February 14th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

Those who follow the ZuneSpring on my personal Twitter will know that tomorrow starts a big week for us. First at Mobile World Conference Microsoft is preparing for what could very well be the keynote to make or break Steve Ballmer’s career as well as change the face of both Windows Mobile & Zune alike. Also I’ll be heading to Microsoft’s Redmond Campus for what surely will be one of the most exciting experiences of my life, the MVP Summit. Because of both of these event’s I’ll be taking the week off from my full time job. You know what that means, an entire week to bring ZuneSpring up to where it should be without interference from the real world. Tell me what new areas you would like to see, or where no frontiers you would like us to venture into. I will not stop until this site is the best it can possibly be and that involves each and every person who reads, and enjoys what we do here.

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February 13th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

With Mobile World Conference just days away, why not speculate and let our minds go crazy? Why not get carried away with anticipation culminating in a massive outburst of overzealous excitement? Because that wouldn’t be the ZuneSpring way, instead we’ve called in friend of the show MaryJo Foley of ZiffDavis to give us all the dish on how Microsoft might attempt to knock our socks off on Monday. All that plus your MailBag questions, Social Report, and FreePicks! Remember to email us travis@zunespring.com Check out the podcast here.

February 12th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

With the 2010 MVP Summit due to start next week I’ve finally gotten around to mailing down cotent we might be able to provide during the summit. Are any of you interested in a possible video podcast from the road being updated daily? What about an episode of ZunSpring Live with other who are attending? Let me know what you would like to see in the comments and I’ll see what I can put together.

February 10th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

With merely days left until, the Mobile World Conference and Windows Mobile/ Zune hype at a fever pitch, we’re talking to Mary Jo Foley about her little black book of codewords including “Dorado” (the Zune services backened), Windows Phone 7, and her recent purchase of a Zune HD (Yes! We got here!). That’s this week on Friday at live.zunspring.com. If you’ve got any questions for her please ask them in the comments.

February 5th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

According to Engadget, a number of different albums, and in some cases, entire artists have been disappearing from the Zune Marketplace. For me it started about a week ago, at the time though I considered it to be a problem just I was experiencing. I’m interested in know just how many of you using ZunePass are having this issue, tell us in the comments.

January 30th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

Staring funny man Bill Maher, Religulous tells the story of one man trying to find his way to cosmic clarity. Yes, I’m kidding. Really it’s a documentary poking fun at all that may be wrong with believing in a higher power.

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January 29th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

Last week’s PhotoFriday took a look back at the podcast’s roots. This week I thought it would be nice to take a look back at ZuneSpring in general.

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January 29th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

Somewhere along the road to getting ZuneSpring up and running in WordPress, emails began to pour in from potential & current owners of Zunes, something I hadn’t really been expecting. Going forward we’ll answer our favorites and most asked questions in this column as well as a companion segment our ZuneSpring Live podcast.

Read the January edition here.

January 26th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

You haven’t had enough excitement today dear ZuneSpring reader? You want more news from the update bonanza happening today? Friend of the site Josh has spotted support for .avi files in the software. How did he spot it you ask? Yeah he just hit play.

Sadly still no support for .avi on the device side of things but until that comes later this spring you’ll be able to have the Zune software convert movies to wmv or mp4 and then sync them over. Check out the details at Josh’s blog t03.us

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 26th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

This morning Chisto27 woke up to a nice little surprise when he tried to update the Zune software. Support for Windows 7 libraries.

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January 24th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

With the MVP Summit just under a month away, it’s important for to Zune & myself told start getting feedback on just what the community would like to see come out of an update Zune software, Zune Hardware, and Zune Services.

Your opinion counts! I’ll be creating forum topics at ZuneSpring, Zunerama, Zunited, ZuneEgg, and Zunehome, so feel free to post at your favorite forums, or in the comments here. As you guys add to each respective area, I’ll compile them here. Let’s get brainstorming folks!

January 22nd, 2010 by Travis Pope  

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January 22nd, 2010 by Travis Pope  

On Tuesday, January 25th Zune services will go down for maintenance for 24 hours.

“The Zune service will be offline starting at 10 pm on Monday, January 25 and we anticipate all Zune services will be available again within 24 hours. As with previous updates, we are recommending users download any new music, videos or podcasts and sync Zune Pass content they want prior to the downtime, otherwise they’ll have to wait until the service is back up to download new content. Content that is already stored in their PC or Xbox HDD will continue to remain available during the downtime.”

You heard it here folks. Zune.net streaming, Zune Pass, & Zune Video XBOX, and the Zune Marketplace, will not be available for 24hrs starting Monday. On Tuesday night operations will resume and you’ll be prompted to download updated versions of the Zune 30, 80, 120, 4, and 8, firmware & an updated copy of the Zune Software.

January 22nd, 2010 by Travis Pope  

This morning Microsoft confirmed the reorganization of the Entertainment & Devices division of which both Zune and Windows Media Center are a part of.

“As a natural evolution of the Interactive Entertainment Business, our consumer products and experiences focused on games, movies, TV and music will move into IEB, led by SVP Don Mattrick. In addition, we’ve formed a new centralized E&D services infrastructure team, which will act as a combined resource across the division. Finally, Enrique Rodriguez has decided to move on from his leadership position running the TV, video and music business and is evaluating his next career opportunity. The TVM first party business, Zune and Windows Medica Center will move to IEB, and Mediaroom, the TV platform businesss, will become a standalone group within E&D, reporting directly to (E&D) President Robbie Bach.”

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