Andy Ihnatko: Zune HD Is a Nifty Media Player

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Inevitably, you have to set the Zune next to the iPod Touch ? no, let?s set it on the table between the Touch and the iPod Nano ? and ponder its place in the grand scheme of things. And that alone is a hell of a compliment, considering the Zune?s horrible pedigree. Previously, a Zune would at best be wedged underneath this table?s short leg to keep it from wobbling.

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LG outs five notebooks from new WIDEBOOK series

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 17 September 2009 10:15:00 AM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

LG on Thursday announced the release of its WIDEBOOK family of notebooks, made up of the R380, R460,...

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Win Mobile phone maker i-mate shut down

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 17 September 2009 10:05:00 AM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Windows Mobile may have been dealt a blow through a quiet shutdown of i-mate, an investigation has f...

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iTunes 9 creating iPod classic conflicts

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 17 September 2009 09:45:00 AM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

The recently-launched iTunes 9 update is causing a variety of problems for iPod classic owners, comm...

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MSI bows X-Slim X410 with Athlon Neo

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MSI this morning took the X-Slim line into AMD's territory by officially launching the X410. The cr...

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Funbooth 2.0 :: Have fun with videos & Photos on
Mac.

post from Find Mac Stuff on 17 September 2009 09:06:32 AM. © Find Mac Stuff

Sourcebits Technologies, a leading software development firm offering solutions in the space of[...]

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Zune HD Apps Launch With Commercials

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Nate Anderson on the Zune HD’s apps, which are free downloads but show ads:

The ads show up during app launch, which takes an astonishingly long time. Booting Chess took 30 seconds. […] Launching the weather app takes about 8 seconds, the calculator about 9. Goo Splat, which has been showing a static ad this morning for the Soul, launches in about 17 seconds.

Update: To be clear, these ads aren’t just little banner ads or something like that. We’re talking full-screen videos, like TV commercials. Here’s a video from Ars showing what happens when you launch the chess app.

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Zune HD Apps

Nate Anderson on the Zune HD’s apps, which are free downloads but show ads:

The ads show up during app launch, which takes an astonishingly long time. Booting Chess took 30 seconds. […] Launching the weather app takes about 8 seconds, the calculator about 9. Goo Splat, which has been showing a static ad this morning for the Soul, launches in about 17 seconds.

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Music groups want royalties from iTunes samples,
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Music royalty groups ASCAP and BMI are pressing online music stores like Apple's iTunes to pay perfo...

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Samsung Omnia line gets Win Mobile 6.5, new B7330

Samsung today pledged itself to Windows Mobile with both a major software update and a new phone. A...

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