I saw a tweet earlier from @jamesoneill mentioning that BBC Radio 4’s podcasts were able to be directly downloaded to the Zune software in the UK. This is indeed true and its not just Radio 4, its all BBC radio stations and all services that provide podcasts; all of which can be found through www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts. [...]

I have just spotted a couple of tweets from @mszunejobs advertising some “design developer” jobs. I assumed these were software design jobs but after reading the specifics these are actually hardware design jobs. The below text is the expected experience for the Design Developer, Senior-IEB-Entertainment Experience Group job, the second job is Design Developer, Principal-IEB-Entertainment [...]

As you know Zune went international last week allowing users to download the Zune PC Software, buy a Zune Pass and access a fully populated Zune.net. At first the service was fine for many people, however over the past few days I have seen many tweets and articles talking about issues with Zune and the [...]

We know that Zune service is coming to the UK very soon. I know that the back end infrastructure has been in place for months as I tried the Zune Pass Trial out back at the end of July. But I have received conflicting reports of whether Zune Pass is working the Xbox dashboard update [...]

Many year ago I heard about a rival music distribution system to iTunes and I didn’t need much convincing that this could be a better way to buy and listen to music on my PC. I did research into Zune and immediately loved the look of the brand and its logo (not so much the [...]

There have been rumours about the Zune HD 2 seemingly ever since the first Zune HD was released but over the past few months these rumours have centred around any future Zune HD running on the Windows Phone 7 OS. It certainly makes for an interesting idea but not one without major issues. We all [...]

About this time of year last year Microsoft announced the Zune HD and new Zune software for the PC and I would expect the company to announce improvements to their Zune service sometime soon. In this article I am going to share with you some of the ideas I have as to what we might [...]

Apple’s media event yesterday saw the arrival of a music orientated social network, Ping. However, the event also disappointed some as the rumours, as is often the case, were more exciting than what Apple actually announced. Some rumours were along the lines of music streaming of the vast collection of music Apple has. Do you [...]

Paul Thurrott has just published a review of the next update to the Zune PC Software. The main changes and new features are understandably focused around Windows Phone 7 with the devices only able to sync to a PC via the Zune software; without this software or later versions it is not possible to sync [...]

Yesterday Bing unveiled many new features for the decision engine as part of their first year update. iPhone app update – The first thing that Bing did was to update their app for the iPhone with many new and great features. Social – This allows users to connect their Facebook and/or Titter accounts to the [...]