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GTA IV Shatters Records As Expected

GTA IV Shatters Records As Expected

Media outlets have speculated about Grand Theft Auto IV’s spectacular first-week performance since before it even occurred, but Take-Two finally took the lid off its own data on Wednesday to reveal hard numbers. The results: GTA IV demolished not just video game but entertainment records for day one and week one sales by dollar value.

Take-Two claims it sold 3.6 million copies of the game within just one day, or roughly 41 games sold every second for 24 hours. That comes out to about $310 million in sales in one day, a monolithic number unsurpassed by any other entertainment medium. By contrast, Halo 3, the last must-have game to set records, chalked up $170 million in first-day sales, and the current opening-day king of movies, Spider-Man 3, brought in only $59.8 million on its opening day.

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Yahoo Issues Cyber Monday Apology

It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. On the Monday after Thanksgiving, the busiest online shopping day of the year, an outage on Yahoo meant merchantswere unable to process orders.   According to Yahoo, the service went down at 6am Pacific time. It was restored, at a slow speed by 1 pm, but it was 6 pm before everything was once again runningnormally.   Unsurprisingly, retailers using the service were far from happy.   In a blog posting, Rich Riley, senior vice president of Yahoo’s online channel division, wrote,  "We deeply regret the inconvenience this caused to our merchants and their shoppers. Our customers’ expectations were not met, nor were our own."   However, mere words haven’tdone much to placate merchants for the loss of business on what they expected to be a hugely profitable day. Some want compensation from Yahoo.   And was it a busy cyber day? Indeed it was.According to ComScore, online sales for Cyber Monday reached $733 million, the highest recorded on a single day.    

Americans Watching More TV on More TVs

For all the belly-aching television executives emit regarding slipping ratings, demographic fragmentation, and the ravages being inflicted on their industry by video games, portable devices, the Internet, music players, Little League, schoolwork, and (horrors!) digital video recorders…

…Americans just can’t seem to get enough television.

Recent figures from Nielsen Media Research say the “average” American home now has more televisions than residents—with 2.73 television sets compared to 2.55 people—and has is turned into television for more than 8 hours a day, with almost 2 hours happening during evening “prime time.” And, in a result sure to make television execs spend a little extra on factory-installed accessories on the new boat, viewership is actually up among technology-savvy teenagers, exactly the demographic television was fearing it would lose to all those newfangled gizmos.  Read more...

Hallmark Best Father’s Day Traffic Handler

Are you a dad who got an electronic greeting card for Father’s Day this past weekend? Did you find you were having problems loading it? Depending upon which popular greeting card site you visited to pick up your note celebrating your status as dad, you either got your quick love fix or fell asleep waiting, just like that time you started snoring on the sofa during the fourth quarter of a Sunday afternoon football game.

Metrics released today by Webmetrics, a web traffic monitoring firm, determined that Hallmark.com was the best performing site, while Americangreetings.com experienced the slowest average page loads at 5.14 seconds and 86.4 percent uptime for the day.  Read more...

Mini Projectors On The Rise

“It takes squinting and guesswork to make out the details of postage-stamp-size snapshots displayed on cellphones and digital cameras. But researchers are working on pocket-size projectors so that one day people will be able to see a high-resolution slide show right out of a camera, a cellphone or an organizer.

In the future, the miniprojectors may also be attached to DVD players, so people can watch a movie with a TV-quality picture on a nearby wall.”  Read more...

Contour NoteRiser Review

Quote from the review:

“It’s really quite simple; if you’re looking down at a laptop screen day in and day out, you’ll develop upper back and neck injuries in due time. These repetitive stress injuries (RSI for short) stay with you for a long time and can take months or years of therapeutic massages to work out. It’s not about wrist rests or keyboard rests; these are reactive and not proactive measures. This is where Contour Design’s NoteRiser product fits in; a proactive measure to fight RSI at the source – before it happens.”

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Comcast: ‘We’re The Biggest Spammer”

“We’re the biggest spammer on the Internet,” Comcast network engineer Sean Lutner said at a meeting of an antispam working group in Washington, D.C., last week.

Lutner said Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but a mere 100 million flow through the company’s official servers. Almost all of the remaining 700 million represent spam erupting from so-called zombie computers–a breathtaking figure that adds up to six or seven spam-o-grams for each American family every day.

Read the full article at CNET News.com.

Warrants Served At ITT Tech Campuses

Authorities would not say why they conducted Wednesday’s searches, which caused classes to be cancelled for the day at campuses where students were turned away and faculty and staff questioned.

Read more on this story at Globe Technology.

Comdex 2003 coverage

There are several sites on the net covering Comdex. We have compiled a list of them for you, so you can find out what is going on this year.

Quote from AMDMB.com:

“Perhaps the most interesting and controversial aspect of the ASUS suite was the portion dedicated to graphics cards. Asus recently announced that it would be producing cards based upon both NVIDIA and ATI graphics chipsets. As such, it was no surprise to see a full product line for each brand. However, upon further inspection we realized that the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra was nowhere to be found. In its place, albeit with a crossed-out sign, was a

Metallica disses Apple iTunes

Metallica is claiming that they want to sell their entire album not just the individual songs. This decision comes after Metallica’s public opposition to Napster and other peer to peer file sharingsystems that allow people to swap copywritten music files without paying per download. Apple allows users to buy a limited amount of albums on its iTunes 4 system but representatives from Metallica’smanagement company tell CNN that Apple’s policy is to only sell albums from artists who allow them to sell their singles too.  Read more...

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