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1. Can the Palm Pre knock the iPhone off its perch?

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 19 October 2009

   ... 500 texts and unlimited wi-fi for £34.26. Eighteen-month tariffs are also available, with the 8GB Pre priced at £96.89 for breaking off the relationship early. Not too far off the iPhone 3G deals, but ...

2. Kindle is no answer to reading books digitally

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Sunday, 18 October 2009

   ... is that it's got to be cheap - far cheaper than a netbook and preferably given away by an Amazon or another big vendor. That more or less happens in Europe with mobile phones - find the right tariff and ...

3. Online radio stations agree on royalty payments

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Tuesday, 07 July 2009

   ... of their revenues until 2015, or a lower play-per-rate tariff. Pandora Media, a webcaster based in Oakland, CA, estimates that it will make $40 million in revenues during 2009. The webcasters were engaged ...

4. How my Blackberry isn't crackberrying me up

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 07 July 2009

     My mobile phone tariff allows for a free upgrade every 18 months or so and this time I traded in my dodgy Sony-Ericcson brick for a Blackberry Curve 8900. My mobile phone tariff allows for a free ...

5. Apple's iPhone sweeps the board in smartphone sales

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 03 July 2009

   ... Softbank devised to cut the price of handsets and slash the price of the communications tariff. In the list of the top 10 devices that are best sellers in Japan, the Blackberry Bold comes in at number ...

6. China to build 10 megawatt solar power plant, wind proving far cheaper

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Monday, 23 February 2009

   ... station located on an offshore island in Shanghai and another located in Inner Mongolia, with a feed-in tariff rate of four yuan per kilowatt-hour for each, the source indicated. For this project, the ...

7. Solar inverter market to grow by 40% in 2008

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Tuesday, 15 July 2008

   ... slightly in 2009 as feed-in tariffs are cut in these two countries; however, revenues from solar inverters are forecast to exceed $2 billion by 2010. More here at Digitimes.  ...

8. Wholesale USB flash stick prices sink to new lows

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 22 August 2006

   ... a tidy profit selling them for $25 dollars, but you have to add in costs for shipping and insurance. You also have to deal with the U.S. Customs Department and any tariffs. Flash memory prices have been ...

9. EU ends antidumping investigation of DVD+R/-R discs

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Thursday, 15 June 2006

   ... The EU announced, on May 4 of this year, that it would not impose temporary antidumping tariffs on the previously mentioned DVD+R/-R discs and took a further step to end the corresponding investigation, ...

10. Cable broadband prices rise

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 18 January 2006

      The average price of cable modem services rose in the last quarter of 2005 according to Point Topic's latest Broadband Tariff Benchmarks. The average price of cable modem services rose in the last ...

11. Anti-piracy software royalties cut after complaints

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Wednesday, 13 April 2005

    ... Philips Electronics, said they would cut the proposed tariffs for anti-piracy technology by one third to $0.65 per mobile phone or other electronic gadget. Read the complete story. (Reuters)  ...

12. Phone DRM too expensive, say carriers

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Saturday, 02 April 2005

    ... the GSM standard, with over a billion users worldwide, has declared that the proposed tariff for DRM is too high and is unworkable. Members of the GSM Association think that the per-transaction model agreed ...

13. China imposes antidumping tariffs on optical fiber from the US, Japan, S. Korea

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 04 January 2005

      China has decided to impose five-year antidumping tariffs of 7.01-46.35 percent on dispersion unshifted single-mode optical fiber (commonly termed G652 single-mode optical fiber) imported from the ...

14. House approves Internet access tax ban

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Monday, 22 November 2004

      The U.S. The U.S. House of Representatives approved today the Senate version of a new Internet access tax moratorium, which bans state and federal tariffs on most Internet connections for the ...

15. Labels seek end to 99c music per song download

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 09 April 2004

      The Wall Street Journal reports that the major five labels think that 99 cents per song is too cheap, and are discussing a price hike that would increase the tariff to $1.25 up to $2.99 per song. ...

16. Micron gets backing against Hynix

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 28 February 2003

    ... and other Korean DRAM makers, should be penalized with trade tariffs because of alleged government-backed bailouts. It's all at EBN Online.  ...

17. US to lift Hyundai dumping fines

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 03 October 2000

    ... in 1992. The removal of the tariff came after South Korea agreed to drop its complaint against the US for impairment of free trade in the World Trade Organization. For more, see semibiznews.com and/or ...