Microsoft’s weak quarterly earnings report is pushing some to call on the company to abandon its once-hyped “iPod-killer”, the Zune. According to a Marketwatch story, investors think it’s time to dump the Zune and focus their attention on competing with Apple’s iPhone: “The market reception for Zune is so disappointing that many retailers have even [...]

Cool Hunting has the scoop on Zune Originals, a collection of 27 original artworks by 18 international artists, designed to be engraved onto the back of the device. On the Zune Originals site, launching tomorrow (13 November 2007), visitors will be able to customize their Zune by size, color, illustration and with up to four [...]

Newsweek tech writer Steven Levy had us feeling a bit not-so-fresh with his discussion of the erotic charge of iPods in his book The Perfect Thing. Now Levy appears to have confused the widely criticized wireless features of Microsoft’s Zune portable media player with squirting, a colloquial term for female ejaculation. “Have you squirted a [...]

A new ad campaign for the Sansa e200, a portable digital media player, mocks iPod owners, calling them iSheep and iPuppets. The iDont campaign calls on “free thinkers, contrarians and malcontents” to “rise up against the iTatorship.

iriver has introduced the clix portable media player, a new media player that integrates with the just-released version of Windows Media Player 11 and the public beta of MTV Networks’ URGE digital music service. At $199, the iriver clix offers a competitive feature set, including a 2GB memory capacity, a color display, digital FM tuner, [...]