Archive for August, 2009

Microsoft Now Singing a New Zune (Enterprise Security Today)

Monday 31 August 2009 @ 10:10 pm

Microsoft considers Zune important to its foray into handheld computer games and other mobile software. It envisions an Internet-based Zune service that can deliver entertainment content to a wide range of devices.

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Microsoft Zune goes high def (Purdue University Calumet Chronicle)

Monday 31 August 2009 @ 6:57 pm

Microsoft will venture into the market of touch-screen mp3 players with the Zune HD. Zune HD, with a 3.3 inch screen and 480x272 resolution will be available for purchase on September 15. Zune HD will come in two colors, black and platinum, and come in 16GB and 32GB, meaning the second generation Zune will still hold the most information with 120GB, just like the iPod classic holds more music ...

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NYTVF Forms Partnership With Microsoft (Broadcasting and Cable)

Monday 31 August 2009 @ 5:40 pm

Zune, Xbox, MSN will sponsor events, awards at annual...

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Zune HD pamphlet discloses HD movies coming to Zune marketplace (Engadget)

Friday 28 August 2009 @ 8:37 pm

With TV shows, music video, and video podcasts already proliferating the Zune marketplace, it was really only a matter of time before Microsoft dipped its toes into HD movies -- not to mention kind of a logical step since Xbox Live was getting its movie section Zune-branded . BostonPocketPC writer Steven ...

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WSJ: Zune Exec Joining Universal Music Group (FMQB)

Thursday 27 August 2009 @ 9:29 am

Zune GM of Global Marketing Chris Stephenson is leaving for an executive marketing position at UMG.

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Zune exec bails ahead of player’s upcoming HD launch (The Register)

Thursday 27 August 2009 @ 7:05 am

Knowing when to iTune out Microsoft’s Zune general marketing manager has quit the firm.… What is your recession sales strategy?

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Zune marketing exec says good-bye to Microsoft (CNET)

Wednesday 26 August 2009 @ 5:51 pm

Chris Stephenson, one of the employees Microsoft tasked with building Zune into an iPod challenger, is headed to Universal Music Group.

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Zune exec leaving Microsoft before HD launch (seattlepi.com)

Wednesday 26 August 2009 @ 4:11 pm

Chris Stephenson, Microsoft's general manager of global marketing for the Zune, is leaving Microsoft for a high-level job at Universal Music Group, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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Want To See What The Zune Marketplace Will Look Like On Xbox Live? (Gizmodo Australia)

Wednesday 26 August 2009 @ 1:36 am

Yesterday the guys from Xbox showed us a demo of the new Zune Video marketplace for Xbox Live. Here’s the presentation from the event. You can’t really tell the scaling of the video quality as The Dark Knight starts on YouTube, but trust me, it’s pretty good to watch in the flesh…

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Phison cuts into Microsoft supply chain for Zune HD (Digi Times)

Wednesday 26 August 2009 @ 12:52 am

Phison Electronics has recently confirmed it is shipping controller chips for Microsoft's new Zune HD portable media player, which will hit store shelves on September 15.

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