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After CNET first reported that Apple lost an iPhone prototype in July, presumably of the iPhone 5 - and that the company went to a local house looking for it - an initial SF Weekly report suggested that Apple employees may have impersonated police officers in searching the local house.

Amazon.com Inc is rolling out a major redesign of its familiar website as it prepares to offer a new $250 tablet device to rival Apple Inc's iPad.

The release date of the next generation of Apple iPhone - iPhone 5 - have been speculated many times and many rumors are surfacing every other day. A recent report by CNET UK suggested that Apple was organizing a media event for the announcement of the iPhone 5 on Sept 7.

Amazon will launch a new tablet as early as October and the product could be priced at $300 or lower in the attempt to come out strong in competing with Apple's iPad.Apple's iPad is the global tablet leader, though the fire sale $99 TouchPad made a brief appearance on the sales radar, but the biggest threat to the industry leader is on its way. Amazon has a new tablet -- its first -- expected to start shipping in October, according to a report in Taiwan's DigiTimes.

Contradicting its earlier statements denying involvement in the search for the missing iPhone 5 prototype, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is now saying that it did accompanied Apple investigators in a search of a Bernal Heights man's home.

In late July, Apple reportedly lost another iPhone prototype, presumably one of the iPhone 5. CNET somehow found out about the news and published it on August 31.

San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) said it has helped Apple investigators conduct a consensual search in the house of a man living in Bernal Heights for a lost item (believed to be iPhone 5 prototype) dismissing the possibility that the Apple employees could have masqueraded as police officers.

A recent report by CNET UK espoused a September 7 media event for the announcement of the iPhone 5. However, as information of Apple's purported media event failed to hit the news wires until Saturday, hopes for the new iPhone launch on the day are fading away.

The recently lost iPhone 5 still remains missing, though the investigators have found the house from which the lost device was emanating signal.

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Attorneys for 22-year-old Brian Hogan and 28-year-old Sage Wallower entered the pleas on Thursday on behalf of the two men, who weren't in the San Mateo County courtroom.

As iPhone 5 release date is nearing its rumored October tryst with destiny, the focus is on the phone’s screen size. The buzz is centered around whether iPhone 5 will have a 3.7-inch display or a 4-inch display. Here we sum up arguments favoring both camps -- those who think Apple will stick to smaller display and bank on better resolution and those who vouch for bigger display to take on competition.

The company had to pull the just-unveiled Galaxy Tab 7.7 out of the IFA consumer- electronics show in Berlin after a Dusseldorf court granted Apple's request on Sept. 2 to ban sales and marketing of the product.

The search for a missing iPhone 5 that was allegedly left in a tequila bar has taken a nasty twist, as the San Francisco Police Department has said it accompanied Apple agents and stood by as they searched a man's home.

Finally, the release date of the Droid Bionic has been confirmed.Verizon Wireless, on its Twitter page, announced the release date of Motorola Droid Bionic. Unsurprisingly, the new beast of Motorola Android phone will be unleashed on Sept. 8, as previously rumored by numerous sources.

The saga continues in the hunt for a missing iPhone 5 prototype, with the tale taking a disturbing twist as police revealed Apple employees accompanied officers as they ransacked a house.

The missing iPhone 5 saga of 2011 continues. The newest accusation is that Apple personnel, accompanied by San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers, may not have followed proper procedure when searching for the phone in a local man's home.

Apple's iPad is the global tablet leader, though the fire sale $99 TouchPad made a brief appearance on the sales radar, but the biggest threat to the industry leader is on its way. Amazon has a new tablet -- its first -- expected to start shipping in October, according to a report in Taiwan's DigiTimes.

The story about Apple's lost iPhone 5 prototype just keeps growing, with San Francisco police involvement while the company has no comment. Employees are just laughing all the way to the corporate bank, ready to pile more onto the company's $76 billion cash hoard once the iPhone 5 is released to unprecedented global smartphone demand.

Apple, notorious for its corporate secrecy and for releasing industry defining products, could come under government scanner if it turns out to be true that its employees had allegedly impersonated San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officials while conducting a search in the house of a man, who was at a tequila bar the night an iPhone 5 prototype reportedly got lost.

San Francisco police said on Friday that they helped Apple security hunt for a lost item, without explicitly mentioning what the lost item was. However, an inadvertent clue left by the police says that the lost prototype was indeed the iPhone 5. The San Francisco Police Department's Friday press release about the hunt was called iphone5.doc, an apparent reference to a new version of the mobile phone that tech industry watchers expect to be released soon, a Reuters repo...

Most people speculating about iPhone 5 specifications believed that the next Apple iPhone will feature a 4-inch display screen to compete with major smartphones in the market.

San Francisco police said on Friday they had helped Apple Inc security search for a lost item, following a week of reports that a prototype of the newest iPhone had gone missing in July.

Amazon.com Inc plans to unveil a cheaper, smaller $250 rival to Apple Inc's iPad tablet device in November, industry blog TechCrunch reported on Friday.

A Bernal Heights man has come forward saying that investigators allegedly searched his home for the missing device, embarrassing him and his family.

Toronto's main stock index dropped sharply on Friday morning after dismal U.S. jobs data signaled the frail state of the world's largest economy, but rallying gold miners helped break the fall.

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Big box retailer Best Buy has slashed up to $150 off the U.S. price tag for Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet computer for the Labor Day weekend.

As the battle between the high-end Android smartphones are getting hotter day by day, the two most talked-about phones apart from the iPhone 5 are Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Motorola Photon 4G.