Microsoft officials (finally) denied this week the enterprise will be rolling out a Zune telephone in the Consumer Electronics Demonstrate (CES) in January. Nevertheless they didn;t deny they've some thing known as “Zune Mobile” up their sleeves.Zune Mobile seems to become a set of Zune-specific premium services for Windows Mobile devices. These services are part of what I;ve been calling the “Pink” services for the past several months.A few bloggers have talked in generalities about the fact it would be a no-brainer for Microsoft to move some of the Zune services to mobile devices. But Paul Thurrott was actually the first person I saw use the “Zune Mobile” name to refer specifically to this platform, after his meeting this week with the Windows Mobile team.One of my tipsters,
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Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Student Product Key, sharing and subscribing — and maybe even a little some thing special for podcasters/podcast listeners, too.Any other guesses as to what Zune Mobile is/isn;t? And anyone have more thoughts on what kinds of other premium mobile services may be coming from the Pink team (from the Danger crew, especially)?