Tag: RUMOR

Rumor has it that, in a possible bid to continue its complete takeover of our lives, Apple might soon replace your digital cable box. digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/rumor-mill-will-apple-replace-your-cable-service/'; Apparently, Apple has been quietly shopping a pitch to TV networks, in which it will provide networks' content (in lieu of a cable provider like Comcast) for $30 ...

Rumor has it that, tomorrow morning, gaming giant EA will announce that its 'Rock Band' property is making its way to the iPhone. Any details concerning the release date, price, and song list likely won't be known till an official announcement, which has got to be the "big news" EA is tweeting about. IGN broke the news about the upcoming iPhone rhythm game. If the rumors are, in fact, true, it ...

Fresh off the disappointment of no-shows like The Beatles on iTunes, a Mac tablet, and an iPod touch with a camera, the Apple rumor mill has toned it down a bit this go around and set its sights a bit lower -- the Mighty Mouse. Debuting in 2005, the Mighty Mouse's reception was, at best, lukewarm. While it was the first Apple-branded mouse to support right-clicks (through its touch-sensitive, ...

Although we've had our fair share of actual celebrity deaths over the past weeks, judging by the (false) news making the rounds online, you'd think half of Hollywood had bit the dust. Jeff Goldblum supposedly took a dive off a cliff in New Zealand, and the tale quickly made its way through Twitter and Facebook. The rumor became so widespread, in fact, that Mr. Goldblum released a statement ...

If you're tired of all the iPhone and Android rumors, but aren't ready to give up on speculating in general, take a gander at what Sony will supposedly be unveiling at the E3 Expo in June -- a brand-new Sony PSP. The new portable gaming system will supposedly come in a new form and be free of the dead-end UMD drive. Instead, the PSP _____ ('Slide'? 'Flip'? 'Go'? Pick one.) will have eight or 16 ...

Digg's Kevin Rose has a solid (but far from perfect) track record when it comes to Apple rumors, and he just drove the nerds of SXSWi crazy with his latest gaze into the crystal ball: he says the iPhone 3.0 will have copy and paste. Kev says that the interface is much like the magnifying glass -- you use two fingers to select the text you want, and then you can cut or copy. Sure, that's great, ...

You know who's blabbing again? That reclusive set of business people who always seem to be "familiar with the matter," that's who. This time, they've got the Wall Street Journal in a twist over renewed rumors that Dell is "preparing a move into cellphones as early as next month." Next month, is of course the big cellphone coming out party known as Mobile World Congress in Barcelona -- an event ...

You know Palm's on to something when reputable sites start to splinter around its newly announced OS and handset. PhoneArena's fledgling sister site, WebOS Arena, has it from a "credible source" that Best Buy will be the exclusive retailer for the Palm Pre. That means that Best Buy will be the only place other than Sprint where you'll find the Pre for purchase on US soil for the first 60 days ...

A new report from Fudzilla claims that Microsoft is getting ready to lay off 15,000 employees, or about 17-percent of its worldwide staff. The axe will apparently fall on January 15th, exactly one week before its second quarter earnings report, and they expect MSN division to be hit hardest, while the successful Xbox crew will probably make it out relatively unscathed. Meanwhile, an anonymous ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Walmart_iPhone_on_sale_the_28th_for_a_lot_more_than_99'; At this point, it's clear that the $99 iPhone 3G rumor was just that: rumor. We have a letter that we believe to be authentic from a source within Wal-mart that says the iPhone will launch in the house that Sam built at 9am December 28th. At launch, only the 8GB ($197) and 16GB ($297) iPhone ...

There's something just a little skeezy about basing predictions for Important New Apple Products upon nasty renders of protective case mockups from China. Still, they've panned out astonishingly nicely before, so we'll just have to suck it up. iDealsChina is reporting that XSKN is not-so-secretly working on a silicone skin for the upcoming "Nano iPhone" (or, more likely, iPhone nano) a shorter, ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Sony_s_long_awaited_touchscreen_Walkman_finally_revealed'; Sony's Walkman series of media players has done its best to keep stride, stuffing in new features and design refinements over the years, but touchscreen-dominated players are clearly in vogue, and it looks like the company is finally ready to break down and get touchable. According to the Sony ...

It's hard to say if this rumor is true, but it's not behavior that Best Buy has avoided in the past. In fact, we vividly remember this exact same scenario happening in late 2006 -- the difference? That was the Wii's launch year. This is two years later. Two. Years. Later. Oh, and it's totally a futile effort, considering that Wally World sold through "tens of thousands" in about four ...

We can't count the number of times we've heard from one random source or another that Apple was about to pull the trigger on a subscription-based / 100-percent DRM-free music service, and given how those have worked out in the past, we'd highly recommend taking this one with a huge dose of salt. French site ElectronLibre has it that Apple will finally offer up all of its music in DRM-free form ...

Don't forget that Apple's laptop-centric event is today at 10am, 1pm eastern, and, as usual, the rumor mills have been going full steam in preparation for the announcement. So what can we expect from from Mr. Jobs today? Well, we've broke down each major rumor circulating and the likelihood that each one will turn out to be true. $900 MacBooks with an aluminum case. Odds: 4-1 MacBooks are ...