Tag archive: April

After many disappointing months, NPD reports that total U.S. sales of video game products reached $961.2 million in April, up 20 percent from $802.4 million a year ago. Software performed stronger still, with sales climbing 26 percent thanks to strong showings by Mortal Kombat and Portal 2. This is the first month since November, says NPD analyst Anita Frazier, that video game software saw increases in both dollars and number of units sold. Top… Read More

It's been a long time coming, although it hasn't actually come yet. When we tell you that the long-awaited white iPhone will be in stores by the end of April, you may well ask, “Yeah, but April what year?” A report from Bloomberg Businessweek says that according to three unnamed sources who are apparently familiar with Apple's plans, the white iPhone will be lining up alongside its black counterpart by the end of this month –… Read More

The MobileMe rumor train is back up to full steam, with a new report from iLounge that Apple plans to release a free, overhauled version of its online storage service in April. The report matches earlier rumors that such changes to MobileMe were expected sometime this year. According to iLounge senior editor Chalres Starrett, a “trusted” unnamed source, “who works for a major educational institution,” has told the… Read More

While many expected Apple to unveil updates to its MobileMe cloud storage service during its recent iPad 2 event, it just didn't happen. Instead, Apple CEO Steve Jobs just focused on the company's second-generation tablet, and that was that. But talk began bubbling up to the surface today that Apple has plans to hold an event in the first half of April to discuss updates to MobileMe, as well as iOS 5. The rumor comes via Macerkopf,… Read More

Nielsen Online finds that the amount of time U.S. Internet users spend on social networking sites was up some 83 percent in April of 2009 compared to April of 2008…but that social networking's growing audience is also a very fickle crowd, prone to rapidly shift away from services as they lose popularity or fall from favor. "Remember Friendster? Remember when MySpace was an unbeatable force?” asked Nielsen… Read More

Maybe the video game industry isn't as recession-proof as everyone thought: market research firm NPD has released its sales figures for 2009, and finds that U.S. sales of video games dropped 17 percent in April 2009 compared to the same month in 2008. Total revenue for the month was $1.03 billion across the industry—$510.7 million of that being games, with the rest being hardware and accessories.—and the numbers mark the… Read More

The laptop terminals act like portable workstations, that connect to a main server for information and in order to be used. Shipments of the new computer, estimated to sell for around 260,000 yen ($2,476) per unit, will start in April, and Hitachi expects 30 billion yen in sales of the terminals and related services in the two years to March 2007. Hitachi itself plans to introduce 2,000 units by March for in-house use and… Read More

“In the April 2003 timeframe, we were contacted by EU regulators via a letter seeking certain information, which we understand was sent to all DRAM manufacturers,” Micron spokesman Dave Parker said Thursday. “We are fully and actively cooperating with the European authorities.” Read more at the Star Tribune.