Most Expensive Blackberry on earth $200,366

Alexander Amosu has yet again set his heart on BlackBerry after a slew of BlackBerrys in precious metals including the Pearl Limited Diamond Edition, Tellor and the Pink BlackBerry Bold. The bling king who considers himself the Damien Hurst of his generation, now claims to have created the world’s most expensive diamond encrusted BlackBerry, crafted in solid 18 carat yellow gold and encrusted with 4,459 brilliant cut diamonds (weighing 28.43 carats). The handset is personalized with your name or company logo and comes with a 24-hour global concierge service. Only three diamond-encrusted BlackBerrys will ever be made, and of which one handset costing $200,366 has already been sold to a client in the Middle East.

via Born Rich: Cruise to the luxury lifestyle.

Yahoo Unleashes $100M Marketing Campaign

Yahoo outlined its new global branding campaign today, dubbed “It’s You!”, which is focused on the personalization of its homepage and products. The campaign, which has a budget of more than $100 million, includes tag lines that will be featured on the homepage such as “It’s time to get personal” and “The new Yahoo lets you do it your way every day.” The company also released an updated version of its Yahoo search product. The update, shown to the media last month, includes a left-hand column that lets users filter their results by using Search Monkey data. The layout resembles Microsoft’s Bing, which is interesting since the two companies inked a search deal in July.

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The Yacht of all Yachts

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has a rather curious new addition built in to his latest oversized yacht. The 557-foot boat Eclipse, the price tag of which has almost doubled since original plans were drawn to almost $1.2 billion, set sail this week with a slew of show-off features, from two helipads, two swimming pools and six-foot movie screens in all guest cabins, to a mini-submarine and missile-proof windows to combat piracy.It might not seem like somebody with such ostentatious tastes would crave privacy, but along with these expensive toys, Ambramovich has installed an anti-paparazzi “shield”.

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DIGITAL WALLPAPER

Hirzberger Events – Digital Wallpaper from Gregor Hofbauer on Vimeo.

Myspace Introduces ‘Sync to Twitter’ Status Updates

Remember MySpace? Of course you do, still the second largest social network in the world and yet still up there with the most hideous looking websites ever to grace the internet with its existence – despite being owned by a small company called Fox Interactive Media. Sorry, I get frustrated sometimes.

Anyhow, news just in via Techcrunch that the site has enabled two way status updates syncing to Twitter. Using Twitter OAuth, status updates from MySpace can be posted to Twitter with a link back to MySpace. Members can choose either one-way (read-only) or two-way syncing.

AOL, Facebook and now MySpace all incorporate Twitter update syncing now. It appears as though the status update has found its home.

via The Next Web.

Is the Zune HD Better Than the iPod?

What it is: You’ve no doubt heard of Zune — Microsoft’s much-hyped personal media player (PMP) — but you may not have seen much of it. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the device hasn’t exactly caught on with the mainstream, with Apple’s iPod (not to mention iPhone) still dominating the space. Zune HD is the Zune’s third iteration and it comes in 16 -gigabyte (GB) and 32GB varieties, a 3.3-inch OLED touchscreen, support for HD Radio and downloadable apps, and a Web browser.

via Is the Zune HD Better Than the iPod?.

Windows 7 $29.99 for Students

In yet another attempt to keep cool with the kids at school, Microsoft has dropped the price of their new Windows 7 Operating system to match Apple’s new Snow Leopard pricing at $29.99. Offer is valid until Jan of 2010 so hurry but not that quickly. VIA

If Video Games were real…

This is a must see! Some classic photoshops pics if video games were realistic! Check the jump VIA

Twitter adds Free Phone Calls!

JAJAH, a VOIP company, will announce the beta-launch of its Twitter calling solution, JAJAH@call tomorrow. You’ll be able to make phone calls via Twitter free of charge to anyone in the world, so long as they follow you back and have JAJAH accounts. {Continue Reading the rest of this entry..}

Facebook @Mention is now Live

Facebook’s most Twitter-like feature yet – the ability to include other users in messages using the “@” symbol – is now live. {Continue Reading the rest of this entry..}