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• Microsoft: Zune revenue dropped by 54 percent

  Microsoft's fourth-quarter revenue from its Zune platform dropped by US$100 million, a decline of 54 percent on a year earlier.

• Zune phone makes sense, but politics could prevent it

  They're back: rumours of an impending Zune phone announcement from Microsoft, this time probably at CES.

• E-tales: Flattery gets Orcon nowhere

  Flattery gets Orcon nowhere

• Microsoft cuts Zune price as Apple ups ante for iPods

  On the day Apple revealed its first Wi-Fi-enabled, touchscreen iPod, Microsoft's rival to Apple's wildly popular multimedia player got a little less expensive.

• Report: Microsoft to sell 1M Zunes by June

  Microsoft will have sold over 1 million Zune players by the end of June, which the company considers a good but not earth-shattering performance for the product.

• US consumer electronics to grow 7% in 2007

  Surging sales of flat-panel TVs will help the US consumer electronics industry grow by 7% this year over 2006, according to a survey published by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).

• Microsoft to link Zune device to Xbox, PCs

  Microsoft plans to extend the wireless capability of its new Zune devices to PCs and the company's Xbox 360 game console, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.