Inside Apple's iOS 4: new feature parity with Snow Leopard
Fri, Jun 18, 2010 - Apple's iOS 4 features the biggest foundational leap for developers since the company first opened up iPhone OS 2.0 to development, now catching up to the core features of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. ( 82 comments )
Microsoft working on 'Zune HD2' powered by Windows Phone 7
Wed, Mar 10, 2010 - Similar to how Apple's iPod touch came from the development of the iPhone, Microsoft reportedly plans to base the follow-up to its Zune HD media player on the Windows Phone 7 Series mobile operating system. ( 51 comments )
App Store roundup: HD Radio comes to iPhone, 3G VoIP still MIA
Mon, Nov 9, 2009 - For an extra $80, iPhone users can add an external receiver that will allow the device to receive HD radio, adding one of the features of the competing Zune HD; and VoIP application developers still await 3G support. ( 30 comments )
Microsoft considers extending Zune services to Apple users
Wed, Oct 7, 2009 - Some services currently exclusive to Microsoft's Zune platform, such as subscription music downloads, could be extended to Apple products like the iPod in the future, a new report has suggested. ( 162 comments )
Microsoft uses adware model to pay for Zune HD apps
Thu, Sep 17, 2009 - How can new competitors rival Apple's existing library of 75,000 mobile apps and installed base of 50 million users? Microsoft's approach with the Zune HD relies on overt adware, an approach Apple has deliberately avoided. ( 49 comments )
Review roundup: Zune HD plays catchup to iPod touch
Thu, Sep 17, 2009 - Though the new Zune HD portable media player from Microsoft is garnering mostly positive reviews, critics say it's likely too little, too late against Apple's dominant iPod touch. ( 232 comments )
Apple, Microsoft trade places selling iPod touch and Zune HD
Tue, Sep 15, 2009 - Apple makes its money selling hardware while Microsoft's revenues are from software. Yet in the mobile device war heating up between the iPod touch and the Zune HD, Microsoft is focusing on hardware features while Apple is shifting its marketing attention toward the iPod's vast library of third party software, particularly games. ( 84 comments )
From OLED to Tegra: Five Myths of the Zune HD
Mon, Sep 14, 2009 - Just when you thought Microsoft had given up on the Zune as a product and had retreated to referring to it as a nebulous cloud of conceptual features, the company comes out with a new device supporting a mobile-optimized OLED screen, a wildly powerful yet super efficient new multi-core Tegra graphics processor and support for high definition radio. The problem is that none of those things are actually true. ( 582 comments )
