Microsoft has today released the much awaited touch screen media player,Zune HD.Zune HD is available from major retailers with a black 16GB version for $219.99 (estimated retail price) and a platinum 32GB version for $289.99 (ERP). Additional red, green and blue devices are available in both capacities from Zune Originals (http://www.zuneoriginals.net), where customers can also customize the back of the Zune HD device with art and text etchings to create a unique Zune.

Zune HD also features new casual games and non-gaming functionality such as a calculator and an MSN Weather application. Later this year, Zune plans to release free applications such as Twitter for Zune and Facebook for Zune.

Even the Zune software has been updated and has been optimized for windows 7 which can be downloaded from here.

Read more about it at the official press release here

(Image courtesy Zune website)

It has been already more then five years since GMAIL has been released and was having the BETA tag,the much debatable thing since the beginning.Along with GMAIL,Google Apps,Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both enterprise and consumer versions — are now out of beta.

The official blog post states that Google has "come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn’t fit for large enterprises that aren’t keen to run their business on software that sounds like it’s still in the trial phase." Also, it’s been FIVE YEARS. I’m pretty sure human children exit "beta" faster than that.

If you are used to the old beta tag then you could have it back ->Just go to Settings, click on Labs, turn on "Back to Beta," and it’ll be like Gmail never left beta at all.