MANY tech companies have offered up a device that prophesied to be the iPod-killer. No one has taken any of those particularly seriously. Until now.
Microsoft's Zune, with a 30G memory and a big colour screen, will initially do music only. But the company is hoping to tap into the social networking vibe by letting Zunes talk to each other by shortrange wireless streaming of tracks becoming your own radio station. Christmas sales will tell whether it has a future.
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