items tagged with Zune

Twelve Predictions for 2007
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-01-03 10:08:18
We take a peek into our Magic 8 crystal ball to see what might well be in store for 2007…

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Video games, rock'n'roll find common ground
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-01-13 07:49:16

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.

Video-hungry users could push Net to brink: Nortel
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2006-10-20 09:53:12

TORONTO (Reuters) - Soaring demand for games, video and music will stretch the Internet to its limits, Canada's Nortel Networks Corp. says, and it expects service providers will make big investments in its technology to avoid a crunch.

Vista to bring it all to a head for Microsoft in November
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-10-02 00:00:32
As November and Vista's scheduled release to the business market approaches, I get the distinct feeling that for Microsoft everything is coming to a head.

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What DVD Jon's iPod crack means for you
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2006-10-27 07:44:57
Analysis As we reported three weeks ago, reverse-engineering specialist "DVD" Jon Johansen has decoded the encryption that locks down iTunes-purchased music - and he's formed a company to license this to all-comers. Now Johansen has reverse-engineered rival DRM formats, permitting encrypted songs purchased from Apple rivals to play on iPods.
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Who gives a toss about the Microsoft Zune?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-09-09 10:36:07
With less than two hours to go before the Let's Rock Apple Event in San Francisco kicks off, does anyone really give a toss about an update to the Microsoft Zune?

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Why consumers are angry with Microsoft over Zune
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-11-26 21:15:29
As predicted by many iPod zealots, the much heralded launch of Microsoft's Zune music player has been a flop - they're moving about as fast as an elephant with arthritis. The few favorable reviews are punctuated with some real hissers that quite often sound angry. Why do so many reviewers and consumers seem to be angry with Microsoft over Zune?

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Will Zune bring Microsoft riches or ruin?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-07-13 06:04:35
We have all seen the pictures and we have all heard the name. Now the billion dollar question is can Microsoft's Zune really take a serious bite out of Apple's stupendous iPod marketshare?

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Windows Media DRM versus Apple FairPlay battle looming?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-08-02 00:17:15
A reader pointed me to a blog on a competitor's site which discussed the restrictions imposed by Verizon Wireless' use of Microsoft's Windows Media digital rights management (WM-DRM) technology in its new LG Chocolate phone.

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Windows Media Player 11 gives users Vista URGE
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2006-10-31 07:11:06
Microsoft has unleashed Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP but promises its look, feel and capabilities are a preview of what's to come in Windows Vista. The new Microsoft desktop player is designed to be used with URGE, MTV Networks online digital music service and is compatible with portable players using Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM.

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Zune a brown elephant?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-11-09 21:50:37
I must confess to having a good chuckle at a blog article criticising Microsoft's Zune strategy on the Forbes site by David M Ewalt. The article does indeed raise some important defects in Microsoft's strategy. The good news for Microsoft is that most of them can be fixed. The bad news is that one key problem cannot.

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Zune and iPod is not a PC versus Mac re-run
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-11-14 08:47:51
Microsoft has waxed lyrical about about how it will be a long and hard road to knock Apple and iPod off their perch as the dominant forces in the music player market. What's more some pundits actually take this seriously. However, this is not a PC versus Mac re-match.

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Zune and PlaysForSure much ado about nothing
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2006-09-18 05:17:24
Readers, analysts and Microsoft itself have been making a big noise about how Zune will not play music through services that use its PlaysForSure digital rights management system but only through its own exclusive new Zune DRM. I say baloney.

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Zune and Wi-Fi versus iPhone and carriers?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-02-11 03:53:02
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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Zune brings Xbox 360 down
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2007-04-27 04:03:06
Microsoft have released Q3 financial figures. The Entertainment and Devices Division (EDD) seems to be dragging its feet, despite Xbox 360 shipments now topping 11 Million.

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Zune doesn’t want just Europe. Zune wants the world!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-01-21 12:07:29
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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Zune iPod killer says goodbye to old boss
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-02-01 17:39:46
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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Zune not in the Christmas race with iPod: Gartner
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-11-06 05:00:57
Microsoft's go to market strategy for its Zune music player has been subjected to some harsh criticism in a note targeting content providers and mobile carriers. Gartner has criticised Microsoft's strategy of song sharing between Zune players and points to weaknesses in content provision because of an absence of deals between Microsoft and music or video studios.

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