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!

The "Zunepocalypse" has been resolved and here's what you need to do: nothing.  That's right!  According to ZuneInsider's Twitter the problem was a "bug in the driver that controls the internal clock."  Apparently the internal clock doesn't like leap years, and to it, today doesn't even exist.  ZuneInsider's blog is reporting that you should wait until 2009 (don't worry it's at shortest six hours away), it's not sure what time tomorrow, but most are saying 12 noon GMT; it could also correlate to the time you set it to, no one knows for sure.

The issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to January 1, 2009. We expect the internal clock on the Zune 30GB devices will automatically reset tomorrow (noon, GMT). By tomorrow you should allow the battery to fully run out of power before the unit can restart successfully then simply ensure that your device is recharged, then turn it back on. If you’re a Zune Pass subscriber, you may need to sync your device with your PC to refresh the rights to the subscription content you have downloaded to your device.