London 2012 organisers reveal they received applications for more than 20 million tickets from 1.8 million people for the Olympic Games.

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cgriffin21 writes “Microsoft expected Internet Explorer 9 to be popular, but after more than two million people downloaded the IE9 beta in the first two days after its release, the software giant is having a hard time choosing which eye-popping statistics to cite. Microsoft says its “Beauty of the Web” site, which illustrates the aesthetic advantages of IE9′s support for HTML5 and hardware acceleration, has had more the 9 million visits and 26 million (more…)

Activision’s latest Hero, DJ Hero, is not living up to its name according to new demand expectations data from analyst Doug Creutz of Cowan and Company. Cruetz believes the lack in music game sales are because gamers are being turned away by high priced music games during the recession and that the Guitar Hero fad has perhaps run its course.

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