March 9th, 2010 by Travis Pope   Tags: Software, XNA Games, ZuneHD Apps

With just a week left until Microsoft’s MIX developer conference Microsoft’ employee Michael Kulcher is now talking publicly about what devices and services will be compatible with it’s forthcoming XNA 4.0 software. True, you could read the entire article but we’ll sum up why you might want to read it closely;

When we first announced XNA was a development platform for the Windows Phone 7 Series last week and followed up with some real-time Twitter Q&A (@WP7Dev), we got a lot of questions about Zune/Zune HD and how that will work with XNA Game Studio 4.0. Development for the Zune and Zune HD will continue to exist in XNA Game Studio 3.1, however, in XNA Game Studio 4.0, we’re encouraging you to migrate your games over to the Windows Phone 7 Series platform.

Yes, you read right. Microsoft will leave the ZuneHD attached to the current version of XNA, but before you read too much into it, read on.

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January 26th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

Like colorful unicorns, and beautiful housewives who cook and clean, I never thought the Zune Phone would actually, you know… exist. Well, color me wrong.

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January 19th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

Recent job postings may hint to the next generation Zune device, or at least a new device coming to the lineup sometime in the next few years.

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January 17th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

This morning @norrathreave, decided to browse around the ZuneHD’s player firmware. Nothing too exciting at first, a little MTP transfer protocol here, various PNG image files there. That is until he stumbled upon a few nice little tidbits of code in the firmware.

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January 7th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

According to Zune MVP extraordinaire Marques Lyons of InsidetheCircle, this spring ZuneHD owners will get a software upgrade, which will reportedly allow them you SmartDJ from their devices.

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November 24th, 2009 by Travis Pope  

The next time you decide to checkout Zune or pick one up, remember to not head to your nearest Target location. According to research we’ve done, including trips to ever Target in our area, and confirmation by two inside sources, Target has decided to not carry the Zune devices, and accessories in any of it’s retail locations. To quote our source:

“They we’re pulled before the ZuneHD made it’s debut, so they were’t really selling all that well.”

Currently we’ve got no official comment from Target nor Microsoft, but we’ll keep you updated with any statements or press releases they make. It is worth noting some select Zune accessories and the red Zune 120 are still available online at Target’s website.

September 15th, 2009 by Travis Pope  

From Paul Thurott

[b]At midnight ET, I’ll be able to post my first batch of Zune HD content. This will consist of three hands-on photo galleries and part one of what will initially be a four-part review. Later on, I’ll have some screenshot galleries and more of the review of course. Much later (November), there’ll be some Zune/Xbox news. This is all previously announced and whatnot, I’m just mentioning here so you know what to expect.[/b]
[url=http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/09/14/twas-the-night-before-zune-hd.aspx]WInSuperSite[/url]

If u read carefully it says in no small terms that there is Zune/XBox news coming in November and that said news has already been announced. There was only one bit of XBOX/Zune news we know about, the video store.

September 4th, 2009 by Travis Pope  

With people already touchy about their older Zunes not being manufactured, some cheering up isn’t necessarily a bad thing. With that in mind Matt Akers of the Zune team may have given us the ammo we needed to move on to another story with this tweet:

Matt Akers: @jasondunn I disagree… software + services + xbox + zune hd = a sweet ecosystem…

Notice he throws XBOX in there as well. Maybe we really are going to see more then just Zune video coming to the big white box? Sadly he doesn’t go into any detail.

August 16th, 2009 by Travis Pope  

While it’s no doubt been a slow news day around Zune websites across the country we’ve been here, slaving over a hot keyboard for hours looking for good stories, and here’s what we got. Our very first PictureIt article. Every so often we’ll post about a picture or interesting screen shot and ask you what you think.

Early this morning I went browsing around the official Zune HD webpage and noticed something interesting. Once you’re on the Zune HD go to the demonstration and click wireless. Immediately you’ll see what can’t possibly be anything else other then the Device’s Zune Marketplace, but do you notice anything interesting? No, how about that fact that the word ‘Music’ is undeniably super imposed on the screen at the top, as part of the navigation? Funny thing is in the current version of it doesn’t show that mainly because we’ve only had music in the device marketplace, so I’ve been thinking maybe just, maybe there’s going to be something else available for download from the device as well!

Anywho this is nothing but speculation but it does bring up the question of why we haven’t seen pictures of the new device marketplace. It’s possible I could have missed them but maybe, just maybe they’ll be something new for us to download from that menu. What do you guys think?