Tag: RUMORS

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 ...

Although Apple just posted some ridiculous quarterly numbers, it doesn't seem like it's going to escape the current economic conditions in the US unscathed -- like pretty much everyone else, monthly sales are down in Cupertino, according to the NPD Group. The drop is only one percent total, but it's against a two percent rise in overall PC sales, which could indicate that Apple's premium pricing ...

If you've been getting most of your information this election cycle via the Internet and e-mail, chances are you've come across a series of rumors about the candidates that are just flatly false. The nature of the Web spreads the flames of these lies like the Santa Ana Winds during the dry season. The candidates are fighting back as quickly as possible by using the Web themselves. Obama has a ...

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 ...

Well, it's that time of year time again. What time is that, you ask? Why, for Apple's annual iPod updates, of course! Seven years later and the rumor mongers still have not grown tired of speculating and spreading the wildest rumors about what the new iPod model will bring (hint: it won't make you coffee or fold your laundry). Even if you believe every rumor and leak floating around the ...

We're just one day away from WWDC, so the rumor mill is churning at a fever pitch -- and the latest context-less bits of info to emerge from the churn are these purported photos of the 3G iPhone's touchscreens over at iLounge. Yeah, that's touchscreens, plural -- if these are to believed, Apple's got two sizes of iPhone in store for us on Monday: a 3.2-inch model, and a smaller 2.8-inch model. ...

On Monday Apple will host its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, where rumors are circulating that Apple will announce anything from the new 3G iPhone to a Steve-Jobs-manned mission to Mars. But what can you actually expect to come out of those few days in San Francisco? Here are the four announcements we think Mr. Jobs is most likely to make during his keynote Monday ...

Well it's been just over a week since we last got to rumor mongering about the impending launch of the iPhone 2.0, so of course that means it's time to fire up the mills once again and get to speculating. The latest bit of dirt out of Cupertino is that the new 3G capable iPhone will be making its debut at the June 9th Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. It's all but been confirmed that Mr. ...

Apple seems to think you're all a bunch of fat asses who need to get more exercise. Frankly, we're inclined to agree, you have been looking a little soft around the middle lately. Apple has already teamed with Nike on iPod and running shoe packages, and unveiled a plan to put iPod docks in treadmills for saving workout data, now a new patent reveals the boys in Cupertino may be working on a ...

You might remember back in 2005 when Apple sued the Apple rumor site Think Secret. The suit had one specific goal in mind: to find out the sources leaking information from Apple after Think Secret had managed to score the lowdown on a little piece of hardware called the Mac Mini. Apple and Think Secret have settled, out of court, and as part of that agreement Nick Ciarelli, publisher of Think ...

Poor Apple TV, so simply styled and sophisticated, yet already being called a failure by many. The thing just hasn't sold, and with its limited support for HDTV, it isn't likely to get any better. But in a recent interview with USA Today, Apple head honcho Steve Jobs indicates that he still wants Apple TV to succeed, and he has plenty to say about just how the company can make that happen. One ...

From the ashes of the fallen AIBO comes...another AIBO? The print edition of Stuff magazine is reporting a rumor item that a resuscitated version of Sony's robotic dog companion, to go by the name of Sony AIBO PS, will be released by Sony's PlayStation division in an attempt to "bolster the PS3's arsenal." The next incarnation of Sony's robotic pet will be compatible with the PlayStation 3 and ...

While we hate to be the purveyors of rumors, particularly those of the Steve Jobsian variety, here's another one to sink your teeth into: AppleInsider is reporting that the long-promised ultra-portable Apple laptop will be making its debut at January's MacWorld Expo. The system is supposedly a 13-inch jammer, and will come sans internal optical disc drive -- making it about 50 percent lighter ...

Some of us have been hoping for or expecting it since the announcement of the iPhone, while some of the rest of you, like Farhad Manjoo of Machinist, are just realizing the possibilities. A touch-screen Mac, or the more traditional rumor route, a Mac Tablet. It's not as crazy as it seems, the iPhone is built on OS X, it shares the same core operating system with your desktop and notebook Macs. ...

Get the rumor mills rollin'! Apple has sent out an invite to a September 18th press conference at the Regent street Apple store in London. There is no indication as to what the event could be about on the invitation itself -- only a cryptic headline, "Mum is no longer the word," graces the top. We'll take it upon ourselves to start the wild speculation. Rumor number one, Beatles on iTunes. Jobs ...