Archive for July, 2006
Friday 28 July 2006 @ 5:07 am
Microsoft’s Zune portable music player will let people share and sample tracks via wi-fi, reports suggest. Although details of the gadgets are sketchy, Microsoft said it will use a hard drive, wi-fi and owners will be able to buy tracks that are downloaded direct to the device.
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Friday 28 July 2006 @ 4:15 am
Microsoft shared on Thursday at its Financial Analyst Meeting more details of its hopes and plans for Zune, its portable media player, that is due out this fall.
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Friday 28 July 2006 @ 3:26 am
Microsoft Corp.'s plans to offer an iPod competitor could take up to five years of investment, but the spending is worth it in part because it will help the software maker's broader entertainment agenda, a company executive said.
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Thursday 27 July 2006 @ 9:10 pm
Digital Trends - "Microsoft has confirmed the the Zune line of music devices is, in fact, real. They will run on unicorn horns and goblin ears, and hold 40 Terabytes of direct neuronally implanted audio data. Okay, we got no specs, but there is some info here, and an FCC filing here.
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Thursday 27 July 2006 @ 8:49 pm
Blog: Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO of RealNetworks, seemed a little miffed with Microsoft during the company's Thursday second-quarter...
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Thursday 27 July 2006 @ 7:24 pm
Microsoft shared on Thursday at its Financial Analyst Meeting more details of its hopes and plans for Zune, its portable media player, that is due out this fall. The big-picture game plan is to try to recreate the online service/community success that it has built with Xbox Live.
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Thursday 27 July 2006 @ 7:14 pm
A Microsoft executive today said that the software giant's recently announced Zune player will result in one product this year, but will cost "hundreds of millions of dollars" in future years. Microsoft will start by sel...
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Thursday 27 July 2006 @ 6:02 pm
The official Microsoft Zune blog, the same one used to disseminate information to other blogs, says the Zune is going to come with "some content" on it—no what, who, or how much of it. Wow,...
(editor's note: The original post at Zune Insider is here)
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Thursday 27 July 2006 @ 3:29 pm
Software giant says the effort to catch up with Apple in the music business will cost hundreds of millions and take years.
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Thursday 27 July 2006 @ 3:18 pm
Microsoft does not expect an immediate return on its outlay for its upcoming "Zune" media player, predicting a three- to five-year investment period for the new device.
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