SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonos, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, today announced the award-winning Sonos Digital Music System is now available at more than 440 Best Buy ( Nachrichten ) locations across the United States.

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WaTunes.com, the new music & entertainment social networking service, today announced the launch of the WaTunes Music Group (WTMG) . WaTunes Music Group is a digital music distribution network that enables music artists and recording labels to sell and distribute their music to over 100 music stores such as iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, eMusic, Sony Connect, Zune, Yahoo!, and many other music ...

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Also, another crafty Zune lover was poking through the Zune software code and a couple of lines referring to MTV, VH1 and CMT. Does this mean that the Marketplace is going to be adding new content partners or is this just a relic from it's WMP11 past?Plus, the video above: This guy cares so much about his Zune, that he cut up his Dodge Nitro just to get them to play nicely with one another.

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Two down, the Fab Four to go... Ringo Starr announced Monday that his early solo albums on Capitol/EMI would finally be released online this summer, joining old pal Paul McCartney as the latest...

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Redmond signs deal with Gallo Music Group.

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Microsoft's Zune Marketplace is quickly catching up to its rival at Apple, a new report says. The company today revealed that it now lists three million songs on offer as part of its online music store; while still well short of iTunes, the figure is an increase from the 2.5 million on offer as reported by Zune product manager Matt Jubilirer -- a ...

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Gift certificates are often a popular choice for gifts from adults to kids of all ages—even from kids to kids—when you're at a bit of a loss about what to buy. But when a reader asked how she could go about buying a gift card for her grandson so he could buy music for his MP3 player, it occurred to me that not everyone knows how and where to buy gift cards for music downloads. And, more ...

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The latest version of Internet Explorer that comes with the new Microsoft Vista operating system was working just fine on my PC, so I was able to Google the phrase "issues with Vista."

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A firmware update next month will address "skipping" problem with some songs downloaded from the online store.

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Microsoft faces an uphill struggle before its Zune player becomes a real iPod alternative, a report explains. The Digital Music News Research Group reports that the Zune Marketplace software provided with Zunes (the Microsoft equivalent of iTunes that's designed to support Zune) is seeing few users actually installing the software.

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