again. the official story is apple software engineer out celebrating his 27th birthday, steve jobs would have his way, his last birthday at a beer garden. the tech website paid five grand for the prototype disguised as the current model. mr. powell left it at the bar. editors said we are skeptical. we get false tips all the time. the overall quality feels like a finished apple phone. there is very little possibility it is fake. it is heavier than the current phone, larger battery, the back is flat. a front facing video chat camera, improved back karm camera, a better sim card. apple senior vp requested by a letter that gizmoto return the device that belongs to apple.
apple has the phone back. i went drinking with gray powell and all i have is a lousy t-shirt is vanl online. apple is known for great security measures and we know it is a standard publishing trick to let a couple of copies of a hot book out early turning its discovery in a legit news story. how could this have been an accident? i go by the principle of least weirdness. that an engineer would forget the thing in the bar. and apple would make a fake iphone, leave it in a bar, hope someone discovers it and passed on to a tech website. apple likes descriptive pr. they don t do improv. i think it is an honest mistake. a mistake that may cost this poor guy his job, but a mistake.
folks, we are getting new information from pennsylvania today about that school district that secretly snapped pictures of pictures of students from school laptops, a lawyer for the lower marion school district saying they collected at least 56,000 images, however, he says none of the pictures appear to be, quote, salacious or inappropriate. the information came out because of a lawsuit filed by one of the students, the fbi has since launched a criminal investigation into possible wire tap violations by that district. but the hot story today about our wild world involves apple and the next generation iphone. get this, a tech website, gizmodo, is braging it has obtained the next high tech iphone, claiming it bought the thing through someone who found it lying around in a california bar. what? sheboni is live at the news
seems an apple employee left the super secret next generation iphone in a bar. where else? another bar goer picked it up, realize what he found, sold it to the tech website for five grand. it isn t scheduled to be released until summer. now apple demanding the phone s return. they should probably just give it back. not worth a lot. i ll be honest. i tried to get fired up about the story. i got excited. i don t have an iphone. unless they figure out how to make the keyboard as usable as the blackberry pr you don t care. gizmodo, is that the soup of the day. that s worth waiting for, the daily rundown. coming up, monica novotny has the guy who said he found the next generation iphone in a car. is this what happens when you give steve jobs too many shots. don t miss andrea mitchell
coming up tonight, a new development in the investigation of the ft. hood shootings. a senate committee in the obama administration. ewe ll tell you why. reporter: the two most senior leaders of al qaeda in iraq were killed in a joint u.s.-iraqi operation north of baghdad. the men were reportedly hiding in a safe house. u.s. and iraqi officials are calling their death a major blow to the militant group. toyota has agreed to pay a record $16.4 million fine to settle claims that it hid a gas pedal defect from federal highway safety regulators, but the company denies it did anything wrong. separately today, toyota said it will recall more than 9,000 of its 2010 lexus gx sport 460 suv. what do you think? is this an actual iphone prototype or is it a scam? the tech website that posted