The following was written by JaredMarino:

 Microsoft donates a Common Autographed Zune for the Zunited Annual Giveaway!

 For our annual celebration Microsoft has donated a Microsoft Zune 4GB Zune to Zunited that has been signed by Common, and potentially Morgan Page!

The week of CES you will see a new board appear with all the information about our Annual Celebrations and how you can win the numerous prizes we will be giving away!

This giveaway will be open to all members with 10 or more posts on the forum. Zunited is a small community so your chances of winning are good!

I'd like to thank Microsoft, Cesar, and Brian, for this awesome prize and helping generate some buzz!

So what do you guys think about this?

 

Are you ready for CES and Zunited's First Anniversary!?

Happy new year all of Zunited's eager readers, on behalf of the Zunited team we all hope that you had a great and safe holiday... but that holiday is over, and oh boy does Zunited have a heck of a month planned!

First, Zunited's own Jared and Anna (JaredMarino -- formerly Teccom747 -- and Mangodroplet, respectively) are going to be truckin' it in one of the biggest tech bash parties of the year: CES!  It's true! They'll be updating instantly from Zunited's Twitter page at http://Twitter.com/Zunited and giving daily HD video, YES HD VIDEO, about everything new and impressive at CES.  Even a podcast from the CES floor.  For more information check out http://CES.Zunited.net, even for a badge of Twitter updates in case you don't follow Zunited.

You especially won't want to miss their converage on January 9th, where they'll meet up with the Zune team (at 8pm PST) at the Palms.  Who knows what can happen.  Their coverage starts January 7th and extendes all the way until January 10th.

And of course, Monday January 12th is Zunited's First Birthday!  All day Monday the 12th make sure to keep it here with Zunited for not only CES thoughts and aftermath but an all-day party, a live podcast, and of course some sweet schwag from our fantastic giveaways!  How can we beat our awesome Semi-Annual giveaways?  Well maybe there's a Zune involved ;), but you'll have to stay tuned to find out what's what. (The "45" know what the prizes are!)

So now you know! Make sure to stick with Zunited all of January for great prizes, great parties, and great coverage of everthing CES.  This month you'll see Zunited shine in an outstanding new light.

Well, I guess they really never thought the Zune 30 to last as long as it did (or someone really messed up when coding the clock driver - FIRED!). But the ZuneInsider has twittered a promise that the issue experienced by Zune 30 owners on Dec 31st, 2008 will never happen again.

"we will update the firmware before 2012"

Let's hope so! That would regally suck if they don't!