Long time readers will remember how the Zune Team played in a football futbol soccer tournament last year . A quick backstory: Each year, folks from E&D (Entertainment and Devices, the division of which Zune is a part) global sales/marketing folks in from all over the world come to Redmond, to talk strategy across the entire lineup. To kick off the week, a group of folks play in the tournament. This year, I reprised my role as a defender on the Zune team, Zune United: ( pictured from bottom left...

Saw this post and this thread on Zunerama and decided to take a break from the SXSW blogging to post it. From 'rama: Zunerama member scoutflyer reports that he was able to track down a friend's stolen Zune that way [by turning on wireless]. The stolen Zune was still in the school building, and by using his own Zune he was able to tell when he got close to the missing player. Fortunately the perpetrator had not turned wireless off, so the stolen Zune was still announcing its presence to other nearby...

<edit 11:59 AM>I talked to the retail team; this is a hoax. The actual ad that ran offered a $15 iTunes gift card with the purchase of an iPod, and free Zune Premium Earphones w/ the purchase of a Zune. In the immortal words of Strongbad: DELETED . Funny while it lasted, though! Around seven thousand people sent this to me today: (photo from Giz ) No idea if this is true; my guess it's an error on behalf of the Spokane* Compusa. I emailed the retail account team to find out. It reminds me of...

A few folks have expressed concern over skipping (Cesar looks at Sportsunit), so I wanted to address that here. If you have a Zune that isn’t skipping (which, truth be told, is the majority of owners), move along, nothing to see here, move along. But if the content from ZMP is skipping on your device, I want to tell you that the team is aware, and is working on it. Overall, the comments on this blog help the Zune team get a feel for what’s really happening out there among Zune users. We’re a new...