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EZ-Stream, EZ-competition

EZ-Stream

SMC Networks may have just upgraded their EZ-Stream Wireless Audio Adapter (note to marketing droids: never, ever, use "EZ" in your naming schemas) to work with RealNetworks' Rhapsody online music service (think on-demand Internet radio for $10 per month), but in the wake of Apple's AirPort Express, it feels like too little, too late. Like all the other digital audio adapters out there, the EZ-Stream Wireless Audio Adapter can wirelessly stream audio files from your PCs hard drive to your stereo, but the AirPort Express, which costs the same (unless you happen to win our WWJD contest!) does all that plus pulls double duty as a wireless access point. Not to mention that the EZ-Stream is a whole helluva lot larger and uglier.