Archive for May, 2007

Zune Scrolling Up to 1 Million Target (TechNewsWorld.com)

Wednesday 30 May 2007 @ 12:39 pm

Microsoft garnered a lot of buzz this week after reports broke the software giant had shipped its 1 millionth Zune -- putting it ahead of a company goal set shortly after it launched its MP3 player in November. However, those reports apparently were jumping the gun.

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Zune to sell one million by June (The Register)

Wednesday 30 May 2007 @ 7:34 am

Microsoft MP3 player exceeds expectations Microsoft expects sales of the Zune to hit the one million milestone by the end of June, almost eight months after the product made its debut. Apple on the other hand has sold 100 million of the music players since its launch in October 2001.…

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Zune Music Player Nears 1 Million Sales (Washington Post)

Wednesday 30 May 2007 @ 1:02 am

Microsoft says it is on track to sell its millionth Zune music player, the software company's would-be challenger to Apple's enormously popular iPod.

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1M Zune claim misleading? (MacNN)

Tuesday 29 May 2007 @ 1:52 pm

Assertions that Microsoft was ahead of the curve on Zune production were inaccurate, says an investigation by Business 2.0 into the subject. The magazine found that Microsoft Entertainment division head Robbie Bach has been misquoted in the text version of his interview, which alleged that Microsoft had already beaten its modest goal of selling mo...

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Creepy Zune Characters Trade Pulsing Organs to Electro-Rock (adrants)

Tuesday 29 May 2007 @ 1:22 pm

So 72andSunny got together with some esoteric music-makers to put some weird shit out on Zune-Arts.net. The most current of these is a little video called Los Corazones, animated by Punga, and set to ³Lex² by electro-rock band Ratatat....

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Zune sales crawl past a million (Personal Computer World)

Tuesday 29 May 2007 @ 11:20 am

Microsoft has sold over a million Zune media players in the nine months since its launch. Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, said that Microsoft's player now had 10 per cent of the mobile hard drive player market, although the device had yet to turn a profit.

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iPodObserver – Zune Hits 1M Mark Early (The Mac Observer)

Tuesday 29 May 2007 @ 11:00 am

Microsoft's Zune media player still isn't a threat to Apple's iPod, but a million units have already been sold. The company hit that milestone early after originally targeting June for the million unit mark

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Microsoft Zune Passes 1 Million Mark (PC World)

Tuesday 29 May 2007 @ 9:53 am

Microsoft has beaten its goal of shipping over a million Zune digital music players by June.

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Zune sales crawl past a million (Infomatics)

Tuesday 29 May 2007 @ 8:56 am

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Zune: 1 million sales for iPod Killer (PC Advisor)

Tuesday 29 May 2007 @ 5:18 am

Microsoft beats its goal of shipping over a million Zune digital music players by June - a welcome boost to its efforts to take on Apple's iPod

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