The New Zune HD What looks good about the new Zune HD: New form factor (it looks somewhat familiar, but I can’t quite put my finger on where I’ve see that look before.) Bigger (480 x 272) OLED screen, touch sensitive, multitouch enabled Built-in HD Radio receiver HD video (720p) playback via HDMI cable A…
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The Zune Experiment – Part 1
My Life With A Zune So I got myself one of those fancy new Microsoft Zune flash players (8GB Blue Flash Zune, MSRP $149.99) and I’ve been meaning to say a few words about it for a while, but up until now, I haven’t had the chance. By way of background, I’ll tell you that…
Microsoft Drops Seinfeld Ads, Embraces Inner PC
The big news on Madison Avenue is that those wacky/terrible Microsoft ads starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld are about to come to an abrupt end (just like this sentence). Apparently, the plan all along was to phase them out and then launch a new campaign “audaciously embracing” the Apple created slur, “I’m a PC”….
Zune To Get More Social!
Zune users can now download their friends’ nine most recently played songs, as well as nine tunes flagged as favorites. If you are amongst the 4% of Americans that own Zunes, this is awesome news! The upgrade takes the community element a bit further by letting Zune users download each other’s nine most recently played…
Microsoft Bids to Buy Yahoo!
In an effort to shore up it’s world wide dominance and fight the unevil empire called Google, Microsoft has made an unsolicited takeover bid to acquire rival search engine/portal Yahoo. Microsoft Corp. on Friday offered to buy search-engine operator Yahoo Inc. for $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, in an effort to better compete with…