Sold at auction in London Tuesday for 315 times its original $666.66 price
Taken Verbatim from Christie's Lot 65, Sale 7882.
Lot Description below the fold.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 23, 2010 2:45 PM ET
Also sparkly Ugg boots, Le Creuset cookware, Josh Groban CDs and '12 VW Beetles
Photo: The Oprah Winfrey Show
Saying "words cannot describe how I feel for this device," Oprah Winfrey on Monday gave each of her 275 studio audience members an Apple (AAPL) iPad.
It was the No. 1 item in the final "favorite thing" give-away segment in Oprah's final season.
The retiring talk-show host said the iPad was her all-time favorite, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 23, 2010 2:27 PM ET
This has been an exciting week for the street view cars, which can't seem to keep themselves out of trouble.
From Gizmodo [update: this image has been confirmed as a hoax], a baby's birth on the sidewalk caught by a streetview car (hopefully the driver was nice enough to call/stop for help) in Wilmersdorf, Germany:
Down the autobahn, a German man who is just as clothed as that baby who appears to be MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 23, 2010 2:21 PM ET
Its Asian supplier is said to be opening 50 new productions lines to meet demand
Photo: Silicon Alley Insider
DigiTimes, the Taipei-based daily that covers the Far Eastern electronics markets like the Sporting News covers baseball, reported Tuesday that Apple (AAPL) has stepped up production of the iPad in China.
The item is unsourced and like all supply-chain reporting should be treated as a rumor. But according to unnamed "sources from upstream MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 23, 2010 1:10 PM ET
The deal would bring more premium content to YouTube as the company stuggles to get content on its GoogleTV.
The NYPost is reporting this morning that Google (GOOG) is in a battle with Netflix to obtain the rights to the Miramax digital catalog. Disney is in the latter stages of finalizing a sale of Miramax to Filmyard, run by Hollywood entrepreneur Ron Tutor and construction magnate Tom Barr. Filmyard isn't wasting any MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 23, 2010 11:53 AM ET
Offers unlocked version with updated OS at a $30 premium.
One of the last devices to currently sell with Android 1.6 is finally getting an update. Dell's site today advertises the Streak 5-inch Android Tablet with a Froyo update (and unlocked) at a $30 premium over the version that is tied to AT&T (T) with the older Google (GOOG) Android OS.
The 5-inch Dell Streak can operate like a phone, so it MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 23, 2010 10:57 AM ET
In sales to business, the Mac's year-to-year growth last quarter was nearly eight times faster
Click to enlarge. Source: Needham
Needham's Charlie Wolf found lots of good news for Apple (AAPL) in IDC's report on the state of the worldwide PC market for Q3 2010.
That's because his report to clients issued Tuesday never mentioned that the Mac's share of that market last quarter was only 4.36%.
Instead Wolf focused exclusively on the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 23, 2010 10:26 AM ET
According to a Taiwanese news source, the world's second biggest PC manufacturer may announce a 7-inch Android tablet alongside the announcement of its 10-inch Windows 7 tablet today.
Digitimes reports that today might be a big day for tablets. The 10-inch Windows tablet seems like a lock, but a smaller, Android tablet that would go head-to-head with the Samsung Galaxy Tab (which just announced 600,000 units sold in the first month of sales) MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 23, 2010 10:12 AM ET
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
HP beat analyst expectations for its fourth quarter earnings, but only just slightly, with sales of $33.3 billion, up $2.5 billion compared to the same time last year. (Analysts had predicted revenue of $32.75 billion.) (internetnews) Enterprise network MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 23, 2010 6:00 AM ET
The web-based OS can still be a winner for Google if it can execute.
The word on the street today (and last week) is that Google's ChromeOS is delayed, or rather that devices running the new web-based OS aren't due until 2011. Google went on record in May saying there would be "devices" later this "fall".
"We are working on bringing the device later this fall," said Google vice-president of product management Sundar Pichai at MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.86% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.26 | -0.48 | -3.75% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.22 | -0.25 | -5.59% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.62 | -0.75 | -3.33% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.59 | -0.24 | -1.21% |
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| Treasuries | 1.91 | -0.02 | -1.09% |
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