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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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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