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New figures on U.S. music sales from Nielsen SoundScan show the music industry is still facing declining revenue, as sales of traditional music CDs declined 19.3 percent during the first half of 2007 to 205.7 million units. Digital music sales, however, continue to see strong growth, with digital music sales increasing 50 percent during the first half of 2007, compared to the first half of 2006. However, the revenue from growing digital… Read More

A new survey from the NPD Group found that U.S. retail sales of console and portable video game systems, accessories, and games increased 21 percent during the first half of 2005, accounting for more than $4.1 billion in sales, compared to $3.4 billion in the first half of 2004. Overall, the industry saw an 11 percent increase in unit sales during the first half of the year, despite a six percent decline in the sales of ever-aging console… Read More

“An Apple executive has revealed that the company is working on a cell phone capable of playing songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store, due for release during the first half of 2005, in collaboration with long-term partner Motorola. In an interview with Forbes, the company's vice president for applications, Eddy Cue, said Motorola and Apple would “have something coming on this in the first half of 2005 and we're… Read More

The shipments of more than 1 million units will be made in the latter half of this year. DirecTV holds a subscription base of 12 million persons with annual sales of US$2.3 billion. Samsung began its set-top box businesses in 2001 and supplied Movie Beam, a product for the VoD services, to Disney in 2003. This conflicts with earlier reports that Thompson will be suppling DirecTV with their own set-top boxes. Read that story here.

The number of U.S. residents connected to the Internet through broadband services increased by 18 percent during the first half of 2003, but that rate of growth slowed from the second half of 2002, according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The FCC's latest data on the deployment of high-speed Internet connections, released Monday, finds the number of high-speed lines increased from 19.9 million to 23.5 million during… Read More