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 […]

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 […]

Today there were a lot of big tech stories that, on the surface, seem unrelated: Verizon is rolling out a Blackberry Storm OS update; S&P Cuts Motorola’s rating to junk; AT&T hopes to have their own uber-phone OS; Dell is charging a $150 premium for Windows XP; The Kindle may be getting pwned by the […]

Turns out the Zunegate hype about Obama being a Zune fan may have been unwarranted. The Wall Street Journal reports that Obama’s officially an iPod fan: Yesterday the Philadelphia City Paper ignited a controversy over the question, with a blog entry that included the innocuous detail that the President-elect was working out while listening to […]

Zune fans may have some fun with this: Barack Obama was apparently seen using a portable media player that appeared to be a Zune! OMG!!! In what has already been termed Zunegate, Philadelphia’s City Paper writer Neal Santos reports that Obama was seen listening to a Zune while working out.  Maybe: I want to correct what I […]

Microsoft, makers of the Zune portable media player, announced a firmware update today, along with announcements of lower prices for the devices. The 3.1 update features some new free games, refreshes the Zune Social, and adds incremental updates to the Zune software. Games in this update include Checkers, Sudoku, and Space Battle. A multiplayer mode […]

Zune Insider says that programming from “educational” TV network PBS is available starting today from the Zune Video Marketplace.  Shows available for download include public television viewer favorites: Ken Burns’ Jazz, America and American Lives; NOVA, Wired Science, Scientific American Frontiers and, later this week, Carrier. For even more intellectually enriching Zune content (edutainment?), the […]

Eugene zMastaa Agyeman’s ZuneStats is a WordPress plugin that lets you get social, Microsoft Zune style.  ZuneStats displays your Zune Stats in a sidebar widget, including Recently Played Tracks, Most Played Artists Favourite Tracks