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<title>Charity auction for Tim Cook meeting hit with fake bid</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/01/stolen.credit.card.used.to.hike.price.even.higher.retracted/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1367018141_Apple-TimCook-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A "coffee" with Apple CEO Tim Cook, an offer being bid on for charity fundraising, has been hit with credit card fraud. A previous high bid of $605,000 was retracted after it was discovered to have been placed using a credit card that turned out to be stolen. The site, Charitybuzz, said the issue came to their attention immediately was swiftly retracted, dropping the high bid back to $600,000. The...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Working Apple I, calculator from 1652 going up for auction [u]</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/29/original.wozniak.jobs.creation.one.of.only.six.still.functioning/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1367288221_Breker-AppleI-auction-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[[Update]: Steve Wozniak signature added German auction house Team Breker has rounded up an interesting collection of significant "firsts" from the computing world for an upcoming auction in Koln, Germany on May 25. Among the items of interest will be a mechanical calculator created by philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal from the year 1652; the first Intel microprocessor (the 4004) from 1971; a...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Coffee with Cook breaks half-million dollar auction barrier</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/26/apple.ceo.meeting.sets.record.for.charity.site/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1367018141_Apple-TimCook-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A chance to spend some one-on-one facetime with the CEO of the world's most influential and profitable technology company is worth a lot; far more than anyone expected, as it turns out. Apple head Tim Cook has offered a half-hour "coffee" at Apple headquarters to the winning bidder in a charity auction that was initially valued as being worth $50,000. As of 6:45PM ET on Friday -- with 18 days r...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple I motherboard fails to sell at Christie's auction</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1349835743_appleimotherboard-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The original Apple I motherboard for sale at Christie's auction house failed to sell. The auction company expected the board to sell for $127,000, but the bidding failed to reach the reserve price, resulting in no sale. The top bid was reported to be $51,155, well short of the $80,000 reserve....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Rare but nonfunctional Apple I goes to auction in London</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/29/expected.to.fetch.more.than.125000/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1208/Apple-AppleIauction-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A nonworking Apple I board have been listed for auction on October 9 at Christie's of London. The unit, with serial number 22, came from former Apple employee Joe Copson. The unit originally came with just 8K of RAM and no case, keyboard or monitor. Only 50 or so of the roughly 150-200 units produced have survived, and only six are thought to be in working order. The auction expects the machine t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple files appeal over partial Kodak patent victory</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/23/mac.maker.says.the.patents.belong.to.it.not.kodak/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1208/Kodak-Apple-patents-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Nearly three weeks after US Bankruptcy Court Judge Allan Gropper ruled that the company had no claim to two imaging patents in its struggle with Kodak, Apple has filed an appeal challenging the judge's finding. The two companies are locked in a dispute over the ownership of a total of 10 patents, with Apple seeking to block the auction of the two patents in particular....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Prototype dual-dock iPad sells for $10,200 on Ebay</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/29/apple.did.not.file.to.recover.stolen.property/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/Ebay-iPad-prototype-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Surprising observers who had speculated that Apple would close down the auction, a rare prototype iPad with two 30-pin dock connectors sold for a total of $10,200, about $200 above the original asking price. The unit had dock connectors on the "bottom" and "left side" of the iPad, and was functional except for a faulty digitizer, which renders the touchscreen inoperative. The unit still had Apple'...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 22:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Massachusetts man puts 'icl0ud.com' domain up for bid</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/12/21/wants.thousands.for.name.similar.to.apples/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/Ebay-icl0ud-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Hoping to cash in on the similarity to Apple's cloud-services suite, a North Attleboro man has put up the domain name icl0ud.com for auction on Ebay, asking a minimum bid of $7,000. The domain currently points to a generic business site called cloudstoragedrive.com that offers to help digitize, manage and secure files stored on a cloud storage system. The business is also for sale for the same ask...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Rare Apple prototypes from 70s, 80s appear on Ebay</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/12/08/multiserver.rom.card.power.adapter/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1112/Apple-prototypes-Ebay-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A trio of rare Apple prototypes from its early years, never sold to the public, have made their way onto Ebay for auction. The first is a never-before-seen prototype box (now empty) for a proposed product in the mid-80s called the Apple "Multiserver." The second appears to be a prototype ROM card from an Apple II, circa 1978, and the third item is a unique power adapter for a Powerbook Duo 270c, r...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>UK's biggest spectrum auction aims to expand 4G services</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/22/group.working.to.ensure.competition.among.carriers/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1007/celltower.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The UK is reportedly preparing its largest-ever spectrum auction, which will include bands spreading across 250MHz of spectrum no longer utilized by television broadcasters. The wireless regulation authority Ofcom is said to be working to finalize a strategy that will ensure the spectrum is distributed among at least four competing networks....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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