By Todd Haselton |
The charity auction for Tim Cook was recently marred by a bid by someone who used a stolen credit card to place a $605,000 bid, Fortune said. That’s a pretty nice credit limit and the revelation explains why the auction is now sitting pretty with…
By Todd Haselton |
Just two days ago we covered a charity that’s offering coffee with Tim Cook. You’ll need to win an auction to meet with Cook, of course, but at the time the value was estimated at $50,000. Now it’s worth more than a half of a…
By Todd Haselton |
Want to have a coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook out in Cupertino? Love charity? Now’s your chance to make a move. The head of Apple is currently offering to sit down in Apple’s headquarters for a cup of coffee with the lucky winner in…
By Adriana Lee |
Google extended its charitable branch, Google.org, to mobile last Friday with the new One Today Android app. From the looks of it, the core, social-driven mechanisms could prove to be a rather effective fundraising tool. Users choose a charity and agree to match any $1…
By Adriana Lee |
The movers and shakers of the technology industry have an enormous capacity for changing society at large. Their innovations are sometimes grandiose, sometimes full of fail, but are always forward-thinking to reinvent the way we do things everyday. But when it comes to changing the…
By Ron Duwell |
The thought of Super Meat Boy in 3D is downright blasphemous in these parts. The original XBLA and Steam hit is one of the finest examples of modern 2D platforming, not to mention it’s one nasty beast to try to tackle. If you haven’t played…
By Todd Haselton |
Sahas Katta, the man who recently won the “Smoked By Windows Phone” challenge with his Galaxy Nexus has decided to auction off his winnings for charity. Katta walked away with a new $1,000 Hunger Games edition HP laptop and a $899 Lumia 800 bundle after…
By Joey Davidson |
If you’re unfamiliar with the Humble Bundle program, here’s the quick rundown. The group offers several unique games from independent developers. You pay exactly what you want for each game (whether that’s $0.01 or $1,000,000). You decide how your money is split between the Humble…
By Maximum PC |
From the “We’re not sure how we feel about this” department: People attending the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas have a new way to get online — homeless people. The Bartle Bogle Hegarty marketing firm has launched a non-profit drive called “Homeless Hotspots.” Basically, they…
By Joey Davidson |
Humble Bundle and Mojang, the developers of Minecraft, are getting together to do something special for charity. This weekend (it’s actually happening right this very second), Mojang will develop a single game over the span of 60 hours while fans can donate and watch a…
By Brandon Russell |
In this episode, Jon R. talks tablets, covering the discontinued HP TouchPad, keyboard equipped quad core Asus Transformer Prime and the future iPad successor, the Apple iPad 3. Jon also provides his personal thoughts on his new favorite daily driver, and no, Apple is not…
By Joey Davidson |
The Humble Bundle team shows absolutely no signs of stopping. By piling fantastic indie titles on top of one another, making them cross-platform and DRM free, selling them for whatever customers want to pay and giving a customized sum of their profits to charity, this…
By Joey Davidson |
The most realistic simulation ever conceived by mankind is officially available on both the iOS and Android platforms. Mobile gamers, get your wallets ready, Desert Bus is set to blow your mind. Can you drive from Las Vegas, Nevada to Tuscon, Arizona at 45mph in eights…
By Joey Davidson |
The Humble Indie Bundle is, officially, a regular thing. Every few months now, this collective hive mind of independent game developers steps up to package several DRM free titles into on bundle. They then sell it over these here Internet tubings for whatever price us consumers deem reasonable.…
By Adriana Lee |
Raspberry Pi, a UK-based charity focused on computer science studies, has a slice of really interesting tech goodness on tap — a working PC that’s the size of a credit card, able to connect to a mouse and a keyboard, and can use a TV…
By Joey Davidson |
The third edition of the Humble Indie Bundle initially included four games for the rate of name-your-own price. That’s how this sale works, of course. The first two bundles raised over $1 million for charity under the same exact model. When you get down to…
By Joey Davidson |
A group of independent developers has been making stellar news for the last few months with their continuance of extremely popular, limited time bundles. This is The Humble Bundle, and it lets consumers name their price for a set of similarly themed titles. The trailer…
By Joey Davidson |
In the two weeks that the hats were available, Valve was able to raise more than $400,000 in relief charity for the earthquake and tsunami affected areas in Japan. $430,543.65 was raised through Team Fortress 2 over the course of two weeks as players were…
By Joey Davidson |
Team Fortress 2 is absolutely one the most critically praised and fan played PC games currently available. The following is ravenous, and the love for the title itself is immense. Valve has built not only an awesome title with Team Fortress 2, but they’ve fostered…
By Noah Kravitz |
Disasters, natural and otherwise, are an often tragic part of life. TechnoBuffalo isn’t a charity organization or even a global news site, but we’d be remiss to ignore the larger goings on in the world just the same. What’s going on in Japan is far…
By Joey Davidson |
A devastating earthquake hit off of the coast of Japan at the end of last week. The devastation of the earthquake and the tsunamis that followed has been horrendous. The nation is experiencing the largest disaster it’s seen since the end of World War II.…
By Joey Davidson |
Most 360 owners should have already purchased Chime. The game released almost exactly a year ago for the whopping price of $5. The profits for Chime, and this is why you should have bought it, went to charity. Developer Zoë Mode and publisher OneBigGame made a large…
