Amazon strikes again in the e-book war
The online retailer soon will start shipping a $139 version of the Kindle. Amazon.com Inc. next month plans to start shipping new versions of its Kindle, including a $139 model that promises to intensify the ongoing price war for e-readers . The release of the updated Kindles comes as analysts question how tablet computers will affect demand for devices like the Kindle that are designed ...
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How to Cut Your Textbook Costs in Half -- or More
Students have plenty of more-affordable options than the campus bookstore.
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Drop in the Baltic Dry signals trouble
All the economic indices are showing that theres going to be a slowdown.
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NEW YORK -- Stocks ended an erratic day with a modest loss Thursday as investors tried to reconcile another batch of conflicting economic signals.
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ATI overtakes NVIDIA in discrete GPU shipments
You'd think with ATI having the performance, value and power efficiency lead for so long -- at least since the Radeon HD 4000 series -- NVIDIA would be in all kinds of trouble, but it's only now that AMD's graphics division has finally taken the lead in quarterly shipments. This is according to Mercury Research, whose analysts place the split at 51 to 49 percent in favor of ATI -- still a ...
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