Adding further Wireless Music Systems is easy, too, allowing music to be taken from room-to-room.
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But it's possible many of us will be using cloud music systems in the not-far-off future.
He said audiologists had warned him that "personal music systems were already destroying the hearing quality of many young people".
Founded in 2002, Sonos is the leading manufacturer of wireless music systems.
Under the two of them, the Red Lobster restaurants got a facelift, with new music systems, and colorful plates to replace stark white china.
In March, BMW rolled out a concept car with a touch-sensitive surface that allows the driver to control the heating and music systems via gestures.
Completing the trio of Wireless Music Systems is Zeppelin Air.
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The Swiss firm Logitech(13, LOGI) is a small but leading company in PC peripherals like mice, trackballs, keyboards, Web cams, headsets and network music systems--with particular clout in cordless devices.
The TSX-B232 and MCR-B142 models feature Bluetooth, enabling users to wirelessly stream music to these systems from smartphones and other Bluetooth-enabled devices.
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It would not be terribly hard for Apple to upgrade its Airport line of wireless home-networking products to increase data-transmission speeds and create a new hardware device that allows users of its iTunes music software to play their music on home stereo systems.
CDs of classical music with their purchases of expensive items, apparently in an effort to deceive anti-fraud systems (since such music is generally assumed not to appeal to young, tech-savvy criminals).
Ever since age 14, the 65-year-old inventor of everything from music synthesizers to speech recognition systems has aimed to create a true artificial intelligence, even going so far as to predict that machines would match human intelligence by 2029.
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Still, Blomkvist said that even with reasonable buying terms with the biggest music labels, after paying taxes and operators for using their systems, Sony Ericsson would hardly profit from selling music.
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According to documents received by Forbes.com, Warner Music Group has spent months negotiating with networking giant Cisco Systems to use a nascent technology called Cisco Eos to simplify the music company's management of a large catalog of band Web sites.
Some airlines hook these up to satellite TV feeds, while others have touchscreen-driven video (and music and games) on demand systems.
Gas was cheap again, te middle class had money, and the music started playing in incredibly improved stereo systems inside new spaceship interiors.
The ncegele provides entertainment during festivities, accompanies prayers in the parishes and in sacred woods, stimulates enthusiasm for work, punctuates funerary music and supports the teaching of value systems, traditions, beliefs, customary law, and rules of ethics governing society and the individual in day-to-day activities.
Audiogalaxy, like Napster and other net-based systems, lets members share the music on their computers with other users.
Analysts also expect to see MP3-based handheld audio systems, which let users download music files from Web sites and carry them around "Walkman" style.
The sound systems offer wireless streaming via Bluetooth technology, so it is easy to sync the systems to compatible devices and play music from CDs, USBs or streaming audio services.
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And of all the artifacts that have aided cognition, the most important is the development of writing, or more properly, of notational systems: number systems, writing, calendars, notational systems for mathematics, engineering, music and dance.
We haven't dived too deeply into the patents themselves, but it looks like Ed's going to have a bit of a fight on his hands here, as the patents seem to describe systems that have preloaded content about music that's then accessed when a data trigger is received over the air, not just storing song information for later purchase over the Internet.
The record companies did not yet have systems in place to reliably distribute digital music files and metadata.
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Such systems generally are believed by people in the music industry not to require licenses from record companies.
It now has every bit of distribution that is regarded as essential: publishing, movie and television production, music, a small television-broadcast network, cable systems and cable networks.
The best of them deliver lively performance and offer upscale amenities like heated leather seats and high-end audio systems that can integrate with smartphones to stream music and data from the Internet.
The study found that high-speed Internet access throughout the house ranks as the most popular reason for structured wiring, followed by monitored security systems, and then the ability to play music from one stereo system in several rooms.
With a reputation as Britain's finest superclub, Fabric boasts three rooms of dance music, with top resident DJs and unrivalled, bass-heavy sound systems.
We already are seeing some early efforts to make this happen, such as built-in navigational systems, Bluetooth devices for hands-free phone calls and stream music, and sensors and cameras that help a driver park in a tight spot.
"The ubiquity of portable devices, like music players, smart phones and tablets, makes it essential that Yamaha HTiB systems deliver a higher level of performance and flexibility than consumers expect in this category, " said Tom Sumner, senior vice-president, Yamaha Corporation of America.
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