Tag archive: Gizmodo

According to an article on CNET posted earlier today, Sergio Calderón plans to bring a lawsuit against Apple for the search of his San Francisco home during July 2011. Apple employees entered and conducted a search within Calderón's home to look for a lost prototype of an unreleased iPhone. According to Calderón, six people searched through his home and car as well as on his computer to check for recently connected devices. He was told… Read More

Earlier today, the two men involved in the theft of the iPhone 4 prototype pleaded no-contest to misdemeanor theft charges, reversing their earlier plea of not guilty. The no-contest plea allowed the court to find the men guilty and sentence them both to a year of probation, 40 hours of community service and a $250 fine paid directly to Apple. While the district attorney in the case asked for jail time for the theft of the smartphone, the judge… Read More

Given the hype the iPhone 5 (which, mind you, hasn’t even been announced) has incurred, the iPhone 4 isn’t getting much attention these days. But if you can, reach back to last year when Gizmodo was able to get its hands on a prototype iPhone 4–and was shortly thereafter on the chopping block for allegedly buying stolen property. Gizmodo was accused of receiving stolen merchandise from a man later identified as Brian Hogan, warrants were… Read More

After nearly a year, the criminal investigation into Gizmodo.com's acquisition of a lost (and possibly stolen) iPhone 4 prototype will soon be complete, CNet reports. Authorities say they plan to release their report on the matter as soon as next month. According to San Mateo, California, district attorney Stephen Wagstaffe, who spoke with CNet, “the investigation is ongoing,” but that investigators are conducing their final… Read More

San Mateo Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan has granted the district attorney's application to withdraw the warrant used to seize property from the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen. All property seized as a result of the warrant, including Chen’s computers and cameras, have now been ordered to be returned. It is the latest episode in the long legal drama that began when Chen agreed to purchase what was later confirmed to be a… Read More

After a series of leaked prototypes, it's almost a given that Apple Inc. will unveil a new version of the iPhone, possibly named the  ”iPhone HD” during its annual software developers conference that opens Monday in San Francisco. The revelation of a splashy new iPhone would clear up one of the highest-profile Apple mysteries of the year — second to the existence, confirmed in January, of the iPad. Yet it would leave another… Read More

New details continue to emerge regarding the “lost” iPhone 4G phone that Gizmodo purchased and exposed in April. We knew that Apple was not pleased, especially when they whispered into the ear of the Silicon-Valley-based sheriff’s department, but the release of the search warrant issued confirms just how deep the legal ramifications go. The warrant, obtained by Scribd, confirms that the iPhone is being treated as stolen, the purchase of the… Read More

This time it's not a crazy story about a guy who left a phone in a Silicon Valley bar. The latest clamor over a possible next-generation iPhone 4G prototype has erupted in an unlikely place — Vietnam. Mobile phone accessory salesman Tran Manh Hiep rushed to a cafe in southern Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday when word on the street spread that someone was there flashing the newest iPhone. Hiep said he inspected the device, filmed it and… Read More

The Associated Press and other news organizations are asking a judge to unseal the search warrant affidavit used to raid the home of a technology blogger who posted pictures and details of an iPhone prototype. Court documents listing the legal reasons for searches are usually made public within 10 days. But the affidavit supporting the April 23 raid of Gizmodo.com editor Jason Chen's house and car remains sealed. Gizmodo had posted photos… Read More

Ever since Wired outed Brian Hogan as the man who found the infamous prototype iPhone, the level of scrutiny on the Redwood City native has been extreme, to say the least. Within days, every detail of the sale had been analyzed to the minutia, and Hogan’s life was suddenly subject to the whims of a story hungry media. Now, with the world watching, Hogan has issued a statement through his lawyer Jeffrey Bornstein, claiming that Hogan “made a… Read More

Authorities seized computers, digital cameras, a cell phone and other items from a technology blog editor who posted pictures and details of a lost iPhone prototype. A computer-crime task force made up of multiple law enforcement agencies searched Gizmodo editor and blogger Jason Chen's house and car in Fremont, Calif., on Friday, according to a statement and search warrant documents provided by Gizmodo. The warrant, issued by a Superior… Read More

It's been a wild week for Gizmodo. The popular tech blog got what could be considered the tech scoop of the year (and possibly of the past decade) when it laid hands upon a prototype fourth generation iPhone. According to Gizmodo's numerous stories on the topic, the phone was left behind at Gourmet Haus Staudt, a bar in Redwood City, California specializing in German suds. The person that found the phone tried to contact Apple… Read More

Yesterday, the tech journalism world was abuzz with the news that tech blog Gizmodo had somehow come into possession of an iPhone prototype, and was publishing pictures of the device and what it could glean about its hardware and software specifications. As the day progressed, speculation moved from the device itself to the circumstances under which Gizmodo acquired the device. Gizmodo is keeping key elements of the story to itself, but a few… Read More

It's one of those coincidences that you're more likely to read about in a novel or see in a movie—and maybe “suspension of disbelief” lets you go along with it, but here's the apparently deal: It looks like someone connected with Apple took a fourth-generation iPhone prototype out into the wild for a spin…then accidentally left it at a bar in Redwood City, where it was snapped up by erstwhile—or… Read More

Gizmodo and Cnet are both reporting that Apple has started shipping small quantities of their new Mac mini to a select number of Walmart stores. Our guess is that if the sales go well, there could be a larger number of stores carrying the new mini computer. Rumor also has it that Walmart and Apple are in negotiations for the retail chain to carry the new Apple iPod Shuffle. Read more at Cnet Found VIA Gizmodo