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“Vgchartz.com, the most comprehensive Videogame charts in the world has announced that lifetime sales of Nintendo’s Wii have passed Microsoft’s Xbox 360 on a worldwide basis as of August 23rd. (*)

Two years ago, very few analysts would have predicted the Nintendo Wii would be market leader this generation against the established Playstation and Xbox brands. But analysts can be in error: Vgchartz.com data, which is based on sample data from retailers all over the world indicates that the week ending August 23rd Nintendo’s Wii (which was released one year after the Xbox 360 in November 2006), currently standing at 10.57 million consoles sold, passed Xbox 360 lifetime sales of 10.51 million units, making Nintendo the new market leader in both the home and handheld videogame console businesses.

As weekly data from vgchartz.com shows(**), the console outsold Microsoft’s Xbox 360 by a margin of 2.3 : 1 worldwide on average each week since its release, selling at an even faster rate than the most successful console ever created, Sony’s Playstation 2, despite still being sold out in most major markets.

This is the first time that a company has been market leader in the home console and the handheld market since 1994 when Nintendo’s Super NES and Gameboy dominated worldwide.

Vgchartz.com is proud to be first to announce this major sales cross over as an independent tracker of sales and expect this to be a milestone for the current generation. In just two years, home console sales for the three major manufacturers have effectively reversed. This will have a large impact on third party publishers and will undoubtedly influence the decisions they make in the future.

One factor that has no doubt helped Nintendo’s Wii to gain so quickly is the console’s broad appeal across all age groups, demographics and countries. Current sales are pretty evenly split between the three major markets – 3.46 million have been sold in Japan, the American market (including Canada and South America) accounts for 4.24million and Other markets (including Europe and Australia and a few niche markets) for 2.87 million units sold, respectively.”

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US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm.

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59 degrees in August!!!!!!

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“New research indicates that Apple laptop sales have soared to new highs on the back of a new halo effect for the company’s products generated by clamor surrounding the iPhone.

A ChangeWave survey confirms first intimations of the move as indicated in a previous such survey in June. A survey run across the first week of August now describes a “transformational shift” that is propelling good fortune for Apple — but denting Dell.

The survey of 3,665 ChangeWave Alliance members asked those who bought a computer in the past 90 days which manufacturer they had bought it from. The survey then asked those planning to buy a computer in the next 90 days which manufacturer they’d be buying from.

In an ongoing alteration of the consumer PC landscape, Apple laptop sales have surged to a new all-time high over the past 90 days — up from 12 percent in June to 17 percent currently. Apple desktop sales (7 percent; down from 8 percent) have been solid but unspectacular during that same time period.

But it’s the future that truly represents the change. A total of 28 percent of respondents who plan to purchase a laptop in the next 90 days say they’ll get a Mac — maintaining the momentum originally observed by ChangeWave’s June survey. An additional 23 percent say they’ll buy a desktop Mac.

“These results are great news for Apple, and they serve as powerful evidence that the ‘halo effect’ is indeed translating into real world Mac computer sales for Steve Jobs and company,” said Tobin Smith, founder of ChangeWave Research and editor of ChangeWave Investing.

Apple satisfies. The poll claims 86 percent of those who bought a Mac over the past 90 days report being “Very Satisfied” with their purchase — by far the highest of any manufacturer.

Dell’s market share is taking a huge hit. Just 30 percent of purchasers say they bought a Dell desktop in the past 90 days. This represents a 7-point drop for Dell since June — down to the second-lowest percentage it’s recorded for desktops in a ChangeWave survey. Similarly, Dell laptop purchases (24 percent) have fallen 4 points to a new all time low.”

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