Tag archive: rumor

“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain famously said upon hearing that a newspaper had published his obituary. These days, thanks largely to microblogging sites like Twitter, hardly a week goes by without rumors of a celebrity or some such person in the public eye popping their clogs. The latest person to get caught up in the Twitter rumor mill is the new North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. According to reports, news that the… Read More

More rumors are surfacing suggesting the iPad 3 will hit the shelves two months from now, in March. Such a release date would pretty much fit with previous iPad releases—the original iPad model appeared early April 2010, while the iPad 2 came out last March. According to a Bloomberg report, the next iteration of the popular tablet computer will incorporate a high-definition screen “with pixels small enough to make the images look like printed… Read More

As expected, the Apple iTV rumors are continuing to trickle out from all over the globe. Today's rumor comes courtesy of Australian tech site Smarthouse, which claims to have a scoop on the details of the supposedly upcoming Apple iTV, which the site says will come in three sizes, starting at 32-inches and going up to 55-inch, according to “Sources at a major Japanese company who are involved in manufacturing the TV.” The… Read More

If this is what the next BlackBerry will look like then we are already getting excited.  The folks over at The Verge were given a picture of what is believed to be the first BlackBerry phone with the company’s newest operating system BBX. The device pictured is said to be codenamed “London”, which of course is subject to change. The phone is rumored to be scheduled for a June 2012 release, with no hints at a possible carrier at this time. If the… Read More

Bet you didn’t expect to see a non-iPhone related Apple story on the launch day of the iPhone 4S. AllthingsD is reporting on a rumor floating around that the iPad 3 might already be heading into production. The idea is based around a higher than expected production of iPads for the fourth-quarter. Financial analyst Jeff Fidacaro is saying that the boost in production is due to Apple building new iPad 3 models along side the current generation… Read More

We might have learned why Verizon won’t be releasing a Galaxy S II phone, because they have an even better device coming this way. The latest rumor we are hearing is that Verizon will exclusively launch what is being called the Droid Prime, which might just be the first Android Ice cream sandwich device on the market. There is no word that the Droid Prime will be the next official Google Nexus device, but it sounds highly possible. It’s hard to… Read More

The iPhone rumor mill is working over-time today. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the new iPhone 5 will be released in mid-October, and will be coming to Sprint. This would be amazing news for Sprint, and its 52 million subscribers, if it's in fact true. Sprint will be launching the iPhone 4 along side the iPhone 5, but at a discounted price.  The iPhone 5 will also be available on AT&T and Verizon, but this will be the first… Read More

If you stop what you’re doing for a moment and listen carefully, you’ll probably be able to hear a very familiar noise. That’s right, it’s the sound of the Apple rumor mill cranking up again. Yesterday the web was buzzing with reports of the date for Apple’s regular fall event, with Japanese technology site Kodawarisan (via MacRumors) claiming it would be taking place on September 7. But within hours, people’s attention was being directed toward… Read More

This might be the first iPhone rumor that doesn’t claim to have a picture of the next iPhone. What we have here are pictures of a knockoff of the next generation iPhone. The phone pictured does not match all of the wild redesign rumors we have been hearing about, but it does have a few rumored changes.  What makes these pictures more interesting is the fact that the fake phone is made in the same Chinese town the real iPhones are made. The first… Read More

For tourists who prefer to explore a city without having to dodge the crowds of locals who populate it, Wednesday might be just the day to take a look around the Italian capital of Rome – just so long as you don't believe the recent prediction regarding the city. As the BBC reports, an apparent prediction of a quake hitting the capital on May 11 has alarmed its residents to such am extent that there has been an 18 percent jump in the… Read More

If the rumors are to be believed, HTC will soon be announcing the coming of a new tablet, to be called the HTC Puccini. Naming it after a composer may suggest it'll be incorporating features aimed specifically at music lovers, but then again, RIM called their tablet the PlayBook, and that's aimed primarily at business users. Though details on the tablet's specs are currently scant, it is suggested that it'll run Android… Read More

While many expected Apple to unveil updates to its MobileMe cloud storage service during its recent iPad 2 event, it just didn't happen. Instead, Apple CEO Steve Jobs just focused on the company's second-generation tablet, and that was that. But talk began bubbling up to the surface today that Apple has plans to hold an event in the first half of April to discuss updates to MobileMe, as well as iOS 5. The rumor comes via Macerkopf,… Read More

The rumors of a new, less expensive iPhone are true, reports the Wall Street Journal. The device — which is codenamed “N97″ — will be roughly half the size of the iPhone 4, weigh “significantly” less, and sport an “edge-to-edge” screen. The smaller iPhone will also include voice-based navigation, a virtual keyboard and cost roughly half the price of the current iPhone. Apple currently sells the iPhone to… Read More

Among the most speculated details about the inevitably forthcoming second-generation iPad is how Apple plans to upgrade the screen. Will it be Retina, like the iPhone 4, or something else entirely? Perhaps something made out of pure magic? Well, you can stop holding your breath, because 9to5Mac.com claims to have gotten their hands on the iPad 2 screen, straight from a source in China. And no, it's not Retina. “[W]e have been able… Read More

The cast of The Dark Knight Rises is starting to fill out. A couple weeks ago, we learned that Anne Hathaway will play Catwoman and Tom Hardy will play Bane. Today, Deadline is reporting that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in talks to join the cast as well. It is unknown what role Gordon-Levitt will play, but it won't be his first time working with Director Christopher Nolan. The actor also starred in the director's hit film Inception,… Read More