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IT pricing inquiry result: Australians are fools

March 26, 2013 4:40pm PDT

At the end of last week, the IT pricing inquiry heard evidence from Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft â€” and the evidence is damning, especially for consumer behaviour.

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Apple iPad's rivals can't hang on pricing

November 2, 2010 9:40am PDT

The alleged iPad killing tablets are coming, but with price tags that arenâ€™t going to even come close to denting Appleâ€™s lead.

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Time Warner Cable to experiment with Net pricing

January 17, 2008 6:11am PST

Time Warner Cable has announced that it will begin an experiment with a new pricing structure in a limited market. It is considering charging customers based on how much data they download.

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AtG: Conroy launches tech pricing probe, Linux Australia name debate continues

April 29, 2012 8:53pm PDT

A parliamentary inquiry will look into the higher prices paid by Australians for technology, and the Linux Australia debates rolls on and on.

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KeepVault's online backup service sees massive price increase... no word from company

October 12, 2008 1:10pm PDT

KeepVault, a great online backup service I recommended last month, has seriously raised their prices without informing existing users. Although their old pricing was unsustainable and needed...

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AT&T revamps data plan pricing, adds iPhone tethering

June 2, 2010 9:49pm PDT

AT&T revamped its data plan pricing structure in a move that could force rivals to follow. Unlimited plans are gone, but most customers should make out on the deal.

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VMware's new model: Is consumption-based pricing the way of the future?

July 18, 2011 6:28am PDT

With a major product announcement last week from VMware, many IT environments are required to fundamentally change their approach to licensing and provisioning. IT pro Rick Vanover shares the details.

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Amazon EC2 drops a pricing bomb to lure IT leaders to the cloud

March 12, 2009 9:21am PDT

Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web...

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Developer news: Rails updates, SQL Server 12, more Azure pricing cuts

March 19, 2012 1:03pm PDT

Read about PHP 5.4.0, IronPython 2.7.2.1, Bing Maps for Metro style apps, NetBeans IDE 7.1.1, why Visual Basic is better than C#, and more.

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Microsoft Windows 7 pricing deals spark interest and controversy

July 15, 2009 11:19am PDT

Greg Shultz separates rumor from fact to reveal the official known pricing and upgrade path for Windows 7.

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Verizon LTE 4G will go live Dec 5; pricing starts at $50 for 5GB

December 1, 2010 10:29am PST

Verizon Wireless will light up its long-awaited LTE 4G network on Sunday, December 5. See how much it will cost and learn the plans for LTE devices.

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How to price cloud services

November 14, 2011 6:00am PST

Thoran Rodrigues offers tips on setting a pricing structure for cloud services from a provider's perspective. Understanding this model will also help cloud service users find the right agreement.

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Windows Azure pricing demystified

December 15, 2011 2:08pm PST

Ian Hardenburgh explains the structure of Microsoft's Azure offerings, and more importantly, how they are priced, so that you can consider all the associated costs.

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Software maintenance pricing - Fair or out of control?

March 14, 2009 9:59pm PDT

Like it or not, software and hardware maintenance is a way of life in IT. Although IT organizations make every attempt to free up enough dollars to continue moving the business forward, sometimes...

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NEC's 43 in., 31:10 curved monitor commands $8,000 price tag

June 4, 2009 8:57am PDT

If money is no object and total immersion is your goal, NEC's CRV43 -- a 43 in. curved display with a 2880 by 900 pixel resolution -- is paramount to your setup. The downside? The $7,999 price tag.

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Programming news: Oracle patches, Azure pricing, OpenAmplify 1.1 released

July 20, 2009 11:15am PDT

Get news highlights about Oracle's 33 patches, Azure pricing, OpenAmplify 1.1, Micro Focus' ReUZE, Mozilla's Contributions site, and Kalido Connect 2009. Also, learn about the Toughest Developer...

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Tiered mobile data plans accelerate: Verizon Wireless to follow AT&T's lead

June 18, 2010 1:31pm PDT

Verizon Wireless is following AT&T's lead and cooking up tiered data plans. The all you can eat mobile data buffet is history.

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Peter Cochrane's Blog: How we'll beat road pricing

June 12, 2007 1:27am PDT

Jammers will proliferate and destroy GPS maps

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Vista price slashed in China: May a billion copies of Windows bloom through low, low prices!

August 3, 2007 8:33am PDT

Microsoft's Beijing office announced today the price of the Windows OS dropped Wednesday by two-thirds for Vista Home Basic and by over half on Vista Premium. Home Basic was slashed to 499 yuan...