The company said worldwide shipments of instant film in the quarter were down 7.3 percent, to $203.9 million.

Dell saw negative growth once again, with worldwide shipments dropping by 7.8 percent from the first quarter of 2006.

The album has had an excellent commercial performance in all over Latin America, with estimated worldwide shipments standing at 500,000 copies approximately.

Kingdom Hearts II reaches 2.5 million units in worldwide shipment.

Indeed, the growth in worldwide shipments exceeded its forecasts.

Last week, research firms reported that worldwide shipments of PC's rose about 15 percent in the third quarter.

But the study found that Palm's worldwide shipments declined 23.5 percent from last year's first quarter.

That compares with total worldwide shipments of about six million units of its older line between 1981 and earlier this year.

Dell's worldwide shipments fell 8 percent from a year earlier.

The most telling evidence of the new landscape for PC's was seen in statistics on worldwide shipments.