Zune promoter arrested at SXSW

Well, at least this didn't happen in Boston, where the police would have surely shut down the entirety of the festival in order to diffuse these poster "bombs." "Now that South By Southwest Interactive is coming...

MySpace Gaining on Itunes as Music Brand

Myspace is catching up to Itunes with the kids:"Key findings from the Brandscape study include: * For many brands, awareness remained consistent in 2006. For a handful of services, however, the year brought...

Blusens to release Wifi and Bluetooth MP3 player

The new Blusens G14 MP3 player will allow Wifi sharing just like the Zune, but without an imposed limit on the number of times the songs can be accessed. The RIAA is going to love this one… Features: Compatible with MP3, WMA and OGG Vorbis audio files, JPEG photos and...

Microsoft's New Paperweight

"When I purchased a (brown!) Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Zune about a month ago, I figured I was getting a couple of things. For one, a pretty decent media player, with a few key features iPod lacked: a prettier user interface, a subscription music model, and a bigger...

Games for the Zune?

Even though it was thought that eventually the Zune was going to have games and tie into Xbox Live, Microsoft is now saying in a recent interview with TotalVideoGames.com: “You can already plug your Zune device into your Xbox 360 to stream music, pictures and video content....

Zune Comes With Porn Value-Add

"Umm, this isn't exactly what we were suggesting, Microsoft, when we advised improving the Zune user experience.Brown_landscape_video_porn A Chicago-area mother reports that the supposedly new Zune she bought her 12-year-old daughter for Christmas was stuffed with...

Zune firmware 1.2 - fixes? not much…

"Zune firmware 1.2 - fixes? not much… Microsoft has released their first firmware update for the Zune, version 1.2. So what’s new? Nothing really. No web browsing, native DivX support, or gapless playback. The update “…will help enhance stability and performance.”...

Steven Levy talks about showing Bill Gates the iPod for the First Time

Newsweek Senior Editor and writer of The Technologist column, Steven Levy, gave a great talk at the NYC Tech Meetup to promote his new book, The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Culture, Commerce and Coolness....

Zune To Offer Music Sharing Commissions

Interesting concept. Read more here.

Zune Grabs the Second Place in The MP3 Player Market

"Microsoft’s iPod killer, Zune, achieved after its first week of sale 9 percent of the U.S. digital music player market and outdid SanDisk Corp.'s Sansa, according to the market researcher NPD Group. With these 9 percent, Microsoft’s Zune is placed on the second...

The psychology of a Windows user | AppleX Net

For many of us (Mac users), it seems like a no brainer as the reason why we chose the Mac as our preferred platform for computing. Most of us don’t even really have to think about it, it just makes sense..............

The Stupid, Idiotic and Annoying Things about the Zune-brick

"I first started writing this article with a positive attitude concerning Microsoft'€™s MP3 player. I ended up thinking Zune is a crap. So I changed the title. First of all, as a Zune reviewer, you have to sign something that'€™s called '€œreviewers kit...

Zune and iPod is not a PC versus Mac re-run

"Back in the mid 1980s when the Mac burst on the scene to vie for dominance of the new desktop market with the PC, it was clear which machine was for business and which was for the home. The PCs were absolutely...

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