Tag: catchup

Will You Be Getting A Zune HD?

by | Aug 11, 2009 | | 0 |

 

  The Zune has a sympathetic pull on the gadget loving side of me.  While I generally use Apple products, I like the drive of the underdog.  Microsoft knows how to play catchup as we have seen with the Xbox 360 and the great experience many of us have online with our friends.  The real question is will Microsoft hit a home run with the Zune HD?  If you have an iPod Touch then you can guess the Zune HD will have a similar feature set.  The real problem lies in the lack of a hugely successful app store.  I am cautiously optimistic that Zune HD can deliver such an app store, but Microsoft has a vast pocket to draw from.  The marketing power of a company with such monetary resources that far outweigh most companies certainly helps get Zune noticed.  

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Google and Yahoo Still Teaming Up in October

by | Sep 7, 2008 | | 0 |

  

  Google and Yahoo will continue their transition to an ad partnership next month.  This news is not new as this was reported back in June of 2008,  the deal and suits coming against it are however.  The Association of National Advertisers has voiced its concerns via a letter to government regulators concerning the partnership and what it could mean to the industry.  The idea is that Google would place its ad services along side Yahoo search results in an attempt to have a strangle hold in search and ad marketing and would easily snuff out the little guys in search like Microsoft.  

 

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