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I’ve just purchased an 80 GB Microsoft Zune MP3 Player and I wanted something to transmit the music through my car radio, but everything seems to only be compatible with iPods. Help please?! Thanks!
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Revenue for Microsoft’s Zune player fell by $100 million, or 54 percent, in Microsoft’s second fiscal quarter, according to Microsoft’s 10Q regulatory filings.
In an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Monday, Microsoft said a number of factors had contributed to rough Zune sales, even though Microsoft had assured reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month that Zune sales over the holidays were “fine.”
“Some of them are environmental,” said Zune Director of Marketing Adam Sohn to the Post-Intelligencer when asked about the particulars. “Everyone knows that the economy is not what it was a year ago, and that is hurting some folks. We are in a position where the category is also shrinking. So I think those are things that affected everybody’s sales, including Apple.”
Sohn also told the newspaper that Microsoft had not been as aggressive at the end of 2008 with introducing new products and pushing Zune sales through resale outlets. A year before, he contended, Microsoft had a large stock of 30-GB Zunes and pushed its sales channels harder to get them out.
“We knew we were going to be at a lower volume simply because of the external factors and what happened with the 30s,” he said.
Sohn described the planning for new Zune product rollouts as “fast and furious.”
“Every time anything comes up, there is a set of people who pull a Chicken Little and say, ‘The sky is falling. Zune is dead,’” Sohn said. “The fact is we are on track to deliver the next generation of Zune innovation in software and hardware.”
Despite a reported 16 percent decline in sales, Apple’s iPod continues to dominate the U.S. MP3 player market. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and most analysts put the iPod’s U.S. market share at 70 percent.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Young entrepreneur Hansup Yoon, 15, recently sold his creation ZuneBoards, an Internet forum devoted to Microsoft’s Zune media player, for $62,000.
The teenager, who lives in Fullerton, Calif., created the site months before Microsoft introduced its answer to Apple’s iPod in 2006.
“It was the most perfect time to start a Web site about Zune, and I was one of the first few to create a Zune-related site,” he said.
Yoon built the site using the free MyBBoard software, later shifting to vBulletin and Joomla. In less than two years, it grew to 60,000 members with more than 270,000 posts, all about Zune. It has been making about $1,000 a month from Google Adsense and TribalFusion, both with tools that place ads that are relevant to a Web site’s visitors.
When he decided to sell, he posted it on SitePoint.com and other sales Web sites for a minimum of $30,000 or “Buy It Now” for $60,000. Two bidders chose the latter option, and crowdgather, a Woodland Hills, Calif., company that has bought more than 70 message boards and forums as a foundation for Internet advertising, upped its bid to $62,000.
“Bidding was getting close to the Buy It Now price, and I didn’t want to lose (ZuneBoards) over a few thousand dollars,” said crowdgather founder Sanjay Sabnani.
Sabnani wasn’t surprised to learn that his acquisition was created and owned by a teenager.
“I’m getting more and more used to that,” he said. “My first acquisition was a graphic site from someone in Italy. I was blown away when I found out he was 16.”
Because Yoon is a minor, crowdgather negotiated with his parents, and the deal closed in a day. They used escrow.com, an Irvine, Calif., site that acts as a shield against fraud between buyers and sellers of businesses, Web sites and other ventures, Sabnani said.
Yoon’s ability to build a profitable site would be the envy of older entrepreneurs.
“At first I tried to teach myself with books I would buy from bookstores. … However, ultimately, I was mostly self-taught from other Web development communities like Forums.DigitalPoint.com, SitePoint.com and NamePros.com,”
Yoon said. “The Internet is an amazing place. You can practically learn anything you want if you’re willing to make a time commitment.
“It is so easy to make money on the Internet. Web development. Made-for-Adsense sites. Affiliate marketing. Paid to post. And the list goes on,” Yoon said. “I guess that’s one reason why I am so thankful to God. Not everyone has the mentality and understanding of how things work online as I do.”
After he designed ZuneBoards, he marketed it by exchanging posts with other small forums. In a few months, he had several volunteer administrators and moderators who made sure the forums were organized and all posts obeyed the site’s rules. ZuneBoards now has more than 70 people working on it.
“The great thing was I had so much freedom,” Yoon said. “I only spent 30 minutes online a day on ZuneBoards.”
Yoon decided to sell ZuneBoards to spend more time on his studies. He is a sophomore in high school and plans to try out for the football team. Also, he wanted to give some financial support to his family.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
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