Commscore has released it's quarterly ecommerce sales figures and Wow!

Online retail sales is up 23% across the board for the third quarter of this year versus last year. The breakdown of categories is even more interesting. Video game sales online is up 199% (thank you Sony Playstation 3 and Nintindo Wii). Consumer electronics, toys and hobbies and event tickets are all up more than 50%, as well..

Commscore says ecommerce is on a pace to surpass $200 billion this year. Wow! again.

Have a great weekend and we'll get back to business on Monday.

Meantime, Apple groupies enjoy your time in line this afternoon while waiting to buy your copy of Leopard OS X, which goes on sale at 6p this evening. The new Mac operating system retails for about $129.