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Despite a slowing economy, sales of U.S. video games and hardware soared 18 percent from the same month a year ago, according to data released by market researcher NPD Group.

The NPD Group released a report Monday stating that Apple's iPhone 3G had overtaken Motorola's RAZR as the most popular phone sold to consumers in U.S. during Q3.

NPD Group on Tuesday announced its second quarter handset sales tally and 28 million units were shipped to consumers, down 13 percent from a year ago.

According to NPD, second quarter handset revenue was $2.4 billion, down 2 percent from a year ago.

Between January and June of 2008, more people purchased music through Apple's iTunes Store than from any other online or big-box store, according to NPD Group.

Looks like it wasn't the HD DVD/Blu-ray battle that was keeping potential customers away from high-definition video players after all.

The NPD Group released some of its retail sales tracking data Wednesday that showed sales of Blu-ray standalone players (not a PlayStation 3, combo player, or PC with ...

Compelling gadgets are the key to consumers' hearts--and wallets--during a recession, according to a consumer spending study.

Of those surveyed, 37 percent of U.S. consumers say they plan to cut back when it comes to entertainment purchases this year, according to an upcoming report from The NPD Group, "Entertainment ...

Amazon's MP3 service is growing but not at the expense of Apple's iTunes, according to a report issued Tuesday by research firm, the NPD Group.

About 10 percent of the people who shopped at AmazonMP3 in February were previous Apple shoppers, NPD.

This is "a healthy indication that

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Tech blog Ars Technica says they've got their hands on an internal Apple memo that shows iTunes has topped Wal-Mart Stores in total global music sales.

The data in the memo cites a report from the month of January conducted by The NPD Group, a market research firm.

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Apple's iTunes will likely whip past Wal-Mart Stores to become the largest U.S. music retailer sometime this year.

The NPD Group issued a report Tuesday that said Apple had outpaced Best Buy and Target to become the No. 2 U.S. music retailer.

Unless the downward trend in

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Apple's continues to tighten its grip on retail music sales as iTunes has become the second largest U.S. music retailer.

A report released by tracking company NPD Group, showed that Apple now has more than 50 million and sold more than 4 billion songs last year.

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