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- Microsoft's next-generation Zunes: The end of the line?
- Microsoft's next-generation Zunes: The end of the line?I had a ZuneLove my my iPod better. Wasn't at all impressed with it. The Service in the music store was shoddy. If you buy music from their store, you have to immediately burn it to disc, and rip it back off, because...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, Digital music, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, software
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- The end of Zune? It's not just the music anymore
- Is this the beginning of the end for the Microsoft Zune? In a story about Microsoft's quest to beat Google, the Financial Times writes that Steve Ballmer seems "all but ready to throw in the towel on the Zune," which hasn't come close to being an iPod killer. The piece...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, Music Player, Microsoft Corp., Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- Let's try this again - how about an XPhone?
- Conceptual XPHONE 3G Design by Brandon Perlow After positing the notion that consummating a Microsoft and Yahoo! merger might result in the combination of the media player aspects of Zune and the online services of...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- iTunes 8 needs subscriptions and rentals
- In case you've been living under a rock lately, nearly every mobile phone sold today includes some sort of a music/media player. There's no escaping the incessant ads as we approach Christmas. In light of Adam L. Penenberg 's recent article for Fast Company I can't help...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., Video Rental, Movie, Apple iPod, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Video, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Microsoft awarded patent for watermarking form of DRM. But can it really work?
- Microsoft awarded patent for watermarking form of DRM. But can it really work?watermarking doesn't seem like an incredibly unreasonable compromise...I'm no fan of DRM by any means, but watermarking seems like the closest thing to a compromise we're gonna get. as long as:-the watermarking doesn't involve anything personally identifiable (an...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Nothing, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, watermark, media
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- Where's the iPod killer?
- Where's the iPod killer?Didiom is the iPod killerWhere's the iPod killer? Right here - www.didiom.comRhapsodyRhapsody strikes me as being 'reasonable'.I can run it from a supported web browser on Windows or Linux and on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.At $9.99/month, for unlimited streaming music selection of over 3M songs, that's...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Didiom, iPODS, MP3, iPod-killer, phone, headphone, HT820, music
- Discussion threads 2007-04-02
- Apple TV: Will it open up Hollywood and create a $11.4 billion market?
- Apple TV: Will it open up Hollywood and create a $11.4 billion market?I seriously doubt Apple TVWindows Media Center runs rings around Apple TV. Plus Apple TV is mired in DRM: arguably the most repugnant technology consumers have had to endure. Remember, the overwhelming majority of content on iPods is...
- Tags: TVs, DVR, TV & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, Digital video, Digital music, Digital media, Apple TV, Apple Inc., TV, digital video recorder, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2007-03-19
- Debating iPod's merits at Zune's party
- Debating iPod's merits at Zune's partyDebating iPod's merits at Zune's partyI'm willing to give Zune a try. Just have to wait for Best Buy to start selling them so I can play with it and see if it meets my needs. Video playback will be the number one...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Zune, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2006-11-10
- Microsoft ready for the mosh pit?
- Microsoft ready for the mosh pit?The one important line..."Microsoft helped make itself more relevant when it announced Thursday that it would pay record labels a royalty on Zune sales." Unfortunately yhe writer doesn't expand on the most important item in this largely irrelevant story.More here: http://tmw.bloggingstocks.com/2006/11/09/microsofts-zune-finds-an-apples-ipod-killer/ROTFLMAO !"The team handling Zune...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Construction, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-10
- Now that Microsoft's licensed DRM doesn't "Play For Sure," will any DRM do it? Ever?
- Now that Microsoft's licensed DRM doesn't "Play For Sure," will any DRM do it? Ever?It's called lock-inand it happens over and over and over and over again. Tech vendors want control of the profits. What I don't get is why the customers don't say, "Look, go out and...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Corp., MaybePlays, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
- Zune's social features fall short
- Next month, Microsoft will release the Zune Music player and marketplace which were announced earlier this year. Of course, the hype has been about Zune being an iPod killer, if you listen to some people and even today there were stories about Zune as a potential threat to...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Zune details unzipped
- Zune details unzippedAmazing value...The Zune player represents the most advanced MP3 player ever released. My rep gave me a preview of a pre-FCC approved Zune player. I took it on a jog and before it overheated and crashed, it was the greatest music player I ever had. The auto-tuning FM...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Digital video, Cellular phones, Media players, Microsoft Zune, Zune Player, Microsoft Corp., Play-for-Sure, MP3
- Discussion threads 2006-09-28
- iPod - Death by media
- iPod - Death by mediaThe popular pressThe popular press is mainly a Windows-centric echo chamber. So what's new -- Zune vs iPod, the fight of the century. Pick your champion. Get your tickets now!A few hatchet media pieces are nothing to Apple. The popular press has been hammering nails into...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Steve Jobs, Apple iTunes, Granny
- Discussion threads 2006-09-19
- iPod - Death by media
- Go back a year and there was nothing that Apple could have done that wouldn't have earned them countless column inches of praise in the media. I'm pretty sure that Steve Jobs could have launched an empty cardboard box and, as long as it was white and had the...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple iPod
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Zune - "iPod killer" or "killed by iPod"
- Zune - "iPod killer" or "killed by iPod"It will be neitherMuch like game consoles, Microsoft's first entry will simply get them in the game. 2 years from now we'll see if Apple is still standing. That is the real question.AAC is definitely a good moveI'm really surprised that...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, IPOD IS, AAC, video
- Discussion threads 2006-09-15
- Microsoft's Zune aims to be social butterfly
- Microsoft's Zune aims to be social butterflyWhere is your answer???You made wild and silly claims, back it up.So whats new about this?iPod has been doing this for 2 years now. Sheesh. Never a new idea from Microsoft. Bunch o' lazies!bad for thoshibathey have not learned the lesson: everybody dealing with...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Dell Computer Corp., Apple iPod, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, MP3
- Discussion threads 2006-08-25
- Apple settles with Creative for $100 million
- Apple settles with Creative for $100 millionprobably wouldn't have happened but....it would have been cool if creative could have held out for acc licensing.but that's a big "Yeah Right!"Apple...Apple gets a black eye! ....... about time!!!Where is everyone?When this story first came out, there was page after page about...
- Tags: Digital music, Litigation, Digital media, game, AAC, Patent System, MP3 player, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-23
- Creative sues Apple over iPod interface
- Creative sues Apple over iPod interfaceHey I thought MS was the IProp BurglarAnd that patent trolls were an American species.Although you have to admit a Chinese Patent Trolling Company is a prettty amusing concept, given their long standing on protecting Intellectual Property.YES!!!!Creative makes VERY elegant WMA players. Mine came with...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Apple Inc., patent, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2006-05-15
- With patent and trademark, Apple phone appears inevitable
- With patent and trademark, Apple phone appears inevitableYou miss one major point hereIt is about control, but in this case, that control will not go to Steve Jobs, unless he's willing to build an entire cellular phone network.Every single cellular network company is intent on setting up their own music...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Telecom & Utilities, Digital music, phone, killer app, Apple Inc., digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2006-05-05
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