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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The great thinkers of the world have long known a secret that we're now happy to disclose: it's not necessity that's the mother invention, but rather laziness . Fortunately, expending a great deal of effort on a project -- simply to perform a task effortlessly -- sometimes brings very cool results. A concept app known as ZuneVoice easily passes muster in this realm, which is used to control Zune ...

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As some of you may or may not know, Microsoft has recently stated that they are discontinuing the deeply loved and appreciated Zune audio player.

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There's lots of speculation about a Facebook phone and its ability to have an impact in the marketplace, not least from myself! The general agreement is that Facebook would find it hard to gain any sort of market share with a new phone, and any endeavour could strain relationships - you have to assume whoever makes the phone is already in the marketplace, with relationships to carriers and ...

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One analyst doesn't see a great future for the rumored Facebook phone, in that Facebook is going to hack off its partners by building one.

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In the list of bad ideas, the rumored “Facebook phone” (which will apparently be built by HTC and may fork the Android code base) is arguably one of the worst ideas since… well, the Zune. Let’s explore that today by looking at some of Microsoft’s own missteps with the ill-fated PMP, and where Facebook and HTC seem to be repeating them.Zune

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Fremont: Companies put in a lot of money, research and development, and market study before launching a new product. Somehow some products succeed, while others fail, miserably. Here are the worst product failures in IT.

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Microsoft has announced that it has inked a deal to acquire video searching startup VideoSurf in a bid to improve searching for entertainment content across its Xbox Live platform. By integrating VideoSurf’s technology, users will be able to search for a term (say, “Spider-Man”) and pull up unified results across games, the Zune marketplace, TV and film entertainment, and potentially even ...

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Five years ago, Microsoft launched the Zune music player and Zune Marketplace. That event shared many similarities with the Google Music launch last week. But will Google's service suffer a similar fate?

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The actual Zune music player may be long dead and buried, but Microsoft is sticking by Zune as a service until the bitter end. This month it even expanded its services, launching the long awaited Zune Pass music streaming platform in Australia. How does it stack up? Disappointingly, the Zune Pass that launched in the States back in 2008 and the version that’s just arrived in Australia aren&# ...

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