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Finally Motorola gives us a chance to say something positive about its pricing of the 10.1-inch, Tegra 2-powered Xoom tablet. UK electronics retailer PC World has just put up its Xoom pre-order page, which will surprise many waking Brits with an extremely reasonable £450 ($730) asking price. That’s £60 less than the direct competitor 32GB WiFi-only iPad — the Xoom only has one storage option of 32GB and the model listed here comes without 3G — and perhaps more importantly, is only £10 more than the 16GB version of Apple’s tablet. It’s common knowledge that to take on the iPad empire you’ll have to at the very least match its price, and Moto is doing even better than that in the UK. There’s only one worrying sign, we haven’t been able to place a Xoom into our shopping basket yet, as the “Pre-order today” button seems to be malfunctioning, but we’re guessing that’s a temporary glitch that will be fixed without the price shooting up skywards.

Update: T-Mobile Germany has also revealed its Xoom pricing, this time for the 3G model: €699.95. Distribution will begin at the end of April and T-Mo will have a three-month exclusive on the tablet in its native land. The pricing positions the Xoom a mere 95 Euro cents above the 32GB-equipped iPad WiFi + 3G, meaning that your choice will truly come down to preference and not economics. See T-Mobile’s full press release after the break.

Update 2: The PC World price and pre-order have been pulled. Gulp. Let’s hope they comes back unchanged.

[Thanks, John]

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Paul Devine, the man who last August collected a pretty lengthy list of charges against his name from the FBI and IRS — which collectively amounted to an accusation of “screwing Apple” — has now admitted his guilt. Specifically, Devine has fessed up to wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering, in which he engaged while exchanging confidential information about upcoming Apple products for cold hard cash from interested parts suppliers. He’s now having to forfeit $2.28 million in money and property that resulted from his nefarious exploits, with sentencing scheduled for June 6th. Devine’s lawyer is quoted as saying he’s a “good man who made a mistake, and now he’s trying to make amends.” Indeed, the mistake of getting caught and the amends of trying not to go to prison. Jump past the break for a full statement on the matter from the US Department of Justice.

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This article was written on March 18, 2008 by CyberNet.

When Apple opened the very first Apple retail store back in 2001, one of the main goals was to increase their market share.  At the time, they were sitting at around 5%, and BBC News quoted Steve jobs as saying, “Apple has about 5% of the market share today and the other 95% don’t even consider us.” Seven years later, it looks like some of the 95% who never even considered buying Mac computers are now not only considering it, they’re actually buying them.

Looking at the numbers for February of 2007 compared to February 2008, Apple has every reason to be optimistic about current and future growth. In February 2007, their market share in the United States was 9% and this year in February it was 14%. This translates out to an overall PC growth of 60% and a 67% increase in revenue. More specifically, there was a 55% increase in desktop computers and a 64% increase in notebook computers.

So who does Apple have to thank for their success? Here are a few of our ideas, but feel free to add your own. Is it the perceived issues people have with Windows Vista? Is it the new OS X Leopard? Is it Apple’s all too slick marketing campaign? Is it the fact that their iPod’s have been so successful and so people want to try yet another product from the company?

Note: Data came from NPD, a marketing research company.

Source: MacRumors

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