A new Nielsen Online report has suggested that traffic to the Zune site has increased by 153% over the past year. This is the best increase out of any hardware manufacturer web site, which includes Apple’s web site. The Zune web site, which is run by Microsoft, sells digital music for the Zune player. The Zune website even beat Apple’s site, which saw a 12% increase from the year before, but still leads at the number one hardware manufacturer website.  Here is the top 10 list of hardware manufacturer destinations in September with their amount of visitors this year (in millions), amount of visitors last year (in millions, and their year period growth.

• Apple Inc., 49.66, 44.29, 12%
• Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P., 21.26, 17.77, 20%
• Dell Inc., 14.74, 14.98, -2%
• Sun Microsystems Inc., 5.12, 3.47, 48%
• Xbox, 2.75, 2.09, 31%
• International Business Machines Corp., 2.18, 2.64, -18%
• Gateway Inc., 2.14, 1.97, 9%
• Nintendo, 1.55, 1.88, -17%
• Zune, 1.28, .508, 153%
• Logitech, 1.27, 1.06, 20%

- Geoff

[Source: InternetRetailer]

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