http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/16/nielsen.on.99.iphone.3g/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0906/iphone3g-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The iPhone 3G's price drop to $99 is a large enough move that it could overhaul the entire cellphone industry, according to research by Nielsen. Analyst Roger Entner believes the cut "completely changes" the worth of every phone already on offer and won't just hurt smartphones, where the comparisons are more evident, but any limited "feature" phone that nears the price point. Any cellphone over ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/06/16/nielsen.on.99.iphone.3g/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/02/cd.sales.drop.20.percent/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/ipodshuffle2g.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />By Jeff Valvano Media tracking agency Nielsen SoundScan this week noted that physical album sales in the US have dropped a significant 20 percent between 2007 and 2008 to just 360.6 million copies. The drop marks the seventh decline in eight years and is credited partly to both a shift towards online-only music sales as well as illegal file trading. Nielsen warns in particular that the steep... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/02/cd.sales.drop.20.percent/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/21/apple.and.iphone.appeal/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0807/italy-iphone-17.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Ahead of Apple's earnings announcement, Nielsen Online on Monday sent out a compiled list of statistical data on the company, showing that overall brand awareness and iPhone users are up this quarter. Nielsen reveals that over the second quarter, web traffic to Apple.com grew 12-percent, from 44.3 million unique monthly impressions to 49.7 million, while total time spent on the website grew from 8... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/21/apple.and.iphone.appeal/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/19/apple.no.10.on.internet/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0807/nielson-june2008-19.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple is in the top ten for both parent companies and brands, according to Nielsen Online. Apple placed 10th in the Top 10 Parent Companies/Divisions as well as on the Top 10 Web Brands for June 2008. Apple had a unique audience of nearly 50,000 visitors, averaging over an hour per person in browsing time, good for 10th, with Google leading the way (nearly 130,000 visitors, spending almost two hou... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/19/apple.no.10.on.internet/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/11/google.tops.web.audience/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0712/googlecampus.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Nielsen Online has reported May 2008 data for the Top Sites by Parent Company and Top Brands. Google tops the list with 127 million unique visitors. Microsoft is close behind with 123 million, while Yahoo! comes in third at 115 million. Time Warner pulled 107 million visitors, News Corp. Online 79 million, eBay 66 million and InterActiveCorp 64 million. Wikimedia Foundation, Amazon and New York Ti... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/11/google.tops.web.audience/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/22/apples.web.traffic/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/nie_080123_nielsonsm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />According to new data from Nielsen Online, Web traffic to the Apple Inc's sites collectivly grew 13 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2008, from a three-month average monthly unique audience of 42.9 million to 48.4 million. Total minutes spent on the site grew 12 percent year over year, from 9.4 billion in Q1 2007 to 10.5 billion in Q1 2008, while total purchases at The Apple Store gr... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/22/apples.web.traffic/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/14/dvrs.boosting.viewers/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0801/tivoseries3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Digital video recorders (DVRs) are increasing the amount of time people spend watching TV, says the Nielsen research group. While DVRs can theoretically make people extremely selective, it appears to simply be enabling people to watch more programming they would ordinarily miss, due to inconvenient timeframes. A study specifically contrasted viewing from November 2005 -- before much DVR penetrat... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/14/dvrs.boosting.viewers/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/06/polk.in.apple.stores.yaho/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/reviews/fujitsu/scansnap-s510m_med.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />In brief: We've posted a Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M review, Polk Audio products will soon show up in Apple stores, Northwestern students used iPhones to gauge Super Bowl ads, Nielsen has Yahoo!/Microsoft merger metrics, and Tessera has acquired Fotonation ... We have posted a review of the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M, which seems to be the one exception to various negative assumptions about scanners. It is... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/06/polk.in.apple.stores.yaho/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/01/blu.ray.holding.control/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0711/unforgivenbluray.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Blu-Ray is continuing to grow its stranglehold on the HD movie format, a new Nielsen study suggests. Contained in Nielsen's latest VideoScan First Alert is word that in the week ending January 27th, Blu-Ray accounted for 82 percent of HD disc sales, leaving HD DVD with a mere 18 percent. Similarly, all of the ten best-selling HD movies were for Blu-Ray, led by Saw IV, and followed by The Game Pl... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/01/blu.ray.holding.control/ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/25/blu.ray.extending.lead/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0801/blu-rayshelf.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Blu-ray disc format is continuing to show clear gains over HD DVD in the second week after the potentially decisive Warner conversion to Blu-ray, according to the latest issue of Home Media Magazine. The industry publication notes that Blu-ray represented about 83 percent of movie sales were for Blu-ray versions of movies, leaving the remaining 17 percent to HD DVD. All of Nielsen VideoScan'... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/25/blu.ray.extending.lead/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:15:00 GMT