If you were on any tech website the past few days, you can’t get away from the story about Gizmodo’s blogger Jason Chen. An Apple engineer lost a prototype of the next gen iPhone. Someone found it at a bar and sold it to Gizmodo for $5000. Gizmodo’s Jason Chen dissected the phone and wrote about it on the Gizmodo website. San Mateo Police raided Jason Chen’s home this week and took a bunch of his computer equipment. You can follow the whole saga here.
Jason Chen with the lost iPhone
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Wall Street Journal coverage
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CNET coverage
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