• Internet Is In An Apple Tizzy, Expecting May 19 Announcement

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    Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

    In celebration of their 10th retail anniversary, Apple stores are expected to hold “something big” on Thursday, at least according to BGR. Employees are expected to work overtime and sign NDAs as well as surrender their cellphones. They will also be getting secret hardware to install this week.

    The best thing? They’ve gotten a Wikileaks-like dump of data that is password protected.

    Employees have had to download gigabytes of data from Apple corporate labeled, “training” in a password-protected zipped folder that won’t accessible to managers or anyone else until Saturday afternoon.

    What could it be? A robot? A new iMac? A Steve Jobs replicant?