Apple requests prototype iPhone back  Apple has formally
requested that gadget website Gizmodo hand back the prototype
iPhone that they purchased off a stranger who "found" it in a
bar.  In a letter to the editor of the website, Brian Lam,
Apple's senior vice president and general counsel, Bruce Sewell,
states that it has:  "Come to our attention that GIZMODO is
currently in possession of a device that belongs to Apple".  The
letter means that the yet-to-be-released iPhone, widely expected
to be the yet-to-be-announced model due in June, is Apple's,
however doubt still hangs over the fact that it might still be
an early prototype rather than the finished product.  According
to Gizmodo's legal team California the law states, "If it is
lost, the owner has three years to reclaim or title passes to
the owner of the premises where the property was found. The
person who found it had the duty to report it".  Gizmodo has
also outlined how it came across the prototype, claiming that
the person that "gave" it to them (