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Articles tagged with: Zune
Review: New iPod Nano impresses, Zune improves
Back in 2004, when I got my first MP3 player, I never cared that it lacked a camera, Web browser and crystal-clear video playback - features that are now common on digital media devices. more
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Microsoft Phone Rumours Resurface
Rumours, often denied, that Microsoft could launch its own range of mobile phones have jumped back into life with the news that a media agency has been appointed to deal with "Project Pink". This is widely thought to be the code name for a smartphone running on Windows Mobile with its own unique user interface. more
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Microsoft adds touch screen, Web browser to Zune
Microsoft says the next generation of its Zune music player due out in the fall will have a touch screen, Web browser and an HD Radio receiver. more
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Microsoft must fight back in mobile market
Media Analyst Screen Digest has just published its latest company report, which examines the challenges facing Microsoft in the highly competitive and challenging mobile market. According to Screen Digest research, Nokia, Google, Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple pose potent challenges to Microsoft's mobile ambitions. more
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Rumours of Microsoft Mobile Phone Reappear
A research note has renewed suspicions that Microsoft could be working on an own-branded mobile phone to shore up support for its Windows Mobile platform in the face of competition from other smartphone operating systems. more
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Portable Connectivity Driving Wi-Fi Chipset Market
Portable connectivity applications are driving the global Wi-Fi chipset market, with shipments growing on account of big growth from the mobile PC segment, the Portable Consumer Electronics segment, and the dual-mode handset segment, reports In-Stat. Although dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi handsets represented only 3% of total shipments in 2006, this category will be the breakout market segment in 2007, and will reach 20% of the total chipset market in 2009, the high-tech market research firm says. more
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Apple Seen Having Flexibility To Lower iPhone Prices
PALO ALTO, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- If the US$499 and US$599 price tags of Apple's new iPhone are giving you pause, you aren't alone. more
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Consumer Spending on Mobile Music Will Surpass US$32 billion by 2010
The amount of money that mobile phone users worldwide spend on music received on mobile handsets will reach US$32.2 billion by 2010, up from US$13.7 billion in 2007, according to new global forecasts from Gartner. This is despite competition from various digital music players and a host of challenges faced by telecommunications carriers in delivering these services. more
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Expectations High For An Apple Cellphone At Macworld Show
The sprawling Consumer Electronics Show will kick off this weekend in Las Vegas, but Apple Computer may steal the show when the Macworld conference opens Tuesday in San Francisco. more
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iPod Owners Considering Microsofts Zune MP3 Player
A new survey conducted by ABI Research has shown that many prospective MP3 player buyers - even owners of iPods - would be likely to choose Microsoft's zune player. 1,725 teenage and adult US residents were asked whether they planned to buy an MP3 player in the next 12 months. Of those responding that they were likely to do so, 58% of those identifying themselves as existing iPod owners and 59% of those who owned other brands said they would be "somewhat likely" or "extremely likely" to choose a Microsoft zune player over an iPod or another brand of MP3 player. more
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