Hello, I can do translation from Persian (Farsi) to English for you (if you are still interested) by this weekend. just drop me a line to confirm. regards, Arash Naderpour Tehran/Iran

Hey Zune is getting a lot of attention over on Scobles blog at http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/microsoft-still-clueless-with-zune/ I have been resisting the tempation to publish conjecture on my own blog because as far as I can tell none of us out here really knows anything about it but it seems we all have opinions. ;-) http://www.mikeysgblog.com

I can translate that for you. There are few translators available for download but they have a very poor quality. If you are interested just let me know and i'll send it to whatever address you want....(by the way it's FARSI or Persian ;-)

Okay with all the speculation around I decided to run my own piece with a different angle, Interviewing my 15 year old on camera on what he thinks it will take for Zune to succeed and what would cause it to fail. Nothing high tech here just good honest teen talk. :-) http://www.mikeysgblog.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=213

By the way I have translated the article for you..I did it word by word so it stays true to the source.I made few modifications (if any) so it makes sense in english.... -------------------------------------------- Microsoft is expected to release their Audi-video player (preloaded with music videos) by end of 2006. There are “unofficial” reports on the web claiming that Zune will enable users to share music files over wireless network as well benefiting from a satellite transmitter. Microsoft has confirmed that wireless capability also gives users the option to download (purchase) music files over the internet. Microsoft and EMI records also have an agreement in which Microsoft will preload their devices with music videos despite the earlier reports of Zune not being able to play videos. Some analysts doubt if Zune (and its software as well) is able to break into iPod + iTunes dominance and eventually defeat apple. Currently iPod accounts for 50% of the digital music players’ market. Apple’s iTunes also has a 70% marketshare in legal digital music downloads and it offers tracks from different records such as Universal, WB, Sony and EMI. Analysts expect apple to update their iPod lineup buy late 2006 or early 2007. ------------------------------------------

i think this player is the best so far! try something like this ;-) http://www.venzero.com/

See one good thing with ipod is , its scroll wheel is almost in the middle of the ipod .which means i can operate it with single hand holding it in my palm. consider when i drive , if i wanna change my track to play, my life is not at risk. With the current Zune design floating around internet , has its scroll wheel at the very bottom. don't you think , it will be a bit uncomfortable operating with single hand ?

Sam on Zune is now on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2jOhgBRoc

I think you can get the english version of the same story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5262344.stm Most of the bbc content is generated in English and then translated to their world sites. Also, their technology articles are usually awesome. One warning though, they have a very deep-seated anti-microsoft bias. I think its the EU mindset running amok. Good Luck.

I call it "windows live translator". Talk to your friends ;)

I have been dying for a Windows Live Translator service and hope they actually launch one soon (I have a lot of relatives in Italy on my family email distribution lists for home). On a side note... the posting I blogged about "Sam On Zune" ( http://www.mikeysgblog.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=213 ) and then posted up to YouTube has had a couple of thousand hits in the last day. and when I woke up this morning was at number 16 on the News & Blogs ratings ( http://www.mikeysgblog.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=214 ) Crazy! :-) Guess Zune is truning out to be a big buzz word which is a good thing.

hey I went to that site, it was easy. i just transalated it into spanish with the sites transalator and transalated that into english with google: The powerful American company Microsoft confirmed that it is developing a denominated device "Zune" to do competition to him to popular iPod of his Apple rival. The reproductive portable apparatus of music made by Apple has been one of the great commercial successes of that company. Now Microsoft announces that he is working in several new devices of music and entertainment, first who he could leave to the east market year. The rumors of the arrival of a rival to the product star of Apple have been in circulation by long time. But the experts say that Microsoft would have difficulties to compete with Apple. IPod represents near 50% of the sold digital musical reproducers, whereas iTunes, the store of digital music of Apple, has a participation of 70% of the market. The experts say that Microsoft has looked for to enter kill time the market of the portable devices of entertainment, at moments at which its product main market of software for personal computers is saturated. New line Microsoft is incursionando in markets dominated by its Apple archi-rival. Microsoft said that he was working in products in that area under the commercial label of Zune, but did not give more details. "Under the Zune mark, we will offer a product family of hardware and software", declares Chris Stephenson, the manager of trade of the company/signature. "We see a great opportunity to join the technology and the community to allow our together clients to explore and to discover music". The experts maintain that the success of the product would depend on if the users can unload music and video by wireless route. "When creating an instrument of life style, Microsoft certainly is going to face a battle there", says Michael Gartenberg, of the company Jupiter Research. "It is going to be difficult them to create the same level of prestige that Apple has with iPod".

I SOOOOOOO HOPE they have podcast support... and subscription to podcasts :)

thanks everybody for help translating the article.

How important is Digital Rights Management going to be for the smooth Zune experience? I really wonder how will rights for this preloaded content be handled, and for content I will load after buying my Zune, and how this will depend from content source. I hope the answer to this question can have a pretty big impact in the whole web 2.0 discussion.

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