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Quoting a survey on moneysupermarket.com, Reuters has said that, in a sign of the times, one in seven Britons– some 15 per cent – claims to have been dumped from a relationship by text or e-mail.   “Most of us send emails and texts everyday, so it comes as no surprise they are now being usedto ditch someone, however distasteful this is,” said Rob Barnes from moneysupermarket.com.   Looking to the future, one per cent admitted… Read More

Pollara also reported that 52 per cent of music “consumers” who don't download had purchased music in the past month. Only 35 per cent of those who were active downloaders had purchased music in the month prior to the survey. The survey was commissioned by the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which has been claiming for several years that trading music files on-line has been hurting sales. Read more at Globe… Read More

The recording industry's legal onslaught against Internet song-swappers appears to be having its desired effect. The percentage of Americans who download music on-line has been sliced in half,according to a report released Sunday. Only 14 per cent of Internet users surveyed from Nov. 18 to Dec. 14 said they sometimes download songs to their computers, according to the report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and comScore… Read More

Some 27 per cent of the 1000 gamers polled by CESA (the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association) at the show said that they would like to own a GameCube, which bodes well for the future of the console in Japan – and Microsoft can also take heart from the 17 per cent who stated that they would like to own an Xbox. It should be noted that this isn't a representative sample of Japanese gamers, with CESA admitting to US… Read More

Since the company cut the price of the Cube hardware to $99.99 just over a month ago, the console has more than quadrupled its sales, and now holds 37 per cent market share, up from 19 per cent prior to the price cut. The figures, announced by NOA's George Harrison at an investor conference in New York, show the Cube holding a strong second place in the US home console market, behind Sony's PS2 but ahead of Microsoft's… Read More

Microsoft's decision to be patient on pricing appears to have paid off, after its value-add £139.99 bundle (featuring Halo, Midtown Madness 3 and a two month Xbox Live trial) sent sales of the Xbox soaring by 81 per cent week on week, and overtaking the Cube in the process, after just one week of being outsold. GameCube sales dropped by an alarming 20 per cent week on week, despite heavy TV advertising and a £50 advantage on the… Read More

Nintendo has shot to the top of the class in America, with the GameCube outselling the PS2 by 20 per cent to become the best selling home console in the USA last week following a price reduction in late September. According to a statement from Nintendo of America, the Cube was the second biggest selling console in the country (after the Game Boy Advance, which consistently outsells all of the home consoles) for the week ended October 4th.… Read More

Quoting statistics from US market research body NPD Funworld, the company claims that the Xbox is the only console which has continuously demonstrated positive market share growth in the past year, while sales of software in August grew faster than either of its rivals and boosted the console's attach rate to 5.8. The figures show Xbox sales growing by six per cent during the year, while Sony's PS2 dropped 36 per cent and the… Read More