Modern Warfare and Farmville - More Alike Than You’d Think!

Last December, I blogged about my experiences running my own virtual cafe’ in Cafe’ World via Facebook. Since then, I spent a lot of time in Cafe’ Frazier, sending gifts of food and stove parts to friends, cooking up a storm to keep my level higher than those of my neighbors, and trying out new decor items. There are times when I am too busy to play online, so I go dark for a period of time, but something always seems to reignite my interest, and I get sucked in again.
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Diminishing Returns

NPD’s 2010 Security Software Topical uncovered some interesting trends this year, some of which we released in a press release today, but some of the other tidbits require a little more nuanced reading into the last 3 years of data.

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A Phone Call To Action

This week NPD reported on Q2’s smartphone OS market share. It was a big quarter for Android, which is now installed on one of every three smartphones sold in the U.S. Android’s gains clearly came at the expense of RIM, which dropped nine percentage points quarter over quarter, and has seen an even more precipitous drop from a year ago. And yet, even with smartphones now growing to account for 42 percent of the U.S. market, Samsung and LG continued to lead the overall U.S. handset market without a significant smartphone presence, certainly in relation to their feature phones.

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