Staci D. Kramer
Oct 3, 2011 9:00 PM
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) isn’t alone in changing its subscription media pricing but the response to this one is likely to be a lot less vocal, in part because current subscribers were grandfathered in and, in part, because it’s Zune.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 14, 2011 4:22 PM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will no longer make new versions of the Zune device, ending a four-plus year effort to challenge the dominance of Apple’s iPod music player, according to a Bloomberg News report. The company isn’t confirming the story, saying it has “nothing to announce about another Zune device.”
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Robert Andrews
Jul 19, 2010 8:46 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) appears ready to take more of its Zune services outside the U.S. for the first time, using Windows Phone 7 as a beachhead. One observer spotted this website inviting UK sign-ups to Microsoft’s all-you-can-eat Zune Pass music service, with unlimited streaming and downloads, priced at £8.99 a…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 6, 2009 1:21 PM
This week we got the clearest message from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to date on the rumor that just won’t die: “Microsoft is not doing a phone.” AllThingsD received that response after a fresh round of rumors surfaced yesterday. Analysts Rob Sanderson and Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint.AmTech wrote in a research…
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Tricia Duryee
Dec 10, 2008 9:45 PM
Once again, rumors have re-surfaced that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is going to launch a Zune phone—this time at CES in January. I’ve held off reporting on the rumor because I don’t think it is true, but more importantly, if it were true, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal.…
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Tricia Duryee
Oct 2, 2008 5:28 PM
Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Steve Ballmer casually mentioned today that Zune may make its way on to new platforms, such as Windows Mobile. Don’t get this confused with Microsoft’s long-standing insistence that it will not build a Zune phone, which was reiterated as recently as last week by Scott Rockfeld, Microsoft’s…
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Dianne See Morrison
Jun 9, 2008 8:04 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says they have “no plans” to create their own mobile phone, completely dismissing the idea that they could follow the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone’s lead by fusing together their Zune music player with a cell phone. In a wide-ranging interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Robbie Bach,…
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