• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

Popular Apple rumor Web site to shut down

SAN FRANCISCO
Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:18pm EST

Related Video

Video

Reuters Technology Week

Thu, Dec 20 2007
A journalist from holds the Apple iPhone outside the Apple store on New York's 5th Avenue, June 29, 2007. Apple Inc and a popular Web site that published company secrets about the maker of the Mac computer, the iPhone and the iPod have reached a settlement that calls for the site to shut down. REUTERS/Mike Segar

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc and a popular Web site that published company secrets about the maker of the Mac computer, the iPhone and the iPod have reached a settlement that calls for the site to shut down.

Technology

Apple and the site, ThinkSecret.com, settled the suit, which Apple filed in January 2005, and no sources were revealed, Apple and ThinkSecret said in statements.

College student Nick Ciarelli, ThinkSecret's publisher, said he plans to move on. He started the site at 13.

"I'm pleased to have reached this amicable settlement, and will now be able to move forward with my college studies and broader journalistic pursuits," he said in his statement.

Cupertino, California-based Apple filed its suit after ThinkSecret published details of a stripped-down Macintosh computer called the Mac mini two weeks before the product was launched formally.

"We are pleased to have reached this amicable settlement and happy to have this behind us," an Apple spokesman said.

(Reporting by Duncan Martell)
Technology


More from Reuters

A boy looks for recyclable items in the polluted waters of the Yamuna river in New Delhi December 9, 2009. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

U.N. Climate Change Conference

Welcome to our live coverage of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change. This is your space to respond to our panalists and voice your views on the events at COP15.  Full Coverage 

    Discovery Communications Wellness Center medical technician Charline Faison notes patient medical information during an appointment at the clinic in the Discovery Communications headquarters buildingin Silver Spring, Maryland December 3, 2009. Credit: REUTERS/Jim Bourg

    House calls at the office

    Companies like Discovery say they've found a way to save millions in annual health insurance costs and provide better healthcare for their employees.  Full Article 

    Healthcare Reform
    Felix Salmon

    The banking revolution?

    A couple of firms you've probably never heard of have a few ideas that could revolutionize the broken consumer banking system, says Felix Salmon.  Full Article 

    Felix Salmon