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United Airlines offers up ‘Zune inflight audio,’ no actual Zunes

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Microsoft’s already shown with the Xbox 360 and Kin that it’s looking to take its Zune platform beyond Zune-branded hardware, but we can’t say we expected it to go quite this far — Microsoft has now teamed up with United Airlines to offer “Zune inflight audio” to passengers. That apparently won’t involve any new...
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Zune HD hacked, OpenZDK now available to developers

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Well, it looks like the first 64GB Zune HDs landing in customers’ hands may not be the biggest Zune news today after all. As proudly announced the ZuneBoards website, the Zune HD — and all earlier Zunes, although the potential there is a tad more limited — “have been hacked.” While obviously not the...
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Doctor Sues Microsoft Over Zune’s “Buy From FM” (Digital Trends)

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An Illinois eye doctor is suing Microsoft over the Zune’s “Buy from FM” service, claiming he patented it before there was even an iPod. (read here…) Check out the following Products: Microsoft Zune Black (120 GB) MP3 PlayerUS $150.00 End Date: Monday Aug-02-2010 18:33:38 PDTBuy It Now for only: US $150.00Buy it now | Add to watch...
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Zune 4.2 update released, what’s new? (Engadget)

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We’re receiving word from multiple early-bird readers indicating that they’ve received the 4.2 update on their Zunes and that, now that they’re out of that nasty maintenance window , all is right with the world. That said, our tipsters are not spotting any major differences, and neither are we, certainly nothing as exciting as...
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Zune ‘Phone’ devices listed in latest software update (Engadget)

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Zune_Phone_devices_listed_in_updated_Zune_software’; Whoa, what’s this? The so-called Zune software maintenance release has a trio of Phone device drivers tucked away inside the Zune.inf file according to Long Zheng over at istartedsomething . And similar to the three devices listed representing the three types of Zunes, we have … (here is the story..) Related items Zune 4.2...
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