Archive for February, 2008
Share of Digital Music Among Music Sales
In USA, Digital Music now accounts of nearly 30 percent of the total sales in the music industry. In Europe, this share is around 20 percent. Sales from Digital music is estimated to have reached $2.9 billion by the end of 2007. This is about 40 percent of the figures for 2006. The revenues of [...]
Posted: February 29th, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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What Percent of America Newly Owned an iPod Last Quarter?
40 percent of iPod sales in the fourth quarter of 2007 were from first time buyers. That is 40 percent of 22.1 million iPods that were sold in this time period. This roughly translates to 3 percent of America buying iPod for actually the first time just in the single quarter. Since the total sales [...]
Posted: February 29th, 2008 under Apple.
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Sale Figures of Gaming Consoles in Japan
A look into the sales figures for consoles in Japan for the month of February: Nintendo Wii – 331,627 consoles Playstation 3 – 89,131 consoles XBox 360 – 14,079 consoles Among the best selling games for the month of February, the lead position is again held by Nintendo. Their direct productions Super Smash Bros. Brawl [...]
Posted: February 29th, 2008 under Gaming.
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Whites,the Most Avid Bloggers
A study into the race of the bloggers reveals the following information: 69.7% of bloggers are White/Caucasian 12.2% of them are African Americans or Blacks 3.7% of the bloggers are Asian
Posted: February 28th, 2008 under Demographics.
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Growth of Mobile Social Networks
The projected penetration in the use of the mobile social network users shows double digit growth figures in the coming 5 years. The projected number of mobile social network users by 2010 : 300 millionl, approximately 7% of the total mobile phone users. This number is predicted to grow steadily to 950 million by 2012. [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2008 under Mobile Internet.
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Sales Target for iPhone in 2008
Apple COO has made a sales forecast of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Mr.Cook says with the progress till now, the company is on the right track to reach that sales figure. iPhones are now available in USA, UK, Germany and France and the company has sold more than 4 million units [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2008 under Apple.
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How Much Have Social Network Servers Failed in 2008
It has only been two months into the new year. An early peek into the server downtimes at the various social networking websites: Bebo – 12 hours 28 minutes Windows Live Spaces – 7 hours 25 minutes Friendster – 6 hours Hi5 – 5 hours 5 minutes Reunoin – 2 hours 55 minutes LinkedIn – [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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Top 10 Websites in Canada
Google has beaten Microsoft in the race to the top of the Canada websites ratings. The top 10 websites are 1. Google 2. Microsoft 3. Yahoo 4. Facebook 5. eBay 6. Wikipedia 7. AOL 8. Yellow Pages Group 9. Amazon 10. Apple
Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Demographics.
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Top 10 Websites for US College Students
For the seventh straight quarter, Facebook continues to be the hottest spot for American college goers. Here is the top 10 list: Men 1. Facebook 2. ESPN 3. Youtube 4. Google 5. Collegehumor 6. Yahoo 7. Weather 8. Break 9. Digg 10. Wikipedia Women 1. Facebook 2. Youtube 3. Google 4. Perez Hilton 5. CNN [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2008 under internet.
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US Retail E-Commerce CAGR
The American retail ecommerce is growing at a 12 percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR). The growth in value terms over the next few years shall be: 2007 – $136.4 billion 2012 – $240.2 billion
Posted: February 26th, 2008 under Ecommerce.
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