Here’s an interesting fact about Microsoft Points—the fake currency used in the Xbox 360 and Zune Marketplaces—that we just learned yesterday: points expire. If you’ve got promotional, contest, or…
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Paperback editions of The Lost Ones available in July at select stores nationwide.
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Another week and another Zune Marketplace freebie that you can download, play back, burn to a CD, and sync to your Zune device. You’ll need a Zune account to download the free content. Clicking on any of the links below will automatically launch the Zune software and take you to the artist’s page, so please ensure that the software is installed on your PC.
Title: Stay
Artist: Fred Everything featuring Tim Fuller
Genre: Dance/Electronic
Length: 5:12
Zune Arts today released “The Lost Ones,” a graphic novel written by celebrated writer Steve Niles. For the Zune-commissioned novel, Niles was paired up with visual artists Dr. Revolt, Gary Panter, Kime Buzzelli and Morning Breath to take the …
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Today a unique, collaborative comic debuts online. The Lost Ones is written by 30 Days of Night’s Steve Niles and features artwork by Gary Panter, Dr. Revolt, Kime Buzzelli and Morning Breath. The space-traveling tale appears on Zune Arts’ website,…
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Zune Arts, a creative collective curated by Zune, Microsoft Corp.’s integrated digital entertainment brand, today released “The Lost Ones,” a graphic novel written by celebrated writer Steve Niles.
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Microsoft is dangling prizes made by arch-nemesis Apple to entice Australian web surfers to give its online search products a second chance.
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Microsoft’s Zune, as part of a marketing campaign with hat manufacturer New Era, will be releasing a series of Webisodes featuring artists such as Nelly, Linkin Park and N.E.R.D.
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Apple’s iTunes and Microsoft’s Zune stand to face newfound competition later this year from Nokia’s Comes with Music, especially if Nokia manages to nail down EMI, too.
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I f there were a reason to keep using Apple Inc.’s iTunes store exclusively to buy music online, it escapes me. Do you buy CDs only from your neighborhood record store? Not unless your best pal owns the store.
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J Allard, previously of Veep stature, has been elevated to the position of CXO (Chief eXperience Officer) and CTO of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division. That puts the man synonymous with the Zune, Xbox, and once questionable , 80’s style in charge of “the technical architecture and user experiences related to products and services of the Entertainment and Devices (E&D) …
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Remember J Allard, the man who became famous for launching Xbox 360, wearing an earring and having a bald head? Remember how he went on to work on Zune, or something, and hasn’t been seen since?
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Check out Zune Marketplace this week for a freebie from super-dj Fred Everything. The track is called “Stay,” off the album Lost Together.
Here’s the deeplink into Zune Marketplace: 
Enjoy!
It looks like J Allard has a new mission and new title to prove it. As of June 24, according to the Microsoft executive bio site, Allard is now “Chief Experience Officer” at Microsoft, as well as as yet another of Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officers
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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoThe latest edu-gimmick to hit small-town America: Liberty, Missouri’s handing out a hundred and change media players — Zunes, to be specific — to local high school and middle school students for listening to lesson-supporting podcasts in the hopes of saving them “lost class time.
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Waldemeyer is one of my favorite makers on the planet, he’s latest work is an interactive illuminated chandelier for Microsoft’s Zune space in LA.
Waldemeyer’s latest project, Twilight, will be exhibited in the entrance of the new Zune space in Los Angeles, from May 2008.
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Last winter 125 Zunes were handed out to students in two U.S. schools – 100 at a New Mexico High School and 25 at a Missouri Junior High. The Zunes were given out in exchange for research data provided by the schools on how helpful the Zunes were in the classroom.
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Having had several mp3 players (an iPod Video 30GB, a Nano, an iPod Touch and a Red Zune) for sometime now, I find myself using the Zune more often than the others. Let me share with you some things about the Microsoft Zune and why I think it’s a good replacement for the venerable Apple [.
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New details have been leaked about Creative’s answer to the iPod touch and Zune, a wireless music player with Wi-Fi media sharing capabilities called the Zen X-Fi. Pictures show the device sporting a chrome-and-black plastic look that’s vaguely reminiscent of the iPhone, along with a nine-point directional pad.
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