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RIP technology: 10 products and services that died in 2011

Tuesday 27 December 2011 @ 10:49 pm
Humans are list-making animals. At no time is that impulse more prevalent than December, when we set ourselves the task of churning out year-end retrospectives.

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Image Titles Available Through Zune

Thursday 22 December 2011 @ 4:12 pm
Image Entertainment Inc. will make a select number of its films available through Zune Video Marketplace, a digital distributor owned by Microsoft.

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Sonos 3.6 update pulls Windows Media DRM, boosts Spotify

Thursday 22 December 2011 @ 2:08 pm
Sonos has quietly put out an update for its Play and Bridge devices last week that unusually strips out features. The 3.6 update pulls support for copy-protected Windows Media files, leaving Zune Pass users and those still tied to mostly inactive PlaysForSure DRM stores without a way to stream their music to Sonos boxes. The company hasn't given an explanation for the switch but has been asked ...

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Image Entertainment Titles Now Available on Zune Video Marketplace

Wednesday 21 December 2011 @ 6:46 pm
Image Entertainment, Inc. announced today that films from its library will release on Microsoft’s Zune Video Marketplace across multiple platforms. Zune is a multi-screen digital entertainment service from Microsoft that allows consumers to experience entertainment across multiple platforms including Xbox LIVE, Windows-based PCs, and Windows Phone.

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The Rise of the Zune Monopolists

Sunday 11 December 2011 @ 2:52 pm
"Understand, I am not for monopoly when we can help it, Louis Brandeis said in 1912. We intend to...

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Microsoft to resume ‘squirting’ on Windows 8, Windows Phone

Friday 9 December 2011 @ 1:06 pm
The so-called squirting functionality of the first-gen Zune...

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Microsoft May Resurrect “Beaming” For Win8, WP8, XB720

Thursday 8 December 2011 @ 12:37 am
Zune's "squirting" may be resurfacing as "beaming" in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

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Microsoft Resurrects Zune — Again

Tuesday 6 December 2011 @ 2:00 pm
Microsoft has been changing its tune about Zune all week, and these back-and-forth messages from Microsoft aren't helping users understand what's happening.

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Bing Becomes Hub Of Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience

Monday 5 December 2011 @ 2:30 am
Beginning on Tuesday, Xbox Live users who also have Kinect will be able to use their voice — and Bing’s search technology — to find different types of content that are available on their television, including movies from Netflix, TV shows on Hulu Plus, music from Zune, video games and more.

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Microsoft Updating Xbox Interface; Adding Voice Search

Monday 5 December 2011 @ 12:08 am
Microsoft is launching a new interface for the Xbox 360 game console, borrowing the tile-based "Metro" look that started on the Zune music players, moved to the Windows Phone software and will spread to PCs next year with the arrival of Windows 8. The new version of the software will [...]

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