U.S. Video Game Sales Hit $1.1 Billion

Market research firm NPD is reporting that U.S. sales of video game hardware and software increased 73 percent in October. Total sales reached $1.1 billion, compared with $643 million a year earlier. The Nintendo Wii console moved back into the top spot as the best selling console. Nintendo sold 519,000 Wiis, Microsoft sold 366,000 Xbox 360 consoles and Sony sold 121,000 of its PlayStation 3…

Salesforce Signs “Largest Deal Ever”

Citigroup and Salesforce.com are both big companies, and a new deal between them isn’t insignificant, either - Citigroup chose Salesforce to provide software to 30,000 financial advisors.

More PageRank Carnage

I have been receiving emails and comments about yet another PageRank downturn for multiple sites. Andrew Ooi has compiled a short list of Malaysian sites, many were as much as a PR5 previously, and currently show a PageRank of zero (a white bar) Examples include:- Colleen's Simple Kind of Life and 5xmom The numbers seem to be stable across multiple data centers

Google Ready To Bid For Wireless, Maybe

Lots of stories have swirled over the question of will they or won't they bid in the FCC's 700MHz wireless spectrum auction, but Google now looks like a lock to pony up some cash.

Writers Ding Viacom Over Google Lawsuit

Even though Hollywood executives claim this Internet thing is too new for them to figure out how much they can cut out of it for writers, the scribes pointed out Viacom seems to have an idea.