Tag archive: Microsoft Zune

The death of troubled U.K. singer Amy Winehouse rocked the entertainment world this weekend, but it was a poor choice of tie-in tweet that turned some fans' sadness into rage this morning. Early Monday morning, an online uproar erupted when a tweet went out from Microsoft U.K. PR urging followers to remember the musician by downloading one of her albums from Microsoft's online music service, Zune. “Remember Amy Winehouse by… Read More

Microsoft may have just unintentionally announced one of the biggest features coming to Windows 8. In an interview with the Seattle Times, Microsoft VP of global marketing for interactive entertainment business Mike Delman says Xbox Live will integrate with Windows 8 in the future, making it available to users via PC. “Live has been successful on the Windows Phone. Live will be built into the PC. It will be the service where you get your… Read More

Face it – with well over 120 million units sold, no company even comes close to touching the extraordinary success that Apple has enjoyed with its iPod-branded portable media players. Between classic, nano, shuffle and touch models (not to mention nearly 35 million iPhones sold to date), the almighty iPod has become all but synonymous with MP3 players in just a few short years (and perhaps the first “Kleenex” or “Frisbee”… Read More

As you may have noticed if you’ve leafed through a SkyMall catalog or walked into a Brookstone store lately, there are a lot of stupid gadgets out there. If someone can make a buck off it, it will be built. (And as the recent bankruptcy of Sharper Image proves, sometimes even that isn’t a prerequisite.) But before you write off the premise of better life through gadgets entirely based on your experiences with an ionic air purifier and a… Read More