Our very own ZuneInfo.com shop (Partnership with Amazon.com) has some Zune sales going on at the moment. You can pick up a Zune for $219, saving $30. Or if still hunting for a bargin there is a link in our shop for list of Zunes starting at $190 each. ZuneInfo.com Shop

Amazon.com's taking orders for the pink Zune, but the Zune's P.R. team wouldn't comment.
"We are actually not confirming anything in that area in terms of new colors,' spokeswoman Lane Keough said.
Hmmm.
Nor would she comment on the rampant price cuts. With a little persistence it's easy to find Zunes for close to $200, down from their $250 list price, but Microsoft's not saying what's going on. The new pink ones are full price, though.
My guess is Microsoft's offering discounts to nudge sales up.

If your a bookworm or dont mind the odd book here and there, well here is some news for you. It was hoped by many that Zune team would release a firmware udate eventurally that would allow you to load ebooks (books on a computer, usally in .PDF format) onto your Zune and be able [...]

Buy.com has a little sale on where you can save $40 on a new Microsoft Zune, bringing the total to $209 including free shipping to your home or workplace. Although, seems like they must have a allot of black Zunes, as only the black Zunes are on sale and not the brown or white ones. Click [...]

The Zune 1.3 firmware update we told you about exactly one month ago has finally been released. No surprises here though, as it fixes skipping problems, reliability, syncing, and FM tuner sleep mode draining.
Since we're stuck in putrid Orlando, we can't test the update to see whether there's any noticeable performance increases or other tasty bullet points. Throw down a comment if you've got something to share with the class. – Jason Chen
Zune Software Update 1.3: Wednesday [Zune Insider]

Just a reminder that the firmware update that you’ve been waiting for is now available. There is nothing new in the firmware other than fixing a couple of issues. These are the things you’ll find on the update, as listed by Cesar for ZuneInsider: We’re fixing the skipping problem that some users were experiencing – that is, content acquired from [...]

The 1.3 firmware and client launch today. Cesar has the details at http://zuneinsider.com/archive/2007/03/28/firmware-update-1-3-wednesday.aspx. Thanks to everyone who has been waiting for this update - your patience is appreciated. From Cesar: We’re fixing the skipping problem that some users were experiencing – that is, content acquired from Zune Marketplace will no longer skip when played

In a story about cool dude Vermont creative director Michael Jager, Fast Company magazine talks about how he won the Xbox 360 brand design account.
During a 2004 pitch to the Xbox team in Redmond, Jager compared the first Xbox with the Incredible Hulk. He told them the next one had to be more like Bruce Lee, "to transition Xbox from this hulk of escaping power into this quiet power that is lurking, something still incredibly dangerous but with more of an elegance and grace,' he said.
The Hulk vs. Bruce stuff became a "mantra" as the team developed the system's look and feel, the article said, quoting then Xbox brand director, Don Hall:
Whenever we evaluated our work in terms of guiding our deisions for Xbox 360 it was like, "This is too Hulk" or "We need more Bruce Lee." Jager's firm, JDK Design, is credited with the shape of the box: "The reverse parenthesis design [ )( ] of the console is itself Jager's symbolic conjuring of the martial-arts master, representing t...

We just got done talking to Sprint about their latest (and some would say best) music phone, the Samsung Upstage. Here are some previously unreleased details that may have not been found here (or anywhere else).
• It's cheap: Only $149 with contract. That's way low for a music phone with this kind of featureset.
• Unfortunately, the Upstage won't play any other form of DRM (the songs from Sprint aren't DRMEd, actually, which is nice). So your iTunes, Zune, Napster, and other form of DRMed music won't be able to be played on this.
• It comes with 64MB built-in memory, but will accept 1 and 2GB flash cards.
Jump for some more bullets, and a shocker!
• The Upstage will not be able to use music you've downloaded from their 1.4 million track repository for as MP3 ringtones. In fact, from what Sprint said, you can't use MP3 ringtones at all. Ouch. We blame the RIAA for this inability to use music as a ringtone in a ...