Tag archive: pricing

College students have long complained that text books cost too much. But woe is the poor sap who has to pick up a copy of genetics textbook, The Making of a Fly, by Peter Lawrence, which was recently listed at the ridiculous price of $23,698,655.93 on Amazon.com. The absurd price of this out-of-print book, first published in 1992, was discovered by UC Berkley evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen, who went to Amazon to purchase the book. There,… Read More

The era of mainstream cloud computing officially arrived today with Amazon's launch of three cloud products: Cloud Drive, Cloud Player for Web and Cloud Player for Android. Through this release, Amazon has catapulted itself over the competition, to the forefront of consumer computing — and left Apple and Google eating its dust. The Cloud Drive, news of which leaked out Monday, serves as a “digital locker” for storing any type… Read More

For many companies, CTIA has taken a backseat to the Mobile World Congress and CES this year, but not for Samsung. Just a month after unveiling its Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1, Samsung showed off two new tablets and mouthful of software and UI enhancements for its entire tablet lineup. Our complete recap is below. Newer, thinner Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 In a sign that competition is incredibly stiff in the tablet space, In the last two… Read More

D’oh. An online pricing goof at night on June 25 has cost Dell a lot of money. On its site for Taiwan, the company mistakenly put the price of a 19” LCD monitor as NT$500 ($15 US).  Not surprisingly, word spread like wildfire, and in the eight hours before a correction was made, some 26,000 customers purchased 140,000 of the monitors. The correct price was NT$4,800 ($148), and Taiwan's Consumer Protection Commission… Read More

Electronics retailer Best Buy (which, until Wal-Mart lurched into the game just after the holidays, used to be the only third party retailer offering iPhones) has announced that it is now offering refurbished iPhone 3G units on sale in its store nationwide. A refurbished 8 GB model goes for $149, while a refurbished 16 GB model goes for $249. Both prices represent a $50 discount of the iPhone's normal retail pricing. “The… Read More

Apple's iTunes music service may still be clinging to the idea of uniform pricing for music tracks—although their stance has slipped somewhat, what with iTunes Plus charging higher prices being charges for DRM-free tracks from EMI, and the company now engaging in a game of chicken with Universal Music, with one of the points of contention being Universal's desire to institute variable pricing for its artists. Although… Read More

Apple Computer confirmed yesterday that it has renewed agreements with four of the largest music distributors

From the press release: All 105 Apple retail stores will host "Tiger World Premiere" events from 6:00 p.m. to midnight offering workshops and hands-on demonstrations of Tiger's hottest features, plus giveaways at every store including a chance to win a PowerBook G4, iPod and more. "Starting tomorrow night, features like Spotlight and Dashboard will change the way millions of people use their computers," said Philip Schiller,… Read More

Almost all of Seagate's new products will be released in the third and fourth quarter, a combination of the development time needed for the new platforms as well as preparation for the lucrative selling season. Seagate's new announcements will cover the server, desktop PC, notebook, and consumer markets. In January, Seagate's executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, Brian Dexheimer, said Seagate would… Read More