items tagged with Zune
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-01-25 20:03:31
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?
Read More About Europe, The New IP Soviets...
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.
Read More About Norway Declares ITunes Illegal! What The… ?...
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Reports & Surveys
2007-01-24 17:58:22
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.
Read More About Appetite For Mobile Music Growing To $US32b Says Gartner...
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?
Read More About 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 03:18:26
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 Looks like it’ll be a new Zune, and not the current, now-outdated model.
Read More About Microsoft Set To Launch New Model Zune In Europe By End 2007...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-01-21 02:58:14
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Microsoft corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile , 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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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-01-20 21:36:29
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.
Read More About Microsoft, Give The European Zune Market What It Wants...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2007-01-15 21:11:23
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!
Read More About Apple IPhone Will Succeed Despite Late, Defensive Move...
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.
Read More About Nintendo Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 And Other Digital Devices: All Did Well In ’06...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2007-01-14 02:42:56
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.
Read More About CES And Macworld Provide Reminder For Microsoft...
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.
Read More About Video Games, Rock'n'roll Find Common Ground...
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?
Read More About Play On Your Zune...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-01-09 09:44:34
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile , 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: Quote, Profile , Research) entertainment chief said on Monday.
Read More About Microsoft Says IPod Phone A Challenge For Apple...
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.
Read More About SanDisk Readies Wi-Fi Music, Widescreen Video Players...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2007-01-08 08:17:32
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.
Read More About Gates CES Keynote: Vista, Xbox 360 And The Connected Home...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Services
2007-01-07 07:56:10
Not if Apple as anything to do with it. But the DRM that has prevented users from using music purchased from iTunes on a Windows mp3 player, and vice versa, is starting to feel a real backlash from consumers. It’s about time!
Read More About Music Industry DRM Restrictions To Disappear?...
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…
Read More About Twelve Predictions For 2007...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-01-02 11:24:43
A hacker called Muslix64 has claimed to have cracked the AACS encoding scheme used with next-gen high-def DVDs. This has happened at almost the same time that music companies are starting to release more commercial tracks as mp3s, instead of music locked down with a form of DRM. Could this herald non-DRM movies one day, too?
Read More About AACS Encryption From High-Def HD DVD And Blu-Ray Cracked?...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2006-12-28 22:24:59
Apple and Nintendo left their respective competitors in no doubt as to who was boss over the holiday shopping period of the past two weeks. The iconic iPod and Wii, the new rising star of the games console space, have both demonstrated highly impressive sales results, much to the chagrin of critics and competitors.
Read More About IPod And Wii Undisputed Kings Of Christmas...
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2006-12-20 05:53:35
Microsoft has issued a patch to enable its recently-released Zune music player to work with the soon-to-hit-retail Vista operating system.
Read More About Microsoft Patches Zune To Work With Vista...
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