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Wii U a Global Sales Flop as Old Wii Outsells Nintendo’s New Casual Dream
Nintendo’s latest set of financial figures underline exactly how much of a disaster its new Wii U console has been at retail, with the machine selling just 3.45m units since launch and an...
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Windows 8 Tablets Now Own 7.4 Per Cent of the Tab Market
Microsoft’s Windows 8 and RT tablets have seemingly got off to a bit of a flyer, with number crunchers estimating Windows is now the OS on 7.4 per cent of all portable tabs. Not a bad beginning given...
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Nearly Half of Smartphones Sold in Europe Now Made by Samsung
Research into the ever-growing smartphone scene has underlined just how dominant Samsung has become of late, with data suggesting nearly half of all smartphones sold over the last three months in the...
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Wii U a Global Flop as Nintendo Sells Just 160,000 in a Quarter
Nintendo would appear to be out of the home console war, thanks to an utterly miserable financial report revealing it sold just 160,000 Wii U machines last quarter. Around the entire world. The new...
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Japanese Man Queuing for iPhone Looks Sad, Bored and Lonely Already
A Japanese guy is already in the line for one of those new iPhone things, camping out alone on a pavement outside his nearest Apple Store with only his selection of gadgets and the odd intrigued local...
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Daft Punk’s Patchy Pop Comeback Fuels Vinyl Revival
Amateur DJs wishing to drop Daft Punk album tracks in their wedding party set lists have boosted sales of vinyl at Amazon, with the online retailer selling the highest number of 12-inch records this...
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GTA V Raked in a Staggering £495m in Day One Sales
Grand Theft Auto V managed to pay for itself by lunchtime on launch day, with publisher Take-Two revealing the fairly popular game raked in an amazing $800 million from day one sales. In terms of...
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BlackBerry Is On the Hunt For a Buyer
According to Reuters, BlackBerry is asking Google, Samsung, LG, Cisco, and basically anybody with money, to buy BlackBerry entirely or at the very least, certain parts of the company. This is seen as...
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Google, Intel, LG and Samsung Considering Rival BlackBerry Bids
BlackBerry has already agreed to being bought and turned into a private company by a private equity firm, but is said to be talking to several other tech giants about selling all or part of the once...
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BlackBerry Founders Bid to Buy Back Struggling Mobile Maker
Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin, who founded and still own a decent chunk of BlackBerry, are considering joining the rest of the tech world in tabling a bid to buy the company. Lazaridis and Fregin...
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Sony’s Smartphone Ambitions Include Being the Third Biggest-Seller In Europe
Sony’s new boss Kazuo Hirai has revealed that the tech giant has no plans to aggressively push its smartphones in the US or China, the two largest marketplaces for mobiles. He appears to be happy...
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Fifty Shades, One Direction, Call of Duty and Adele top Amazon UK’s...
Amazon UK is happy that it’s about to reach its 15th birthday tomorrow, and is celebrating by revealing its all-time best sellers. As you might expect of the corporate giant, it’s mainstream...
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With the Original iPhone Now a Collector’s Item, Have You Ever Saved a Gadget...
Despite selling millions of units around the world, the first-generation iPhone has now become something of a collector’s item, with mint condition, boxed examples of Apple’s first smartphone selling...
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Samsung Smartphones Outsell Apple, Nokia, Microsoft and BlackBerry Combined
New research into the state of the smartphone market paints Samsung in an even more favourable light, suggesting the Korean giant ships more phones around the world than all of its major competitors...
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Microsoft Successfully Salvaged Xbox One and Shifted One Million of Them in a...
After presiding over one of the less thrilling and most mocked hardware reveals in history, Microsoft would appear to have successfully turned its Xbox One supertanker around. It sold more than one...
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Sony’s PS4 Smashes Records (and Xbox One) With 250k UK Sales in Two Days
PlayStation4 has broken the previous record for video game console launch sales in the UK, shifting substantially more hardware than the 180,000 unit previous record during its first two days on sale....
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A Staggering 13 Million Tablets Were Sold in the UK During 2013
Consultancy firm Deloitte has issued some stats on the UK tablet scene, claiming that between 12 and 13 million of them were sold in the UK during 2013. This means that nearly half of the entire UK...
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ITV and Vodafone Named as Possible Buyers of Channel 5
A suite of the world’s cash-richest companies are said to be in line to buy Channel 5, with the owner of the TV network looking for around £700m to hand it over. Considering Richard Desmond’s media...
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Android Wins 2013 With 68 Per Cent of European Smartphone Market
Analyst Kantar Worldpanel has done the maths for the smartphone sector over the last quarter of 2013, painting a rather rosy picture for Android. It topped the EU market share data with 68.6 per cent...
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US PS4 Sales Smash Xbox One, Selling “Nearly Double” in January
Microsoft’s run of consecutive console sales wins in the US has come to a crashing halt, with Sony’s PS4 managing to outsell the Xbox One in January. Not only that, but sources with access to the...
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