Archive for June, 2008



Concept: Xbox 360 / Zune handheld with a phone thrown in for good measure (Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Wednesday 25 June 2008 @ 9:41 am
The rumours come in and out on an almost seasonal basis about Microsoft creating the Xbox 360/Zune hybrid handheld but in the absence of anything recent, T3 has got their concept artists on the case to give an impression of just what this gamer's nirvana might look like, and here it is.

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Share your music with JBL On Tour portable speakers, $29.95 (CNET)

Wednesday 25 June 2008 @ 9:05 am
Originally $100, these stylish portable speakers are now available from B&H Photo for $29.95 plus shipping.

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Portable XBox 360/Zune Phone Fantasy is Exactly What Microsoft Should Make [Concept] (Gizmodo)

Wednesday 25 June 2008 @ 8:36 am
From the same T3 concept design stable that brought us the 2010 Wiimote yesterday comes this piece of pure gadget fantasy. Ramming a XBox 360 and a Zunephone into a slender, shiny little package is...

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Kid Rock’s surprising take on illegal downloading (CNET)

Tuesday 24 June 2008 @ 10:14 am
Rock musician's "just do it" YouTube rant on illegal downloading is funny and makes the point--illegal downloading is stealing.

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Work or Play? Microsoft pilot project gave Zunes to 100 students (Winston-Salem Journal)

Sunday 22 June 2008 @ 12:07 am
Students at a rural school in New Mexico made an unusual pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes.

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N.M. school tries to reach students via podcast (San Francisco Chronicle)

Saturday 21 June 2008 @ 12:59 pm
Students at a rural New Mexico school made a unique pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes. This past semester, nearly every one of the roughly 100 students at Fort Sumner High School was outfitted with the Microsoft...

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Education through the Zune: Rural New Mexico school tries to reach students using podcasts (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Saturday 21 June 2008 @ 7:17 am
FORT SUMNER, N.M. - Students at a rural New Mexico school made a unique pledge last winter: Right hands raised, they promised to take care of their Zunes.

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Zune zooms, but Apple still outshines other hardware makers in traffic (InternetRetailer.com)

Friday 20 June 2008 @ 3:09 pm
Microsoft Corp.’s Zune site, which sells digital music for the portable music player, registered the fastest growth last month in unique visitors among hardware manufacturers, an increase of 184% over May 2007. But Apple Inc.’s site easily held on to its top spot, growing a healthy 12% and attracting more than twice as many visitors as No. 2 Hewlett-Packard.

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MSN Music Agrees to Keep DRM Servers Alive a While Longer (AnandTech)

Thursday 19 June 2008 @ 9:33 pm
No need to panic now, MSN Music customers ... at least for a few more years...

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MSN Music extends DRM deadline (CNET)

Thursday 19 June 2008 @ 5:32 pm
Microsoft has extended the deadline for MSN Music downloads to be transferred to new devices three years, to 2011.

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