Microsoft has rolled out an update to its Xbox Live online service that integrates the gaming platform with widely-use social networking platforms, and rolls in more music and video options to expand the appeal of the service beyond merely logging in and fragging enemies. Beginning today, Xbox 360 owners with Xbox Live memberships can tap into social networking service Facebook, microblogging service Twitter, plus tap into music from Last.fm and instant-on HD videos from Zune.
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Zune HD vs iPod Touch: Who Wins?
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Zune HD vs. iPod Touch: Who Wins? – Now that Microsoft has priced its Zune HD and significantly undercut the competing iPod Touch, the battle is on for back-to-school dollars. Rob Enderle offers his hands-on impressions of the new player’s vibrant OLED screen, while the panel debates whether the tradeoffs in compatibility and other factors will warrant passing up the iPod Touch for a Zune HD.
Obama’s First Major Political Controversy: Zune or iPod
A couple of days ago, Philadelphia City Paper inadvertently ignited the first big (tongue in cheek) Obama presidential controversy when it reported that Obama, who had evidently said he used an iPod, was seen using a Zune when he exercised. The formal position, evidently, had been that Obama was an iPod man, and that Apple was a big contributor to his campaign. Later, a supposed Obama spokesman reported to the Wall Street Journal that the Philadelphia reporter was mistaken, and that Obama is, in fact, an iPod user.
80GB Zune Sells Out
If you’ve been considering buying one of the 80GB Zune media players for Christmas, you might as well start sweating now. They’re sold out all across the Web, and the chances of finding one at a bricks-and-mortar retailer stand somewhere between slim and none.
Microsoft has promised more stocks will be available in around two weeks, and an Amazon spokesperson has told the Associated Press that they’re receiving a few units each week and that many Zunes have “definitely shipped and sold.”
You can easily obtain the 4 and 8GB Zunes, but the bigger units have been in remarkable demand.
Zune Beats iPod: How Apple Can Learn from Microsoft’s Success
Zune launched this week and, as predicted, it easily jumped to the number one spot in one of the most critical market metrics. How can this happen? How can a company known for practices that should dominate this metric fall so far behind its Redmond rival?
Sometimes it’s about focus and commitment and a never ending desire to maximize critical metrics like third party studies. Sometimes it about executive integrity and the ability to present a product in the most favorable light in the face of all information to the contrary to overcome all objections in getting a product to market that can get a win in this way. And sometimes it is about being so focused on what executive management wants to see that everything else is blocked out.
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