January, 2010
The number of 3G customers worldwide hits 500 million
Posted on January 29, 2010 |
It was around 8 years ago when the Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO launched world's first 3G network. Believe it or not, yesterday the number of 3G network customers around the globe reached 500...
Amazon CEO: “Millions” of Kindles Sold
Posted on January 29, 2010 |
Amazon.com keeps secret the number of Kindles it sells, saying the devices generate too small a portion of overall revenues to warrant disclosure. But on Thursday, the company gave its first big hint at the e-book reader’s financial success.
In a press release detailing the e-commerce giant’s solid all-around performance in the fourth quarter of 2009, CEO Jeff Bezos says, “Millions of people now own Kindles.” So, assuming that at least two million people have bought the device, and that each paid at least $259 – the cost of the least-expensive Kindle – Amazon now has a business worth more than $500 million in sales. Not bad for a product that’s a little more than two years old.
Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako declines to specify whether the word “millions” was deliberately pluralized in the release. “We’re letting the quote stand for itself,” she says.
The size of the Kindle market has been the subject of much guesswork, since e-books are such a new and promising business. In 2008, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney came up with a method of estimating sales based on a filing from Sprint, the former wireless carrier for all Kindles, and estimated 500,000 that year. Forrester Research recently estimated that 2.5 million Kindles have been sold, based on consumer surveys.
Nokia having a stormer in Q4, earn piles of cash
Posted on January 28, 2010 |
Last year was certainly not too kind to Nokia as its sales kept shrinking for the first three quarter, but oh my do we have a surprise for you here. Apparently the Nokia phones have been flying off the shelves during...
BlackBerry Magnum surfaces again, this time on video
Posted on January 28, 2010 |
You might have spotted some BlackBerry Magnum images these days and now we also have a video to show you. It comes to confirm that the Magnum will be the first BlackBerry device to pack a hardware...
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 review: Another one in
Posted on January 28, 2010 |
It was back in February 2008 that the XPERIA lineup was born and it took Sony Ericsson almost two years to bring about the XPERIA X1 successor. The long waiting is over now and the XPERIA X2 is keen to prove to us all it was...
