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Salesforce CEO Benioff "gifted" App Store trademark and domain to Jobs

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 26th, 2011)

In an interview with Bloomberg, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells an interesting tale of how he gave the App Store domain and trademark to to Apple as a gift to Steve Jobs. Of course, the App Store trademark itself is now under scrutiny, with Microsoft and Amazon claiming it is a generic ...

No fair: Gizmodo editor leaves his phone in a restaurant, gets it back right away

by Chris Rawson (Aug 22nd, 2010)

Stop me if you've heard this one: a geek leaves his phone in a bar, and... oh, you have heard that one? It turns out that Brian Lam, the Gizmodo editor involved in the iPhone 4 "bar heist" saga and one of the biggest tech scandals of 2010, left his cell phone in a restaurant the other day. How did ...

Owner Uses AU eBay to Try to Catch Powerbook Thief

by Damien Barrett (Jan 27th, 2006)

On Tuesday, two idiots in Australia walked into a business and stole a 17" Powerbook. They then proceeded to attach a modem and actually checked the owner's email. As a result, the owner now has an IP address used by the thieves. He also has video and still footage from security cameras in his ...