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news.cnet.com — With the economy tanking and the holidays looming, Microsoft is hoping to salvage some Zune sales by chopping prices. (Credit: Microsoft) The software maker plans to announce on Wednesday a price cut for its flash-based models. The 4GB version will drop to $99, the 8GB model will drop ...

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That’s Not a Lump of Coal in Your Stocking, Honey. It’s a Zune!
Digital Daily — ... Microsoft is adapting its Zune digital music player to the “realities of the market”–those created by recent turmoil in the economy, as well as the harsher ones created by Apple’s (AAPL) iPod juggernaut. It’s slashing prices across the Zune line in the hopes of protecting holiday sales. ...

Microsoft discounts Zunes in desperate bid to increase anemic sales
MacDailyNews — ... from both sides,' Sohn said." MacDailyNews Take: We think you're nuts and you ought to get a real job. "Zune Marketing Director," puleeze. You either have the worst marketing job this side of "Arctic Refrigerator Salesman" or your job performance is the worst in CE history (outside of the guy who was responsible for peddling Dell's long-defunct DJ Dittys) - unless your job was to create a one-word synonym for "abject failure," in which case we apologize. Job well done! Full article here . MacDailyNews Note: In the time it took you to read this article, Apple sold more iPods ...

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