Zune
By: Posted by Peter Dinham
SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - Customers picking up the latest MP3 players this fall are getting much more than just a device. Increasingly, they're getting free music as well.
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By: Stan Beer
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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By: Posted by Peter Dinham
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday its new Zune music player will be sold at a price matching Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iPod and, as a result, lose money this holiday season.
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By: Stan Beer
Microsoft has released the final details of its iPod and iTunes rivals, the Zune player and online music store, the Zune Marketplace.
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By: Posted by Peter Dinham
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday its new Zune music player will be sold at a price matching Apple Computer Inc.'s market-leading iPod and, as a result, lose money this holiday season.
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By: Stan Beer
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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By: Stan Beer
Howls of protest from some Xbox 360 owners about my article "Apple iTV a stab in the heart for Microsoft" tell me that much of what the upcoming iTV promises is already here in the Xbox 360 if you simply connect the optional US$99 802.11a-g wireless networking adapter.
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By: Stan Beer
You walk into your local Starbucks with your friends and you order some iced mochas. After collecting your cool drinks you all sit down together and start to listen to some cool music on your Zunes - together. That's the vision of Microsoft.
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By: Stan Beer
Microsoft Corp today unveiled details of the first products to be released under its Zune brand for the holidays. Aside from the news that the device will be available in black, white and brown, there was a bit of additional information about sharing music, accessories and the payment model.
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By: Stan Beer
Microsoft is about unleash its iPod killer Zune on the world today as the clock strikes midday on the US East Coast and the world is waiting for Apple's biggest threat to fill in the gaps of what they don't know.
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By: Stan Beer
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.
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By: Stan Beer
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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By: Stan Beer
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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By: Stan Beer
A 30GB hard drive, a 3-inch screen, Wi-Fi capability, and FM radio are confirmed features of the upcoming Zune music player which has now been revealed will be manufactured for Microsoft by Japanese electronics giant Toshiba.
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By: Stan Beer
Microsoft has signed an agreement with global music giant EMI to put music videos on the software company's soon to be launched portable music player Zune. According to a report from Reuters, EMI may well offer similar video deals elsewhere.
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By: Stan Beer
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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By: Stan Beer
You know you really have to start worrying about the well-being of a company when it openly holds up competitors as pinnacles of excellence.
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By: Stan Beer
Microsoft, which expects its entertainment and hardware division to continue losing money until 2008, admits that its Zune music player will take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make an impact in the music player space.
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