As of November 21st, digital music downloads have only seen 5 percent year-over-year growth, a number much lighter than most record labels execs had expected and hoped for.

The industry, while at least seeing continued growth from digital revenue has continued to see strong declines in CD sales, with 47 million fewer physical CDs being sold in 2010 YoY compared to 2009.

So far, digital track gains have increased by 95 million this year.

The revenue from 95 million downloads (at an average of $1.29) is nothing compared to the decline of 47 million CDs (at an average of $9.99).

Individual track sales are flat YoY but albums have seen a 12 percent jump, buoyed by strong sales of "Speak Now" by Taylor Swift and the full Beatles catalog on iTunes.

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Developers over at XDA-Devs having begun porting the Android Gingerbread SDK to phones other than the Nexus S.

Google revealed the Nexus S on Monday, the first smartphone to run Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).

A number of popular smartphones have been promised the 2.3 update, such as the Droid, Droid 2, G2 and Galaxy S but the timetable for those updates is still unknown.

For now, rooted devices can boot Gingerbread but otherwise the ROMs are not useful.

Says the Dev site: "Please keep in mind that these ROMs are only for testing and playing purposes. These are not meant for daily use – these are all SDK ports so basic functions won't work properly. These ROMs only boot, and they only show you the Gingerbread interface. Nothing more. You can't do anything with it."

The following phones have these "play" ROMS:

HTC HD2
Droid Eris
HTC Hero
HTC Hero (CDMA)
HTC Desire
HTC Wildfire
HTC EVO 4G
HTC Incredible
HTC Sapphire

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'Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood' gamers have vented their frustrations this week over a glitch that literally breaks the game, leaving users stuck in the year 2012 and halting all forward progress in the game.

For current players of the title who might be worried they will encounter the same glitch, angry gamers are reporting that the glitch happens when you leave "the Animus as Desmond Miles and explore Monteriggioni in the game's year 2012. It appears that after a player does this he or she is then unable to have his or her character return to the Animus, which essentially traps them in the game's year 2012 and stops all further player progress," says GR.

For some gamers, they managed to avoid the glitch by not saving the game, at all, while in the year 2012. A few others turned on the subtitles and averted breaking their game. For some gamers, neither "fix" worked.

Ubisoft, the company behind the blockbuster game has yet to comment, living up to their reputation of caring more about pretty much anything than the gamers purchasing their games.

As of writing, Ubisoft has still not responded, but it is clear that a patch will be needed.

You can read the Ubi forums here (a lot of the posts have been removed due to profanity from frustrated owners): Brotherhood Forum thread

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Google has said this week that the Android Market has gotten a full makeover, with users getting the new "significantly updated" client over the next two weeks.

To get the update you must have Android 1.6 or higher running on your device.

The engineering team behind the Market says the update "introduces important features that improve merchandising of applications, streamline the browse-to-purchase experience, and make it easier for developers to distribute their applications."

Helping users discover new apps, the team has added a "carousel" on the home and category screens. Promoted apps will be prominently displayed in the carousel and users can head right to download pages for the apps.

Categories will have new widgets and live wallpapers, as well.

Perhaps most notably for "discoverability," is the addition of "Related" content to app pages, showing apps of similar interest to the one you are downloading.

All the information about an application is now available on one page, meaning tabs are no longer necessary.

On the developer size, .APK files now have a maximum size of 50MB, meaning larger, richer games should be on the way in the future.

Read more here: Android Market Client Update

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