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Archive for January, 2009



Ditch the Zune, Microsoft. Bring me Xbox Mobile (CNET)

Friday 30 January 2009 @ 1:21 pm
Microsoft is keeping to its promise of offering more Zunes next year, but Don Reisinger would rather get his hands on an Xbox handheld gaming device.

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Too Zune to pass judgement: a review of the Zune Marketplace (Ars Technica)

Thursday 29 January 2009 @ 12:59 am
It has always been easy to beat up on Microsoft's Zune, but when the company announced last week that sales of the media player plummeted 54 percent year-over-year during the holiday shopping season, the entire internet piled on. The Zune-bashing reached epic proportions, as pundit after pundit called for Microsoft to axe the entire Zune division. Given its poor sales numbers, we can ...

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Zune Marketing Chief Gives Master Class in Blame Displacement (Seattlest)

Wednesday 28 January 2009 @ 1:27 pm
Team Zune's car, captured by Seattlest Flickr pool member hobbes8calvin . Microsoft's Zune sales plunged $100 million dollars, or 54 percent, this holiday season compared to last. CNET says iPod unit sales were up 3 percent , though Apple's revenue was down 16 percent. The P-I put Zune's marketing head Adam Sohn on the stand , and he delivered a blizzard of what we--being ...

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Share : how to convert DVD and video to iPhone,iPod,Zune,PSP , etc (just-style)

Wednesday 28 January 2009 @ 9:02 am
Share : how to convert DVD and video to iPhone,iPod,Zune,PSP , etc Download Ultimate DVD + Video Converter Suite at http://www.oursdownload.com/dvd-video-converter.html Part 1:Convert DVD movie to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc Part 2:Convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, RMVB, ASF, MOV, DivX, XviD, MPG, etc to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc It is ...

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Microsoft sez next-gen Zune hardware / software is still “on track” (Engadget)

Wednesday 28 January 2009 @ 12:34 am
Given just how shaky the economy as a whole has been of late, Microsoft's sour news in relation to the Zune isn't quite as shocking as it might be otherwise. That said, plenty of outlets publicly voiced their concern for the future of the line, but now Microsoft has hit back with assurance that everything's still moving ahead according to plan. In a recent interview, Adam Sohn, the ...

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Time to axe Microsoft’s Zune (The Register)

Tuesday 27 January 2009 @ 8:19 pm
Less really is more Comment If any Microsoft product group is a candidate for getting the chop during the next 18 months, surely - surely - it's the one leading the disastrous Zune.…

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Microsoft Zune’s Revenue Nosedives in Q4 (Mediaweek)

Tuesday 27 January 2009 @ 12:21 pm
It seems that Microsoft's Zune just can't catch a break. Despite a holiday ad blitz and introduction of new services -- including a feature that lets subscribers keep 10 free songs a week -- revenue for the Zune division fell 54 percent in the fourth quarter from the previous year.

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The Long, Slow Death of the Zune (Seattle Weekly)

Tuesday 27 January 2009 @ 10:59 am
Bill Gates eulogizing the Zune at a Redmond campus burial ceremony in 2011.There are a lot of benefits to living in the same town as Microsoft. For one, it employs a ton of people. And local papers do... Continue reading "The Long, Slow Death of the Zune"

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MS pins Zune plunge on old models, economy (MacNN)

Tuesday 27 January 2009 @ 8:36 am
Microsoft in an interview published today pins the company's large drop in Zune sales year over year on its model line. The music player division's marketing chief Adam Sohn tells the Post-Intelligencer that late 2007 was going to be strong both because of its then-new second generation players as well as discounted sales of the original Zune 30, which boosted Microsoft's numbers as it was ...

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Microsoft insists Zune is here to stay (MCV)

Tuesday 27 January 2009 @ 6:53 am
Spokesman claims “Zune continues to evolve and we are committed to the business”

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