The ‘other Steve’ at Apple has dropped a bombshell on us. It seems that he owns the only completed Twiggy drive machine in the world, which will definitely be more valuable than the 128k Mac prototype that we spotted at the end of January which did not work. Steve Wozniak’s 128k Mac prototype has a fully working 5.25″ Twiggy drive, and it has just surfaced on eBay for a cool $100,000 . If you have always wanted to own a piece of history and requires far less maintenance than a classic car, I guess you cannot do worse than the $100,000 starting price. (more…) By Ubergizmo . Related articles : US government sues Apple and publishers over ebook prices , Steve Jobs Avenue exists in Brazil ,

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We’re used to premium editions costing a bit extra, but Resident Evil 6 ’s bundle for Japan costs a whopping $1,300. This premium edition contains Resident Evil 6 , Leon’s leather jacket (seriously) and four different phone cases – one designed for Leon, one for Chris, one for newly-revealed Luke and another random case. It makes sense the bundle would include four phone cases: you’re going to need at least three friends to help you buy this $1,300 bundle. We guess you could share Leon’s leather jacket, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants style; the jacket comes in sizes S, M, L and XL. Only 5,000 of these premium edition bundles will be made available for

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That purple-striped Roku HD seen skulking about the FCC last month has now been observed in the wild by our friend Dave Zatz. It’s apparently on shelves now, with all the features of the box recently introduced as the Roku 2 HD , but without the 2. As he muses, Roku may be taking a “new iPad” style naming approach to its hardware going forward, a theory supported by the support site listing where it’s already elbowed out the old Roku 2 HD. As far as differences, it’s mostly the same with the exception of full size composite outputs around that should make it more friendly to HD-less environments, while the Bluetooth (for the optional gaming remote) and microSD slot options have been eliminated. We’ve heard from Roku that this refreshed model has a slightly larger footprint due to those composite jacks, but will stay at the same price of $59.99.

Toshiba has just officially announced its new tablet line-up featuring several models, including the Toshiba Excite 13, an amazing 13.3″ tablet powered by the quad-core Tegra 3 chip from NVIDIA . I’ve played with the Excite 13, and I can tell you that it is obviously the most interesting one, not only because a thin 13.3″ (1600

Take a look at the infographic below to see how BlackBerry App World, iTunes and Google Play compare. Do you use apps on your BlackBerry?

Even now, it’s still shocking how the remarkably low distribution costs of the web can change a founder’s fate overnight. Many startups are duds, and most grow at a clip that’s just not fast enough to justify an interesting valuation. But once in awhile, a company comes along and just nails it. The right timing. The right market. The right place. Then all the rules you know about multiples, comparable benchmarks and so on just buckle under the pressure of momentum. I met Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger before they were working together. Mike, or “Mikey,” is one of the sweetest, most self-effacing engineers and user experience designers I know. At the time, he was toiling away at Meebo. He would test their interface with groups of high school students he brought into the company’s Mountain View office. Funnily enough, while in university, he actually worked on a photo-sharing project for a class. It was…

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