http://gadgetmaniac.mail2web.com/2006/11/microsoft-zune-official-launch/ Cool Gadgets and Beyond Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:33:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://gadgetmaniac.mail2web.com/2006/11/microsoft-zune-official-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-964 services.mail2web.com | Gadget Blog | Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:48:04 +0000 http://gadgetmaniac.mail2web.com/?p=1987#comment-964 [...] The brand name of the just-launched Microsoft Zune MP3 player apparently derives from a 3 month exercise earlier this year by sound symbolism specialist Lexicon Branding. Lexicon and their team of sixty PhD linguists pondered many thousands of potential candidates, rejecting names like “Tunz” and “Noiz”, before settling on the eventual winner of “Zune”. [...] [...] The brand name of the just-launched Microsoft Zune MP3 player apparently derives from a 3 month exercise earlier this year by sound symbolism specialist Lexicon Branding. Lexicon and their team of sixty PhD linguists pondered many thousands of potential candidates, rejecting names like “Tunz” and “Noiz”, before settling on the eventual winner of “Zune”. [...]

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