Yes, bloggers count as journalists. See the precedent of O'Grady v. Superior Court, a 2006 case in which bloggers were sued by Apple for revealing a confidential new product. The court ruled that bloggers do indeed qualify for ...READ»
A little background for thus who can’t read my mind. A few weeks or months back an Apple engineer took a prototype Iphone to a bar and left it. Someone picked it up and sold it to Jason Chen a “Journalist” that writes reviews on ...READ»
On Friday, April 23rd, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT, for short), an interdepartmental computer crime task force, broke down Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's front door while he was out to dinner with his ...READ»
The search job turns out to be unexpectedly ill-prepared. The prosecutor assigned to the case feels the reporter protection laws don't apply and apparently he does not expect Gawker Media to immediately invoke them. The ...READ»
On Friday, April 23rd, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT, for short), an interdepartmental computer crime task force, broke down Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's front door while he was out to dinner with his ...READ»
On Friday, April 23rd, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT, for short), an interdepartmental computer crime task force, breaks down Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's front door while he is out to dinner with his ...READ»
The case of the stolen iPhone just got stickier: The judge involved just ruled that, due to the massive publicity the story has received, there's no need to keep the search warrant a secret any more. It's been released, and it shows just how involved Apple was in the investigation.READ»
San Mateo County Judge Clifford Cretan today granted an application for the search warrant used to seize Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen's belongings to be withdrawn, and all his belongings returned.READ»
You're right. Apple absolutely has reversed decades of the most brilliant marketing strategy the tech industry has ever seen, and has decided to start intentionally leaking high-profile products to bloggers. Please continue to ...READ»
More and more info is leaking out about this rat's nest of a story about the lost iPhone. Now, it turns out that Apple did indeed pressure the San Mateo County DA to investigate the situation.READ»
Well, that whole REACT thing sounds bad, but it may not be fair. Stephen Wagstaffe, at the San Mateo County DA, says Apple was not involved at all in REACT's search and seizure, and that he personally didn't know Apple had any ...READ»
The highly anticipated Palm Pre smartphone arrives in U.S. shops this Saturday, and today multiple reviewers have published their hands-on insights. All in all, they like it--a lot. But it has exactly the shortcomings we predicted.READ»
Microsoft gave a public showing of its futurologist vision of 2019 the other day at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, and it's set the interwebs a-quiver with excitement. But if you have a bit of think about it, it's ...READ»
The story thickens, as if a viscous cornstarch slurry or perhaps a roux was added to the stew. If Jason Chen, Gizmodo, and/or Gawker Media is under investigation for criminal activity themselves, then the journalist protection ...READ»
This is the only freely-circulating photograph in existence of Gordon M. Snow, the newly-appointed deputy director of the FBI Cyber Division. But then, the FBI is probably marginally more aware of social networking etiquette than ...READ»
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC--all fine news organizations, to be sure. But the surefire sign a story's made it out into the zeitgeist is when our nation's premier fake journalist, Jon Stewart, makes fun of it.READ»
The story behind the leak of the next gen iPhone has it all: breaking news, legal maneuvering, inter-blog competition, checkbook journalism, and Nick Denton's tweets. Here's the full story--at least, as full as we know right now. [Updated at 4:20 EST]READ»
Surely this can't have happened? After the media and legal storm surrounding Gizmodo's leak of the iPhone 2010 prototype, how did another phone break free? It certainly seems the real deal and we can glean a few extra details from ...READ»
Blu-ray may have defeated HD-DVD, but now it stands a chance of becoming too overpriced for an overburdened economy to adopt. Exactly how did Blu-Ray get to this position, and what's happened since the format's victory that could keep it from taking full advantage?READ»
Gizmodo has the iPhone prototype in their possession for about a week. Two of the site's top editors analyze the device inside and out--Jason Chen, the site's second-in-command, inspects the internals that make the phone run (or ...READ»
Gizmodo has the iPhone prototype in their possession for about a week. Two of the site's top editors analyze the device inside and out. Jason Chen, the site's second-in-command, inspects the internals that make the phone run (or ...READ»
A leaked next-gen iPhone is the celebrity sex tape of the gadget geek world. Instead of purchasing it, Gizmodo should have just bought access to it, says San Francisco lawyer and trade secret specialist Lawrence J. Siskind. READ»
So, Dmitry Medvedev has hit California for a three-day tour. He's safe, since Jack Bauer is probably holed up with a caipirinha (caipirosky?) on a South American beach. (I could tell you where, but then I'd have to go dark and, ...READ»
