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File-swappers put off by lawsuits
News The recording industry's legal efforts may be putting a dent in file swapping, according to a new report from The NPD Group. The number of households acquiring music fell from a high of 14.5 million in April to 12.7 million in May and 10.4 million...
[August 22, 2003, 9:35]
Palm hopes new Tungsten will shine brighter
News The Zire 71 has been the top-selling device in the handheld market since its introduction, according to data from sales tracker NPD Group. Sales of the Tungsten T have been up, according to NPD Group analyst Stephen Baker, but prices have been...
[July 23, 2003, 12:37]
Microsoft defends Xbox console, software sales
News In a letter to analysts, Microsoft said that the Xbox's 468,000 US sales for November -- as reported by NPD Group -- represented a dramatic rise, and was nearly double the figure for October. Sales of consoles and console games in the US are set to...
[December 19, 2002, 16:04]
New wave of lawsuits hits file-swappers
News In contrast, a report that Internet monitoring firm The NPD Group released last week found that music file swapping rose 14 percent between September and November, after falling substantially earlier in the year.
[January 22, 2004, 7:45]
RIAA scales up legal attack
News At that time, a report from Internet monitor The NPD Group said music trading through networks such as Kazaa had begun rising again by last November, after steep drops earlier in the year. But new data NPD released on Tuesday showed that by...
[February 18, 2004, 9:35]
Execs target 99-cent song price
News Additional research from the NPD Group indicated that iTunes customers bought more music than did ordinary offline consumers over the first four months of that service's operations. The average iTunes customer bought 49 songs online during that...
[December 9, 2003, 11:25]
HP tunes up DVD burners
News Retail sales of laptop and desktop computers with DVD burners jumped 550 percent in unit terms during the first half of this year, according to research from NPD Group. Statistics from NPD Group suggest that the plus format leads in popularity, as...
[November 5, 2003, 10:20]
'Smart' tech toys for kids of all ages
News According to figures from the NPD Group, at the end of 1999 the smart toy segment made up 2.5 percent of the $23bn toy market. According to Reyne Rice, director of toy services at the NPD Group, toys such as the Vision Command System and the Cybiko...
[July 20, 2000, 13:24]
Tight quarters for PC makers
News The combination of wireless networking, DVD recordable drives and flat-panel monitors have made people more interested in the core products -- desktops and notebooks," said Steve Baker, an analyst with NPD Group.
[September 2, 2003, 15:05]
How a handheld could help Dell compete
News Smartphones now account for 12 percent of the US mobile-phone market, according to data collected by NPD Group. They can't be just a PC company," said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at NPD Group.
[December 11, 2007, 10:24]
Compaq notebook packs desktop power
News Toshiba's Satellite 1905, which packs a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 desktop chip and includes a 15-inch screen, was the No.retail seller in March and April, according to NPD Techworld. PC makers are looking to put as much power into notebooks as they can...
[June 14, 2002, 12:42]
Xbox sales 'sluggish'
News Banc of America Securities analyst Bob Austrian said in a research note to clients last week that he expected the console to sell 700,000 consoles in the US in November, while the actual sales figures from NPD Group amounted to only 468,000.
[December 16, 2002, 13:32]
Brace yourselves for Sony's handheld
News With the audience it has traditionally reached, Sony will only compound any component shortages with its foray into the market, said George Meier, marketing manager of NPD Group, assuming that Sony promotes the device as it has past products.
[August 29, 2000, 8:30]
PC makers' fears allayed
News Last year, US revenue from computers and other electronics equipment totalled $631m during the Thanksgiving week, including Black Friday, according to market researcher the NPD Group. NPD Group has not yet released any data for 2004's Thanksgiving...
[December 1, 2004, 15:15]
Tech giants get together for home networking
News There is a dearth of connectivity capabilities between consumer-electronics and PC products," said Stephen Baker, an analyst with NPD Techworld. NPD Techworld's Baker said that companies tend to work better when they are promoting a standard as...
[June 19, 2003, 10:58]
PC makers squeezed by upscale sales
News Through the first 11 months of 2001, the company had 6.7 percent of the retail PC market, NPD said, putting it in fourth place behind Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Emachines. Despite its higher average-selling price than most other manufacturers...
[January 18, 2002, 9:22]
Vista business sales exceed expectations
News Sales of Windows Vista to businesses were stronger than expected during the operating system's debut month, according to a report from NPD Group. In addition, the average price of Vista was about 4 percent higher than of Windows 2000 and roughly...
[January 12, 2007, 9:13]
File-swapping booms again
News The NPD Group, an independent market research firm, reported on Friday that peer-to-peer usage was up 14 percent in November 2003 from September. It's important to keep in mind that file sharing is occurring less frequently than before the RIAA...
[January 19, 2004, 8:50]
CompactFlash cards begin to fade away
News Recent sales data from US retail market tracker NPD Group indicates that market share for Secure Digital cards has doubled from 10.8 percent in 2002 to 22.9 percent for the first two months of 2003. Data for March is not yet available, but NPD...
[April 23, 2003, 11:05]
OneCare makes a splash
News Helped by low pricing, Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare landed the number two spot in sales at American stores in its debut month, according to The NPD Group. The antivirus and PC care package nabbed 15.4 percent of security suite sales at...
[August 14, 2006, 8:25]
