Reply to: loana.morgan@cimweb.com
Date: 2008-04-28, 10:15AM PDT

CIM (Consumer Impact Marketing) is Canada’s leading 3rd Party Marketing company and one of “Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies”. We are excited to announce that once again we have an awesome employment opportunity for early summer 2008!

We are currently seeking a Full-time Coordinator to represent our client Microsoft on their launch of ZUNE in the Canadian marketplace.

Requirements:

* Strong communication, organizational and computer skills
* Experience in merchandising and administation
* Must have a positive attitude, team oriented and have strong leadership skills.
* Must be willing to work 40 hours per week from May 12th-June 20th

Location:
Vancouver

If you think you can work hard, play hard, and have fun at both, APPLY NOW!

Only those individuals selected for an interview will be contacted, and we thank you for your submission in advance.

CIM…a FUN place to work!

Location: Vancouver
Compensation: To be negotiated
Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

Looks like good news for Canadians!

Coldplay are to give away a free download of Violet Hill, the first single from their new album, for one week via their website.

The song will be available on Tuesday, with a normal digital release scheduled for 6 May.

A free 7-inch vinyl single of Coldplay’s Violet Hill will also be given away on the cover of music weekly NME on 7 May.

Coldplay is also having some free concerts.

The band have also announced plans to give away tickets to two free concerts in June, in New York and London.

Currently, the Zune 80 is only available in black. Last Valentine’s Day Microsoft released a limited Red Zune. There is no schedule for the releases yet, but Cesar Menendez has confirmed that the red Zune will be in retail stores soon.

Revenue from the division responsible for the Xbox 360 video game system ballooned 68 percent to $1.58 billion, which Microsoft attributed to robust demand for game consoles.

Overall, the Xbox division did very well, but game consoles were attributed to the success. I don’t want to read into anything, but I can only guess that sales for the Zune were flat or they would have mentioned it as a strength. Hopefully, they will release sales numbers soon because I’m curious how many Zune owners there are out there!

Here is the behind the scene video. Talk about a great job!

I understand that you have contacted us today in regards to whether or not the Microsoft Zune is compatible with our service. We have great news! After much anticipation, Audible and Microsoft have completed negotiations on making the Zune AudibleReady! While we do not have an exact date as to when the device will be officially AudibleReady, we expect to make the Zune compatible before years end. Our Device Center on our website will be updated upon the Zune becoming compatible, so please be sure to check there periodically.

I wonder why this is “unofficial” and Microsoft has not released a press release. Personally, I love the idea and would be a buyer of Audible.com audio books.

The pairs of sneakers will be sold along with a customized 8GB black Zune digital media player, featuring etched AI graphics, and loaded with special AI content — including his Reebok commercials, playlists and interview footage of other Reebok athletes talking about the first time they played against AI in the league. According to a press release for the company, the shoes are very limited — only 60 pairs are available.

The Answer XI Zune collection will be released in June 2008 and be sold only at select boutique shops in five key markets — Complex/Training Day Store (NYC), Major Commonwealth (DC), Commonwealth (VA), Wish (ATL) and The 400 (Denver).

According to Wired, Microsoft will release a Joy Division edition of its Zune MP3 player to coincide with the June 10th release of a DVD about the band. This version of the Zune will feature Peter Saville’s iconic 1979 artwork for the band’s Unknown Pleasures album.

Microsoft wants to compete with Nintendo and Sony on the market for mobile consoles. At the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, the software giant announced that it would be developing games for its Zune portable media player.

The XNA programming environment will be extended to portable devices in the version 3.0 of XNA Studio and cover three platforms along with the PC and Xbox. Microsoft presented the first Zune game, Zauri, that has a multi-player mode via the wireless networking in the device. In addition, music from the Zune library can play as a soundtrack for games.