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HP Makes $100 TouchPad Price Cut Permanent

Ina Fried in Mobile on August 10, 2011 at 4:30 pm PT

After trying out various temporary discounts, HP has decided to permanently shave $100 from the price of its webOS-based tablet.

Early Price Cut Comes for Nintendo’s New 3DS

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 28, 2011 at 9:40 am PT

Nintendo has dropped the price of its glasses-free 3-D handheld game device by $80 after only four months on sale.

Wired’s iPad App Boasts a New Feature: A Price Cut

Peter Kafka in Media on June 29, 2010 at 10:50 pm PT

Condé Nast sold some 95,000 digital copies of Wired’s June issue at $4.99, the same price the ink-and-paper edition commands. So why sell the July issue at $3.99?

Verizon Narrows Kin Target to Thrifty Young and Social Users

John Paczkowski in Social on June 28, 2010 at 4:01 pm PT

What does Generation Upload think of Kin, the social media phone Microsoft designed for it? Evidently not very much, because Verizon is cutting its prices barely a month after bringing it to market. Over the weekend, the carrier quietly reduced the price of both Kin models, dropping the Kin One to $29 from $49 and the Kin Two to $49 from $99.

Rhapsody Starts Its New Life With Price Cut and an Investment From Universal Music

Peter Kafka in Media on April 6, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

Rhapsody starts life as an independent company this month and the music subscription service is marking the occasion with a price cut by lowering the price of its all-you-can-eat offering from $15 to $10 a month.

Survey: 58 Percent of iPad Owners With Kindles Say iPad Will Replace Amazon’s E-Reader

John Paczkowski in News on April 5, 2010 at 5:10 am PT

An interesting data point from the first of many Monday morning analyst notes on the iPad’s weekend launch. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster surveyed 448 iPad buyers Saturday, asking about the size of the device they were purchasing and their reasons for doing so, and found that 13 percent owned a Kindle. Of those, 58 percent said the iPad would replace Amazon’s device as their e-book reader.

Verizon’s Palm Pre and Pixi Prices Officially INSAAAAAAANE!

John Paczkowski in News on April 1, 2010 at 11:59 am PT

Verizon has a solution to Palm’s daunting inventory problems: Dramatic price cuts on the company’s webOS smartphones. The carrier is now selling the Pre Plus for $49.99 and the Pixi Plus for $29.99.

Palm: Pssst. Wanna Buy 1.15 Million Smartphones?

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 19, 2010 at 2:33 pm PT

Palm shipped 960,000 smartphones during its third quarter–23 percent more than in the previous quarter. Too bad the company sold fewer than half of them, because now, on top of all its other woes, Palm is developing an inventory problem, a nasty one, too.

CBS: We’ll Cut iTunes Prices for Some Shows [UPDATE]

Peter Kafka in Media on February 18, 2010 at 2:49 pm PT

Steve Jobs’s effort to cut prices on TV shows sold on iTunes has found at least partial backing from CBS. CEO Les Moonves says the broadcaster will mark down the price on some of its shows from $1.99 to 99 cents. “There are certain shows that will be sold on Apple for 99 cents,” Moonves said today, adding, however, that details have not been worked out.