January 31, 2011
According to market research firm Canalys, smartphones had a really big year in 2010. In the last quarter of the year, smartphone shipments increased to 101.2 million units. That’s double what they were previously. A big part of this success comes from…
Tags: android, Google, mobile, mobile phones, sales, smartphones
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January 23, 2011
AMD’s interim CEO Thomas Seifert appeared to be enjoying his position as top dog on Friday when he reported a whopping $1.65 billion in revenue, and over $375 million in net income. In addition to the unusually strong financial numbers, he also repo…
Tags: AMD, fusion, hardware, News Worthy, radeon hd 5000 series, Radeon HD 6000, results, sales
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January 4, 2011
Worldwide semiconductor sales for November 2010 reached $26 billion, down 0.9 percent from one month prior, but up 14.4 percent from the same month in 2009, according to new data by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
“Despite continuing macr…
Tags: business, hardware, News Worthy, sales, semiconductor, sia, technology
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December 21, 2010
Microsoft has been very coy when it comes to discussing Windows Phone 7 numbers. But the software giant has finally given us something to mull over. According to MocoNews, Microsoft mentioned in an internally produced interview that 1.5 million handset…
Tags: apps, business, Home, maximum tech, mobile, News Worthy, sales, Windows Phone 7, wp7
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December 10, 2010
Not only did the games industry post a positive month in November, 2010, it posted the best November ever, getting a lot of help from Microsoft’s Kinect and Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops, according to the NPD Group.
Total sales climbed to $2.99 …
Tags: business, game, hardware, News Worthy, NPD Group, sales, Software, Videogames
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December 7, 2010
If Valve’s proven anything over the years, it’s that it knows two things: games and sales. Going by that (incredibly flimsy) logic, then, The Great Steam Treasure Hunt is the culmination of everything Valve’s ever created. Think we’re full of crap? W…
Tags: gaming, News Worthy, sales, Software, Steam, Valve
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September 21, 2010
Well, physical game discs, it was a good game. You fought hard and had a nice, long reign, but now you’re relics — destined to be excavated millennia from now and presented as evidence of our time period’s ingenious developments in Frisbee tech…
Tags: digital, gaming, News Worthy, NPD Group, retail, sales, Software
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