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July 4th, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
Gizmodo - Microsoft Chooses Zune’s Ad Agency to Promote Zune Phone “Pink” - Microsoft pink
Advertising firm McCann Erickson has won a lucrative advertising contract with Microsoft, beating out CrispiBLAH BLAH BLAH the point is, people—Zune advertising people—are now talking on record about Microsoft’s “Pink” project, and gearing up to promote it.
From Adweek:
The Office shift follows a pitch for a new Microsoft mobile offering won by McCann’s T.A.G. unit, said sources. JWT, McCann and fellow roster shop Crispin, Porter + Bogusky competed for that assignment, for which the client used the code-name Pink.
It’s a nice confirmation of previous rumors that Microsoft was shopping the project around, and that’s about the end of the new information. But a quick trip to the McCann T.A.G. site reveals a portfolio that contains three videos for the Zune, including two ads and a trade reel. Zune? Pink? Zunephone! Pinkphone! Pink Zune! Pink Zune phone! And so on.
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July 1st, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
Zune 4GB/8GB Skin - Bullets - $7.99
Get your gun ready because we got bullets for it with this gangster theme zune skin from Decal Girl for the Zune 4gb and 8gb portable music players from Microsoft.
Do you need to save your Zune from the bump and grind of life on the go? Are you worried about scratching up the beautiful finsih on your Zune media player or are you just into personalizing your gadgets? Whatever the case it’s easy to do with a Zune screen saver with a cool design like this.
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June 25th, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
This article below goes on about how many CD’s you save the planet if you buy a Zune but there was little comparison to the damage the battery and other heavy metals inside your portable media players that are not properly disposed of and end up in waterways or landfills where they are doing more damage than a lot of CD’s.
I think if we had an environmental impact tax on items like batteries and other dangerous materials you would find a lot more green equipment being developed. I do not think I would call a Zune eco friendly unless it were properly recycled in the end of it’s life but I can certainly see the article writers point as to the number of plastic disks saved by harddrive players.
Saving the World, One Zune at a time… - Thomas Jowers — Seeking Alpha
Did you know that buying and using a Zune is saving the world? (not just the Zune, but an Ipod, or any other MP3 player)
My Zune 80 holds 177 albums as of right now. If I had to buy all of those albums think of all the packaging waste that would come with those.
cdrecyclingcenter.com says that MILLIONS of plastic CD’s are thrown away every year!
Don’t get me wrong, millions if not billions of CD’s are ‘reused’ by the used CD market, you only have to visit ebay to see the huge amount of numbers of music and other types of CDs being reused. That is Great, but eventually they will end up in the trash.
On the other had, not many Zunes end up in the trash, you can still sell a broken Zune for a good amount, I sold a broken iphone for $200 that I washed in the washing machine (long story)
If i washed a CD would anyone pay me $1 for it? I think not.
Just think about, save some packaging, buy a Zune instead of a CD
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June 25th, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
Best Windows 7 Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Bug Gets a Zune - Just test it - Softpedia
Not that keen on downloading and test driving the Beta of Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta for free? Well, Microsoft has upped the stakes, and is offering an incentive for testers that are willing to test the latest development milestone of MAP 4.0 and provide feedback. Essentially, the Redmond-based company is ready to reward the best filed bug for the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 with a Zune digital media player. A single Zune 120GB music player will be offered to the Beta participant that will submit the top bug on the way to RTM of MAP, Microsoft explained.
“The criteria are simple. At the end of the Beta Program, the development team will select the most impactful code-specific bugs for the RTM release. The filer of this bug will be the winner,” revealed Baldwin Ng, Microsoft Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft Solution Accelerators. “Note: It is the quality of the bug on our software code that counts and not the number of bugs that you filed. We welcome you to file bugs on typos and grammatical errors; however, these bugs will not be accepted for this contest.”
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June 25th, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
Gizmodo - RealPlayer SP Rips, Converts, Shares and Syncs Internet Video - Realplayer sp
Real’s new RealPlayer SP software, currently in beta, adds functionality to rip YouTube and other streaming videos from the Internet and get them onto whatever handheld you choose. It works well enough, but it’s also crammed full of unnecessary features.
RealPlayer SP is the evolution of the long-running RealPlayer software, which has become a multi-limbed beast of a program: It’s a media manager and player, along with a packaged web browser, a subscription and a la carte music store (Rhapsody), a gaming store (Real Arcade), an audio recorder, and now a streaming video ripper/converter with ties-in to social networking sites. It is at the moment Windows only, though we’re assured a Mac version is forthcoming. The beta comes in two versions: One is free, and the other costs $40 and includes H.264 conversion, DVD playback and DVD burning.
The SP stands for Social/Portable, so you can get a hint of where they’re going with all this. In addition to RealPlayer itself, the software integrates a button to rip video into your browser (Firefox, Chrome, and IE are supported, Opera is not, no word yet on Safari). This new addition includes a converter to pretty much every portable video format you could imagine, from BlackBerry to Symbian to iPod to Zune.
Where RealPlayer SP is convenient is in this video conversion, especially if you’ve got a more niche phone or PMP (and I certainly do). Normally, conversion to Zune-supported video is kind of a pain in the ass, but RealPlayer SP handles it easily and well. For newer devices like the Palm Pre and BlackBerry Bold, RealPlayer SP can pass the converted video right through to the player, while it’s able to go through iTunes to get video onto an iPhone or iPod touch. Older or less common devices, like my BlackBerry Curve 83xx and my Zune, are still supported, but you’ll have to copy the new video files over manually.
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June 24th, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
Zune 4GB/8GB Skin - Black & White Fleur - $7.99
Here we have a very cool black and white design zune skin for the 4gb and 8gb portable media players from Microsoft and its a very nice design with a simple basic but artful style that should go with anything you wear.
A protective skin for your Zune is the way to make it stand out even more and help you to protect the face of your favorite mp3 player from the abuse you will put it through. Buy a screen cover or Zune skin from ZuneMAX and save your Zune!
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June 24th, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
Microsoft wants you to touch it - the Zune HD, that is
With a 3.3 inch touchscreen and 16:9 OLED display, Microsoft is taking aim at the iPod Touch market with the upcoming Zune HD. Fans of the Zune media player will still find the features they’re used to along with some new additions that should make this a welcome upgrade.
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June 24th, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
Tomorrow at 12:01 AM PST, Microsoft will be taking down the whole Zune service, which includes the Zune Social, the forums on Zune.net, and the Zune Marketplace. At the same time, Xbox Live will also be offline, meaning the My Xbox section of Xbox.com will be unavailable, and the Xbox forums will be in read only-mode. Microsoft says that the downtime is scheduled maintenance and that it should not last longer than 24 hours. The software giant also notes that once service is restored, there will not be any new features for Zune users, unlike the update from last week, nor for Xbox users. Instead, the services are being taken down to prepare for a future update.
For a long time we’ve been hearing from both people inside and outside of Microsoft that the Zune and Xbox systems should be moved closer together, and Microsoft is finally (very slowly) beginning to work on this. As we covered earlier this month, Microsoft is updating Xbox Live later this year. One of the new additions is Zune Video, which will feature 1080p content that you don’t have to load (sounds like Silverlight 3’s smooth streaming to me).
The downtime tomorrow is in preparation for some type of Zune-Xbox integration, but it’s not completely clear at what level such an integration will occur. However, the fact that Microsoft has decided to take down both is promising. What would you like to see?
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June 24th, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
If you haven’t heard of Microsoft and you’re reading this, then you need jump into your time machine and warp ahead. If you haven’t heard of the Zune, then you’re a part of a significant number of Ugandans who’d care less about the latest gizmo on the market.
Well the Zune is a portable media player from Microsoft that was meant to take on apple’s mighty iPod. The release of Apple’s iPod touch sent Gates’ boys right back to the drawing board. Just a little information on the iPod touch. It’s just like the iPhone but with no phone. This product was launched on September 5, 2007 and added the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line.
It comes in eight, 16, or 32 GB of flash memory. Looks like the hard work’s finally paying off with Microsoft aka M$ (as I’d prefer typing it), just announced their latest addition to the Zune line-up. It’s clearly going to go head-to-head with the iPod touch, featuring multitouch and a web browser, but will its high-end media features be enough to dethrone the touch?
The flash-based Zune HD features a new industrial look compared to the line’s earlier understated matte style, and is the first to feature a touch screen. In this case, it’s a 3.3” screen that is a capacitive Oled (Organic Light Emitting Diode) with multitouch, packing a resolution of 480×272. Key word in all that, Oled.
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June 23rd, 2009 by Alfred @ Zune MAX
Zune HD Amazon page mentions apps, Xbox games | MP3 Insider - CNET Reviews
A product page for Microsoft’s Zune HD portable media player has popped up on Amazon.com, offering some tantalizing new details. Aside from explicitly spelling out the link between the Zune HD and the recently announced upgrades to the Xbox Live Video Marketplace, the product description mentions the availability of “apps” for the Zune HD.
“A built-in accelerometer senses when the Zune HD is moving, so you can play games and use apps that are controlled by moving the device.”
This could just be a careless choice of words to describe “apps” such as the built-in photo viewer, which also take advantage of the accelerometer control. What gives me hope, however, are the Xbox partnerships with Last.fm, Facebook, and Twitter, that Microsoft announced at E3 2009. Also, the Zune HD’s main menu interface is the first in the Zune series to include an item for “more,” accompanied by an icon that looks like a clump of iPhone-esque apps.
The Amazon listing also mentions Xbox Live games coming to the Zune HD.
“Integration with the Xbox LIVE network gives you access to millions of videos, TV shows, and games from Xbox LIVE.”
Microsoft laid the groundwork for getting Xbox games on the Zune last year, when it showed off its XNA game development platform, but it has been slow to actually push new games to the Zune. If the Amazon details are correct, the Zune HD may become just as much an Xbox peripheral as a portable media player. Maybe this is Microsoft’s new strategy, pitching the Zune to its solid base of Xbox customers, rather than relying on iPod expats and subscription music fans. It’s a strategy that’s certainly worth a shot.
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