Gizmodo’s Jason Chen hires his own, real lawyer
by Justin Horn on Apr 28th, 2010 @ 11:32 amLaw.com is reporting:
Gizmodo editor Jason Chen retained a criminal lawyer Monday night in the missing iPhone case that has made national headlines.
Thomas Nolan Jr., veteran criminal defense attorney from Nolan, Armstrong & Barton in Palo Alto, Calif., will represent the blogger who writes for the popular Gawker network.
Uh oh, looks like someone has lost faith in Gawker protecting him.
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Apple vs ?, iPhone, iPhone 4
WWDC 2010 announced for June 7 – 11
by Justin Horn on Apr 28th, 2010 @ 9:20 amLooks like Gruber was right, WWDC 2010 was announced today for June 7 – 11th. So we only have to wait about 5 weeks to get the rest of the details on the 4th gen iPhone hardware, and any new OS 4 updates that only apply to the new hardware.
(via TiPb)
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Apple reported the 4th gen iPhone stolen
by Justin Horn on Apr 27th, 2010 @ 2:32 pmWall Street Journal reports:
Stephen Wagstaffe, the chief deputy district attorney for San Mateo County, said Apple contacted authorities and “advised us there had been a theft,” which led to the search warrant and an investigation.
This is probably what prompted the search warrant for Jason Chen’s home. This also leads me to believe that the journalist shield laws will not apply to Gizmodo. In California property is considered stolen if it’s found and not returned to the owner or police. It’s also a crime to buy stolen property.
The shield law would only protect Gizmodo from giving up it’s source (the guy that found the iPhone) of stolen iPhone pictures. The only person who would have broken the law at that point would be the finder, but once Gizmodo bought the iPhone they also broke the law.
(via Cult of Mac)
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iPhone, iPhone 4, Speculation
Facebook video has NOT gone HTML5, just preparing for video playback on the app
by Justin Horn on Apr 27th, 2010 @ 1:40 pm
A lot of blogs are reporting on the find by Mac Stories that Facebook can now play HTML5 videos from Safari directly on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. I discovered that the video wasn’t using a HTML5 video player, but just a link directly to the video file which played in QuickTime.
Basically what Facebook is doing is converting new video uploads to the H.264 video format, which is compatible with the iPhone OS. Even though this isn’t true HTML5 support, it’s the first step. They can now easily build a HTML5 player based on the new video format.
This also means they can add support for videos in the Facebook app, a highly demanded feature. I imagine they will start to convert all their old video to the new format, just like YouTube did before the iPhone came out. A video of mine from about 5 months ago wouldn’t play at all, so it looks like they still have a lot of work to do. Once this conversion is done I’m sure they will release an update to the app to play videos!
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WWDC date to be announced tomorrow?
by Justin Horn on Apr 27th, 2010 @ 12:55 amUPDATE WWDC 2010 June 7 – 11
Gruber fit the following tweet into his stream tonight, in between the Gizmodo/Gawker tweets:
Sorry, I’m too busy with this Gizmodo/Gawker legal thing to coyly hint that WWDC will be announced tomorrow.
For Gruber to say this, I think it’s 100% guaranteed. Now the question is when will it be? I’m going with June 15th, but I’m wrong 100% the time.
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iOS 4, iPad, iPhone, iPhone 4, Software, Speculation
The shit has official hit the fan for Gizmodo
by Justin Horn on Apr 26th, 2010 @ 4:27 pmGizmodo posted the search warrant for Jason Chen’s computer:
Last Friday night, California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen’s home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo. According to Gaby Darbyshire, COO of Gawker Media LLC, the search warrant to remove these computers was invalid under section 1524(g) of the California Penal Code.
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