Archive for December, 2008

Zune Deal: 8GB Pink Zune for $97 at Virgin Megastore

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Virgin Megastores is closing a total of four of their huge mall record stores, no doubt because of the slowing economy and the popularity of online downloads. Their Ontario Mills location in Ontario, California was where I was doing a bit of Christmas shopping this past weekend when I stumbled upon an awesome deal. A [...]

Job postings reveal new things for Zune

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Here at Zuneagent.com, when we hear about rumors, we mostly rely on what the word is on the techno blogs. But the best way to speculate what is happening with certain products is to check the company’s job postings. Well according Todd Bishop of TechFlash, he found some job postings from the Zune team. One [...]

No Zune phone, just a phone with Zune features

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Rumors of a Zune phone have been squashed by Microsoft recently. Many said that they will debut it at CES next month but Microsoft was quick to deny it. A new mobile phone, that is not a Zune, is said to be in the works at Microsoft however. Cnet is saying that talk in [...]

Maroon 5 for 99cents from Zune

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Zune has some great music deals and lately they have featured a lot of music from Common and other hip-hop artist. But not everyone is into hip-hop so Zune now has music from Maroon 5 for just 99 cents! That’s right 99 cents! Their new album Call and Response is now available from Zune. LA [...]

Zune Mixview available online

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Zune’s Mixview is now available online in Zune Social pages. Zune’s couldy music discovery feature dubbed Mixview was announced this week. Mixview allows users to play ffrom any PC or Mac connected to the web and to explore related music, listeners, artists, influences, tracks and albums. Check it out on the Zune Social page. Mixview [...]

The undying Zune Phone rumors arises again

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

It just seems that these Zune phone rumors will not simply die. Initially, the rumors were that Microsoft would introduce the Zune Phone at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 7. Then the rumors were squashed a few days later when the group manager of Zune confirmed that there would be “No Zune Phone at [...]

The first Clock Radio for Zune players

Monday, December 15th, 2008

With Microsoft revamping, as well as remarketing, their Zune players, a slew of new products for the Microsoft Zune MP3 player has appeared on the market. With that, iHome has just introduced the very first clock radio specifically made for the Microsoft Zune player. It is called the ZN9 and it features iHome’s Reson8 speaker [...]

Will Microsoft give the Zune VoIP capabilities?

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Although the Zune phone rumors have been put in the back burner, people are still speculating as to what Microsoft will be introducing at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009. People are now suspecting that Microsoft is set to add Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, capabilities to the next generation of Zunes. Back in October, [...]

Zune phone rumors will remain rumors

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

The Zune Phone rumors just keep on coming. But this time, the rumors may have been squashed. First they squashed the Obama/Zune rumors. Now this. The Group Manager of Zune, Brian Seitz, has announced that “No Zune phone at CES.” In the past few days, there were many analysts who believed that Microsoft would be [...]

Inspiretech Zune car charger review

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Have you ever been out and about with your Microsoft Zune and while you were enjoying your tunes all of a sudden your Zune runs out of juice? I’ve been in that situation many times. If you’re like me then you don’t carry a Zune charger in your pocket at all times so what can [...]