As with previous versions of the Zune Software, in 4.0 Microsoft limits and hides the  Zune Marketplace from being viewed by those outside of the USA. This is a precautionary measure to ensure the maximum level of Zune goodness is enjoyed by those it was intended for.

The folks over at pocketnow.com have somehow managed to get their hands on a Zune HD Reviewers Guide, and are kind enough to share their discovery with the rest of the Zune World.

As many of you may already be aware, Darkzune Forums are being hit by quite a bit of spam – averaging 20 new spam threads & posts a day. To fight all of this spam the administrators, myself (Fez) and Aden, have implemented a few new features which we hope will help us to clean up the boards.

Two more Zune HD hands-on with Ben Patterson from Yahoo Tech and Peter Ha from Crunchgear featuring a great video, the Zune HD dissected by the FCC (photos), CNET hands-on with Zune HD’s internet browser and Amazon releasing price (and colour) information.

The Zune HD is already being listed with information at BestBuy. Now this is nothing special – no news on pricing or any additional features, its just a new marketing image and the same information that is available on Zune.net.
However, it does make me wonder whether this will actually help Microsoft increase the Zune HD [...]

Its been six months since we updated the blog and a lot has happened in that time.
I won’t be going into details, as those of you who are interested probably heard all the news of ZuneHD on all the regularly updated sites. As for mine and Fez’s absence – we won’t be making some lengthy [...]

In the year 2008 many great new MP3 players were released. Sizes shrunk, capacities got bigger, and screens improved. Since there are so many choices among the anythingbutipod MP3 players there never is a “best” or one-size-fits-all. Features, form factors and capacities are too widespread to make a general recommendation for everyone. This top 5 [...]