Sunday, October 24th, 2010
Zune Games for the Zune HD are available for download in the Zune Marketplace that makes the Zune HD a powerful mobile game player for anyone who enjoys portable game play. Zune games are robust and make great use of the powerful hardware available in the Zune HD devices for fast action and also wireless multi player game capabilities for the very best in shared game experiences.
Ever want to play a game with friends on the bus, train or airplane? Your Zune HD offers incredible mutiplayer games that take advantage of the Zune wireless hardware for excellent gaming over any available Wi-Fi network. Take the Zune on the road and play games in just about any place at any time with ease and enjoy your free time when waiting for anything.
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Sunday, October 24th, 2010
The co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation wife takes a hard line on Apple’s products.
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
Zune Insider Episode 91 dated Oct 22nd, 2010 of the Zune Insider Audio Podcast is now live and is hosted by Matt Akers (skipdeez) and Jessica Zahn (jetherealz).
Show notes:
People with pink hair are multiplying in our building! (0:00 – 5:28); Buzz about changing countries for your Xbox and Zune accounts (5:29 – 10:55); Annual Zune Pass – 12 months for the price of 10 (10:56 – 14:00); Why is the podcast marketplace US only? (14:01 – 17:57); Why is it hard to update your credit card for Zune Pass? (17:58 – 19:50); Music recommendations and randomness from Zune teammate Pete Greenberg (19:51 – 28:47); Podcast Lead Rob Greenlee brings the coolest podcasts (28:48 -38:37); Jessica sacked the quarterback in Microsoft Flag Football! (38:38 – 40:00); Thank you, NSILMike! (40:01 – 41:37); Live, serious inbox! (41:38– end).
The mp3 file is 39 MB and runs for a 55 minutes. Subscribe to the podcast in the FREE Zune Marketplace 4.2 Media Player software here. Download the audio file directly here - stream it
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
Microsoft has quietly launched a new version of its Zune Pass, something we noticed after stumbling on the Annual Zune Pass webpage on Zune.net. Previously, Microsoft only offered a monthly pass for $15, which lets you keep 10 songs of your choice . The annual option runs $150. That works out to $12.50 per month, or as Microsoft puts it, 10 months for $15 and two months free. If you decide to …
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
Is there still life in Zune hardware line beyond the Zune HD?
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Microsoft rolled out an annual subscription option for Zune Pass for just $149.90 per year, but you get $118.80 in free song credits to keep music forever so it is a deal you can’t pass up.
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Zune HD Skin – Tweet Light
Tweet Light
A FP Skin Design
A rainbow’s worth of red, yellow, green, blue, and purple birds perch and tweet among the black flowers of this garden of black and gray trees and foliage, set against a white sky and singing their songs of spring all year long. Also available in dark.
Click here for Zune HD Skins from DecalGirl! …
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
Zune HD (32 GB) Cnet rating: 4 stars out of 5 (excellent) The good: Brilliant OLED display; HD Radio tuner; long battery life; movie rentals and subscription music integration. The bad: Not compatible with a Mac;…
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The Zune Marketplace integrates with Zune software on your pc for a powerful music download service offering all the top mp3 downloads for podcasts, music and bloggers online. Zune music downloads can be played from your pc software with the built in music players or synced to your Zune media device for portable music enjoyment.
Download mp3 music from Zune and share with your Zune friends over the wireless music player and discover new music online and offline with the new Zune HD music sharing features. Show your friends the cool new music available in the Zune Marketplace and let them sample some of the hottest tunes from todays hot artists in a few short clicks and be a part of the Zune social music sharing community.
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Saturday, October 16th, 2010
Zune Insider Episode 90 dated Oct 15th, 2010 of the Zune Insider Audio Podcast is now live and is hosted by Matt Akers (skipdeez) and Jessica Zahn (jetherealz).
Show notes:
Dude! It’s been an awesome and crazy week, Zune 4.7 is out! (0:00 – 3:22); Addressing a few 4.7 post-launch issues with transparency! (3:23 – 9:40); Matt and Jess talk spec reviews! (9:41 – 13:15); TV programming lead, prospective goat-farmer, and twitter avoider James Chott talks TV! (13:15 – 21:05); Movie programming lead Marco Desimone talks real work, movie madness, and hoverboards! (21:10 – 29:35); Man of music Pete Greenberg stops by to talk music sprinkled with randomness! (29:40 – 42:48); Listener emails from the inbox at (askzune at microsoft.com) and some random Zune social inbox from Matt! (42:51 – end) .
The mp3 file is 39 MB and runs for a 56 minutes. Subscribe to the podcast in the FREE Zune Marketplace 4.2 Media Player software here. Download the audio file directly here - stream it
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