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To everyone’s surprise, Nintendo Wii was the most sold game console in the month of November this year. That is almost twice what they sold last year which was around 981,000 units. It even surpasses Nintendo’s own hand-held and cheaper console, Nintendo DS, which sold 1.57 million units.
The Redmond giant made its next move. They are hiring Qi Lu, who was the executive VP of engineering for the Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo. Starting January 5th 2009, Lu will report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
The preliminary list of the top 20 chip manufacturers have been released by iSuppli. The semi-conductor market being bad does get reflected in the list. Intel leads the pack, no surprises there. Nvidia, the popular makers of GPUs barely made it to the list ranked at no. 20.
Logitech, one of the worlds largest manufacturers of pointing devices and other computer peripherals declared that they shipped their 1 billionth mouse. Yes…1 billionth ! It is surprising to all especially since that is approximately the number of computer users (1 billion) on this planet.
J.D. Power and Associates reported that Apple’s iPhone generated the highest customer satisfaction among all the smart-phone users. J.D. Power asked the 1400 respondents “to rate the smartphones for ease of operation, operating system, physical design, handset features, and battery aspects”. No. 2 on the list was RIM with their BlackBerry, closely trailed by Samsung.
As surprising as it can be, Samsung declared that they are the number one seller of cellphones in the U.S with a 22.4% market share. Motorola who was previously #1, is currently in the second place with 21.1%. LG Electronics is in #3 with 20.5%. While our favorite iPhone maker, Apple is #5 with just 5.7%. BlackBerry manufacturer, Research-In-Motion (RIM) is #4 with 10.2 percent.
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