It's the perfect uniform for an unassuming computer music pioneer.
The new Onkyo TX-NR807 also capable of playing computer music files from networked PCs, is fully compatible with the Digital Living Network Alliance's DLNA 1.5 consumer electronics interoperability specification, and sells for less than half the price of the company's previous network-capable model.
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Standards announced Tuesday by the Secure Digital Music Initiative -- a group of computer and music companies -- will finally clear the way for the major record labels to make their top tunes instantly available.
Apple, the computer and music company, has already done the research for me.
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Because they are bought by adults as well as children, they are sold in computer and music stores rather than toy shops.
Among the new uses for old devices, the resurgence of interest in retro-sounding computer generated music was also celebrated with presentations by popular "chiptune" musician Matthew C Applegate, who performs as Pixelh8.
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But lawyers acting on behalf of Apple Computer said "even a moron in a hurry" could see the difference between iTunes and a record label like Apple Corps, and the fact that Apple Computer distributed music didn't make it a record label.
Probably not, but a group of computer scientists and music scholars have built a machine that can do just that.
Apple Corps' lawyer Geoffrey Vos pointed back to the original agreement, saying that Apple Computer's music distribution business "was flatly contradictory" to its terms.
And I think our generation has so much time by themselves at a computer that folk music is something that feels a little more organic or tangible.
Be it the original Mac GUI, the iMac, the iPod or the iPhone, Mr. Jobs has fundamentally changed the way we think of the computer, the music player and the phone.
For instance, a computer expert, music or sports coach.
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East London's tech scene is led not by tech firms per se but by "digital creative" companies that combine computer technology with music, art and narrative and musicians, artists and writers cluster in cities.
That potentially shifts the convenience trade-off for MySpace customers in Amazon's favor, because they would be able to buy a song and get it into their computer's music manager, even iTunes, with one click using Amazon's software.
After all, the former UC Santa Cruz music professor's name has, over the past several decades, become closely tied to the world of computer-generated music -- it figures that the journey that began with punch cards would have eventually led to tablets and smartphones.
Mountain View's Locke suggests that the server location be taken out of the equation by basing the point of sale on where the company's headquarters are located, and Hennepin County's Johnson pointed out that software and computer-generated music transactions may prove to be undetectable and therefore untaxable.
The music companies may be growing up, with enthusiasm for the Internet driven in part by both envy of the success of Apple's iTunes store--which has sold over 5 billion songs since it opened in 2003--and by fear of losing customers to the computer company turned music kingpin.
Such solutions deal with only a few of "thousands of related issues, " Upson said, including how to handle product sales to American consumers that take place on American company-owned servers based in foreign countries and how to tax the sale of digital goods and intellectual property such as software and computer-generated music.
One gadget is so popular it ranks with everyone from grade-school kids to CEOs: Apple Computer 's iPod music player.
" But like Rothman, he said that NTG represents "what may be the stiffest test Apple Computer has faced in music.
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This overgrown iPod of a remote is the wireless heart of the Sonos Digital Music System, a delightful--if expensive--way to shuttle music from computer or Internet around the house.
STRIVA-enabled headphones and in-ear monitors are the first products to make a direct connection to the Internet without dedicating a computer, smartphone, music player or tablet to the task of gathering and serving music to you.
This month, we start things off with a visit to Santa Cruz, where UCSC professor emeritus David Cope has spent decades developing classical music composing computer programs, work he began after one particularly bad bout with writer's block.
She knows how hard it is to raise children in a culture where every time they're out of your sight, they're tuning into a multibillion-dollar music, computer game, Internet and film empire that promulgates messages frequently at odds with small-town American values.
To replace those losses, Synaptics must get better at breaking into new markets--like music players, computer mice, keyboards and cell phones.
Once again, it's sending out hundreds of letters telling students they may be sued, part of a new attempt to stop them from illegally sharing music on university computer networks.
It is believed the virus is programmed to delete some computer files, including MP3 music files and images, as well as raiding email addresses to multiply itself and send itself and other e-mails onwards.
Reportedly, Applecorps has filed a lawsuit in London against the computer firm over a 22-year-old agreement that Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) use the Apple name only for computer products--not music-related enterprises.
And while the Connect's implementation may fall short of the strong computer or community-generated music exploration features offered by Pandora, Goombah, iJiggy, La La, Last.fm, Amazon or others, it makes for an enjoyable self-led path to discovering new music.
The inventor of the Walkman, for instance, has been eclipsed in portable music players by Apple Computer's iPod.
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