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Comment Australia highest ranked native English speaking (Score 1) 159

by chromasia (#40295265) Attached to: Russian Programmers Dominate At Google Code Jam
Interesting to see that Australia is the highest ranked native English speaking country (12th overall). Also interesting that United States cumulative total was only 3% ahead of Indonesia. percentages from rounds 1, 2 and 3 added together: Belarus 166% Russia 152% Japan 142% China 140% Taiwan 137% Ukraine 135% Poland 132% Hong Kong 128% South Korea 110% Netherlands 109% Vietnam 107% Australia 102% Hungary 100% South Africa 98% Sweden 98% Greece 98% Thailand 96% Germany 90% United Kingdom 89% Bangladesh 87% France 84% Canada 83% United States 79% Indonesia 76%

The State of Digital Music in 2006 127

Posted by Zonk from the iknew-that dept.
wh0pper writes "Designtechnica has an excellent article on the state of digital music in 2006. Digital music accounted for only six percent of total music sales in 2005. Yet even that is a massive increase over the year before, a whopping 194 percent, which is fiscally valuable as the sales of CDs continue to decrease (although even with digital sales, the record labels experienced another downturn in 2005). While the young, usually the first to adopt and adapt to new technology, have been downloading and swapping music for quite some time, there's been a ripple effect into the older, warier area of the population, one that will only increase. Thank--or blame--Apple and its iPod, or any of the many other makes selling like hotcakes in the stores.

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