items tagged with Zune

Music on the move as mobile applications multiply
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2006-12-17 05:54:15

SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - This past year marked the beginning of a revolutionary experiment to sell and distribute digital music to and from mobile phones. The stage is only just being set, with the business models, pricing and marketing issues still evolving.

MySpace plans to sell you music
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2006-09-03 09:29:12
The most popular social networking site in the US, MySpace, has put up its hand to join the growing throng of internet players aiming to take on the might of Apple and its iTunes store in the online music space.

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New iPods on a road to nowhere?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-09-13 07:54:32

While the Apple event yesterday held much promise and on some levels delivered with the unveiling of iTV, the long awaited rollout of the new iPod Nano range unfortunately took a little gloss off the show. Far from being a show stopper, the new range was a bit of a disappointment.

Nintendo DS sells a million, Hey Microsoft how about a hand-held?
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2008-02-01 05:17:11
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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Nintendo Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 and other digital devices: all did well in ’06
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-01-14 09:50:12
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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Nokia’s N95: the real iPhone killer? - Update
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-05-28 18:32:32
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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Norway declares iTunes illegal! What the… ?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-01-25 09:23:26
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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On content providers, noses and faces
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2007-09-18 03:32:08
Apple's success with the iPod family and the iTunes Store has content vendors in a bind.

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Play on your Zune
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2007-01-09 20:19:10
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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PlaysForSure is GoneForSure
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2007-12-13 15:24:52
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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Pussycat Dolls at the Sydney Opera House for Xbox Sounds
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2008-09-29 02:23:12
Microsoft Australia are building the hype for the release of Lips – the new Xbox 360 Karaoke game – by hooking up a series of musical acts utilising iconic Australian locations as backdrops. First under the spotlight are the Pussycat Dolls strutting their girrrl power in front of the Sydney Opera House. Hopefully Australian musical acts will also get a look in.

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Real, Best Buy do the Sansa with Sandisk
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-10-05 18:12:16
Consumer electronics retail chain Best Buy has entered the crowded portable music player fray, teaming up with Sansa player manufacturer Sandisk and RealNetworks for its Rhapsody 4.0 player software and subscription service.

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Samsung online music service signals looming DRM war
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-09-04 21:18:22
The news that Samsung is to become a new entrant into the online music store market, using MusicNet as media provider, has created a new dynamic, with three hardware manufacturers soon to be using the music ecosystem model pioneered by Apple with the iTunes-iPod connection.

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SanDisk readies Wi-Fi music, widescreen video players
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-01-09 09:29:01

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.

Shock: Microsoft hasn’t sold one million Zunes after all!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-30 13:19:58
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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Sony says developing video Walkman
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2006-10-12 06:51:09

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, NEWS, Research) said on Thursday it is developing a video-capable Walkman, playing catch-up with Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) market-leading iPod.

Sony to launch iTunes video rival for PlayStation Portable
Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Services
2006-12-18 09:26:48
Sony is launching a video download service for its PlayStation Portable game console in early 2007, breaking into the growing portable video market.

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Text messaging catches on in music business
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2006-10-30 06:57:58

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Billboard) - Students at Chula Vista (Calif.) High School near San Diego were treated to a particularly nice surprise on a recent Tuesday.

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