Garner has published their report on global handset sales for the first quarter of 2013. Android owns the market with 75% while Windows Phone accounts for 3%. Apple is still in second place at 18%. More...
Microsoft has now given us four data points relating to Windows 8 sales and we have plotted the sales points to offer up a visual representation of the sales figures that Microsoft has released. More...
According to IDC, Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface devices in Q1 2013. The majority of those devices are Surface Pros, with the Surface RT accounting for just 0.4% of all tablets sold. More...
Samsung and Apple go head to head via their latest earnings reports and the Korean company is winning. It has reportedly sold nearly twice as many devices as Apple and its profits soared. More...
Microsoft's newly launched Windows Store often gets bashed for its lack of apps and shortage of killer apps. While the critics may be screaming, one developer is laughing all the way to the bank. More...
While it's not uncommon for Apple to ban certain content from the App Store, it has banned the latest instalment in the popular SAGA comic series for its inclusion of images depicting gay sex. More...
Microsoft has announced it will be cutting the prices of quite a few downloadable Xbox Live Arcade games for the next two weeks, with prices reduced by as much as 75 percent. More...
A report claims that fewer than half a million Chromebooks have been sold in the 21 months since they first went on sale, with "compatibility and consumer usage habits" highlighted as factors. More...
Analysts, love them or hate me, sometimes they offer up the only insight into sales numbers when the parent company, in this case, Microsoft, refuses to release the numbers to the public. More...
According to Bloomberg, who have sources close to the matter, the Microsoft Surface line has only sold 1.5 million units since its launch, however 400,000 of those have been Pros with decent adoption More...
New research has discovered that Apple's iPhone 5 and 4S both outsold the Galaxy S III globally in Q4 2012, which is the first time ever. Sales of iPhones now account for one in five phones sold. More...
Developers received a handout of $8 billion, up from $6.5 billion three months ago which netted Apple around $3.5 billion in revenue and continues to show that iOS is a profitable platform for devs. More...
The Surface with Windows RT has been on the market for a few months now and many are starting to wonder how many units Microsoft has sold; UBS is placing that number at 1 million units sold to date. More...
Nokia's low-end Asha touch-phone range for emerging markets is outselling their flagship Lumia Windows Phone range by 2:1, showing fantastic growth even in markets where low-end Android devices rule More...
Microsoft has now given us three data points relating to Windows 8 sales and we have plotted the sales points to offer up a visual representation of the sales figures that Microsoft has released. More...
Not a day goes by without a story or fleeting comment on Windows 8's negative sales. Now the New York Times has added “shaky” and “tepid” to the list, but is the overall picture that disappointing? More...
While Apple and Samsung continue to squabble in courts across the world, Judge Lucy Koh has favoured Samsung this time, denying Apple's request to ban 26 Samsung devices for sale More...
Figures released by comScore show the 2012 holiday season as the most lucrative online shopping period ever, with over $1 billion spent on seven separate days following Thanksgiving. More...
Apple has experienced yet another successful iPhone 5 launch, this time in China, with the handset managing to sell in excess of two million units during the first weekend launch. More...
A new report is stating that Microsoft will begin expanding its distribution channels in its international markets with the hopes to move more units during the holiday season. More...
With the Christmas fast approaching, Microsoft's selling and distribution strategy is “killing” the product. But is the lack of a device on the High Street really going to put of the consumer? More...
A new report is indicating demand for Windows 8-powered touchscreen computers is strong, while a separate report claims the sales of Windows RT and Windows 8 tablets haven't met expectations. More...
IBM investigated the extent of online sales for this past Cyber Monday, a now permanent online discount following Thanksgiving and the Black Friday weekend and found it was awesome! More...
Apple claims that this weekend the company sold a combined three million units of its newly launched fourth generation iPad and its new 7.9 inch iPad mini tablets but fail to break that number down. More...
Microsoft has been launching products left and right in the last weeks and all to some pretty good reviews. However we have yet to see sales numbers and Ballmer says it will stay like that for now. More...
While iPad sales failed to meet estimates, Apple's CEO nonetheless made fun of Surface, likening it to a "car that flies and floats", despite admitting that he hasn't yet tried Microsoft's new tablet. More...
Training videos for Microsoft's upcoming release of Windows 8 have been sent to Neowin and if you like seeing how Microsoft prepares its sales staff for the launch, make the jump to see the videos. More...
In a tweet T-Mobile USA has revealed that Samsung's flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, has become its best selling device of all time in just 5 months of being on sale. More...
The past four months haven't been the best for HTC. A drop in profits that were announced in April has been followed up by less than stellar sales figures for its latest HTC One range. More...
Apple rejected an iBook from its store, due to the book guiding readers in how to market their own novels. The book made reference to Amazon, and was rejected over mentioning a competing company. More...
Stardock has announced that their real-time strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion has broken previous sales records for the company by selling 100,000 copies in the first month on sale. More...
A new report is pegging Lumia sales at a meager 330k which if true, is a devastating blow to Nokia and Microsoft who had high expectations for the Lumia to propel the Windows Phone platform forward. More...
David DeMartini, the head of EA's Origin service, claims that Steam 'cheapens intellectual property' by offering deep discounts, and promises that Origin is 'trying to be Nordstrom,' not Target. More...
Windows 7 is surely destined to be the next Windows XP as the rock solid OS is winning the hearts of not only consumers but corporations. Windows 7 is selling well and will do so through year's end. More...
The result of the weakened global economy is being seen among console manufacturers, as sales figures decline during the first quarter of 2012. More...
Nokia denies Lumia 900 stock shortages are related to its recent software bug, adding that the handset is genuinely sold out, and that it's working hard to produce more handsets to satisfy demand. More...
We knew that the Lumia was climbing the ranks on Amazon's best selling lists but now word has come that the Lumia 900 has exceeded sales expectations at AT&T. More...
Despite a law being passed in France to make life harder for pirates, music sales are not increasing. In fact, they're still falling, and nobody can say with certainty why. More...
Windows Phone is starting to show signs of life in Europe as a new report pegs that the marketshare has increased 5x from .5% to 2.5% with many of the sales stemming from Nokia's portfolio. More...
According to the latest analyst reports, global smartphone sales overtook those of traditional (and not so traditional) PCs during 2011, outselling their larger cousins by almost 73 million units. More...
Ooops. Looks like Australian retailer Dick Smith has made a mistake in selling a "new" hard drive to a man that was filled not only with pirated movies, but malware as well More...
Don't even start to say that this generation is worn out as Microsoft has just announced that it sold 960K Xbox 360s in a single week, a new record for the company. More...
Sales for netbooks are quickly and unsurprisingly diminishing due to massive interest in the tablet market, spelling an impending death for the low-cost poor-performing notebook type More...
If there were any thoughts that the iPhone 4S was going to be flop, those can be put to bed as Apple is saying that the device sold 1 million units in 24 hrs. More...
Oracle has been ordered to pay out in a settlement after supposedly lying in a contract dating back to 1998, by the General Services Administration. More...
It looks as though Samsung’s Galaxy S II mobile phone has become a very popular seller around the world if today’s sales announcement from the company is anything to go by.In an e-mail sent into... More...
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Microsoft has been doing many things with WP7, between updates and new partnerships, you would think that they would be willing to tell everything about their latest and greatest mobile platform. But when it comes... More...
It is hard to believe but Windows 7 has been on the market for 18 months. During that time, the platform has experienced tremendous growth and adoption by users all over the world; including business... More...