The Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Curve has outsold the Apple iPhone in the Q1 2009, according to NPD figures.
NPD analyst Ross Rubin added that the Curve was helped by its widespread availability (its available through Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon) and Verizon’s recent BOGO on the phone.
Overall, the Curve came out on top, while the iPhone slipped to second and the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm took third.
NPD did not release any numbers with the ranking but analysts believe RIM took about 50 percent of the smartphone market in the Q1, up from 35 percent in the Q4 2008. Both Palm and Apple fell 10 percent each.
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The extremely popular movie information site IMDb has new ambitions, says founder Col Needham, ones that will eventually see the site offering “free streaming of its entire database of movies and TV shows.” As of typing, there are over 1.3 million movies and shows in IMDb’s database.
IMDb is owned by Amazon and over the past few months the company has been getting into the online video market with the launch of its Amazon VOD service.
Needham added that current IMDb traffic is 57 million unique users per month and is by far the most popular site of its kind. The company purchased Box Office Mojo last year, the most popular movie gross tracking website as well.
IMDb leapt into web video last year, adding 14,000 TV episodes and 2000 movies along with 120,000 trailers, interviews and other “bonus features.”
Needham did note that there could be one problem, “many of the films may not exist anymore and many may not be available for streaming.”
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Warner Bros. is reporting that the blockbuster smash hit The Dark Knight has surpassed the $1 billion USD milestone for worldwide box office sales, becoming only the fourth movie to ever do so.
The highly rated sequel has now made $1.001 billion USD since its release last July and sits behind Titanic ($1.84 billion), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.12 billion) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($1.07 billion) for highest all-time grossing movies.
Sitting in fifth place is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone which almost hit the milestone but fell short at $974.7 million.
According to Box Office Mojo, $533.1 million was grossed in United States theaters with the remaining coming from nations around the world.
Warner also added that The Dark Knight is the highest-grossing 2-D IMAX movie of all time, with a gross of $65 million worldwide. The movie is also the record holder for most Blu-ray sales on launch day, launch week, and all-time.
