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- Sonos BU130 ZonePlayer 130 Bundle
- In 2005, Sonos introduced its first multiroom digital music system to rave reviews and an Editors' Choice from CNET.com. The original bundle featured the ZP100 ZonePlayers, with built-in amplifiers that required nothing more than adding a couple of speakers. The company followed up a year later with a second bundle...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, ZonePlayer ZP100, Sonos, ZonePlayer ZP80, ZP100 ZonePlayers
- Product reviews 2007-06-22
- Pandora politically correct?
- File this under funnny?I'm listening to Pandora Radio through my Sonos today when up comes a track from one of my favorite artists, Cock Robin.Only in Sonos it looked more like this: Yes, C**k Robin.Just as a bit of background, Cock Robin is a great band that...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Sonos
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Dear Steve Jobs
- Dear Steve,Over the past 18 years Ive spent close to $200k on Apple products, and I think with a track record like that, I can honestly say that Im a pretty good customer. Im someone who not only loves Apple products, but has a tendency to believe in the general...
- Tags: Apple, Rhapsody, Sansa, Sonos, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Sonos Announcement, A Rhapsody, an Apology, and I Wii
- Sonos Announcement, A Rhapsody, an Apology, and I WiiAbout TimeIt's so great to see a convert to subscription music. The long adoption time is mind boggling. Check out Rhapsody Radish for playlists to work with your Sonos. You just can't do this stuff with a download model.The Sonos and the...
- Tags: Sonos, RealNetworks Rhapsody, Nintendo Wii, Dating Agency, Click Here
- Discussion threads 2007-01-09
- Sonos Announcement, A Rhapsody, an Apology, and I Wii
- Im thouroughly excited about the future for the first time since...maybe last week. Stick with me here...Im gonna wax on. Today at CES, Sonos announced support for a plethora of online music solutions (Napster, MTV Networks’ URGE, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Zune Marketplace, etc.). While Ive worked with Sonos in...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Nintendo Wii, Sonos, RealNetworks Rhapsody, IM, computer, music
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Sonos Digital Music System (ZP80 bundle)
- In 2005, Sonos introduced its first multiroom digital music system to rave reviews and an Editors' Choice from CNET.com. Most multiroom setups are complicated, costly affairs that involve pricey equipment and professional installers. But Sonos managed to come up with a simple, elegant, and relatively affordable solution to streaming...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Sonos, ZonePlayer, ZP80
- Product reviews 2006-04-12
- DRM: Three dirty letters you won't hear in a CES keynote
- Doc Searls pans Paul Otellini's CES presentation of Intel's ViiV for the media cartel it's bound to create: Some of us myself included have been concerned about the DRM capabilities reportedly built into ViiV, but in his presentation Otellini made clear that Viiv has been in...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Doc, Sonos, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- Sonos responds to Declaration of InDRMpendence
- Sonos responds to Declaration of InDRMpendenceA bit puzzled.Would not an open DRM standard break both the stated and implied purpose of DRM in general? The stated purpose is to prevent piracy. But with a single standard, particularly an open one, is a single point of failure for DRMed...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, industry, digital-rights management, Sonos, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-05
- Sonos responds to Declaration of InDRMpendence
- Late last week, I was inspired to write a Declaration of InDRMpendence (declaring my freedom from Digital Restrictions Management [DRM] technology) by my good friend who mistakenly recommended Sonos' wireless-mesh based whole home audio system. He was certain that it could play all of the songs he's purchased...
- Tags: Sonos, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2005-10-05
Additional Resources
- LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini - Home Edition (500GB)
- Network media streamers are slowly starting to take off--thanks to mainstream products such as the Apple TV and the Sony PS3--but one of the annoying caveats with most streamers is that you need to have your computer on any time you want to access those files. One way around this...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Ethernet, Advertising & Promotion, casing, Overall IT, LaCie, LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini, LaCie Ethernet Disk, media streamer, media, network
- Product reviews 2008-04-15
- Klipsch RoomGroove (iPod speaker system)
- At first glance, Klipsch's RoomGroove iPod speaker looks like just another iPod speaker. Sure, its clean lines and black cloth grille are a step up from the typical plastic boxes, but what makes the RoomGroove a bit more interesting is that you can link one RoomGroove to additional units in...
- Tags: Digital music, Klipsch RoomGroove, RoomGroove
- Product reviews 2008-03-10
- Logitech Squeezebox Duet
- Digital audio is great--especially if you've got a multigigabyte music collection sitting on your computer or you subscribe to an "all you can eat" music service like Rhapsody. The problem, for a lot of people, is that they're stuck listening to all that great music on the tinny speakers of...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Monitors & displays, charging station, Duet, Squeezebox Controller, Apple iPod, network, music, Logitech
- Product reviews 2008-03-04
- HP's new home server is small, smart, and impressively simple
- Earlier this year, I looked at a beta release of Windows Home Server and called it a "home run" for Microsoft. This week, Hewlett Packard announced that it would begin taking orders for its new MediaSmart servers, which are built on the Windows Home Server platform, with actual shipments set to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Storage, Backup, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., David, MediaSmart Hardware, Velocity Micro, Microsoft Windows, Backups, Desktops, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- HP starts taking orders for its Windows Home Server systems
- HP starts taking orders for its Windows Home Server systemsWill be interesting to see the numberson this one. I personally think it's going to be another homerun for Microsoft and have heard a lot of family folks talking about this with excitement so if that's any indicator. Of course it's...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Hewlett-Packard Co., Windows Home, Microsoft Windows Home Server, server, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Battleship (msi)
- The classic battleship game. Play against up to 4 human and computer players. Use special weapons like torpedoes, bombs, and sonos. The hall of fame shows all your results. Chat with the other players while playing. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Player, Computer, Productivity, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-09-24
- Pandora Everywhere?
- Not long ago, Sonos asked me if I wanted to participate in a new beta test. I'm always excited to try out something new on my home system but I wasn't sure what else they could add to Sonos that could make my "perfect" music system even better, but I...
- Tags: Media, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- If someone invents this battery charger, I'll buy it (and so will a few million people)
- Earlier this year, the idea of wirelessly keeping battery-powered devices made a pretty good splash at the Consumer Electronics Show. If there was one really disruptive technology that I didnt get a chance to witness myself while at CES, wireless power was it. Now, for the people working on this...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Chestnut Hill Sound George iPod Speakers
- One of the major drawbacks of most home iPod speaker systems is that the remote control that comes with the unit offers only limited control of your iPod. You stick the iPod in the speaker's dock and you can do little more than skip forward and back through tracks (and...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2007-03-06
- Quick Review: Logitech Harmony
- Part of my goal with this blog is expanding on the idea of what web 2.0 is...what it means...and where it is going. More and more we are seeing delightful hybrids of web to device, like Skype phones and streaming music devices. Logitech has taken that idea and applied it...
- Tags: Reviews, Two-Way Web, Convergence, Products, Web 2.0, Media, Tech
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- What web 2.0 could teach Warner's Music's Eric Bronfman
- [Note: At the end of this post Ill be asking for your support so stay tuned.]Im a Sonos owner. A Mac user. An iPod lover. A Sansa enthusiast. Whats wrong with this picture?If you said Digital Rights Management DRM, youd be correct. In the Web 2.0 world everything makes or...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Social Media, Microsoft, Google, Mashups, Apple, Community, DRM, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
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