‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ sales surpass $1 billion
Activision announced Tuesday the third major record-breaking milestone achieved by its recent smash hit, Call of Duty: Black Ops. The latest addition to Activision’s Call …
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NPD Group: Apple to sell over 4 million Macs in fourth quarter
According to new projections issued by market research firm NPD Group, Apple is poised to break its previous quarterly sales record. For the first time, …
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm sets one-day sales record
Blizzard Entertainment announced Monday that its new title World of Warcraft: Cataclysm sold 3.3 million copies on its first day of availability. The game’s remarkable …
More than 2.5 million Microsoft Kinect sensors sold to date
Following the biggest shopping weekend of the year, Microsoft announced Monday that it has sold over 2.5 million Kinect sensors in less than one month …
comScore predicts 11% increase in holiday spending, highest on record
Analytics company comScore is forecasting that consumer spending this holiday season will rise more than 11%, making this year’s figure the highest on record. The company has already published …
‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ grosses record-setting $650 million in five days
Activision announced Thursday that Call of Duty: Black Ops has set a new five-day entertainment industry record, grossing over $650 million globally. Following the first-day …
‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ shatters first day sales record
When Activision released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last year, it set an all time record for launch day sales. The highly anticipated first …
AT&T reports record quarter, again driven by iPhone sales in Q3
AT&T reported a huge quarter Thursday morning, once again propelled by the success of Apple’s iPhone. The nation’s second largest wireless carrier activated a record …
AT&T expecting "record numbers" in Q3
Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s CEO, recently spoke at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XIX Conference and said, ” We’re on pace to set a record for integrated …
Reuters: Google to have music service up and running by December 25th
Reuters is reporting that Google’s VP of Engineering, Andy Rubin, has been conducting talks with record labels in an attempt to launch an online music …
BGR reader unofficially bests text messaging world record
A BGR reader (and fellow blogger) by the name of Brian stumbled upon our post about a U.K. woman who bested the Guinness World Record …
Woman uses Galaxy S, SWYPE to break text messaging world record
A U.K. woman armed with a Samsung Galaxy S running the SWYPE keyboard has broken the Guinness World Record for text messaging. The 27-year old managed to …
Microsoft dropping record number of bulletins on "Patch Tuesday"
This coming Tuesday — August 10 — Microsoft will release a company record fourteen security bulletins to plug thirty-four vulnerabilities. Angela Gunn, a member of …
Orange UK smashes single day sales record with the iPhone
Here’s a bit of an odd one. The iPhone has been on sale in the UK since November 2007 when O2 began exclusively offering the …
ScreenToaster officially launches; screen recording made simple, and free
One of our favorite SaaS utilities we’ve been beta testing over the past few months goes by the name of ScreenToaster and if you haven’t …
Nintendo Wii still selling like hotcakes, sets US sales record
News flash: Nintendo sells tons of Wii consoles. We know, we know – the Wii’s success is hardly news these days. In fact, Nintendo’s console …
Samsung Instinct Selling Like Hotcakes; Relatively Speaking
While sales figures were wisely omitted from Sprint’s press release, it has announced today that the Samsung Instinct is the fastest-selling EVDO-equipped handset Sprint has …
