3 posts and columns on packaging

Nexus One: $174.15 in Parts, $355.85 in…er…Incidentals

in Mobile on January 11, 2010 at 7:59 am PT

If you were to build it yourself, Google’s new Nexus One superlative-phone would set you back about $174.15, according to a teardown conducted by iSuppli. That’s almost $5 less than the $179 T-Mobile is charging for the device with a two-year service plan. But its about a third of its unsubsidized price–$530.
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UPS Offers Web-Print Service

in News on September 14, 2009 at 1:11 pm PT

After decades of wrestling for dominance in the U.S. shipping industry, United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. are squaring off on another front: the growing world of online printing. UPS is rolling out marketing Monday to highlight a push into Web-based printing, in which clients can send documents such as business presentations to UPS retail stores via the Internet to have printed copies made. FedEx already offers online printing at its FedEx Office/Kinko’s locations.