Oh, the iPhone 4 fiasco. Who could forget when gadget blog Gizmodo managed to get their hands on Apple’s iPhone 4 prototype when an unsuspecting engineer lost it at a German beer garden?
The two men, Brian Hogan and Sage Wallower, pleaded no contest to “theft of lost property” after shopping the phone around to media outlets. As a …
Hell hath no fury like Steve Jobs really, really pissed off at you.
From a post earlier today, we’ve learned that not only has Gizmodo not been granted press credentials for Monday’s Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (and rumored iPhone 4 announcement), Apple never even responded to their request. Ouch.
Steve Jobs kicked things off at D8 last night and while he didn’t reveal anything we didn’t already know about himself and Apple, he did have a few choice quotes that everyone has been milking for the last 12 hours. The above video is a brief snippet of his chat with Mossberg and Swisher over Flash.
Below are a few choice video …
Here’s a quick update on the whole iPhone saga for your enjoyment. You’ll recall that over the weekend, a special task force raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s home and took most, if not all, of his electronics equipment as evidence that “tends to show that a felony has been committed or that a particular person has committed a …
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
Apple vs. Journalism: TIME’s take on the now infamous missing/stolen iPhone 4 fiasco.
[via Time.com]
Scott Adams’ Dilbert also on the iPhone 4 fiasco:
The first official True Blood poster for season three:
[via The Daily What]
Hmm. Now this is …
The question of whether or not Gawker Media’s $5,000 purchase of a misplaced next-generation iPhone would result in legal backlash has been answered by a recent police raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s California home.
The search warrant cited probable cause to search for property that “was used as the means of committing a
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Tech news big enough to get “regular” people interested broke earlier this week when it was revealed that gadget blog Gizmodo.com paid $5,000 for a next-generation iPhone prototype left sitting on a barstool by an Apple developer. Here’s a quick two-minute recounting of the events. Pass it on.
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By now you’ve read or heard about a missing iPhone that was lost and/or stolen from a Redwood City bar. Both Engadget and Gizmodo have posted images of the purported next generation iPhone (4/4G/HD) with the latter having purchased said device for $5,000. We know this to be fact because Gawker honcho Nick Denton believes in …
