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Mobile music worth third of $1.1bn digital market

News Keith Jopling, the IFPI's market research director, said: "We're happy with the progress of the digital market, but that doesn't mean that we're there yet -- after all, it's still a budding business amounting to about six per cent of the industry...

23 January 2006, 11:14

Europe bests North America as largest PC market

News Although everyone obsessed about China, Europe turned out to be a pretty good market for PC makers. In 2005, Acer grew shipments by 58.1 per cent and saw its market share grow from 3.4 per cent to 4.6 per cent.

19 January 2006, 11:20

Firefox 'passes 20 per cent market share' in Europe

News The Mozilla Firefox browser has achieved a market share of more than 20 per cent in Europe, according to the latest figures released by French Web metrics firm XiTi. Other Web metrics companies produce more conservative estimates of Firefox's...

18 January 2006, 9:16

RealNetworks pushes into European game market

News The £12m ($21m) acquisition of Zylom Media will push RealNetworks heavily into the European market, matching a similar casual game push in the US during the past two years. The casual game market remains financially a small sector of the broader...

7 February 2006, 9:18

Computacenter sees no signs of market recovery

News Computacenter has warned the IT market is still showing no signs of recovery, while posting slightly better than expected half yearly results. Ron Sandler, chairman of Computacenter Plc, said in a statement: "Computacenter performed well in...

6 September 2002, 12:15

Male-targeted mobiles hogging market

News Gartner is urging phone manufacturers to change their products to make them more appealing to women and children, who will be an increasingly important market for mobiles in future. Mobile phones are designed by men for men, with women and children...

Tags: products, mobiles, children, men

11 April 2008, 10:37

iPhone won't steal Nokia's market share

News Nokia is heading towards 40 per cent global market share and Apple's iPhone won't make a dent in that, according to a US distributor of mobiles and other wireless devices. Nokia's market share is on its way towards the 40 per cent mark, and it has...

28 June 2007, 9:42

AMD's share of PC market soars

News Market-share figures released by Current Analysis on Wednesday show that Intel lost significant PC market share to AMD in the US retail sector in the fourth quarter. Intel executives said on Tuesday that they expected to have lost about one point...

19 January 2006, 9:41

Firefox goes mass market with 1.5

News In 2004, before the release of Firefox 1.0, the Mozilla marketing contact predicted that Firefox would obtain 10 per cent market share by the end of 2005. This change appears to have been partly driven by the proliferation of browser statistics...

28 November 2005, 10:36

Firefox market share falls

News Microsoft's Internet Explorer has clawed back some market share from Mozilla's Firefox, according to latest figures. Web application provider NetApplications said on Friday that the open-source browser's market share fell from 8.71 per cent in June...

16 August 2005, 11:03

'Podcessory' market hits 1,000-product mark

News The market for iPod add-ons, already booming, is starting to show signs of maturity. At one time, a smattering of companies, such as DLO, Griffin Technology and Belkin had the market largely to themselves.

16 January 2006, 10:14

Digital-TV market lights up

News According to the market researcher's projections, future performance should also be impressive, even though it expects volume to progressively taper down to 14 percent growth by 2010. Other geographical regions with a prominent market share will be...

6 May 2005, 11:09

Video game market up in first quarter

News The figures represent an increase of 18 percent over the last quarter of 2004, and growth of 23 percent over the same period last year, the market researcher said. US retail sales of video games rose to $2.2bn in the first quarter of 2005...

27 April 2005, 12:58

Brightcove soups up the video market

News Google, after all, wasn't even formed until after analysts declared that the search market was already saturated. Web sites select the services they want -- ad placement in videos, a virtual video store, etc -- from a click menu on the Internet...

30 October 2006, 10:38

Digital camera market peaked too soon

News Indications are that the market will peak prematurely, missing the opportunity to replace film cameras as the predominant method of taking photos -- instead the market will be made up of a more diverse range of devices with photo capturing...

29 April 2005, 9:13