Apple`s late-October launch of Leopard generated the best first-month results for an operating system upgrade in the company`s history, a market research firm said today, reports Computerworld.
Just days before Leopard`s 26 October debut, Chris Swenson, an analyst at NPD Group, wondered whether it could beat the extraordinary performance of Tiger. "It`s going to be really hard to top the Tiger launch," he said then. "It was such a successful launch."
Today, however, Swenson said Leopard bested Tiger in almost every sales category.
Facebook sues firms
Facebook is suing companies and people that it says tried to harvest personal information about its users, says Information Week.
Facebook last week amended a lawsuit it filed in June against 10 unknown individuals and 10 unknown companies for unlawfully accessing its servers.
Based on information subpoenaed from Look Communications and Rogers Communications, two Canadian ISPs, Facebook on 12 December amended its complaint to name three individuals and three companies among the defendants.
Google develops Wiki rival
Google announced Thursday it is working on a collaborative online encyclopaedia that could compete with Wikipedia, the popular user-edited encyclopaedia, says CS Monitor.
The "knol" project - named for Google`s shorthand for a unit of knowledge - will allow a user to create an entry on virtually any topic. Like Wikipedia, it will allow anyone to add an entry, but unlike the largely anonymous Wikipedia, it will post an author`s byline and profile with each entry.
"The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors," writes Google`s Udi Manber on the company`s official blog:
Rock Band strums up sales
The opening act, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, has been a tough ticket at retailers in all versions since its release in late October. It`s the latest in a two-year-old franchise in which players strum along with rock tunes using a guitar-shaped controller, reports USA Today.
New competitor Rock Band, released a month ago for Xbox 360 and PS3, is a near-sellout, despite a $170 price tag (including microphone, guitar and drum controller). "Clearly, this is the hot genre of the moment," says analyst David Cole of market researcher DFC Intelligence.
Each game`s song list has Rock Hall of Fame credentials: Guitar Hero III includes Paint It Black (the Rolling Stones), La Grange (ZZ Top) and The Seeker (The Who), while Rock Band boasts Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash), Next to You (The Police) and Orange Crush (R.E.M.).
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