Yes, we’ve all read the iPhone theft/loss stories where the owner happily retrieves their lost phone, but I couldn’t resist posting this story about a thief who is not only ignorant about technology but also extremely unlucky. Horatio Toure is a thief who doesn’t know about technology. If he did, he wouldn’t have tried to steal an iPhone, because he would know that the chances of the user being able to locate their phone using Find My iPhone are pretty high. Still, throwing caution and intelligence to the wind, Toure jumped on his bicycle, rode up to a woman in the South of Market neighborhood in San…

Nothing smarts like losing your shiny, brand spanking new iPhone. You worked and saved to earn the money to buy Apple’s latest hot gadget, then you got wasted one night and it slipped out your pocket on the cab ride home. Well, now there’s a solution. Kind of. Apple has launched the new Find My Phone app (iTunes link), an iPhone app you can install to help find your lost iPhone. That’s right, when you’ve lost your iPhone, there’s an iPhone app for that. Of course, the idea is that you install the app on a friend’s iPhone and head off like Nancy Drew on the hunt for your missing, but more likely stolen iPhone….