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Contradicting Police Versions of Lost iPhone 5 Prototype Hunt: What Does Apple Want Them to Hide?

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...
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iPhone 5 Prototype Lost: A Smart Marketing Gimmick?

History typically repeats itself. The finest example of this saying came from Apple whose iPhone 5 prototype is said to be lost in a bar. Reports of the loss of an iPhone prototype, the second instance in a year and a half, has created suspicion that the entire event could be a publicity stunt by Apple to market the device.
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Chinese Environmental Groups Again Accuse Apple Suppliers of Causing Pollution

Chinese environmental groups claim that Apple manufacturers have been releasing harmful pollutants into the environment. A report by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) and other non-governmental Chinese environment groups cited, for example, that an Apple factory in the city of Taiyuan in Shanxi Province released gases into the air that made it difficult for residents to open their windows.
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iPhone 5 Prototype Left in a Tequila Bar: Apple's Marketing Brilliance

There's a story you may have heard today. It's about Apple's iPhone 5, and how a prototype of the product supposedly got left in a bar. The story goes that an Apple employee left his prototype for the iPhone 5 in a tequila bar in San Francisco, since a similar situation happened with the iPhone 4 last year.

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