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Games
2:17PM Nick Broughall | According to a report in the SMH, the PSPGo sold less than 1000 units in its first week. Is anyone surprised? More »
PSPGo Not Selling. Who’s Surprised?
2:17PM Nick Broughall | According to a report in the SMH, the PSPGo sold less than 1000 units in its first week. Is anyone surprised? More » 
Business
Acer Leapfrogs Dell To #2 Globally, But Dell And HP Still Rule The US
12:59AM Danny Allen | Acer rightly cops a lot of stick about build quality, but as predicted, they’ve passed Dell to second spot in worldwide sales. Separate research from Gartner and IDC also ranks Acer third in the US, ahead of Apple in fourth place. More »
Computers
Whoa, Best Buy Sells 30% Of The Computers In The US
1:41AM Matt Buchanan | At a Nokia event announcing the surprisingly decent pricing for the Booklet 3G, Best Buy’s CMO said that Best Buy currently sells “30 percent of the computers in the US”. More »
Music
Zune HD Quickly Selling Out At Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy
5:15AM Dan Nosowitz | Here’s a statement I never thought I’d write: The newest Zune is apparently a runaway success, currently sold out or backordered at most of the major online outlets. Congrats to this underdog manufacturer “Micro-Soft” for finally hitting the big time! More »
Screens
Plasma HDTV Sales Soar, LCD Sales Steady, Sony Loses
2:20PM Dan Nosowitz | HDGuru has some notes from the now-concluded second quarter HDTV sales, and they show some interesting movement: With dirt-cheap prices, high end plasmas (42-50 inches) surged almost 40%, though LCD sales merely held steady. The big loser? Sony. More »
Business
Hold Up, RIM Is World’s Fastest Growing Tech Company?
3:00AM Joanna Stern | Yep, according to Fortune, Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, is the fastest growing tech company in the world. There isn’t much information on the rankings, but they are apparently determined by a number of criteria including profits, turnover, and investment return over three years. More »
Games
10:40AM Nick Broughall | It’s official: I have absolutely no understanding of the youth of today. I’ve become an old man (and I’m not yet 30). Here I was thinking that the DSi was going to stumble alongside its cheaper DS Lite brethren, but instead it’s flourished. Flourished. Turns out the boffins at Nintendo obviously know what they’re doing, considering they’ve sold 100,000 DSi units in Australia since it went on sale just 14 weeks ago. Crazy! More »
Nintendo Ships 100,000 DSi Handhelds In 14 Weeks
10:40AM Nick Broughall | It’s official: I have absolutely no understanding of the youth of today. I’ve become an old man (and I’m not yet 30). Here I was thinking that the DSi was going to stumble alongside its cheaper DS Lite brethren, but instead it’s flourished. Flourished. Turns out the boffins at Nintendo obviously know what they’re doing, considering they’ve sold 100,000 DSi units in Australia since it went on sale just 14 weeks ago. Crazy! More »
Business
LCD Market Turns Around, Jumps 41% In Second Quarter
8:52AM Jason Chen | iSuppli just reported that the LCD panel market (any LCD of 10-inches or larger, which includes TVs as well as computers) jumped 41% from 91.7 million to 129.7 million. More »
Business
Dell Forced To Honour Accidental $US15 Monitor Listing
2:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Dell Taiwan accidentally priced one 19-inch monitor, normally costing around $US150, at only $US15, and received a whopping 140,000 orders within the 8 hours it was live. Now, the Taiwanese government is forcing them to honour the sales. More »
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