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About the Zune update, today's Apple news

So I'm in Redmond this week, as you may know. Yesterday, Microsoft was forced to prematurely announce the details of its upcoming Zune 3 platform when Fry's Electronics leaked details about the new devices and software features. (And here's that hi-res shot I was looking for.) To be clear...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-09-2008
Napster Launches World’s Largest MP3 Store Featuring 6 Million Tracks

Napster becomes the second online music service (after Amazon MP3) to offer DRM-free tracks from all of the major recording companies: Napster, the pioneer of digital music, today announced the launch of the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store at www.napster.com/store . Napster’s...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-20-2008
Amazon Gains Share of Shrinking Paid Music Market

NYT's Saul Hansell writes another great blog post , this time about Amazon's recent gains in the digital music market: NPD’s annual survey of Internet users found that 10 percent of the music they acquired last year came from paid downloads. That is a big increase from 7 percent in 2006...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-18-2008
Zune VideoX: Microsoft’s iTunes killer?

This comes at an interesting time for me, as I've been updating the Windows Vista Secrets book for Service Pack 1 and am adding a bunch of material on related technologies, including a chapter on Zune. Like many, I'd sort of written Zune off, mostly because they seem to go into deep hibernation...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-16-2008
Amazon MP3 Adds Music Audio Downloads from Warner Music Group

Looks like Amazon's budding MP3 download service just got a lot better : Amazon.com and Warner Music Group today announced that DRM-free music audio downloads from Warner Music Group are now available to customers on Amazon MP3, Amazon's a la carte MP3 digital music store where every song and...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-27-2007
Digital Media Core, Video Follow-Up: D-Link MediaLounge DSM-520

I'm in Phoenix visiting friends and in a weird coincidence, I was involved in a technology purchase yesterday that has direct bearing on my recent Digital Media Core, Video blog post . And as you might expect, it completely corroborates the notion that digital video is a mess right now thanks to...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-08-2007
Some thoughts on Zune 2.0

So I wrote up a pretty thorough update on the new Zune devices last night but I'd like to chime in with some off-the-cuff thoughts this morning that are based solely on a single Microsoft briefing and some press packet photographs. I like what they're doing. As a reviewer, I feel like I'm...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-03-2007
Amazon MP3 store goes live

Amazon's previously announced MP3 music download service is live. Dubbed amazonmp3 , the service offers DRM-free MP3 music downloads. Nothing exceptional yet, and sort of the lame selection found on Wal-Mart's similar store. Still, a step in the right direction. Thanks Jon and Jerry.

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-25-2007

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