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Microsoft to raise Windows Small Business Server price 80 percent: When Microsoft starts shipping its Windows Small Business Server 2008 product later this year, its price will be substantially higher -- as much as 80 percent -- than the current version of Small Business Server. Surprisingly, some testers and at least one market researcher don't seem fazed...; Tags: U.S., Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Product, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, CAL, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-13
How PaaS pulls software pricing down: How PaaS pulls software pricing downMinor Errata CorrectionPhil:In your last paragraph, you state that customers would need to stay tuned into email in order to learn about service updates. That's incorrect. Actually, within their Bungee Connect developer accounts, customers will see available updates for their registered Bungee Application Server appliances....; Tags: PaaS, software pricing, Bungee Connect, pricing strategy, software; Discussion threads 2008-04-25
How PaaS pulls software pricing down: Platform-as-a-service startup Bungee Labs this week released a new utility pricing model that really starts to put the spotlight on the pricing charged by established software-as-a-service providers. Bungee also announced what it calls 'federated hosting', which gives customers the choice of where to host their Bungee-developed applications; with Bungee in...; Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Application, PaaS, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-04-25
Making sense of Windows' irrational pricing and licensing: Making sense of Windows' irrational pricing and licensingIt's kind of a sad thing...[i]You can get a better deal direct from Microsoft, just by installing an unlicensed copy of Windows and not activating it within the first 30 days.[/i]It's kind of a sad thing when the way to get Windows at...; Tags: Media Center PCs, Pricing, Piracy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, irrational pricing, pricing strategy, Making Sense; Discussion threads 2008-04-14
Making sense of Windows' irrational pricing and licensing: A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced it was cutting the price of retail, shrink-wrapped copies of Windows Vista. The new suggested price for an upgrade edition of Windows Vista Ultimate is $219, down from $299. The cost of an upgrade edition of Vista Home Premium drops to $129 from $159. Those price...; Tags: Product Activation, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Price, Pricing Strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-04-14

The Price Is Right (exe): Feel the thrill of playing in Contestant Row and through different pricing game challenges, including Plinko, Cliff Hangers and Punch-A-Bunch and more of your favorites. Try your luck as you spin the Big Wheel for the chance fabulous prizes and a huge pay-off at the Showcase. This version is the...; Tags: Pricing Strategy, Ludia, Pricing, Games, Marketing Research, Marketing, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-04-01
Truphone launches new low-cost international VoIP pricing with Tru Zone: Truphone launches new low-cost international VoIP pricing with Tru ZoneCheapest VoIP with good QualityCheapest VoIP with good Quality. http://www.skysiptel.comGet you free sip number and free softphone in a minute.If you are interested in VoIP revolution this is a right place to start. You can start calling right away using free...; Tags: Telephony, Tru Zone, VoIP pricing, Truphone, VoIP, pricing strategy; Discussion threads 2008-03-05
Truphone launches new low-cost international VoIP pricing with Tru Zone: I use a few different VoIP clients on my Nokia N95, which is one of the main reasons I thoroughly enjoy using devices running the S60 OS, and the client I keep going back to for reliable communications is Truphone. As a user who started using their service last year,...; Tags: VoIP, Phone, Call, Cell Phone, Pricing Strategy, Truphone, Wireless LANs, Pricing, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Marketing Research, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Znode Storefront (exe): Znode Storefront is a fully customizable Ecommerce software solution built with ASP.NET 2.0. Features include a rich online product catalog, customer and order management, inventory tracking, content management, and support for over 10 major payment gateways including Authorize.net, Orbital, Verisign Payflow Pro and more. Microsoft.NET developers can easily customize this...; Tags: Payment, Storefront, Pricing Strategy, Znode, Znode Storefront, Pricing, C#, Operational Accounting, Web Technology, .Net, Marketing Research, Marketing, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance; Software downloads 2008-02-27
Rackspace, as a service: Rackspace subsidiary Mosso this week relaunched its hosting platform as a pay-as-you-grow cloud computing service. There have been noises recently about hosting provider Rackspace's ability to compete with Amazon's EC2 service and similar cloud offerings. Mosso is its answer to those critics. Briefing me on the announcement...; Tags: Rackspace, Pricing Strategy, Mosso, Pricing, Marketing Research, Channel Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-02-21
Bungee Labs opens developer platform-as-a-service: Bungee Labs launched a public beta of a new version of its BungeeConnect, an on demand application development platform for professional programmers. The concept is similar to what salesforce.com is doing with its Force.com platform, although Bungee Labs claims that it is differentiated on the basis of being purely...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Concept, Application, Server, Programming Language, Pricing Strategy, Bungee Labs, BungeeConnect, Amazon EC2, Application Builder, Sales Force Management, Data Centers, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-18
Comcast+traffic+management+issue+before+FCC: Comcast+traffic+management+issue+before+FCCPricing varies by market...but in the Salisbury, MD and surrounding markets, for HSI only yes is 54.99. I still think there should be some punitive damages against Comcast for what they are doing because they still have grossly oversold the loop and therefore created the problem for themselves. Cox communications...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cable, Verizon Communications Inc., pricing strategy, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, network; Discussion threads 2008-02-13
EU+conducts+antitrust+raid+on+Intel%2C+retailers: EU+conducts+antitrust+raid+on+Intel%2C+retailers*IF* they can't prove anythingThen Intel should file a massive law suit for losses and harrasment.Wow, time to move the operations to another set of countriesif they keep 'raiding' without conclusion. Did they take prisoners during the raid, capture any loot, pillage anything . . . modern day style?Excuse...; Tags: pricing strategy, Intel Corp., raid, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., fsb; Discussion threads 2008-02-12
Citrix moves to integrate XenSource's technology: Now that Citrix has completed its acquistion of XenSource, one would expect an announcement in which the company tried to put all the pieces together into an integrated story. Can you guess what the company just did? Right, presented an integrated story. Since the two companies worked together in the...; Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Pricing Strategy, XenSource Inc., Citrix Delivery Center Product Family, Citrix Workflow Studio, Tech Preview, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-02-07
Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100: Create the ultimate gaming supercomputer? You've overclocked, water cooled, matched DIMMs, added 10k drives and the latest 1 GB video card. But so have all your friends. What now? How about a 10 Gig home network for the ultimate gaming supercomputer? In a pricing breakthrough...; Tags: Kit, Network, Home Network, Supercomputer, Adapter, Pricing Strategy, InfiniBand, Networking, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-01-31
Demo 08: SpeakLike translates Web chat: SpeakLike introduced a Web chat application at Demo 08 that translates languages in real time. Currently available for English, Simplified Chinese and Spanish, SpeakLike aims to improved the speed and reduce the cost for translation services, according to CEO Sanford Cohen. SpeakLike employs machine translation as...; Tags: Message, Web, Pricing Strategy, SpeakLike, Channel Management, Instant Messaging, Marketing, Internet, Online Communications, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-29
iPhone enterprise data plans are now available: iPhone enterprise data plans are now availableiPhone Corp. rate planI already get unlimited data and 200SMS messaging for $20.00 per month. That is the same rate as the general public. Am I missing something?RE: iPhone enterprise data plans are now availableNot going far int the Enterprise without an Exchange Sync...; Tags: Handhelds, Operating systems, pricing strategy, Apple iPhone, iPhone enterprise data plan, enterprise data plan; Discussion threads 2008-01-21
To fight Time Warner Cable's download pricing plans, we need a bit of "Nanny State": To fight Time Warner Cable's download pricing plans, we need a bit of "Nanny State"i'm with you 100% on this one.Time Warner is pissing me off. I was considering changing services. Now I am doing it for sure.RE: To fight Time Warner Cable's download pricing plans, we need a bit...; Tags: Pricing, Vertical industries, Nanny State, Time Warner Inc., download pricing plan, pricing plan, pricing strategy; Discussion threads 2008-01-17
To fight Time Warner Cable's download pricing plans, we need a bit of "Nanny State": Hit the fan earlier today: Time Warner Cable says they will implement a tiered broadband subscription structure in which heavy downloaders will be charged more per month than those who don't download so much. AP reports in part: The company, the second-largest cable provider in the...; Tags: Time Warner Inc., Broadband, Video, Net Neutrality, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Corporate Communications, Internet, Telecommunications, Marketing, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Is your broadband bill about to go up?: Updated second paragraph below to give credit where credit is due (1/17/07, 10am) I'm not 100-percent sure what to make of Time Warner's recent announcement that they're about to begin experimenting with a pay-for-what-you-use pricing plan for broadband customers, but I'm pretty sure it ain't good. ...; Tags: Time Warner Inc., Broadband, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Marketing, Networking, Josh Taylor; Blog posts 2008-01-17