http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/f39...rger-97194.htmlQuick reminder, contest for the Gomadic 2-in-1 Charger ends this Friday. You can check out the details and the thread here. DO NOT reply to this posting as your entry won't count unless it is to the original contest thread. Thanks! .. more »

about the upcoming XNA Game Studio 4.0. Thus far, XNA Game Studio has been primarily used to develop casual games for the Xbox 360 and, more recently, to create games for the Zune HD. ... Long story short, Klucher confirmed that XNA Game Studio 4.0 will support game development on Windows Phone 7 Series phones, but not on the Zune HD. Well that's a .. more »

Episode 59 dated March 12th, 2010 of the Zune Insider Audio Podcast is now live and is hosted by Matt Akers (skipdeez) and Jessica Zahn (jetherealz). Show notes:Jessica’s Zune tag is hard to spell and Matt is poignant! (0:00 – 4:04); Did you know that Matt was on the Debate Team in High School? (4:06 – 6:10); BT interview was awesome, what an ins.. more »

OK, this is a bit of a head-scratcher for me. What I thought was going to happen was that when the Windows phone 7 ecosystem kicked off at the end of this year, we'd see a Windows Marketplace for Mobile that would address both the Windows phone 7 users and the Zune HD users. In fact, the millions of Zune HDs out there would serve as a good base for .. more »

A quick note to let you know that I've updated the . I spent a couple of hours on Saturday going through every part of the article, seeing what was new, and what was the same, updating it for the Zune HD era we now live in. About a month ago I had my buddy Grahm Skee from send me a couple of Zune Pass cards in the mail - the one-month pre-paid .. more »

Episode 58 dated March 5th, 2010 of the Zune Insider Audio Podcast is now live and is hosted by Matt Akers (skipdeez) and Jessica Zahn (jetherealz). music artist and composer BT !(6:31 – 38:29); Matt makes fun of Jessica for being a Stan and a dork (38:30 – 40:12); BT’s guilty pleasure and its relation to Matt (40:13 – 40:52); We like the telephone.. more »

chargers are very slick, and we recently did a on the 2-in-1 Charger pictured above. If you aren't familiar, the system uses what they call " " so all you need is one cable and a tip for each device, instead of having to carry around separate charging cables. They pretty much cover every device know to man, or at least it seems that way (the brand .. more »

I don’t necessarily entirely agree with this statement over at but I think that most of us can agree that the music industry is a dinosaur that does as much to hold back artists today as it does to promote them. For a few years now I’ve wondered why many artists would really want to go the route of a big record company. For every successful arti.. more »

As of last night, the Zune HD Facebook app was still busted for me - updates not loading, news feeds not loading, etc. This morning, surprisingly, it all started to work - without a new version of the app. That tells us that it wasn't a problem with the application itself - which I guessed at - but instead a problem with Facebook itself, or .. more »

Update: The recently released Facebook application for Zune HD is experiencing some issues accessing data. We are investigating and will provide an update on the status as soon as possible.    Thanks for your patience. We are rolling out the Facebook app for Zune HD right now. It might take a bit to make it through the servers, so look for it short.. more »

Apps now, but if you don't, it will likely appear shortly. I downloaded it and decided to take it for a spin. After waiting 10 seconds for it to start - seriously Zune team, you've got to fix the awful app load time - I entered my Facebook log-on information using the shockingly impressive keyboard. I don't use my Zune HD for much Web browsing, so .. more »

I've been beta testing the Zune Facebook App since the MVP Summit - and I can tell you this one is killer. It's for more complex and rich than the Twitter app (of course, Facebook is a far more rich and complex app than Twitter) and is available in the App Store NOW (according to The moving of Zune from a simple media (music) player to an Internet .. more »

Episode 57 dated Feb 26th, 2010 of the Zune Insider Audio Podcast is now live and is hosted by Matt Akers (skipdeez) and Sean Neumann (neux). Show notes:Guest host Sean in the house! (0:00 – 1:30); Jessica is in Paris! (1:30 – 3:40) Developer extraordinaire (and Sean’s boss) Peter Rosser in the house! (4:30 – 20:15); Chat about Windows Phone a.. more »

Episode 56 dated Feb 19th, 2010 of the Zune Insider Audio Podcast is now live and is hosted by Matt Akers (skipdeez) and Jessica Zahn (jetherealz). Show notes:We talk about the Windows Phone 7 Series name (0:00 – 1:30); Michael Yaeger introduces the Microsoft MVP program (1:31 – 3:55); The Great Room – and bathrooms (3:56 – 5:00); Introducing.. more »

Thank you everyone that participated in the last Zune Tune, we had a great response and compiled your feedback into a playlist filled with R&B hits that can be found . We also included the names of the people that had made the suggestions of the songs in our playlist, so go check out the Zune Marketplace, download the playlist, and see if you were o.. more »

Admit it, deep down, you knew this was coming … it looks like Windows Phone 7 is going to be a Zune Phone Again, this is not rumor anymore. The specifics have been announced (heck, Engadget even offers a very impressive walkthrough ) and this looks to be a winner. There is a that we'll embed at the end of this as well - but those are supposed to lo.. more »

Episode 55 dated Feb 12th, 2010 of the Zune Insider Audio Podcast is now live and is hosted by Matt Akers (skipdeez) and Jessica Zahn (jetherealz). Show notes:This podcast is dedicated to the late Captain Phil Harris… (0:00 – 2:15); Jam packed whiteboard and how we do this… (2:22 – 3:00); Meeting madness and how to cope… (3:05 –.. more »

We're going to be doing some software updates on our server tonight, so the server will be going down around 9pm Eastern Time for an hour, potentially more. Thanks for your patience as we implement these updates... more »

MaximumPC has done an interesting side by side comparison of the big three options out there for music organization on your home PC. To be honest, most people will have a hard time really making much of a selection based on the software and are far more likely to be choosing based on what their device of choice is. In the case of the iPod and Zune, .. more »

Hey Zune Nation, Zune Tune is back and we are curious as to what your favorite R&B songs are of all time? We are looking for what R&B songs you love and w e will create a special Zune Tune R&B playlist with your suggestions that we’ll publish in the Zune Marketplace on 2/16/10. So what are you waiting for? Reply to us on Twitter (@zune) with.. more »