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It seems that Motorola DROID, the second Android-based mobile phone the handset vendor delivered to the US market, has had a good first week of sales. A recent report from Flurry shows that the device was sold in around 250,000 units, which can be considered a great result both for Motorola and for Verizon. The Moto... |
17 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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NPD will release the October 4-October 31 numbers tomorrow, and most analysts agree that the five-percent growth in sales September saw won't be making a comeback. Electronic Entertainment Design and Research's Jesse Divnich and Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter took a fine comb and sorted thr... |
11 November 2009
08:16 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has recently been rumored to plan removing Symbian from its future roadmap, and DonJoo Lee, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Division and Digital Media & Communications Business, has just confirmed that. It seems that the company will o... |
11 November 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Motorola DROID, the second handset from Motorola that came to the market with Google's Android operating system on board, also the first such handheld launched by Verizon Wireless, is estimated to have been sold in around 100,000 units during the first weekend of availability. The figures might not be as impress... |
10 November 2009
10:55 GMT |
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They say a woman’s best “friend” when the going gets tough is some retail therapy. Admittedly, few other things can boost her mood like some shopping for new clothes can, but, with the recession hitting pretty hard, not many can still afford to do so. A new survey conducted by Mintel and cited by th... |
9 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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It seems more and more people are noticing the decrease the market sees in the rhythm-music genre. Initially a huge hit, the games have begun to pop up from everywhere, like old friends do when you win the lottery, and, with the “new thing” not being new anymore, people have started losing interest in it ... |
27 October 2009
04:53 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 console was a big gamble for Sony as it was one of the last devices to be launched around the world while at the same time the most expensive one. The fact that it was packed with high-end features like a Blu-ray player or multimedia capabilities made some people buy it, but for a lot of time the ma... |
25 August 2009
03:23 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is a fairly popular console as it managed to beat its arch rival, the PlayStation 3, in terms of sales thanks to its low price, and is still trying to catch up to the huge success of the Nintendo Wii, which reigns supreme over the current generation of consoles. But there was at least one reason to be h... |
24 August 2009
02:21 GMT |
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The gaming industry certainly sees a lot of titles appear every month, but, as every market has its highs and lows, there are “dry” periods when very few new things appear in order to make the gamer drop some of his holiday budget on new titles. Such was the case in the month of July, as the NPD group re... |
14 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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As we reach the middle of the month, the NPD group has just revealed its statistics regarding how everything related to video games sold in the past month. Meant to record the highs and lows of the gaming industry and to declare the winners in the console war, these charts serve to enlighten us as regards the latest ... |
14 August 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts' Battlefield franchise, handled by its DICE studio, is one of the most popular first person shooter series in the world. While we have seen full-fledged installments, the franchise is now sharing its brand with smaller and simpler titles, like Battlefield Heroes. But one of the latest titles to ... |
27 July 2009
11:01 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 was the first next-generation console to appear and really introduce to people an HD gaming experience. Shortly after its release, Microsoft’s two main rivals, Nintendo and Sony, both released their current-generation platforms, in the form of the Wii and PlayStation 3. According to the NPD sales ... |
27 July 2009
02:44 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Internet, the Palm Pre does not register so high return rates as previously rumored. The Street suggests that a number of around 350,000 Pres were sold during the first 7 weeks of availability, and that the return rates for the device are somewhere in the 2-3 percent area, and not ... |
25 July 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc has announced today that it is set to announce the financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 (the second calendar quarter) on Tuesday, July 21, 2009. The company will announce results that cover sales from March 28, 2009 through June 26, 2009, while a conference... |
20 July 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Sprint launched on its airwaves the latest mobile phone from the Sunnyvale manufacturer Palm, the Pre, about five weeks ago, and it seems that the sales of the device are finally starting to stabilize at some good levels for the company. For both parties, actually, as Palm and Sprint alike need the P... |
15 July 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Music games are extremely popular these days, as they bring a lot of benefits for everyone involved in them. The player gets a great experience, the companies responsible for them get a lot of profit and the bands or artists that bring their music to them get new fans. But seeing as how the business of downloadable ... |
13 July 2009
02:22 GMT |
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The Nokia N97 is the latest flagship model the Finnish mobile phone maker has delivered to the market, and, though it hasn't been on the shelves for too long, it is expected to perform better than other high-end devices available. According to Mike Loughran, general manager for Nokia UK, the company's Nseri... |
9 July 2009
05:19 GMT |
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HTC seems determined to gain a lot of market share on the United States mobile phone market, at least this is what Jason Mackenzie, vice president of sales and marketing for HTC America, has told Reuters recently. According to him, the mobile phone maker expects to register a 50 percent growth in sales during the ong... |
26 June 2009
08:39 GMT |
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According to Bob Brust, Sprint Nextel's CFO, the release of the new iPhone 3GS on AT&T's airwaves hasn't impacted the sales of the Palm Pre, which the carrier has exclusively for 2009. The Palm Pre, the newest mobile phone from the company, comes to the market with a brand new operating system, webOS, ... |
25 June 2009
09:43 GMT |
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By comparing the weekend of June 19 with the previous June 12 weekend, Wizzard Media Network saw an increase in audiences using the iPhone to request podcast episodes of 29% in the U.S. and 27% worldwide. The results have been directly influenced by the release of the iPhone 3G S. “We expected to see a surge ... |
25 June 2009
08:36 GMT |
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According to the latest news around the Web, Apple managed to sell more than 1 million iPhone 3G S devices during the first three days of the phone's availability. Although analysts expected for only a number of 500,000 units to be sold in the first weekend, it seems that the new iPhone iteration has performed m... |
22 June 2009
09:52 GMT |
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Racing games are quite popular, with many fans wanting to experience fast thrills and adrenaline rushes from taking high-powered vehicles and racing in them around virtual cities across the world. But, even though there are quite a few fans out there, things aren't all that rosy for racing games, which aren�... |
19 June 2009
12:21 GMT |
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Activision is one of the biggest companies in the gaming industry, which it has shaped through its projects, but it is most famous for its very profitable franchises, like Guitar Hero or World of Warcraft. However, a very successful one is the Call of Duty shooter series, which has seen the latest installment in the ... |
17 June 2009
02:38 GMT |
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The console war between the top three devices, the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii, has been waged in statements, features and services, but, in the end, the deciding factors were the sales charts released by the NPD group every month, tracking the retail sales of both hardware and software in the United Sta... |
12 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was one of the biggest titles of the end of 2007, marking a significant change in the CoD series, which, up until then, tackled World War II conflicts. As it shifted in the present, the game enjoyed a huge amount of popularity and is still being played a lot these days. In 2008, CoD: W... |
11 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has a lot of best-selling franchises, with the likes of Need for Speed or its famed sports series, Madden or FIFA. But none of them have a longer-lasting appeal and the opportunity to generate further income through add-ons like its Sims franchise. In further testimony to the popularity that the life... |
11 June 2009
02:17 GMT |
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The PC gaming market has been deemed by many analysts as dying and some have said that, soon, no big company will bring its titles to it. But every week, the sales data from the NPD group, which charts the retail market, and digital download services Steam and Direct2Drive, offer a much more optimistic picture for th... |
10 June 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Sony is a huge corporation involved in creating electronics for a wide variety of markets, and a segment that the Japanese company has invested in quite heavily is the gaming one, where its PlayStation brand is pretty powerful and reputed. Sadly, sales aren't confirming that, as the flagship PlayStation 3 is lo... |
5 June 2009
02:34 GMT |
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The console war has been underway for quite some time, with the top three devices, the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, duking it out for supremacy and for the number one spot in sales. But while the NPD charts show that the Wii's reign is undisputed, don't count out its rivals just yet. Microsoft... |
1 June 2009
02:41 GMT |
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The Resident Evil franchise is one of the most popular horror survival series of video games out there, with the company responsible for it, Capcom, reaping some huge benefits off of its popularity and its loyal fan base who will buy almost any release with the brand, even though it isn't as good as the previous... |
27 May 2009
02:45 GMT |
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According to a report Gartner, Inc. has recently published, the global mobile phone market has seen an 8.6 per cent decrease during the first quarter of the ongoing year, when compared to the same period a year ago, reaching a total of 269.1 million units shipped in the time frame. In addition, the report also shows ... |
21 May 2009
03:24 GMT |
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The NPD hardware and software charts arrived at the end of last week, giving the PR departments of all the three major companies in the industry, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony, plenty of time to analyze the numbers and put a positive spin on them, in order to make it look like their company is doing great. April'... |
18 May 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Nintendo is one of the biggest companies involved in the video game industry these days, thanks to the dominance it has on both the hardware side, with the Wii and DS, and on the software side, holding many extremely popular and profitable IPs in its hands. But many people have begun to wonder just how good Nintendo... |
18 May 2009
02:17 GMT |
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Activision was one of the biggest companies in the video game industry, and when it merged with Blizzard it was certain that its rule would be a strict and severe one. But even though a lot of analysts marked the fact that it would make a reasonable amount of profit, the recent earnings report painted a very profitab... |
14 May 2009
02:29 GMT |
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The Call of Duty franchise continues to be one of Activision's flagship products, as almost anything remotely related to it seems to achieve big sales left and right. Such is the case with the first pack of downloadable content for the latest iteration in the series, Call of Duty: World at War, which has broken ... |
7 May 2009
02:45 GMT |
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The large online marketplace site eBay, which was launched about a decade ago, has made archaeologists fear from the start that the number of looted antiquities that could be moved via the Internet would increase considerably. For example, Charles Stanish, who is a UCLA archaeologist with more than 25 years of experi... |
5 May 2009
07:00 GMT |
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PC gaming has been doomed by various analysts and developers in the gaming industry for quite some time. Its fate was sealed, in their opinion, by consoles, which hold the key to the future of virtual entertainment because of their low piracy rates and the more developer-friendly platforms. But things are still goin... |
28 April 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Online games have become some of the most profitable titles currently found on the gaming market. One needn't look farther than Blizzard's massively successful World of Warcraft MMORPG, which is making a huge amount of money for the company. But another very popular MMORPG is Guild Wars, which is developed... |
27 April 2009
02:29 GMT |
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The console war has always been decided by the sales charts that reflect which platforms sold and which didn't, giving us a glimpse at how each of the three major manufacturers are doing. But thanks to the corporations' public relations departments, no matter how bad the results are, they can put a positive... |
21 April 2009
11:01 GMT |
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New research suggests the fact that, although people tend to be attracted by crowds in shopping centers and come in themselves to look around, they are not very likely to buy things that they haven't planned for. In addition, individuals have proven to be less likely to purchase items from very crowded locations... |
21 April 2009
08:51 GMT |
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There's a worldwide recession going on and its impact seems to reach almost every branch of the industry, including the gaming one, which has seen several big corporations announce the fact that they will resort to important layoffs in order to still make a profit. But one company doesn't even worry about ... |
21 April 2009
02:24 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is without a doubt the most popular console of this generation, as it has amazed a lot of people through its motion-sensitive controls and its unique features. Ever since its launch it has been breaking sales records left and right, but in the last few months the small white Japanese console hasn... |
15 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Another week has passed and another fresh batch of data from the three biggest video game suppliers in the world of PC gaming has arrived for us to dissect and see just what were the trends in both retail and digital sales. So, without further ado, here are this week's PC Sales Charts from the NPD group, Steam a... |
14 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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As women dye their hair blonde or pick up a fiery red lipstick to get into a better mood during these hard financial times, men also have their own way of fighting the blues – with pink undergarments, Jockey says for the Daily Mail. Over the past couple of months, the underwear company has reported soaring sale... |
9 April 2009
16:21 GMT |
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The gaming industry isn't very fair sometimes, as there have been quite a lot of games that gained critical acclaim but didn't really excel in terms of retail sales. Last year, gamers forgot many new, high-quality titles, preferring sequels of poorer quality instead during the holiday season. Yesterday we ... |
8 April 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Tim Schafer is one of the most influential game designers in the whole industry. He pioneered storytelling and out of the box thinking, producing some of the most acclaimed titles in the industry. But even though games like Grim Fandango or Psychonauts were well received by critics and reviewers, in terms of ret... |
7 April 2009
03:09 GMT |
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In the gaming industry, a lot of franchises have become blockbusters and are rivaling other forms of entertainment like movies or television in terms of profits and fan base. One such example is the Call of Duty series of shooters, which is being taken care of by the large Activision corporation.It has just seen its ... |
6 April 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Merchant Warehouse announced today its first mobile application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The premier provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing solutions claims its MerchantWARE Mobile app is a point of sale application that allows merchants to run credit and debit transactions in real time. Merch... |
1 April 2009
06:56 GMT |
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A recently published study from ABI Research shows that next year won't be such a bad one for mobile phone makers after all, at least when compared to the ongoing one, when the industry is expected to see a drop in handset sales. According to the research firm, we should be able to see a flat growth in 2010 in m... |
1 April 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Digital distribution has seen a big ascending trend for quite some time, as more and more PC gamers prefer the easy and hassle-free way to buy games from online networks such as Valve's Steam or Direct2Drive, rather than going to regular brick-and-mortar stores. Another key factor that makes people buy games on... |
24 March 2009
12:01 GMT |
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