Tag: pricing
Microsoft Kinect gets US price, costs as much as an Xbox 360
The US price of the Kinect Xbox 360 motion-sensing add-on has been outed over at the Microsoft Store. The good news is that American readers can pre-order their unit now. The bad news is, it isn't going to come…
O2 iPhone 4 pricing revealed
O2 have showed their iPhone 4 hand, laying down how much it'll cost to grab the phone on their network. Slightly cheaper than Orange's plans, you can grab it for £25 per month over 24 months, or £30 a month…
Official – Apple confirms iPad to launch in the UK in April
Apple have just announced that the iPad will be hitting UK shores in late April. The news means that the iPad will miss its initial late-March launch date. Both Wi-Fi and 3G models will be available at this slightly delayed…
Apple iPad UK price gets leaked
The Apple iPad's UK pricing has leaked online. £389 will bag you the 16GB Wi-Fi enabled entry model, £439 will get you the 32GB Wi-Fi version, while the 64GB Wi-Fi model costs £489. Direct conversions from the announced US prices…
Steve Jobs: Flash would bring iPad battery life down to 1.5 hours
It's well known that Steve Jobs isn't a fan of Adobe's Flash, but a recent meeting with Wall Street Journal executives has brought the Apple / Adobe slagging match to a whole new level. Jobs is currently on a media…
Facebook polls users on whether they'd pay for vanity URLs
Social networking goliath Facebook is considering offering paid-for vanity URLs to users. It would mean that, for a fee, you’d be able to get Facebook.com/whateveryoulike.
The URLs might go through a bidding process, so that whoever bids the highest gets access to a particular shortcode. The site currently only offers them to selected high-profile users to encourage them to use the site more.
Most sites usually take a ‘first-come, first-served’ approach to usernames, but that’s resulted in many companies having trouble getting their trademarks because they’re being squatted on by other users. Companies that try and shift the squatters often gain intense criticism.
Would you pay for a vanity URL on Facebook? If it wasn’t too expensive, I think I might. Let us know your thoughts on Twitter – message @techdigest.
(via AllFacebook)
Lite-On announce lower 'strategic' price for internal Blu-ray drive in Europe
Lite-On has announced that, since Blu-ray lasers are no longer in short supply and the company has accumulated enough stock of the product, they are lowering the price of their internal Blu-ray PC drive – titled as the particularly uninspiring LH-2B1S.
The drive launched back in November last year, when there was a distinct shortage of components. Now, says Katrin Ackermann, European Sales Manager for Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions, “we can see already a growing demand of Blu-ray. It looks like the format is getting more popular now that there are more playback devices and movie titles available in the market. Now we have the possibility to lower our prices, to make our product available for a bigger group of customers and increase our sales quantity.”
Orange intro new European roaming rates
Orange has announced the launch of new European mobile roaming rates for its consumers. From 30th August 2007, it will cost 38p per minute to make a call while roaming, and 19p per minute to receive them – at least, in their “Europe 1” area.
Orange customers can check how much a call will cost while away, by texting “FROM [COUNTRY]” to 452 (PAYG) or 159 (Pay Monthly), and receiving a free-of-charge confirmation from Orange.
No doubt this new “transparency” on Orange’s part is in response to various initiatives by the EU and Germany to pull into line the high costs associated with mobile roaming abroad.
Sony announce UK pricing for first PS3 games
Regardless of what's inside the PS3, it's still gonna play games, and Sony has announced pricing for first-party PS3 games and downloadable content. Discs will cost £39.99, the same price as Nintendo Wii games, and a tenner less than Xbox…
3GSM 2007: Mobile phone and software manufacturers urge a cheaper mobile Web
Mobile phone operating system maker Symbian, whose software is found on about 70% of the world's smartphones, together will leading mobile phone makers, have appealed for mobile operators to make their wireless Internet services cheaper to appeal to more customers….
