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“Sanity” launches music rental service in Australia – 17 months late!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Announced at the Australian launch of Windows Vista on January 30, 2007, and due to launch in April 2007, Australian music store “Sanity” has finally launched Australia’s first music subscription service on the 14th of August 2008. Is it worth it?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Announced at the Australian launch of Windows Vista on January 30, 2007, and due to launch in April 2007, Australian music store “Sanity” has finally launched Australia’s first music subscription service on the 14th of August 2008. Is it worth it?
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A Microsoft shop?
By: Mike Bantick
File under ‘r’ for rumour for now, but it seems sources close to Microsoft are hinting at a desire to follow Apple’s lead by having retail stores pushing Microsoft branded stuff onto the public.
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By: Mike Bantick
File under ‘r’ for rumour for now, but it seems sources close to Microsoft are hinting at a desire to follow Apple’s lead by having retail stores pushing Microsoft branded stuff onto the public.
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GDC08 Microsoft Keynote – Gears of War 2 release date
By: Mike Bantick
Microsoft have delivered their keynote at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, amongst the information delivered, a even larger focus on the online experience with Xbox 360 and critical snippets about Gears of War 2 and Fable 2.
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By: Mike Bantick
Microsoft have delivered their keynote at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, amongst the information delivered, a even larger focus on the online experience with Xbox 360 and critical snippets about Gears of War 2 and Fable 2.
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Nintendo DS sells a million, Hey Microsoft how about a hand-held?
By: Mike Bantick
One million Nintendo DS units sold in a country of around 22 million people, the figures are impressive for Nintendo, at it is hard to imagine the bubble bursting any time soon. Sony with their sophisticated PlayStation Portable (PSP) have made in-roads, perhaps, despite the overwhelming odds against it, there is room for other players in the hand-held gaming arena. Could Microsoft be that player?
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By: Mike Bantick
One million Nintendo DS units sold in a country of around 22 million people, the figures are impressive for Nintendo, at it is hard to imagine the bubble bursting any time soon. Sony with their sophisticated PlayStation Portable (PSP) have made in-roads, perhaps, despite the overwhelming odds against it, there is room for other players in the hand-held gaming arena. Could Microsoft be that player?
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Gates CES 2008 keynote: Pieces of the Microsoft puzzle
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Bill Gates has given his 11th and last CES keynote as Microsoft head-honcho, looking at the future, touch and talk interfaces, the Beijing Olympics, Zune, new TV shows and movies for Xbox Live, Xbox 360 sales and IPTV - but the rumoured Xbox 360 Ultimate didn’t make an appearance.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Bill Gates has given his 11th and last CES keynote as Microsoft head-honcho, looking at the future, touch and talk interfaces, the Beijing Olympics, Zune, new TV shows and movies for Xbox Live, Xbox 360 sales and IPTV - but the rumoured Xbox 360 Ultimate didn’t make an appearance.
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PlaysForSure is GoneForSure
By: Stephen Withers
Microsoft's PlaysForSure logo program is dead and buried. Designed to assure consumers of compatibility between music players using the company's DRM scheme and tracks purchases or rented from online stores, PlaysForSure has been moved into the Certified for Windows Vista program.
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By: Stephen Withers
Microsoft's PlaysForSure logo program is dead and buried. Designed to assure consumers of compatibility between music players using the company's DRM scheme and tracks purchases or rented from online stores, PlaysForSure has been moved into the Certified for Windows Vista program.
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Microsoft plans Musiwave acquisition
By: Stephen Withers
Microsoft has announced its intention to acquire mobile music services company Musiwave from its current parent Openwave.
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By: Stephen Withers
Microsoft has announced its intention to acquire mobile music services company Musiwave from its current parent Openwave.
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Microsoft plays catch-up with new Zunes
By: Stephen Withers
New model Zunes match iPod gigabyte for gigabyte, and dollar for dollar.
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By: Stephen Withers
New model Zunes match iPod gigabyte for gigabyte, and dollar for dollar.
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Amazon opens DRM-free music download store
By: Stephen Withers
Amazon MP3 has begun offering over two million songs in the DRM-free MP3 format, at the same time undercutting Apple's iTunes Store.
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By: Stephen Withers
Amazon MP3 has begun offering over two million songs in the DRM-free MP3 format, at the same time undercutting Apple's iTunes Store.
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On content providers, noses and faces
By: Stephen Withers
Apple's success with the iPod family and the iTunes Store has content vendors in a bind.
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By: Stephen Withers
Apple's success with the iPod family and the iTunes Store has content vendors in a bind.
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$50 Zune price cut a sign of Microsoft desperation?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Not long before new iPods were announced, Microsoft made an announcement of its own, dropping 30GB Zune pricing by $50, in a desperate attempt to get Zune sales zooming – but who’d want a Zune when they could buy an iPod instead?
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A Zune phone not anytime Zune
By: Stan Beer
Rumours come and rumours go but one rumour that will never come to fruition is Microsoft attempting to emulate Apple's entry into the mobile phone space with a device based on Zune.
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By: Stan Beer
Rumours come and rumours go but one rumour that will never come to fruition is Microsoft attempting to emulate Apple's entry into the mobile phone space with a device based on Zune.
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iTunes battle gets hotter as Real, MTV and Verizon get rhythm
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
MTV has lost the URGE to keep playing with Microsoft, joining Real Networks instead to offer music through a subscription download service called Rhapsody America, for PCs and mp3 players, with Verizon customers able to download music to their cell phones – but is it anywhere near enough to defeat iTunes?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
MTV has lost the URGE to keep playing with Microsoft, joining Real Networks instead to offer music through a subscription download service called Rhapsody America, for PCs and mp3 players, with Verizon customers able to download music to their cell phones – but is it anywhere near enough to defeat iTunes?
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Microsoft, LG, patents and Linux get cross
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A cross-license patent agreement between software behemoth Microsoft and Korean electronics powerhouse LG may result in some interesting products. Will we see an LG HDTV with built-in Xbox 360?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A cross-license patent agreement between software behemoth Microsoft and Korean electronics powerhouse LG may result in some interesting products. Will we see an LG HDTV with built-in Xbox 360?
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3, 2, 1, Ignition for Microsoft music marketing push
By: Stephen Withers
A new marketing program from Microsoft provides recording artists with a way to reach tens of millions of consumers, company officials claim.
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By: Stephen Withers
A new marketing program from Microsoft provides recording artists with a way to reach tens of millions of consumers, company officials claim.
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Shock: Microsoft hasn’t sold one million Zunes after all!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
News reports suggesting Microsoft has sold a little over a million Zunes were inadvertently wrong, due to a transcription error which saw a critical part of a sentence change – but Microsoft will have sold 1 million units soon enough.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
News reports suggesting Microsoft has sold a little over a million Zunes were inadvertently wrong, due to a transcription error which saw a critical part of a sentence change – but Microsoft will have sold 1 million units soon enough.
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It’s official: DRM-free music now on sale at iTunes Plus
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Arriving at almost the 11th hour to squeeze into the promised May deadline, Apple’s iTunes Plus 7.2 delivers EMI’s collection of DRM-free tracks to a worldwide audience, with Jobs saying more to come!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Arriving at almost the 11th hour to squeeze into the promised May deadline, Apple’s iTunes Plus 7.2 delivers EMI’s collection of DRM-free tracks to a worldwide audience, with Jobs saying more to come!
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Nokia’s N95: the real iPhone killer? - Update
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The Nokia N95 ‘multimedia computer’ – don’t call it a phone, say Nokia – has been creating waves ever since it was previewed to the world mid last year. Now it has arrived, and after a month of use, how has it held up to the hype – and how will it hold up to the iPhone?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The Nokia N95 ‘multimedia computer’ – don’t call it a phone, say Nokia – has been creating waves ever since it was previewed to the world mid last year. Now it has arrived, and after a month of use, how has it held up to the hype – and how will it hold up to the iPhone?
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