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AP denies story that Apple has folded on the iPhone name
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by ricknight | January 12, 2007 at 06:58 am
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Associated Press has told NP that a story posted at NewsVine is a spoof. The link below to the original posting goes nowhere.
NewsVine has now removed the story and blocked the member.
I have contacted the technology editor for AP and he claims that this is NOT its story. We will be following this closely.
It appears this story was supposed to have been "embargoed" by Associated Press until 20:00 GMT - that works out to 3pm ET, I believe - but it has been inadvertantly released. - Mark Schneider, Actual News Guy.
In a surprise move on Friday, Apple, Inc. announced that it was renaming its newly released "iPhone" product as the "iTouch Mobile" after a lawsuit was filed by Cisco Systems, Inc. earlier in the week. The announcement came only days after Apple announced its revolutionary iPhone product -- a sleek, $499 gizmo combining the popular iPod product and a mobile phone -- to much fanfare at the Macworld Expo.
Note: The link is no longer available at newsvine.com
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at 07:10 on January 12th, 2007
Rick - I've added a note to the top of your story. Extremely interesting!
at 07:19 on January 12th, 2007
Nothing in the industry surprises me anymore :)
at 07:22 on January 12th, 2007
AP is denying the story.
at 07:28 on January 12th, 2007
And the asociatedpress.newsvine.com site is not responding anymore... Possible load issues?
at 07:33 on January 12th, 2007
And it looks as though the newsvine.com account is recent. all the signs of a hoax.... which is a story in itself.
See: http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Renames_iPhone in the comments section.
A lie can run around the world before the truth gets its boots on....
at 11:07 on January 12th, 2007
All Associated Press stories on Newsvine live at "www.newsvine.com". All user-created accounts live at {user-chosen-subdomain}.newsvine.com. This user-created account has been disabled and deleted.
at 11:12 on January 12th, 2007
This amazing Rick...good eye!
at 11:30 on January 12th, 2007
Mark caught the fraud... I just got caught... Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
at 12:27 on January 12th, 2007
Classic fraud attempt and well executed to boot. Newsvine has taken the story down and I've contacted the staff there to alert them to the more general vulnerability of spoofed and high profile account names.
at 13:10 on January 12th, 2007
Thanks everybody. RickNight - I have nothing but thanks for what you did. It was an interesting story, and as Killfire wrote, well-executed. As an oldtime news guy, the embargo thing was a mite too clever. News agencies rarely will send an embargoed story out that way; it's more the tactic of a PR agency with a press release it's hyping (or sending privately to select media). I appreciate the courtesy of Mike D and killfile, and hope they will return the favour the next time when something bogus gets past us.
at 17:20 on January 12th, 2007
The story may be fake but it still leaves Apple calling a product by a name someone else owns.