On your mark, get set, four million iPhones sold in just three days! That, according to Apple, is the number of iPhone 4S units sold worldwide during the new iOS-based handheld’s opening weekend. The iPhone 4S launched on October 14 (last Friday) in seven countries, with plans to add 22 more on October 28 and over 70 total by the end of …
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Leaked Sales Screenshots: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Already Burning Up?
Now that we’ve got this iPhone-not-5 business out of the way, eyeballs are back on Amazon’s Kindle Fire over a leaked sales report. Here’s the report’s short version: People are preordering the thing like mad.
Take with a pinch or two of sodium—the report comes from a tech blog dubbed Cult of Android, after all—but word is would-be
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A New Record? Microsoft Claims 350 Million Windows 7 Licenses Sold
Call it a record, or just a whole lot better than Windows “rhymes-with missed-ya,” Microsoft says Windows 7 can lay claim to 350 million licenses sold since it launched on October 22, 2009.
And that’s about all they said, meaning no, we don’t have the breakdown in terms of full copies, upgrades, versions bundled with new PCs, …
iPhone Growth Suddenly Soaring in China
It’s a country with a population of over 1.3 billion, so this should surprise no one, but yes, China appears to be to the iPhone what flowers are to bees.
IDG News reports that in a conference call yesterday, Apple COO Tim Cook revealed that between January and March 2011, iPhone sales in “Greater China” surged nearly 250 …
HTC Thunderbolt Clobbering Apple’s iPhone 4?
Wouldn’t it be nice for HTC, but no, it looks like HTC’s $250 Thunderbolt probably isn’t clobbering Verizon’s iPhone. In fact it’s hard to say exactly what it’s doing, unless you’re an easy sell on tiny sample pools.
The Thunderbolt hit stores a couple weeks ago, supports Verizon’s 4G LTE network, and seems to be an all-around hit …
Games Rated ‘Mature’ Are Made Less, Bought More
If you’re around the median age of most video game players–which the Entertainment Software Association says is about 35 years old–then chances are that you’ve got more than a few M-rated games on your shelf. Roughly equivalent to the R film rating issued by the MPAA, ‘M’ (for “Mature”) stands at the highest age bracket for video …
Microsoft Kinect Nabs Guinness Record for Fastest-Selling Device
Microsoft’s “Kinect” hands-free motion control peripheral for the Xbox 360 has been confirmed by Guinness World Records as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever.
Kinect “sold through an average of 133,333 units per day, for a total of 8 million units in its first 60 days on sale,” says Guinness. The “sold through” part …
eBay Mobile Sales Triple in 2010
According to eBay, online shopping on your computer is so 2009.
The company announced this morning that its gross merchandise volume in global mobile sales has tripled from $600 million in 2009 to $2 billion in 2010. eBay also added that its mobile apps have been downloaded over 30 million times in eight different languages and over …
Behind the Scenes of Cyber Monday
It may only be five years old, but Cyber Monday is quickly becoming one of the biggest shopping days of the year – on and offline.
(More on TIME.com: Ultimate Cyber Monday Deals)
The term was coined for the Monday after Black Friday where online retailers and websites provided their biggest sales of the year. Last year, it was the …
Top Ten Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Buy one Kinect game, get one 50% off: Prices vary (Amazon)
Did you get your Kinect yet? Between now and Saturday, you can get half off one game when you buy one at full price from Amazon. There are 11 available titles right now, including Dance Central, Kinect Sports, …