A video for the title track on hip-hop veteran Common's forthcoming album, 'Universal Mind Control,' begins with a digital music player pulsing to the beat. The viewer is pulled through the screen into the gadget's guts, where the cool, collected rapper lets loose an easy stream of lyrics. It takes hitting rewind a few times to notice that the music player isn't one of Apple's slim new iPods. It's a Zune, and it's made by Microsoft.
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10 free MP3s per month for Zune Pass subscribers
slashgear.com 11/20/2008 — Microsoft have tweaked their Zune Pass subscription service to include a number of free-to-keep tracks every month, which users can continue to play even if their subscription lapses. From today, Zune Pass users will be able to select up to ten ...
Zune Pass subscribers get to keep 10 songs, not yet perfect
arstechnica.com 11/20/2008 — Microsoft has struck deals with music labels in order to allow Zune Pass subscribers to keep up to 10 songs every month: $15 for up to 10 songs for keeps and unlimited access to the rest of the online music library. Not bad Microsoft, but not ...
Electronista | Microsoft dropping Zune prices to edge iPod
macnn.com 11/21/2008 — Just two months after introducing its third-generation Zune platform, Microsoft is already dropping prices on its flash-based models to improve their competitiveness, the company's Zune marketing director Adam Sohn has confirmed in an interview on ...