Tag archive: Microsoft Zune HD

Who needs a dedicated personal media player in 2010, when it’s harder to find a cell phone that won’t play media than one that will? You do. Besides being smaller, easier to use and cheaper than a cell phone, a good PMP offers a bigger screen for video, longer battery life, and won’t interrupt your workout with a call from the boss. Check out a few of our favorites.

For the handful of Zune HD owners out there, Microsoft has released a new firmware update for the elusive player, version 4.3.  The new update will add support for 3D games and other applications (perhaps a mapping/GPS software at some point?) in addition to fixing bugs and addressing user complaints. A full list of the fixes is below: Interface Changes: Apps open and close faster Quicker startup time (it was up to 30 seconds or more… Read More

After looking around my office and wrapping up my notes from visits to Marvell and Qualcomm over the last couple of weeks, I noticed a trend. There is a ton of stuff coming, some of which has already arrived, that is focused on doing a few Web-connected activities without the need for a PC. A lot of it hasn’t been announced yet, but the devices that have seen the light of day include printers, picture frames, portable TVs, and a variety of new… Read More

When Microsoft and Apple first started competing, Apple was differentiated by having a few products that did a comparatively few things very well. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple (which had clearly drifted from those roots in the 90s) he took the company back to having a few products that did fewer things but all of them very well and, particularly for the iPod, this made the market for them. But, if you look at the new Zune against the iPod… Read More