With the news that Apple sold over 1 million iPhone 4S units in just 24 hours still fresh in people's minds, the first hands-on video with Apple's new smartphone has hit the Internet, demonstrating browser benchmarks and giving us the first look at Apple's new Siri technology and the options it provides on the device. [...]

Read More: iPhone 4S hands-on video demos Siri menus and impressive browser benchmarks

With the news that Apple sold over 1 million iPhone 4S units in just 24 hours still fresh in people's minds, the first hands-on video with Apple's new smartphone has...

Read More: iPhone 4S hands-on video demos Siri menus and impressive browser benchmarks

Why is it that random eBay shoppers always seem to have the best luck? In what has to be one of the most fortuitous purchases I've seen in a while, someone picked up a Nexus S off of the auction site that just happened to be running a build of Google's latest Android update: Ice Cream Sandwich.

Well, that's the story, anyway. Thankfully, our lucky buyer was able to contain his or her excitement long enough to take some pictures and video and send them to Engadget.

Read More: Lucky eBay Buyer Demos Ice Cream Sandwich On Video

Windows Phone 7.5 ("Mango") and its associated devices are not available in the U.S. yet, but Microsoft is trying to whet appetites by revealing bits and pieces of information. While the Windows Phone 7 devices uniformly lacked front-facing cameras, some Windows Phone 7.5 devices will. Oddly, the video chat software used is not Skype which Microsoft bought earlier this year. Instead the video chat demo using an app and service from Tango.


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As we reported earlier today, UK-based social search service DataSift has secured $6m in funding to expand its Twitter-sanctioned social data search platform for power users and developers who want to create complex searches across the social Web.As a demo of the platform, DataSift has just launched a rather cool Web app called DataSift Invaders. It's like Space Invaders but powered by Twitter-related data such as sentiment analysis and rankings from the likes of Klout and PeerIndex.Here&# [...]

Read More: Twitter-powered Space Invaders game demos DataSift's social search tech