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January video game sales hit $1.18 billion

January video game sales hit $1.18 billionView Wii SD Card on Nokia PhonesTea Vui Huang has released "VUI Data" for Nokia mobile phones, which for the first time ever, allows you to use the Nokia phones to browse and manage your Wii saved game files stored on Wii-compatible SD Cards.http://teavuihuang.com/vuidata

Tags: Games, Sales strategy, Corporate communications, Memory, Telecom & Utilities, Nokia Corp., video game sale, Nokia Phones, phone, video game, video, sales, Tea Vui Huang

Discussion threads 2008-02-18

Video game sales up 22% in July 2006

Video game sales up 22% in July 2006I've not bought any games or new hardware in years.The games are the usual same-old and require faster hardware, of which is very nice but I have no real use for.And given the increase in job losses, increase in cost of living necessities,...

Tags: Sales strategy, Games, Corporate communications, Sales force management, Video game sale, game, sales, video game, video

Discussion threads 2006-08-12

Video game sales down 10.2% in May 2006

Video game sales down 10.2% in May 2006"New Super Mario Bros"?5 years from now it'll be really old. With people still preferring the original. :rolleyes:Sheesh; I thought we grew out of that nonsense most popular of the 1980s; reviving old entities just to make a quick buck...

Tags: Sales strategy, Games, Corporate communications, Sales force management, Video game sale, video game, sales, video

Discussion threads 2006-06-15

US video game sales down 5ò0in January 2006

US video game sales down 5ò0in January 2006Game industry might claim piracy!!!!While sales are down, lets not make the mistake the gaming industry could have easily spinned the article into a piracy tirade.The PS3 will change the landscape once again, sales will go up again.

Tags: Sales strategy, Games, Sales force management, Corporate communications, sales, video game sale, video game, video

Discussion threads 2006-02-14

US video game sales down 5% in January 2006

US video game sales were down 5% to $357 mln in January 2006, the fifth consecutive month of declines, according to NPD Group. Microsoft sold 250,000 of its new Xbox 360s in January, bringing NPD's US unit sold count to 857,000. UBS analyst Michael Wallace is forecasting video game sales...

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Blog posts 2006-02-14

Video game sales fall in France and Spain in 2004

Video game sales fall in France and Spain in 2004That's okay, I bet the USA will make up the difference.I mean, we have to ensure that the projected profits of game sales by 2008 remains true, right?

Tags: Sales strategy, Games, Corporate communications, Sales force management, Video game sale, sales, video game, video

Discussion threads 2005-08-03

Video game sales up 9% in April 2005

Video game sales up 9% in April 2005Total salesTotal sales were $342 mln compared to $315 mln in April 2004. Dannihttp://www.my-insurance-loans.com

Tags: Sales strategy, Games, Corporate communications, Sales force management, Video game sale, Total Sales, video game, video, sales

Discussion threads 2005-06-12

US video game sales up 32% in March 2005

US video game sales rose 32% in March 2005, NPD Group reported, noting Sony's top-selling Gran Turismo 4 racing game as well as an improved supply of console hardware. Sony's new PlayStation Portable PSP handheld gaming unit sold 620,000 units of hardware in the month and 1.1 mln pieces of...

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Blog posts 2005-04-16

US video game sales up 32% in March 2005

US video game sales rose 32% in March 2005, NPD Group reported, noting Sony's top-selling Gran Turismo 4 racing game as well as an improved supply of console hardware. Sony's new PlayStation Portable PSP handheld gaming unit sold 620,000 units of hardware in the month and 1.1 mln pieces of...

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Blog posts 2005-04-15

Video game sales up 35% in 2004

Video game sales rose 35% in the United States in October, analysts said, as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sold more than 2 mln units in just five days of release. NPD Group said the sold about 2.1 mln units from its Oct 26 launch through the end of...

Tags: sales, Video game sale

Blog posts 2004-11-12

Additional Resources

Software makers may sue eBay

Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...

Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer

Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer.  From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...

Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...

Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-25

AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?

AOL is shutting down XDrive, AOL Pictures and other properties in a belt tightening move that may indicate the company is setting itself up to be sold. The larger question: Who will buy AOL from Time Warner? According to a memo posted by TechCrunch, AOL executive vice...

Tags: America Online Inc., Portals, Business Structures, Litigation, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...

Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...

Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Samsung INNOV8 S60 mobile device with 8 megapixel camera revealed

The Nokia N96 was revealed back in January and should be hitting the streets in the next couple of months. I guess I haven't been following the S60 rumors closely enough lately and was a bit caught off guard by the post that Ricky made regarding the Samsung i8510INNOV8 S60...

Tags: Mobile, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Mobile Device, Camera, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Government, markets and regulation

Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...

Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-24