All the same, governments in other places planning carbon pricing, such as South Korea and some Chinese provinces, will watch what unfolds in Australia with interest.

ECONOMIST: Carbon policy in Australia and Britain

None of them is planning the sort of keen pricing that Egg and first-e, two Internet banks, are using to woo customers online.

ECONOMIST: Open for couch potatoes

Microsoft is planning to increase Windows 8 upgrade pricing on February 1, which will create another headwind for the operating system to be adopted.

FORBES: Another Indication of Windows 8 Slow Adoption

OnLive's getting Driver: San Francisco, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, FEAR 3, Duke Nukem Forever and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, to name a few, and it's actually planning a Netflix-like flat rate pricing plan for back-catalog and indie games as well.

ENGADGET: OnLive MicroConsole official at $99, we go hands-on and bombard you with details

With Wii U, we have taken a rather resolute stance in pricing it below its manufacturing cost, so we are not planning to perform a markdown.

FORBES: Nintendo: No Plans for a Wii U Price Drop

Unfortunately, we don't have any word on specs or pricing yet, but these things had better be packing some serious heat for cheap if Palm is really planning to wait until September to launch them -- they'll be going head-to-head with the Xoom, the PlayBook, and presumably the iPad 2.

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