The 25 Biggest Tech Fails of 2012

Besides these missteps, it was a great year.

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If you peeped our Best Gadgets of 2012 list, you know that this year was kind to geeks and casual consumers a like. We saw the best smartphones, laptops, and tablets ever made. As well as a slew of awesome apps that pushed the boundaries of what your mobile device could do. But with every great product or two, we saw at least one major fail. And like every year, the fails varied greatly. There were bankruptcies of once-great companies, product releases that made you question just what the hell was going on in the closed-door meetings, and hacks that caught some of the biggest brands slipping. So before we start a new calender lets look back at the biggest tech fails of 2012. 

25. BlackBerry 10 Delayed Again

24. Anonymous Members Hacked During Their Own DDoS Attacks

23. ASUS Tweets Model's Ass

22. Several NBC Websites Hacked

21. Facebook Doesn't Know Difference Between Elbow and Breast

20. Apple Genius Commercials

19. RIM's Music Video

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Date: 9/25/2012

When Research in Motion introduced the its BlackBerry 10 operating system at the BlackBerry Jam back in September, the handset maker attempted to get developers excited with a music video. But not just any music video, one featuring members of its developer relations team singing a cover of REO Speedwagon's "Keep on Loving You." Well...that's one way to drum up excitement.

18. Kodak Files for Bankruptcy

17. Republicans Run Anti-Obama Ads on The Pirate Bay

16. NYU Student Email Sent To 40,000 Other Students

15. Megaupload Shutdown

14. Mitt Romney App Misspells America

13. AT&T Voted Worst Service Provider Two Years Running

12. Sony Has Michael Jackson's Entire Back Catalog Stolen by Hackers

11. Twitter Resets Thousands of Passwords

10. The Stop Online Piracy Act

9. Foxconn Factories Exposed

8. Google Pulls Nexus Q from Google Play

7. YouPorn.com Exposes User Login Info

6. GoDaddy Service Outage

5. Tumblr Hack

4. Facebook IPO

3. Romney's President-Elect Transition Site Accidentally Made Live

2. Instagram TOS

1. Apple Maps

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