Piper Jaffray reports a rather surprising fact: there’s zero interest among teens for portable media players other than the iPod. “Apple’s dominance in the PMP market remains largely unchecked, and it is clear to us that Apple has captured the ‘cool factor’ among high school students across America,” said Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. Credit has […]

If you’re looking for a hosted blog platform, you may want to avoid Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. According to figures released today by Royal Pingdom, Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces is down more than 12 times as much as WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Royal Pingdom checked nine major blogging services over a four month period to […]

Rob Greenlee, Microsoft Zune podcast producer, has passed along information about the new Zune podcast directory: “Podcast feed URL’s can now be submitted to the Zune digital media entertainment platform through the new Zune.net web-based podcast directory. This new podcast directory has over 12,000 podcast feeds online now and also accepts podcast reviews to be […]

CNet’s Ina Fried reports on Microsoft‘s quiet reorganization of their Zune team: The software and services portion of the Zune team–the bulk of its staff–will be added to the portfolio of Enrique Rodriguez, the vice president who currently runs Microsoft’s Mediaroom and Media Center TV businesses. The hardware team, meanwhile, will now report to Tom […]

Software giant Microsoft and movie rental behemoth Netflix today announced that 1 million Xbox LIVE Gold members have downloaded and activated Xbox LIVE application from Netflix in the three months since the initiative launched last November. The Netflix application allows Xbox LIVE Gold members to instantly watch movies and TV episodes rented from Netflix via […]

Microsoft has announced its official response to the Zune 30’s leap year problem, which caused Zunes around the world to fail: My Zune 30 is frozen. What should I do? Follow these steps: Disconnect your Zune from USB and AC power sources. Because the player is frozen, its battery will drain—this is good. Wait until […]

Remember all the Year 2000 hype about computer systems all failing at the same time? It looks like it’s hit the Microsoft Zune – 9 years late. We’re going to apologize ahead of time to our friends at Microsoft, because we’re bringing the Zunetanic icon out of retirement for this one. Across the world, Zune […]

via PNME 2007: A discussion by John Havens of BlogTalkRadio and Paolo Tosolini of Microsoft on The Business Value of Podcasting and New Media for Corporate Organizations. Description: Although the number of podcasts being produced by organizations like IBM, GE, and BMW continue to proliferate, many businesses have not bought into the value and potential return on investment for podcasting at […]

AnythingButiPod has an interesting round up of the top 5 MP3 players of 2008.  The Top 5 MP3 Players Of 2008 SanDisk Sansa Clip Samsung P2 Microsoft Zune 120 Cowon iAudio D2 Sony Walkman A720/A820 Of the SanDisk Sansa Clip, they say: The Clip is one of the cheapest MP3 players on the market, in […]

Barron’s reports that the future of Microsoft’s Zune media player is in Danger: The company will unveil (at the Consumer Electronics Show January 7) a new device combining the features of the company’s Zune music player and its Danger Sidekick handhelds, combined with…. “some motion enhancement features” using an accelerometer. That would be consistent with […]