John Paczkowski

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Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One: An iPhone Prototype Goes Missing in a Bar

You’d think that after last year’s humiliating iPhone 4 prototype caper, Apple would have taken extraordinary precautions to protect pre-release versions of future iPhones taken into the field for testing. Evidently not. The company has lost another prototype iPhone. And like the one that preceded it, this one too was lost in a bar. CNET has the scoop, and the company is declining comment. Apple should really begin requiring signed sobriety pledges from anyone given a prototype.


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While it’s tempting to see the Huffington Post’s Pulitzer as a “big win for new media,” or something like that, the real story is that these organizations — the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post — are becoming more like each other. Old media and new media are increasingly antiquated terms.

— Journalism professor Jay Rosen to HuffPo media writer Michael Calderone (via GigaOM)