After weeks of watching the numbers climb higher and higher, the “Coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino” auction has come to a close, at an astonishing $610,000. This auction has seen a lot of press, including someone using a fake credit card to make a bid. The user, who is only known to the public as “a********s”, placed the…
You’ll no doubt have heard of Charitybuzz’s online auction raising money by offering a coffee with Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook. Before this auction went online, the record bid received by the charity was $255k for a day with Bill Clinton. This auction offers little more than an hour with Tim Cook and has already blazed past the previous record, with the…
How much do you spend on a cup of coffee? Do you think Starbucks is absurd for charging $5 or more for a cup of joe? Well imagine spending over half a million dollars for coffee. That’s right, $500,000. You may recall, earlier today, the number rose over the half a million dollar mark, and for the first time, we finally know the identity of the current…
News from across the pond now. Ofcom has just announced the results of the UK’s 4G spectrum auction. For those of you that don’t know, Ofcom is the independent regulator of the UK’s communication industry, and its their job to oversee the distribution of our shiny new 4G network. The UK’s main operators bid for their preferred chunk of the network, and the…
For us Brits, 4G isn’t what it is in America. There’s nothing wrong with the speeds that our (rather small) 4G network delivers, its more the fact that there is currently only one service provider offering such connectivity – Everything Everywhere (EE) – meaning that prices aren’t what you’d call cheap. Fortunately, however, things are looking up for us…
If any of you are collectors of Apple gear, and have to have one of everything produced by the company (and have a cool $1350 to spend), head on over to eBay and check out this cool transparent version of Apple’s Newton 110. According to the seller, this limited edition Newton was given to developers during an Apple Conference. The owner estimates that…
Attention Apple fanatics! Want a piece of Apple history? Have around $120k-$180k lying around? Well you my friend can own an Apple I computer. Sotheby’s auction house is auctioning a fully working Apple I computer, which is the original design that was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak all the way back in 1976…by hand. The expected price is around…
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