Neowin News Feed for: Surpasses

Wii surpasses Xbox 360 US sales

Marcel Klum — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:05:54 +0000

Nintendo has announced that, according to sales tracking information released today by the NPD Group, the Wii has now become the best-selling videogame console in the United States. The NPD Group reported more than 666,000... Read more...

Cell Phone Spending Surpasses Land Lines

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:57:14 +0000

With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services, industry and government officials say. The most... Read more...

Microsoft's Annual Revenue Surpasses $50 Billion

Steven Parker — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:47:26 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.37 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, a 13% increase over the same period of the prior year. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $0.31.... Read more...

Xfire surpasses 7 million user mark

Todd Tanner — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:54:29 +0000

Xfire, one of the fastest growing online gaming communities, announced today it recently crossed seven million registered users and supports over 800 of the most popular PC games worldwide. Xfire's goal is "gaming simplified,"... Read more...

IBM surpasses HP in storage hardware sales

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:03:28 +0000

According to a Tuesday Gartner industry report, IBM has surpassed Hewlett-Packard in 2006 global external-controller disk storage market, though it still trails industry leader EMC Corporation. IBM's market share based on revenue, grew from 14.5%... Read more...

GTA Surpasses Mario In UK

giga — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:20:03 +0000

Despite enjoying the second highest Nintendo DS launch ever in the UK, just behind launch title Super Mario 64 DS, New Super Mario Bros has failed to hit the top spot in its British debut,... Read more...

World of Warcraft surpasses 5 million subscribers

Todd Tanner — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:46:12 +0000

Blizzard today announced that its massively multiplayer online role playing game World of Warcraft has now passed the 5 million subscriber mark. This figure is worldwide and includes all active regular monthly accounts, prepaid cards,... Read more...

AMD Surpasses 20% Desktop Market Share

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:09:24 +0000

According to Mercury Research, a company specializing in PC component market research, Advanced Micro Devices has surpassed 20 percent of the desktop PC market share for the first time since 2001. AMD came in... Read more...

Guild Wars Surpasses One Million Units Sold

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 03:13:41 +0000

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... Read more...

World of Warcraft Surpasses 2 Million Subscribers

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:35:16 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that its massively successful MMORPG World of Warcraft now has over 2 million subscribers worldwide. This latest surge in subscriptions is credited to WoW's new PvP Battlegrounds, which were introduced... Read more...

Halo 2 Surpasses 1.5 Million Pre-Orders

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:42:27 +0000

The release of Halo 2 is just weeks away, and the Xbox exclusive first-person shooter has passed the 1.5 million mark in pre-orders for the United States--and is poised to generate more revenue in 24... Read more...

Gulp! AOL membership surpasses 33m!

Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:52:04 +0000

America Online now has more than 33 million subscribers, with each AOL member spending almost 70 minutes online daily. In a statement issued today, AOL says that it's new 7.0 software, launched... Read more...

New Athlon XP Surpasses 2GHz P4 in Many Tests

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:13:09 +0000

It's a measure of AMD's spunk that the Santa Clara CPU company first unveiled plans for the Athlon XP during the Intel Developer's Forum in August. About the only thing they could have done that... Read more...