Microsoft has announced today that 60 million licenses of Windows 8 have been sold to date and that there have been 100 million downloads from the Windows Store. Make the jump to learn more More...
Microsoft has provided an update on its WIndows 7 sales and has said that there have been 630 million licenses sold to date which is 30 million more than the last update of 600 million. More...
Over the past few weeks Microsoft has been inking deals with several manufactures over royalties when producing Android handsets. And now Microsoft is going after Samsung, and they are asking for $15 per handset sold... More...
As Microsoft prepares to launch Windows Phone 7 across Europe, lucky kiwis have got their hands on the devices. The first Windows Phone 7 device has been sold today over in New Zealand. Lucky shopper Jourdan... More...
It's no secret that President-elect Obama is a crowd pleaser. He has legions of faithful followers and he has started a movement of "change that we can believe in". So naturally the next... More...
Microsoft was able to sell 4.3 million Xbox 360 units during the fourth calendar quarter 2007 (fiscal Q2 2008). The number is slightly down from 4.4 million units the company sold during the Christmas season... More...
Whether you love him or hate him, you won't want to miss his last CES Keynote, especially with announcements like Microsoft having sold 100 million licences of its latest OS. I know people tend to... More...
It's the Wii console's second Christmas out and there a strong sense of déjà vu in reports that talk of internet-breaking sales as punters go mental for Nintendo's console. Amazon apparently sold 1,400 consoles in... More...
Gory game Manhunt 2 can legally be sold to UK consumers as a download, despite the refusal of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) to grant the title a certificate for sale as a... More...
It would appear that the San Francisco Chronicle misquoted Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, in regards to Microsoft passing the 1-million-Zunes-sold mark. Many websites, including Neowin, used the write-up of the... More...
According to an interview over at SFGate.com with Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, Microsoft has surpassed its own goal of selling one million Zunes. Microsoft hoped to meet the target by... More...
Touch-screen monitors in taxi cabs allow passengers to pay by credit card, find ads and reviews for neighbourhood bars and restaurants, view news stories and check an electronic map of their cab's progress. Still, not... More...
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released results of a broad telephone survey on the technology people have, how they use it and what they think about it. The study, which ran between... More...
The North American HD DVD Promotional Group has announced that more than 100,000 dedicated HD DVD players have sold in the U.S. in the format's first year on the market. This figure does not include... More...
Microsoft spent millions of dollars advertising its next generation OS 'Windows Vista' in China, in fact the IT juggernaut threw up the biggest Vista Ad on the 421 meter high Jin Mao tower in Shanghai... More...
Well I think it is pretty much official now. Gears of War is a mega-smash-hit. A bona fide "Halo" like franchise. So our boy Robbie Bach at CES yesterday let loose the sales numbers... More...
It looked uncertain there for a minute, but Microsoft confirmed today that they had sold 10.4 million 360 consoles. Bill Gates revealed the tremendous figure at CES. Microsoft had been predicting 10 million sold units... More...
Arcadia says hardware sales increased by at least 50% year on year, with software up about 20%. Retail dollars increased by about 25-30% to about $1.6 billion, compared to $1.3 billion in November... More...
Thanks to Andy07 for the head's up on this story. Sony... More...
Latest Japanese hardware charts reveal extent of Nintendo's handheld dominance The continued strong sales of Nintendo's DS and DS Lite handheld consoles in Japan have brought the system to the verge of having sold 2.5... More...
The Windows Metafile (WMF) bug that caused users -- and Microsoft -- so much grief in December and January spread like it did because Russian hackers sold an exploit to anyone who had the cash,... More...
According to the market research firm NPD Group, Xbox 360 has sold 600,000 units in the United States since their launch in late November. Stock shortages of the console have severely restricted its sales inNorth... More...
Apple Computer on Monday said its iTunes online service has sold a million videos in under 20 days, sending shares up almost 5 percent. iTunes, the most popular online music store, began selling about 2,000... More...
Though the special editions of the Game Boy Micro are sure to be sought after, the regular version is selling just fine in Japan. This week's edition of Famitsu says the miniaturized version of the... More...
Pokémon has not only proved itself as a leader in the video game industry, but it also has become an obsession for millions of zealous fans. Pokémon has spawned more than $15 billion in worldwide... More...
NCsoft, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games announces yet another milestone for its top-selling competitive roleplaying game, Guild Wars, from ArenaNet studios. More than one million units have been purchased since... More...
The hard drive for the PlayStation 3 will not be bundled with the machine, but will instead be sold as an add-on unit, according to press reports in Japan which seem to confirm earlier hints... More...
Apple today announced that they had sold a quarter billion (250m) songs from their iTunes music store. At a rate of 1.25m songs being sold daily, the store expects to be selling approx. half a... More...
Budget software publisher Mastertronic has announced the acquisition of rival label Sold Out, creating the largest publisher in the PC budget sector in the UK, with a move into the console market planned in the... More...
Struggling publisher Infogrames nets $22.3 million by selling its powerhouse strategy franchise to an as-yet-unidentified company. In Paris this morning, Infogrames, owner of Atari and publisher of the top-selling RollerCoaster Tycoon 3... More...
This tiny Northern California town, which sparked an ill-fated eBay bidding war nearly two years ago, has finally been sold -- this time for real. (Proves to me that you can get *just* about anything... More...
Sony's first foray into the console arena hits a McDonald's-worthy volume milestone. A decade after its release, the original PlayStation has reached a milestone worthy of Ronald McDonald's high-volume burger empire. Sony... More...
Online merchants are hawking the double-screen portable, even though Nintendo hasn't officially announced a price. When Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata displayed the DS at Nintendo's E3 press conference, he didn't announce a... More...
Nintendo Co. Ltd., which at one point stopped production on its GameCube video game console due to slack demand, has now nearly sold out of the console in the United States and is seeking to... More...
Ebay UK is being used to sell illegal weapons such as vicious stun guns which can temporarily disable victims by delivering massive electric shocks. Although the online auction service prohibits the sale of firearms on... More...
SOFTWARE PIRATES have made an early beta copy of Microsoft Longhorn available on CD, but it's years before the OS will be released. The Longhorn alpha is a pirated version of the edition distributed to... More...
Looks like my console of choice continues its slide... Japanese videogame maker Nintendo says it sold [EDIT] 800,000 [/EDIT] GameCube consoles worldwide in the latest quarter. Nintendo, creator of the... More...
Palm's Zire device seems to be a hit, as the struggling handheld maker looks to regain its footing. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company said Monday that sales of its entry-level Zire product have exceeded... More...
WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O founder and chairman Bill Gates sold 2 million shares worth about $96.2 million this week, according to regulatory filings. In a Securities and Exchange Commission... More...
eBone, the 25,000km European data network that KPNQwest acquired last March, is set for a sale to UK consortium Oakley Investors. Not translated from Dutch by cheekymonkey;) While negotiations... More...
Less than three days after Napster founder Shawn Fanning and CEO Konrad Hilbers said they were leaving the project for good, along comes Bertelsmann with an offer they couldn't refuse: Buy Napster... More...
Both Slashdot and dotcomscoop are now reporting that KaZaA was SOLD at the weekend... according to the new terms and conditions posted on the new KaZaA site.11.1 This License as well as... More...
The online arm of leading toy and video game retailer Toys R Us said it sold out its first pre-order of the new Nintendo GameCube video game console in four minutes on Monday. ... More...