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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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 18th, 2010 by Travis Pope  

For a limited time get you can get some of the most popular Zune accessories for as much as 50%  off the list price by shopping ZuneStore.net!

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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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