Sonos costs way more than the Squeezebox, but the company says the price includes a lot of user-friendly software and a custom networking scheme.

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Wi-Fi is based on the ubiquitous networking scheme called Ethernet, which Estrin, 46, worked on in the 1970s, when she met Carrico, who is now 51.

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