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Microsoft Changes Subscription Plans; Zune HD Fading Away

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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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Gadgets, Companies, Microsoft, zune

Is Microsoft’s Zune Done?

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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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Companies, Microsoft, zune

Zune Subscription Entertainment Going Global - But Not Via Zune HD

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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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Companies, Microsoft, MSN, Windows Phone, xBox, zune

Clearing Up The Confusion Over The Zune Phone

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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Posted In: Entertainment, Technologies / Formats, Operating Systems, Companies, Microsoft, zune

There’s No Zune Phone Coming; But Even If It Was, Would It Be Big News?

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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Posted In: Technologies / Formats, Operating Systems, Companies, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, zune

Microsoft Says There’s No Zune Phones, But Phones Could Have Zune

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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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Technologies / Formats, Operating Systems, Companies, Microsoft, zune

No Zune Mobile Phone For Microsoft

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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