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Sonos Deepens Relationship With Alexa With New Beam Soundbar
Smart speaker will add support for other digital assistants in the future
Keeping Current
Sonos Cuts Workforce Ahead Of IPO: Bloomberg
The audio manufacturer is holding a press event on June 6 during which it’s expected to unveil new home-theater hardware.
Audio
Sonos Pulls Digital Ads To Protest Data Leaks
Donating to digital rights conference and going dark on social media
Keeping Current
Sonos Takes On Apple HomePod With 2-For-1 Pricing
While Sonos lacks the global name recognition Apple clearly carries, it does have a leg up on the HomePod.
Appliances
Sonos One Seeks To Be The Speaker For All (Digital) Voices
Sonos continued its commitment to voice control with the launch of a new “platform-agnostic” speaker that will be compatible with Google Assistant, Alexa and...
Audio
Amazon’s Alexa Brings Multiroom Audio To Echo — And Soon To Sonos & Bose
Alexa can now deliver multiroom audio. Amazon announced on Tuesday that its Echo devices can now act as multiroom speakers using Alexa. Consumers can...
Audio
Sonos Stresses Size, Design & Simplicity For Playbase, Its 1st Under-TV Speaker
Industrywide sales of under-TV speaker bases are down, but wireless-multiroom-audio supplier Sonos expects its first under-TV speaker to succeed where others have failed. The...
Audio
Sonos Embracing Alexa To Stay Ahead Of The Market
Sonos was alone in the market when it launched the industry’s first Wi-Fi multiroom-audio speakers in 2005, but it’s not alone anymore. The number...
Audio
Sonos Wants Everyone To Stop Staring At Their Phones
New ads, debuting at Grammy Awards, encourage reconnecting via shared music Sonos launched its 2017 ad campaign during the 2017 Grammy Awards ceremony with...
Audio
Sonos Speakers To Feature Alexa Voice Control In 2017
Add Sonos to the list of Alexa’s friends. The audio company announced that starting in 2017, its speakers will feature voice control via Amazon’s...
Audio
Sonos Pushes Through Controller App Updates
Sonos has updated its controller app, now available in beta on Android devices and through the Sonos Desktop Controllers for Mac and PC. Among...
news
Check Out Sonos’ Upcoming Flagship Retail Store
Sonos has provided a sneak peek into its first retail store, slated to open July 19 in New York City. The company’s flagship location...
news
The Near Future Of Voice Control
See also: What The Future Of Voice Control Looks Like In Smart Homes Awareness: Voice control of smartphones is building awareness of the potential...
Industry
D+M Wants A Say In Voice Control, Hires Robby Kilgore
D+M Group became the latest audio company announcing plans to develop a voice interface for its products. D+M’s hiring this month of Robby Kilgore...
Audio
Sonos Trims Staff As It Redirects Resources To Voice Control & Paid Streaming
Sonos laid off an unspecified number of employees and is redirecting resources to bring voice control and enhanced streaming capabilities to its wireless multiroom-audio...
Audio
Sonos Systems Add Apple Music Streaming
Apple Music became available today through Sonos systems worldwide, and the subscription streaming service gave Sonos its own station. With the launch, Sonos wireless...
Audio
Apple Music Service Comes To Sonos
The Apple Music subscription streaming service will be available through Sonos wireless multiroom-audio systems starting Dec. 15 when a public beta program goes into...
Keeping Current
Sonos Play:5 Review
While Gizmodo’s Mario Aguilar credits Sonos with simplifying the set-up process for its Play:5 — something that was mandatory in order to compensate for...
Audio
Flagship Sonos Play:5 Speaker Gets a Due Date
Sonos’ new flagship multiroom-audio speaker, the $499 Play:5, will be available Nov. 20 in stores and online, making it the first Sonos speaker available...
Home Automation
Sonos To Open Up API To Simplify Integration With Smart Home Systems
Wireless multiroom-audio pioneer Sonos will open up its API to make it easier for home-automation suppliers to integrate with Sonos speakers and soundbars without...
CES-2016
Video & Audio Center Readies Launch Of ‘All-Digital, All-Touch’ Superstore
Udpated!Video & Audio Center will open its fourth location, a new flagship store in Woodland Hills, Calif., this week, described as “the first all-digital,...
Audio
How Sonos Plans To Upgrade Its Wireless-Multiroom System
Sonos is raising the performance and price of its top-end wireless-multiroom speaker and bringing room-acoustics correction to its platform for the first time. The...
Accessories
Flexson Adds Flexibility To Sonos Systems
Flexson, an accessory manufacturer that specializes in Sonos, has launched new extension cables for Sonos systems. The new cables were designed to provide more...
Audio
Sonos At 10: Streaming Into The Future
In mid-2004, Tom Cullen, then sales and marketing VP of a start-up company called Sonos, visited TWICE to extol the potential of the first-of-its-kind...
Accessories
Flexson Offers Sonos Buzz Kill
London — Flexson has begun shipping the newest member to its Sonos accessory lineup: a desk stand for the Play:1 speaker. The metal-constructed stand,...
Audio
Sonos, Apple To Make Music Together
Santa Barbara, Calif. – Sonos became the first wireless multizone-audio supplier to announce plans to incorporate the new Apple Music streaming service, but integration...
Audio
Sonos Teams With Blue Note For Collector’s Edition
Santa Barbara, Calif. – Sonos plans to offer a limited-edition Play:1 wireless speaker honoring the 75-year-old Blue Note Records jazz label. The collector’s edition...
Home Automation
URC to Combine Total Control, ccGEN2 Systems
Harrison, N.Y. – URC made a surprising announcement today in response to dealer and distributor requests and discussions. The home-automation manufacturer is combining its...
Blogs
Wireless-Multiroom Brawl
Competition in the wireless multiroom-audio market is turning into a bare-knuckled street brawl. Newcomers entering the market have made some indirect but uncomplimentary comments...
Audio
Sonos Files Patent Suit Over Denon’s Heos System
Santa Barbara, Calif. – Sonos filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against D+M Group over the Heos wireless multiroom-audio system launched earlier this year by Denon....
Audio
Sonos Bridges Falling Down
Santa Barbara, Calif. – Sonos is making it a little simpler and a little less expensive to build a Sonos wireless multiroom-audio system in...
Distributors
American Audio & Video Carrying Flexson’s Line
Southaven, Miss. – American Audio & Video, exclusive distributor of Flexson’s Sonos accessories, is offering several new products in the U.S. to complement its...
Audio
Sonos Adds Features With Software Upgrade
Santa Barbara, Calif. — Sonos added new capabilities to its wireless multiroom-audio system via a software upgrade that, among other things, enables a universal...
news
First Sonos Soundbar Connects To Wireless Multi-Room-Audio Network
Santa Barbara, Calif. — Sonos, the supplier of wireless multi-room-audio systems, entered the soundbar market with the $699-suggested Playbar, which connects to a TV...
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