Two other companies with strong IP positions that are benefitting from my Always On, Always Connected PowerTrend with the launch of 4G LTE and mobile moving beyond basic mobile phones are Qualcomm (QCOM) and InterDigital (IDCC).

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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.

ECONOMIST: The video-games industry

Furthermore, those retail figures do not include Apple stores, where droves of customers flock to purchase their iPods, and more importantly, because that's launch week and any new device (especially one so hyped as the Zune) will almost always set its sales records during its week of launch.

ENGADGET: Zune takes #2 spot in retail launch week