Author: dsellers

Search warrant documents in an investigation of the possible theft of an iPhone prototype will be made public, , reports “Bloomberg” (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aI8u4GQzoER0).

Judge Clifford V. Cretan in Redwood City has ruled against the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office, which argued that unsealing the documents will reveal identities of potential witnesses and compromise the investigation. Media organizations argued they should have access to the documents based on constitutionally protected free-speech rights.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs asked technology blog “Gizmodo.com” to return a secret iPhone prototype that Apple says was stolen after a company engineer lost it in a bar, reports “Bloomberg News” (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=axWv500b2PpE&pid=20601087).

Forty-four workers in Suzhou, China, are planning to sue Taiwan-based Wintek alleging they were poisoned while cleaning iPhone screens with a chemical called n-hexane, according to Stratfor Global Intelligence (http://www.stratfor.com/).

At least 62 Wintek workers have been hospitalized since August 2009 due to n-hexane poisoning, a chemical “which can cause nerve damage and sometimes paralysis, the article adds. The US Department of Labor describes n-hexane this way: