Microsoft is reported to be considering a price drop for its Zune Pass music offering to compete with rival services such as iTunes and Rhapsody.

Bloomberg spoke with Microsoft Senior Product Manager Terry Farrell, which implies a change in business model. “It’s really a tough industry,” I said.

Currently the Zune Pass costs 14.9 million (￡ 10.29) per month for unlimited streaming and downloads bundled 10. It is limited to users in the U.S. yet.

It has recently been considerably weakened by rivals such as MOG All access that collects $ 5 (￡ 3.43) per month for unlimited streaming. European society Spotify streaming music also plans to launch in the S. U. Later this year.

Last month subscription fee Rhapsody monthly limit of $ 14.99 IST (10.29 pounds) to $ 10 (￡ 6.87).

A Microsoft employee recently lost a top secret prototype of the next generation Zune MP3 player when he inadvertently left in a bar in Redmond. The person who found the prototype Zune tried to sell to the highest bidder, but was repeatedly rejected the idea. We thought at first reluctant to do the operation after the iPhone 4G fiasco last month which saw the home of a journalist assaulted by police, even after the prototype had already been voluntarily returned to Apple. However, further investigation revealed that none of the publications found fifty dollars was to seek asylum for the prototype Zune price be worth the cost.

“We’re not going to pay fifty bucks to bring in an extra twenty-seven page views,” said the publisher of one prominent tech blog, “particularly since seventeen of them will come from Steve Ballmer’s desk.” The publisher then went on to explain that the Microsoft CEO’s interest in the new Zune model would be less likely to come out of outrage over the lost prototype, but instead more likely because Ballmer himself probably hasn’t yet gotten around to taking a look at the low priority Zune in-house.

However, the publisher has admitted that he briefly considered “one of those stickers to put the Apple logo on the back” and try to get readers to be the new iPod touch.

Under pressure, none of the journalists in question could not remember the number of the next generation of Zune, or whatever the current generation it seems.

The support from Microsoft for the Zune device HD as a game of chance has been quite catastrophic. Fortunately there are hackers, one of which has the beginnings of a serviceable Game Boy Advance emulator working on the device.

I bought a Zune HD from the first week the system was available, after that my brother has spent considerable time showing how the screen is beautiful and fluid displaced from the menu. I justified the purchase, saying she would not play for the Microsoft platform, and has a pair. In November last year, a handful of new titles were published, including some very promising, but ultimately, it is not really a system of play Just do not say piracy.

Yes, the Zune and HD is broken BackAtIt ZuneBoards user is working hard to improve Visual Boy Zune, port of the famous Game Boy emulator Visual Boy Advance. The current version covers only the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance titles, not stand the sound, and needs a lot to adapt the code before it is nowhere near fully functional. Still, it’s nice to see the homebrew scene working to turn the Zune HD into a much more useful device – a Game Boy Micro.

Zune HD users to play pirated games version, Visual Boy Zune, it is now easier than ever to play classic games for Game Boy users directly Portable Media Player.

Visual Boy Zune is capable of playing GameBoy Color ROMs and is created from the same VisualBoyAdvance code that has worked with the handheld’s games since 2004.

Note that the device is still in beta, which means many changes are still needed, however, the latest update has made the saved state emulation and ROM selector, there is unfortunately no audio output.

BackAtIt also said many of the emulator code of origin should also be rewritten to support the Zune HD Tegra architecture.

Welcome to our new front in the long term, where we pit two Web services, applications or widgets against each other in a knockdown, drag-and-fight for the hearts and minds of readers Mashable. We had some heated confrontations here lately, from the not-even-out-yet next-gen iPhone beating out the Droid Incredible to Apple iBooks besting the Amazon Kindle.

This week is yet another mobile device in head to head, and this time we turn our attention to the music players. Again, Apple has had some mindshare dominance with the iPod / iPhone and iTunes ecosystem. However, Microsoft could be considered as having its own very strong competitor in the space with the Zune MP3 player HD. In combination with the Zune Pass service – a subscription offering that Apple has not so far, the Zune HD is some tasty hardware that makes a great portable all-you-can-eat buffet for music lovers.

So let’s put the Zune HD up against its arch-nemesis the iPod touch to see what Mashable drives is the best portable music player of the two.