It's the first year Minneapolis-based Target has done a camera card, though it has created MP3 player cards and music-playing keyboard cards in the past.
Several years ago, some retailers bundled iPods with iTunes Music Store gift cards to entice shoppers.
This is a much larger integration, including downloads of music, gift cards, and promotional virtual goods across its many games.
He has built a vast, but shaky, empire on cut-rate services--in airlines, Internet service, car rentals, online shopping, credit cards, music downloads, a movie theater, bus service and on and on.
Networks, film companies and other entertainment powerhouses that hold the rights to content, though concerned about a coming shift in how viewers see shows and events, hold more cards than the music industry did when Steve Jobs negotiated with record label executives.
On Monday, Facebook announced that its just about 1 billion users can now gift each other iTunes cards, redeemable for music, movies, games, apps etc.
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Declutterers can send usable books, DVDs, video games and music to third-party merchants in exchange for gift cards through the Amazon Trade-In Program.
To the public, NAND-type flash memory is most familiar in the form of memory cards or sticks used in digital cameras or portable music players.
But whether Iomega likes it, the momentum, at least as far as digital music and photography goes, seems to be with flash-based cards, regardless of cost.
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.
Founder Tim Westergren admits to maxing out 12 credit cards to sustain the company he started back in 2000 as the Music Genome Project.
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SmartDisk's clever FlashPath devices that will let you use the memory cards in a 3.5-inch floppy drive, or, for music, an audio cassette player.
Gift cards make it even easier to buy apps, games, books, movies, music and magazines from Google Play, Google's one-stop-shop for all your digital entertainment needs.
MP3 digital music players hadn't yet hit the market to any real extent, and removable flash memory cards were limited to use in digital cameras.
In a famous scene from the film, Dylan, with Allen Ginsberg lurking in the background dressed as a rabbi, stands tossing cards with key words from the song as it plays on the soundtrack, an early music video.
Now that my music's living on there (minus all the one-hit wonders I purchased using iTunes gift cards), I appreciate it more.
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Early music sets by solid live acts are a good way to start your evening, but bring cash as credit cards are not accepted.
And because the SanDisk brand was already associated with memory cards and USB devices, it wasn't a great leap for customers to accept a flash music player from the same company.
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