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Star Wars: The Old Republic Gets Another Free Weekend

Video game developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts have announced that their MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic is getting another free weekend, allowing gamers to get into the title without paying anything in order to get a quick taste of how the experience works. The official blog for Star Wars: The Old Repub...

16 May 2012
10:29 GMT

The Old Republic in Good Shape Despite Subscription Number Drop

Despite the drop in the number of subscribers for Star Wars: The Old Republic, the leaders of Electronic Arts believe that the MMO is still in good health and can increase its player number in the coming months. Frank Gibeau, who is the leader of the EA Games division, told investors that, “When we launched th...

9 May 2012
14:11 GMT

Just 1.3 Million Gamers Are Now Playing Star Wars: The Old Republic

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has revealed that the subscription numbers for its MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic have dropped to just 1.3 million people, down from a high of 1.7 million during the month of February. It seems that the number was mainly influenced by the gamers who used their initial 30-day fre...

8 May 2012
10:01 GMT

BioWare Denies Decline in Star Wars: The Old Republic Subscription Numbers

Despite recent suggestions from an analyst that the subscriber numbers for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic are in decline, BioWare says that gamer interest in the video game has not declined and that it has no plans to merge servers. Daniel Erickson, a writing director working at BioWare, has told PC Gamer that ...

25 April 2012
04:15 GMT

Analyst: The Old Republic Is Already Losing Subscribers, Will Drop to 1.25 Million in One Year

The analysis group Cowen and Co., which frequently comments on the state of the video game industry, has announced that it has seen data suggesting that the subscription numbers for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, created by BioWare and Electronic Arts, are already dropping, with just 1.25 million players set to...

20 April 2012
08:39 GMT

NTT DoCoMo Surpasses 2 Million LTE Users

Japanese mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo, which currently accounts for about half of the local market, has just announced that its LTE network has over two million users as of March 18th. Called Xi (pronounced “crossy”), the company’s next-generation service offers increased data transfer speeds,...

23 March 2012
18:21 GMT

Star Wars: The Old Republic Might Reach 2 Million Subscribers in June

Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts, has managed to get 1.7 million subscribers towards the end of February, and at least one analyst believes that the game will continue a steady growth and will reach 2 million paying players during June of this year. Dog Creut...

9 March 2012
05:41 GMT

Android Leads US Smartphone OS Market, comScore Says

Google's Android operating system is now the leading mobile platform on the United States market, reports from leading analyst firms show, including Nielsen and comScore.We already had a look at the latest report from Nielsen, and now comScore offers a new perspective on the matter, putting Android at the top o...

8 March 2011
05:20 GMT

Android Takes Second Position from iOS in the US, ComScore Reports

Google's Android mobile operating system has managed to take the second position on the United States market in November 2010, a recent report from comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, shows. The report was based on data on mobile subscribers age 13 or higher in the country.According to the ...

10 January 2011
12:41 GMT

WiMAX Subscribers Base to Top 2 Million This Year

The total number of WiMAX subscribers is expected to reach 2 million users during 2009, ABI Research says. According to the firm, the growth in WiMAX subscribers base will be determined by larger-scale network deployments all around the world. Moreover, it seems that the vast majority of subscribers will only come f...

4 December 2009
14:21 GMT

Orange UK to Register 1 Million iPhone Users in 2010

Cupertino-based company Apple has recently enabled a wider range of carriers in the UK to deliver to the market its highly popular iPhone device, and Orange UK is among them. Moreover, the carrier has made the iPhone available for its users the very next day after the exclusivity deal Apple and O2 have had on the iP...

26 November 2009
09:42 GMT

TD-SCDMA to See Over 20 Million Subscribers in 2010

TD-SCDMA is one of the wireless technologies that should see a great increase in subscribers in the near future. According to Sun Yuwang, president of Leadcore Technology, a provider of TD-SCDMA solutions in China, the number of TD-SCDMA handset subscribers should increase over 20 million during the next year. China...

26 November 2009
08:58 GMT

BWA/WiMAX Reaches 4 Million Subscribers Worldwide

BWA/WiMAX managed to top 4 million subscribers at the end of the second quarter of this year, a recent report from analyst firm Maravedis shows. A number of around 560,000 BWA/WiMAX subscribers were added in Q2, the report says, also unveiling that subscriber growth rate in the time frame was 16.5 percent higher than...

20 October 2009
09:34 GMT

WiMAX Sees Great 2Q Growth Rate

When it comes to the future of wireless networks, there are two technologies that pop up, namely WiMAX and LTE. The latter seems to have been adopted by a wide range of telecommunications companies around the world, and will start being deployed next year, yet the former sees only few fans at the moment, although the...

9 September 2009
10:56 GMT

WiMAX Gets Adopted by 3.5 Million People

The next-generation technology in the telecommunications area, also known as 4G, seems to already attract users on its side, with the currently available WiMAX solution. According to a recently published quarterly report from Maravedis, a number of around 400,000 BWA/WiMAX subscribers were added in the first quarter ...

13 July 2009
09:11 GMT

RIM's Revenues Are Higher than Expected

Research In Motion seems to be in a rather great shape these days, as the latest fiscal fourth quarter results it posted show. The company's results for the time frame were higher than expected, as its revenues went up by 84 percent compared to the same period a year ago. The company that brought to life the p...

3 April 2009
04:31 GMT

Sprint Loses 1.3 Million Subscribers

Sprint Nextel reported recently a fourth-quarter loss of US$1.62 billion, yet it seems to be better than a year before, when the company announced a US$29.3 billion loss, caused by the US$29 billion write-down of its Nextel purchase. At the same time, it also mentioned that its revenue during the quarter went down 14...

20 February 2009
05:18 GMT

AT&T Announces 2008 Financial Results

AT&T announced its financial results for 2008 and posted a net income 7.7 percent higher compared to the previous year. The carrier registered revenues of $124 billion, 4.3 percent up from 2007, and full year net income of $12.9 billion. At the same time, the company's consolidated revenues grew 3.4 percent over...

28 January 2009
10:10 GMT

GSM Rules, Literally

3G Americas, a group that represents the GSM technologies in the Americas, announced that the GSM/UMTS services gained more than 564.6 million customers worldwide between June 2006 and June 2007. According to Informa's World Cellular Information Service, more than 100 millions of the new subscribers are from th...

17 August 2007
09:26 GMT

Milestone - WoW Exceeds 9 Million Users Worldwide

It was only a matter of time really. A press release I just happened to stumble upon today says that Blizzard Entertainment has announced that World of Warcraft has reached a new milestone, as far as its subscribers are concerned. As the headline reads, the MMORPG's player base is now totaling more than 9 millio...

25 July 2007
08:06 GMT

2.5 Billion GSM Global Subscribers

The number of mobile phone subscribers has been continuously increasing in the last six years. 3G Americas report the fact that there are currently more than 700 GSM networks which currently operate in more than 200 countries.The high number of worldwide GSM networks has led to a considerable increase in the subscrib...

8 June 2007
09:32 GMT


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