Tag archive: December

Love it or hate it, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has long dominated the Web browser market, recently commanding as much as three quarters of the worldwide browser market. But new preliminary data from Net Applications' Hitslink service shows that alternative browsers have been steadily gaining ground on IE. According to the preliminary report, versions of Internet Explorer were used by 68.15 percent of Web surfers during… Read More

Market research firm NPD has released its video game sales figures for the month of December and the entire 2007 calendar year, and the numbers show 2007 was a banner year for the video game industry, with total sales of $17.94 billion dollars—that represents a 43 percent improvement over the $12.53 billion consumers spent on games in 2006. For the month of December alone—traditionally the sector's hottest month—NPD… Read More

Quote from the article: “With 3.8 million digital cameras sold in the U.S. during the December holidays, representing a 28 percent increase over the previous December, plenty of people are now experimenting with their new cameras and learning about the use and care of flash memory cards. SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the world's largest manufacturer of flash memory card products, offers important advice for photo… Read More

The security challenges in the mobile environment are similar to the problems we have encountered in the PC world. Open platforms are becoming popular in smartphones, for example the Symbian operating system is used in more than 20 million mobile phones at the moment. In spring 2004, a trojanized game called Mosquitos was found. It secretly sent messages to expensive toll numbers, creating invisible costs for the user. June 15th:… Read More

That period covers the first three months of the console's lifespan – from its launch in mid-December in Japan through to the end of Sony's financial year on March 31st – and probably incorporates projections for both the US and European launches of the system. Although no firm date has yet been given for launches outside Japan (and even the Japanese date is still a somewhat fuzzy “mid to late December”… Read More