S.F. Police Comment on Latest Lost Apple iPhone Prototype

After much mishegas, here is the San Francisco Police Department report on yet another missing Apple iPhone — probably iPhone 5 –prototype.

Insert joke [here].

September 2, 2011

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SAN FRANCISCO POLICE ASSIST APPLE SECURITY WITH THIER LOST PROPERTY INVESTIGATION

After speaking with Apple representatives, we were given information which helped us determine what occurred. It was discovered that Apple employees called Mission Police station directly, wanting assistance in tracking down a lost item. Apple had tracked the lost item to a house located in the 500 block of Anderson Street. Because the address was in the Ingleside Police district Apple employees were referred to Officers in the Ingleside district. Four SFPD Officers accompanied Apple employees to the Anderson street home. The two Apple employees met with the resident and then went into the house to look for the lost item. The Apple employees did not find the lost item and left the house.

The Apple employees did not want to make an official report of the lost item.

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Police Search for Missing Apple Prototype

Police officers and Apple Inc. employees recently visited a San Francisco residence in a search for a prototype of one of the tech giant’s devices that had been traced to a local home, but left empty handed.

Four city police officers accompanied two Apple employees to the home in south central San Francisco, the city’s police department said in a statement on Friday.

The police statement didn’t say when the search took place or name the device that went missing. However, the department’s press release was sent in a document titled “iphone5.doc.”

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Fortune’s Lashinsky Penning an "Inside Apple" Book

Adam Lashinsky, Fortune magazine’s high-profile Silicon Valley reporter, will be penning a book titled “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — and Secretive — Company Really Works.”

An expansion of a well-read article that Lashinsky wrote for the publication earlier this year, the book will be available on January 18, 2012 from Business Plus, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

Lashinsky’s will be the second Apple tome to be coming out that will shed more light inside the workings of Silicon Valley’s most iconic company.

In November, former Time Inc. writer and editor Walter Isaacson’s much anticipated biography about Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs will be released by Simon & Schuster.

“Steve Jobs” has been written with cooperation from Jobs, who has not done so in the past.

Lashinsky said he did not garner Jobs’ help on the book in an interview today, but did manage to get a deep inside look at the company.

“Doing an unauthorized book is harder,” said Lashinsky. “But what you get is well-reported information, which is outside the message Apple wants to deliver, and there is so much good stuff, this company is worth far more than an article.”

Lashinsky has been a longtime reporter in tech, including covering Apple, a company that is notoriously secretive and difficult to report about.

Still, Lashinsky has written a lot about the maker of the groundbreaking Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad devices, including a piece in 2008 about recently installed CEO Tim Cook, titled “The Genius Behind Steve: Could the Operations Whiz Run The Company Someday?”

“Inside Apple” will be more about the entire company, which has vaunted from near death only 15 years ago to become one of the most highly valued companies in tech and, in fact, globally.

The publisher promises a lot of insidery facts, including, “how Apple creates killer products, forges intense bonds with consumers, and gets what it wants from suppliers…the lessons about leadership, product design and marketing are universal, and they should appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their own company, career or creative endeavor.”

Lashinsky said these are important lessons for others to explore.

“So much of what Apple does stands decades of business teaching on its head, because they just don’t do things the way other companies do,” he said. “The rest of the business world might want to pay attention.”

Indeed, they should.

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Apple On The Top Smartphone List

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Apple Takes a Key Tracking Tool Away From Developers

Apple is making a key change in the way developers and other third parties interact with the company’s mobile users. The company is taking away access to the “unique device identifier” associated with every iPad and iPhone. As Techcrunch notes, the change will be particularly meaningful for ad and game networks that used the UDIDs to track user behavior. It’s also worth noting that Apple has announced big changes in its developer policies before, and then backed down, to at least some degree, after public outcry.

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Apple seeds iOS 5 beta 4 as an OTA update

It looks like we’re getting closer to the imminent release date of iOS 5. The latest beta of the operating system (beta 4) has been pushed out to developers and for the first time in the history of iOS it updates without the use of a computer. Previously users needed to update their iOS devices by downloading the latest firmware onto their computers and then plugging their device in to update it. iOS 5 is going to cut the cord and make use of over the air updates instead, and now they’ve finally started to implement it.

In addition to the OTA update, iOS 5 brings WiFi sync as well, again removing the need for a cord when syncing their devices with iTunes. iOS 5 is said to be arriving this fall, and each beta brings us one step closer to its release date. With features like iMessage, iCloud integration, wireless sync and OTA updates – it’s one update that many users are looking forward to.

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