Tag Archives: Gray Powell
Jason Chen Case To Determine If Bloggers Are Journalists According To The Law
Here’s a breakdown of what happened at Gizmodo within the last month.
1. Apple engineer Gray Powell left iPhone prototype at the bar on his 27th birthday night.
2. Drunk guy tells another anonymous guy that he left his iPhone behind and gave it to him.
3. Anonymous guy takes the phone home and turns on the device, notices errors with the camera. When anonymous guy tried to turn on the iPhone the next day, it was bricked through MobileMe–someone killed the iPhone remotely.
4. Anonymous guy opens the iPhone 3GS and inside he finds an iPhone that is supposed to be released in the future.
5. Anonymous guy attempted to call Apple HQ and return the device, but kept getting blown off.
6. Gizmodo gets their hands on the device at the cost of $5,000.
7. Gizmodo writes a few posts about the new device (resulting in millions of extra website hits), then sends the device back to Apple.
8. Police raid the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen. The police took his computers, two servers, an iPad, an iPhone, hard drives, and several other devices.
Was the device confiscation legal? That question can be answered if “bloggers” can be considered “journalists” according to the law
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Categories Apple Inc., Gizmodo, Gray Powell, Jason Chen, Nick Denton
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Woz’s T-Shirt: I Went Drinking With Gray Powell and All I Got Was A Lousy iPhone Prototype
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976. Apple is a company that built hype around their product through secrecy and controlled leaks to the media. Gizmodo recently bought a stolen and unreleased iPhone, then posted pictures and a video on the Internet.
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Categories Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Gray Powell, iPhone, Steve Wozniak
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David Letterman: Top 10 Excuses Of The Guy Who Lost His iPhone Prototype [VIDEO]
David Letterman, known for his top 10 lists, decided to focus on “Excuses Of The Guy Who Lost The iPhone Prototype” last night. Although I must admit, this seems like a low blow to Gray Powell.
Spoiler: Below is the actual list in text format:
10. Couldn’t call apple for help because I lost my iPhone
9. I’m more of a Kindle guy
8. You mean besides being drunk out of my mind?
7. Distraught Kate Gosselin kicked off ‘Dancing with the Stars
6. Thought there was an App that would whisk it back to my house
5. It must have fallen out of my iPants
4. Volcanic Ash! Run!
3. Let’s Just Blame Goldman Sachs
2. At least I didn’t lose my finger like that iPad guy
1. It didn’t work anyway — it uses AT&T
Categories David Letterman, Gray Powell
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Gray Powell Left The New iPhone At A Bar, Apple Asks For iPhone Back From Gizmodo
Gray Powell, a graduate from North Carolina State University and an Apple Software Engineer was out celebrating his birthday at an establishment called The Gourmet Haus Staudt in Redwood City, California. Powell’s responsibilities are to work on the iPhone Baseband Software, which allows the iPhone to make phone calls. On March 18, 2010 the night of his 27th birthday he was at the Redwood City bar celebrating. He was celebrating and even wrote a status message from the iPhone he had on him, “I underestimated how good German beer is.” The phone that he was using was the new iPhone disguised as an iPhone 3G S. And he left that iPhone on a bar stool. Eventually that iPhone found its way into tech blog Gizmodo’s hands at the cost of $5,000 from someone that found it.
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Categories Apple Inc., Bruce Sewell, Gizmodo, Gray Powell
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