retailers and digitally through Zune and other digital service providers.

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The NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group has set a March 18 release for the album, which will feature exclusive new singles from artists including Wilco ("Glad It's Over"), Panic! at the Disco ("Nine in the Afternoon"), Imogen Heap ("Not Now But Soon") and Brighton Port Authority featuring Iggy Pop ("He's Frank"), as well as classic tracks from Bob Dylan and David Bowie. The soundtrack, being released through NBC Records, will be available in CD format at Best Buy stores and digitally at Zune and other digital service providers.

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With its new Web-based player and plenty of forward-thinking features, this music-subscription service hits all the right notes. ... As for Microsoft's Zune Pass, an overhaul rolls out next month, but for now it's a tepid, half-baked service only a Zune owner could love.

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Reports are spreading in our forums that Zune Marketplace seems to be delivering higher-quality album art with your song downloads. The result is crisper album art displays on the Zune player, and in...

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And it's in your pocket...

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Chalk another one for a largely unsubstantiated rumor, but this one is so juicy that we just couldn't pass it up. We've anxiously been awaiting the arrival of a ZunePhone from Microsoft, but it's very well possible that the handset already exists. You might even own it without knowing it.

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October 25, 2007 [General] | By Edward J. Rutkowski. Zune Marketplace is a music service from Microsoft where users can purchase music. By now it was accessible on PC only and playable on Microsoft Zune multimedia player.

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Jason Cross: DRM has been a hot topic for years now, but another means of controlling our access to legally purchased digital "stuff" is making headlines: activation. Are these headaches making anyone's lives better?

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We can learn many things from 1982 Disney sci-fi flick Tron . One, Jeff Bridges knows a lot about video games. Two, Wendy Carlos > Journey > Supertramp. And three, there is a world inside computers where people are forced to play complex CGI games or else be destroyed by the Master Control Program. This Loz & Brendan remix of Ladytron's "Soft Power", part of the Soft Power Remixes EP released in conjunction with the Zune marketplace, has a similarly bleak retro-futurist vibe, drawing on the post-industrial minimalism of Detroit techno.

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Recent firmware and feature upgrades cement the Sonos Digital Music System's position as the best multiroom streaming audio solution available.

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