Hardware sales were down 37% and software sales were down 25%, while accessory sales rose 5%.
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Over the same period, overall Blu-ray hardware sales (no word on if this includes the PlayStation 3 or not) were down 27 percent and software sales down 5 percent.
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Specifically, the Nielsen Netratings mentioned show HD DVD hardware sales up 37 percent, and software sales up 20 percent from the first to the second quarter of this year.
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Equipment and software sales were strong, led by chip makers like Texas Instruments and Xerox, which gained 2% in its third quarter after a 52% decline in 2009, leaving the remaining GDP sectors to find their pace.
Chizen did, and business software sales climbed 42% in 2003.
The transition from one generation of consoles to the next is always painful, though this time around the launch of new portable game devices by Sony and Nintendo has helped to prop up software sales and mask the decline in sales of games for fixed consoles.
The slide includes a 32% drop in hardware sales, a 42% drop in software sales and a 1% rise in sales of accessories.
When the target audience members fired up their Palm devices, they were greeted with a simple text-and-graphics message, which described Intraware's online software sales and services and asked them to submit their e-mail address for more information.
The PS4 is arriving amid declines in video game hardware, software and accessory sales.
The shares trade at a PE ratio of about 14 and more than twice sales, just as it reported a worrisome drop in sales of big-ticket items, like mainframe computers, and some slowing of software sales.
While hardware sales rose 12% from a year ago, and accessory sales improved 13%, software sales slumped 16%.
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The firm's focus is now on offering corporate clients video and proprietary software programs aimed at optimizing sales management and teamwork.
He also sees potential for gross margin expansion, on higher software sales and cost benefits from new products.
The latter, Salesforce.com, capitalizes software expenses and sales commissions against customer contracts outstanding.
Samsung SDS is also teaming with SAP to bring SAP Business Suite software and Samsung Mobile Sales Force Automation to businesses.
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This could go some way towards explaining the harrowing recent declines in video game software sales and prime time network television audiences.
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When Godard Abel began the B2B sales and software company, BigMachines, he was based in Chicago, so planting the startup seed near the city was a no-brainer.
Duncan said the strongest trends his company sees in these development initiatives are in the growth of service-oriented software architectures, subscription-based software sales and industry-specific standards in areas such as radio frequency tags and cellular telephony standards.
Although hard skills like sales and software knowledge can get you through the door, more companies are asking for soft skills as well from job candidates, finds a recent study by Millennial Branding, a consulting firm in Boston.
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With lessons learned from the standout success of its portable Nintendo DS--the company garnered 82% of portable software sales and sold 13 million DS units last year--the company has never had a clearer opportunity to differentiate itself to American audiences.
If the WiiU continues to sell well, and we really do have new systems from Sony and Microsoft by the end of next year, you will see a dramatic rise in sales of hardware and software alike.
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In a statement, Lucent Chairman and Chief Executive Henry Schacht blamed the loss on softening sales to local exchange carriers and service providers as well as lower software sales.
During the sting, SIIA officials scanned Web sites of eBay, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSNBC.com and smaller auction sites for software sales.
The new software is powering sales of Apple laptop and desktop computers ahead, thanks in part to software giant Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) troubles with Vista, the latest version of the ubiquitous Windows operating system.
Infosys is India's second-largest software exporter by sales and the first major company to report results.
Its ongoing investment in sales and marketing and software development have doubled or more along with revenue.
It suggests sales of hardware and software sold by retailers were down 11% on the year in November.
Sales of software and communications equipment, on the other hand, were both up around 8% versus last year's third quarter numbers.
Sales of software and hardware to U.S. companies continue to grow.
YoYo Games currently has 25 employees but is planning to create an additional 25 new positions, mainly in systems development, software engineering, sales and customer service.
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