World AIDS Day & Giving (RED)

By Sonya Davidson

You may have heard some of the buzz around the recent (RED) Auction at Sotheby's in New York -- a collaboration between Sir Jonathan Ive, designer Marc Newson and Bono. On the auction block were high-end, one-of-a-kind items with design and innovation in mind. An incredible amount of over $12.8 million was raised from the event with all proceeds going to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa. 

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HTC One likely to come in blue too

While the black variant of HTC's flagship HTC One smartphone is just starting to be made available through certain Canadian carriers, we've already seen a red and now a blue variant possibly coming to market. Proving once more that phone colour options are a thing for smartphones this year (see iPhone 5C, Moto X), HTC is obliging user's need for a little variety in their devices. Personally, I still think the original silver colour looks the best but here's to diversity.

Source: Phandroid

12,000 limited edition red BlackBerry Z10's going to developers

BlackBerry is giving its loyal developers some love with limited edition BlackBerry Z10's in red. The company is gifting 12,000 of its devs with the rare, red smartphone when they submit their BlackBerry 10 apps before February 28th. They will also need to turn-in their Dev Alpha devices to get the red Z10's.

Sourcer: BlackBerry via LinkedIn