01.02.08 - 02:41pm
Just how many Zunes/iPods were under the Christmas tree could be somewhat judged by the increase in traffic that the Zune and iTunes website received on Christmas Day.
The Zune site jumped up 392 percent Christmas Day compared to Christmas Eve. The site also showed a 299 percent increase in traffic from last year. The [...]
11.26.07 - 03:13pm
Black Friday was full of surprises and the one that no even thought to expect was: The Zune beat out the iPod in top selling online products. That’s right folks, in fact, the iPod didn’t even make it to the top ten!
This is the list:
1. Nintendo Wii Console
2. Microsoft Zune 30GB Media Player – Brown
3. [...]
11.05.07 - 04:19pm
Dancing with the pink bunnies, and swimming with the jelly fish… This is the dreamland of the new Zune ads. Ads which have dropped the ambiguous “welcome to the social”, a tagline that only works if there is a social.
The new ads promoting the new Zunes are tagged “You Make It You”. The ads are [...]
10.10.07 - 05:12pm
The new Zunes may not have too much effect on the iPod world but they could definitely have an effect on Carmella Lyman’s, the SanDisk PR spokesperson.
She has promised ZDNet writer, David Berlind, that she would shave her head if the Zune took over SanDisks coveted number two spot behind the iPod. Provided, of course, [...]
08.27.07 - 02:11pm
From eegerecke – iPhone’s new competition from Microsoft.
08.08.07 - 02:32pm
The Zune may not have met most blogging standards as the hippest most up to date utterly cool device on the MP3 market, yet it has taken the market share it had hoped for and with the release of new reformatted Zunes coming out this Christmas season it is liable to take more of that [...]
08.06.07 - 03:00pm
One way to get fired and quickly is to make a video of your boss, who just happens to be Steve Ballmer, dancing away to the iPod – funny as all get out, but definitly amounted to a quick firing. Still he will forever be remembered on YouTube.
Check out the video here.
08.01.07 - 03:42pm
Maybe they are just “repositories for stolen music” after all, as Doug Morris the Universal CEO, so eloquently stated last November when explaining why Microsoft was paying the music labels for every Zune sold. He also said that they should be getting paid for the stolen music. If that is the case they may have [...]
07.26.07 - 11:33am
“We have seen the rumors floating around, but we haven’t announced specific dates or details for the next generation of the Zune devices or service. That said, Zune follows the cycle of the consumer electronics cycle so you can expect an update later this year prior to the holiday season,†a Microsoft Corp. spokesman said [...]
06.20.07 - 02:06pm
I sometimes forget it’s still out there, but apparently it is not only out there but a new Zune is coming!
Word of the new Zune, expected to be in stores by December, is that it will support Flash, WiFi and video playback.
The new Zune will come in 4GB and 8GB, same storage as the iPhone [...]