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Is Apple working on a tablet computer? A flat-screen television? Maybe. But the most tantalizing rumor swirling around Apple these days has also been the most seemingly far-out: that Chief Executive Steve Jobs was getting medical treatment in Tennessee.

Alex Haislip, a reporter at Venture Capital Journal, a venture industry trade publication, was the first to put it on the record. A quiet Memphis neighborhood was buzzing, he reported, after a historic local property was sold to a mysterious owner who had installed security cameras and parked a security guard out front. The local scuttlebutt: The mystery mansion was inhabited by none other than Jobs.