The HP Touchpad. It’s cheap, it runs the cult favourite Web OS, it can be ported to Android and sporadically comes on sale for $99 (£63). You want it? Sure you do. Good news, then; it’s going to come back on sale for a very brief period of time. Read more
Apologies if you missed our best Android apps of the week feature last week – it was rained off thanks to the quite frankly awesome Android Keyboard replacement piece we put together (if you haven’t checked that out already, we suggest you do so without hesitation). Never fear though, as this week we’ve got five amazing downloads that more than make up for the forced absence.
Some enterprising chap on eBay with the username jaybuysthings has worked out the identity of the artist Banksy. To clarify: he’s not got any Banksy artwork or anything like that, he’s just worked it out from tax records and now will give a piece of paper with Banksy’s real name on to the highest bidder. At time of writing, bidding has hit the £1m mark. Has everyone forgotten about the Daily Mail story outing Banksy as one Robin Gunningham?
The Steve Jobs action figure is racking up big bids in eBay auctions (one went for $2500 over the weekend) and Apple is not happy. It seems Apple’s legal team killed a Steve Job figurine auction with a highest bid of $1125 and has its sights trained on the other Steve Jobs action figure sales that have spread across the auction site since the original company received a cease and desist order from Apple. Apple says the Steve Jobs action figures breaches Californian laws on public figures rights to control their own names and likenesses. Hit the headline and let us know: should Apple be shutting down the Steve Jobs action figure sales?Out now | £varies | eBay (via AppleInsider)
The Advent Vega has sold out, of its second, or possibly third batch now. The unprecedented demand has floored Advent, and they haven’t been able to keep up. While the Advent Vega is listed as out of stock online, it’s popped up on Ebay and is being flogged for £100 more than the asking price.
Apple now has $51 billion of buying power, with enough cash to buy Dell, eBay, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, or Time Warner. But is Steve Jobs after buying any of these big players? Nobody can know what’s on the Apple roadmap, but in the press conference yesterday, Steve Jobs said: “We strongly believe that one or more very strategic opportunities may come along, that we are in a unique position to take advantage of because of our strong cash position,” and while he went on to say that Apple don’t do “stupid acquisitions”, and would be keeping its powder dry, he also said that “we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.”
Has Jobs got a shopping list? What’s on it? Click and tell us what you think!
Love Twitter but wish you had more celebrity friends to read your wise musings? Well worry no longer you rampant egotistic. TwitChange, a Twitter charity auction in aid of Haiti and fronted by our third favourite Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria, lets you bid for the attention of celebrities. It’s for a good cause but is paying for a celebrity follow the future?
The new iPod touch is due to drop in September and we’re expecting front-facing and rear cameras slotted in there. But if you can’t wait until next month, one of the camera-packing iPod touch 3G prototype models from last year (canned because of supply problems) has hit eBay. The bid stands at $305. We know you’re tempted Apple fans…
