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Zune and Wi-Fi versus iPhone and carriers?
By: Stan Beer

When you hear news that a consortium that includes Microsoft, Google, HP, Dell and Intel, among others has filed to submit a wireless handheld Internet access prototype device developed by Microsoft to the Federal Communications Commission, you know something is up. When you also hear rumours that the device may be based upon a Zune then you suspect a war is brewing and it involves telcos as well.


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Microsoft Zune phone to challenge Apple iPhone?
By: Adam Turner

Microsoft plans to follow Apple into the MP3-player-turned-cell-phone market with a Zune-branded phone, rumour has it.


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Zune iPod killer says goodbye to old boss
By: Stan Beer

Amid an atmosphere where Microsoft's much vaunted "iPod killer" Zune has had about as much effect on iPod sales as a flea attacking an elephant, one of the Zune project's key executives has stepped down.


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Europe, the new IP Soviets
By: Stan Beer

Question for European governments: does a company have a right to protect intellectual property it spent hundreds of millions to develop or is that IP by government decree suddenly the property of the state? Another question: are 100 million iPod owners around the world wrong in CHOOSING to be bound by Apple's conditions of purchase?


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Norway declares iTunes illegal! What the… ?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

A report from MSNBC and the Financial Times says that Norway is the first country to make iTunes illegal because the songs it sells can’t be played on other mp3 players.


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Appetite for mobile music growing to $US32b says Gartner
By: Stuart Corner

Shakespeare's Orsino, declaring music to be the food of love demanded surfeit so that his appetite "may sicken and so die". The world's mobile users' appetite for music shows no signs of such sickening with Gartner predicting that revenue from music downloaded to mobiles will surge to $US32 billion by 2010.


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Zune doesn’t want just Europe. Zune wants the world!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

But it looks like Microsoft will start with Europe first before continuing on with the battle for world domination and iPod annihilation. But does anyone really care?


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Microsoft set to launch new model Zune in Europe by end 2007
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Microsoft’s Jason Reindorp has told Reuters that Zune could be coming to Europe before the end of 2007. Looks like it’ll be a new Zune, and not the current, now-outdated model.


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Microsoft could launch Zune in Europe by end 2007
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Microsoft corp. (MSFT.O: QuoteProfile , Research) is happy with the early sales of its Zune music player in the United States and it could launch the service in Europe before the end of 2007, its marketing director said on Saturday.


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Microsoft, give the European Zune market what it wants
By: Stan Beer

The arrogance of Apple in the music player space knows no bounds. For Microsoft, this has created an unprecedented opportunity to carve out some real market share with Zune, especially if it hits Europe in Q4 this year. Unfortunately, however, the giant software company has been too ham fisted to recognize what it has in its hands.


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Apple iPhone will succeed despite late, defensive move
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

An article from Bloomberg News columnist, Matthew Lynn, suggests the “Apple iPhone will fail in a late, defensive move”. Nothing could be further from the truth!


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Nintendo Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 and other digital devices: all did well in ’06
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Now the challenge is to do even better in 2007, while under fierce competition from not only each other, but every other medium: TV, movies, radio, music and the Internet itself.


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CES and Macworld provide reminder for Microsoft
By: Stan Beer

As the consumer launch of Windows Vista approaches both the recently completed Consumer Electronics Show and Macworld expo should provide Microsoft with a reminder of how the company became great - give consumers what they want. With the notable exception of Xbox 360, Microsoft seems to have forgotten that rule lately.


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Video games, rock'n'roll find common ground
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Misunderstood in the mainstream, scorned by parents and politicians and embraced by youth, video games are the rock 'n' roll of this generation and in an increasingly tight embrace with U.S. musicians.


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Play on your Zune
By: Mike Bantick

Microsoft's iPod killer is not setting the world alight with sales, but it may be given a boost soon with the advent of gaming software.  Coupled with the Xbox Live feature, will this be enough to push the Zune back into the spotlight?

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Microsoft says iPod phone a challenge for Apple
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: QuoteProfile , Research) faces some tough hurdles if it decides to roll out a mobile phone built around its popular iPod music player, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: QuoteProfile , Research) entertainment chief said on Monday.


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SanDisk readies Wi-Fi music, widescreen video players
By: Posted by Peter Dinham

CES 2007 SanDisk today introduced its take on Microsoft's Zune music player: a compact Flash-based unit with a 2.2in LCD and Wi-Fi. Called the Sansa Connect, the player is ready to receive internet radio and connect to Plays for Sure music download stores over the air.


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Gates CES Keynote: Vista, Xbox 360 and the connected home
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Bill Gates presented what could well have been his second last CES keynote earlier today. Among the offerings were previously undisclosed Vista and Vista Ultimate features, the latest PC, Tablet, UMPC and smartphone designs, Xbox 360 advances in games and IPTV, a new Windows Home Server, some details on the Ford and Microsoft Sync collaboration and a glimpse into the connected home of the future. Bill Gates’ dream of the connected home and the connected life is slowly coming true through Microsoft software and hardware.


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