[Microsoft's Zune misses New Year's Eve due to software bug that couldn't handle leap year.]

By Jenna Wortham (The New York Times) -- "It has been nine years since the Y2K computer glitch inspired apocalyptic fears. On Wednesday, another time-related bug created its own small-scale panic. For some owners of the Zune, the portable media player that is Microsoft’s answer to the Apple iPod, it was a day without Kanye West and Girl Talk."

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