Electronics retailer to deploy wireless music-on-demand kiosks

TechWeb News: MOD Systems has developed software that lets consumers download and pay for digital content from kiosks directly onto portable media players — with no cables attached.

MOD Systems chairman Anthony Bay, who built and ran Microsoft's digital media division, said his company will support an unnamed electronics retailer that signed on to deploy kiosks using the software under a hosted services model beginning early 2007. The store will install between 40 and 50 kiosks in about six locations, redefining the layout of the stores' music section. MOD Systems will manage the content, licensing rights and billing.

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