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Microsoft Service Outages: Xbox Live & Zune (update)

September 21, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft is reporting that outages across many of their online services are offline. For example while on Xbox Live matchmaking is still working, xbox.com is down. Same for Zune, while you can download apps – you will have some problems managing your account.Take a list of the services that have been affected. Xbox LIVE: Signing […]

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Zune Pass: Reducing Number of Devices You can Sync To (Europe Only)

September 6, 2011 1 Comment

Bad news for European Zune Pass subscribers. Microsoft will be reducing the number of devices that you can connect with your Zune Pass. Starting September 13th 2011 European customers will only have the option now to connect to 1 PC and then a combination of Zune, Windows Phone or PC’s for the next three. Here is […]

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Zune 4.8 Now Available

August 23, 2011 No Comments

It’s only natural that with new features in Mango we will have to update the software that we use to manage our mobile devices. In anticipation of the distribution of the Mango update, Microsoft is requiring that you update your Zune software to version 4.8 to make it compatible with the updated Windows Phone OS. […]

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Zune HD Gets Some Update Love too: New Apps & Games

August 2, 2011 No Comments

Windows Phone isn’t the only one getting some update love from Microsoft. The Zune HD (which I dearly loved before the HD7 came around) has received a good amount of updates itself today. tromboneforhire a Zune MVP broke down all the new apps, games and updates for the best PMP I ever owned.   New Games: […]

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Marketplace Issues

July 1, 2011 No Comments

As my usual routine, I look through the Marketplace quite often, therefore I tend to notice when there is an issue. If you have looked poked around the Marketplace this morning, or even the apps on Zune you may have noticed some issues with the loading. While it takes longer then usual to load the […]

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Rumor: Zunepass, Speech and Other Services Expanding to New Regions

June 8, 2011 No Comments

There has been a lot of information regarding the expansion of Windows Phone 7 and its’ services to different regions. Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Windows Phone Program Management tweeted this message: The Zunepass has been something that we cannot live without in my household so I, for one am happy that others will get […]

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Best Buy: Get 4,000 MS Points Free When You Buy Any Windows Phone

June 5, 2011 No Comments

Best Buy has a pretty good deal going on right now. Buy any Windows Phone 7 device and get 4,000 Microsoft Points for free. 4,000 Microsoft Points is valued at $50 in the real world and with that you will be able to buy a bunch of games on xbox and buy music, videos or buy/rent movies […]

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Mango: In Depth Look At New Music/ Video Hub (Zune)

June 4, 2011 No Comments

We all know by now some of the new features coming to the Music/ Video (Zune) hub with the Mango update. Here is a breakdown of some of those heavy hitting features and also a bunch of tiny once that will add to our already awesome Zune experience on Windows Phone 7. Podcasts now included […]

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Polls Closed: Most People Looking Forward to Multi-Tasking on WP7 Mango

June 3, 2011 No Comments

We asked you guys what Mango feature you were looking forward to the most (this was before all the Mango announcements a few days ago). More than half of you just really want to multi-task on Windows Phone, which is something that I am looking forward to myself. The rest of you either were interested […]

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Homebrew: WP7 Backup Tool

May 31, 2011 No Comments

Over at the XDA Developer forum, a member by the username hx4700Killer, has come up with a backup tool for your Windows Phone 7 device. ‘I have written a .Net app for backing up windows phone 7 via the Zune updater tool. This backup can be used by Zune to restore the device when you […]

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Nokia Lumia 900 Launching Early 2012 in the US With Tango (Specs)

  BGR has inside information regarding Nokia’s launch of Windows Phones in the US. With this comes new that...

Early Cyber Monday Deal: HTC Titan at Best Buy For Free

Trying to get your hands on an HTC Titan? Best buy has it right now for $0 – thats...