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Adobe has suddenly knocked 20 percent off its prices in Australia just one day after it was summoned to publicly defend those prices in front of a parliamentary committee. The monthly fee for a subscription to Adobe’s full Creative Cloud has dropped from AU$63 to AU$50, so it’s now only $1 more than the US price when you factor in currency. The no-contract monthly cost has also fallen to match how much Americans pay — from AU$95 to AU$75 — which is exactly what Australian lawmakers have been demanding since 2011. We can’t decide if this is a move of brilliant cunning on Adobe’s part, or just a blatant effort to side-step blame for how much it’s been charging up to this point. Either way, it puts Microsoft and Apple in a sticky situation, because they’ve been summoned to the same inquiry and may be left with fewer excuses to cling to.

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Via: ZDNet

Source: Australian Financial Review

This should come as no surprise — we reported the increase back in October — but Windows 8 upgrades will become a bit more pricey come February 1st. That means you have the better part of two weeks to take advantage of introductory online upgrade pricing of $40 (for the Pro version), before the sticker jumps to 200 bucks. Fortunately, you’ll be able to utilize current pricing for the rest of January, including a DVD Pro upgrade available at retailers for $70. After the switchover, you’ll pay $200 for a Pro upgrade, a standard edition of Windows 8 will run you $120, the Pro Pack will be available for $100 (upgrading from standard to Pro) and a Media Center Pack will cost $10. You could, of course, stick it out with Windows 7 or Vista or even XP for the indefinite future, but if a fresh OS is in the cards, now’d be as good a time as any to make the jump.

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Source: Blogging Windows

The CE pricing war just got really real. Gregg Steinhafel, Target‘s chairman, president and CEO, just announced a move that’ll undoubtedly get the attention of Amazon. And while we’re at it, the attention of Walmart, Sears, Best Buy, and practically every other major brick-and-mortar retailer that it competes with. Following Best Buy’s move — which saw the retailer price match Amazon during the holiday 2012 shopping season — Target is taking it one step further by announcing that it’ll match Amazon’s prices year round. Naturally, the goal here is to put a stop to “showrooming,” a term that describes the act of using B&M stores simply to ogle products before buying them for less online.

Details on how it’ll all work out, including an official start date, remain under wraps, but we’re told that if a customer “buys a qualifying item at Target and then finds an identical item for less in the following week’s Target circular or within seven days on either Amazon.com, Walmart.com, BestBuy.com and Toysrus.com, Target will match the price.” It’s not at all unreasonable to assume that Wally World and the like will end up following suit, but a part of us worries that this may end up having the opposite effect — if Amazon’s pricing begin to float higher in order to meet somewhere in the middle with B&M retailers, consumers will end up with fewer options when it comes to saving.

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Source: Marketwatch, CNBC

We’ve heard how Windows Phone 8 is all about you, and seen all the devices bearing the new OS at launch. What’s left, however, is where you can get one on the other side of the pond and, more importantly, how much it’s going to cost you. Nokia has separately announced that both the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 will be launching in the UK (and France) later this week. More specifically, though, it looks like every UK carrier will be getting at least two handsets, with the almost-ready-to-launch EE getting both of HTC and Nokia’s handset pairs. We’ve got all the (current) pricing details and availability dates after the break.

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Windows Phone 8 handset UK availability and pricing detailed: free starting from £21 per month originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh, Carphone Warehouse — it just can’t seem to keep what it knows about the LG / Google Nexus 4 under lock and key. Just days after briefly listing the phone on its website, purported in-store displays for the yet unannounced device have leaked out to Android Authority. While essentially of the details are the same as what we saw last (1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 SoC, 8MP cam, 12-hour talk time rating, etc.), the listing reveals that the “sim-free” phone itself will sell for £390 (about $504) — previously we’d only seen the per-month pricing at £31, which is also found here. There’s no mention of that October 30th sale date this time, and it would seem unlikely now given that Google’s had to indefinitely postpone its NYC-based Android event for the 29th due to hurricane Sandy. For now, you can get more details from the source link below.

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Nexus 4 priced at £390 by purported Carphone Warehouse in-store display placard originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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