Microsoft dropping Zune prices to edge iPod (MacNN)

Just two months after introducing its third-generation Zune platform, Microsoft is already dropping prices on its flash-based models to improve their competitiveness, the company's Zune marketing director Adam Sohn has confirmed in an interview on Tuesday. The company's largest cut will apply to the outgoing 4GB Zune, which drops $20 to reach $99. Zune 8GB players will drop $10 to $139, while ...

Microsoft to drop prices on flash-based Zunes (Yahoo! Tech Advisors)

Forget the iPod this holiday season. If Apple doesn't drop prices on its players on Black Friday, then you should look into buying a Zune music player for a loved one now that Microsoft is dropping prices on all its flash-based players in order to make them more affordable during the holiday season. Prices on the 80GB and 120GB Zunes will remain the same though. Zune Insider reports ...

Microsoft Cuts Zune Prices For The Holiday (InformationWeek)

Microsoft, which launched the Zune more than two years ago, has failed to make a dent in Apple's iPod empire.

Australia Dollar Wins Back Daiwa Checking iPod, Big Mac Prices (Bloomberg)

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- IPod music players and Big Mac hamburgers are showing the world's biggest investors that the Australian dollar, this year's worst-performing currency, may be a bargain.

Can a price cut, TV ad give Zune a lift? (ZDNet)

This holiday season, if you can't afford an iPod, will you consider a Zune? Microsoft is announcing a price cut today to its flash-based Zune models: $99 for the 4GB model, $139 for the 8GB version and $179 for the 16GB player. That prices the devices less...