Laptop and Desktop Sales Up a Surprising 25% and 30% Each
Despite the incessant hype surrounding netbooks and (especially) tablets, NPD reports Canadian sales of laptops are up…
15 Million People Want iTunes in the Cloud
New research by the NPD group confirms a suspicion. Much of the world wants to see iTunes streaming their music from…
Video Games Apparently Not "Recession-Proof"
There's been a lot of talk about video games being a "recession-proof" industry. But this year-to-year graph shows the…
Almost Nobody Owns Just Macs
NPD's Household Penetration Study found a 3% uptick in Mac households for 2009. This makes sense! What's surprising (or…
So Long Desktop PC, You Suck
Desktop PCs have been in decline for a decade, and countless people have said their piece about it. But new evidence…
Blu-ray Cheaper and More Popular, But Still Confusing To Most People
The gadget-sale tracking NPD says Blu-ray sales were up 72% from a year before, while dollars earned were up just 14%…
iPhone Passes the RAZR to Become Best Selling Phone in the US This Quarter
Just days after supplanting the BlackBerry in customer satisfaction among business wireless smartphone users, Apple's…
Study: Average Mac Computer Price More That Twice That of Average PC
Fanboys, get your commenting fingers warmed up. A new study shows that, on average, the cost of a Windows PC is half…
Wii is Now the Number One Console in the U.S.
After outselling the Xbox 360 3:1 in June (660,000 vs 219,800), the Wii eeked ahead in the total U.S. sales race by…
Apple Confirms #1 Music Retailer Status With Four Billion Songs Sold
Apple's just confirmed the morning's news on them being the number one music retailer in the US. The stuff to take…
Ars: iTunes #1 Music Retailer in January (Debunkers Be Hanged)
Citing NPD data and internal Apple sources, Ars Technica declared iTunes the #1 music retailer in January, besting…
Apple Second Only To Wal-Mart in Music Sales, But For How Long?
Apple just slipped out a second press release this AM bragging that, according to NPD, it is now the #2 music retailer…
Toshiba Says Blu-ray Victory Numbers May Be Fluke
Click to viewAfter an NPD report showed Blu-ray had 93% of the market for that week, the Blu-ray coalition had good…
Blu-ray Domination Pushes Hardware Sales to 93% After CES
If all the talk of HD DVD's demise wasn't enough to actually convince you that it's all but over for HD DVD, take a…
Apple Notebooks Up to 17.6% of Market Share
Apple notebooks are in third place for US market share at 17.6 percent. That's not far behind the leaders, Dell and HP,…
Apple Notebook and Desktop Share Rising (A Little)
It was called the iPod effect, but maybe now it should be dubbed the iPhone effect. The force compelling people to…