Lana hits the streets of downtown Wellington with $50 for anyone who will eat sheep eyes.

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After the Microsoft purging in early January no one department was left untouched including the team working on the Zune player. All of Microsoft’s divisions are losing money except Windows, Office, Tools and Business CRM
Although they deny it, it is related to the precipitous drop in revenue in the last quarter (down 54%) Microsoft recently [...]

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Microsoft entered 2009, midnight PST to be exact, with egg on their faces over failure of the Zune Media player to account for the Leap Second which ended 2008.
According to Zune owners from across the globe, thousands of Microsoft’s 30GB iPod imitators suddenly gave up the ghost at exactly midnight Pacific time last night.
“We’ve [...]

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Uploaded on November 11, 2006 by penmachine
Victor Godinez of the Dallas Morning News comments today about the fate of the Zune and indeed why iPod users should care.
But anyone who plans to buy an iPod should hope that Microsoft is able to turn the Zune into at least a modest success.
His basic argument is [...]

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Buried in the Microsoft latest SEC filing is an interesting and noteworthly comment about the Zune player:
Zune platform revenue decreased $100 million or 54% reflecting a decrease in device sales….
This means the Zune went from $185M for the quarter ending Sept 2008 to $85M for quarter ending Dec 2008. The December should be it’s best [...]

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[Uploaded on March 17, 2008 by Carlo Alberto Della Siega]
A club to celebrate the love child between Steve Ballmer and Robbie the Robot, otherwise known as the Zune player has opened in downtown LA:
Zune L.A., formerly photographer Greg Gorman’s studio, serves as an office for a handful of the Microsoft music player’s employees [...]

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 According to Forrester Research [via CNET] the Zune Market Share (read awareness) is smaller than a rounding error for the poll:
When researchers asked MP3 player owners which one they bought most recently, the Zune was in second-to-last place, with only 2% of respondents naming it. Nearly everybody else–Toshiba (2%), iRiver (3%), Samsung (4%), Coby (4%), [...]

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Kia have announced the 2008 Kia Spectra. It includes AM/FM CD player, 15″ steel wheels, 4 wheel disc brakes and auxiliary audio input jack for your zune…

If you like the Kia Spectra, you will love the new Zen-killer Zune 2.0 (catch a social). With exciting features like it plays music and photos and video (sometimes), [...]

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Microsoft, who trumps a 10% market share for Hard Disk Players that starts with “Z”, has changed ad agencies in response to the underwhelming reception for their Zune Music Device. They have chosen McCann-Erickson in San Francisco to develop a new strategy based on the personal, now that the Zune has been identified as largely [...]

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Not being one to bash the steady stream of mediocre late-to-market poorly executed products but the really the Zune characterizes the poor state of Microsoft product management. It is a good example of how when you have some money you can screw it up and when you have a lot of money you can really [...]

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