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Is an Xbox 360 price cut inbound?: Rumors are circulating that Microsoft is getting ready to cut the price of the Xbox 360 games console to $299. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Tags: Console, Price Cut, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Rumors, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Google to Buy Skype?: Rumors are out again that Ebay's albatross. aka Skype, may soon be unloaded to Google. The deal could be valued at as much as $6 billion: "Skype is booking about $400 million in revenue now, and it's conceivable the company could command 10-times that. *A reader suggests...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Skype Technologies S.A., Rumors, E-mail Providers, Telephony, Peer To Peer (P2P), VOIP, Telecommunications, Internet, Networking, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-04-02
ix86Phone? Close encounters of the 'blurred' kind!: Rumors are abound that the in a year or so the iPhone will pack an x86 Moorestown processor. The basis for all this speculation? A blurry photo of a marketing slide filled with random clipart images. Here's the slide in question: ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Intel X86, Rumors, Processors, Marketing Research, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-03-13
Developing enterprise applications for mobile devices remains way too hard: A logjam exists between developers and their ability to productively deliver enterprise applications and data to mobile devices, such as cell phones, PDAs, and so-called converged devices like the Apple iPhone. The logjam is complexity and too many obnoxious variables. To develop applications that reach even a...; Tags: Mobile, Apple Inc., Mobile Device, Sybase Inc., Enterprise Application, Rumors, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-09-21
Nokia N81 8GB flash smartphone may be coming in August: It looks like Kevin Tofel may have stumbled upon some good news for Nokia S60 fans after seeing a strange image in his Google ads. It seems that there is a viral campaign for the Nokia N81 that leads us to believe we will see an August 29th launch date...; Tags: Smartphone, S60, Rumors, Nokia, MP3 players; Blog posts 2007-08-02

HTC Omni looks like one slick Windows Mobile device: Apple has done a good job with the design and usability on the Apple iPhone, but they are not the only player in town and HTC makes the best Windows Mobile devices on the market. They are also quite innovative as seen with the HTC Touch and other devices. After...; Tags: Windows Mobile, Rumors, Microsoft, HTC; Blog posts 2007-07-04
Will Sprint see the Treo 800w in 2007?: According to a Gizmodo Sprint source a new Palm Treo device may be coming to the Sprint network in the 4th quarter of 2007. This device, the Treo 800w, would be an upgrade to the existing Treo 700wx that Sprint currently has available with the two biggest changes being integrated...; Tags: Wireless carriers, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Rumors, Palm, Microsoft; Blog posts 2007-06-11
Is a new form factor Palm Treo on the way?: This weekend has been full of new Palm Treo rumors and I read most of the details on PalmInfocenter. There have been rumors of a device with the code name of Gandolf for at least a year and now rumors state that this device runs Palm OS Garnet (5.x) and...; Tags: Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Rumors, Palm; Blog posts 2007-06-10
What is the Palm Foleo?: Palm is making an announcement today at 11:30 am PDT where they are expected to announce some new mobile device category. Speculation has ranged from an ultra mobile PC device to some kind of portable media center device. The most plausible information was just recently posted on TreoCentral where one...; Tags: Gadgets, On the road, Palm, Rumors, Smartphone; Blog posts 2007-05-30
Details emerge that the Vulcan FlipStart is actually a real device: The Vulcan FlipStart ultramobile PC is one of a few devices, like the DualCor CPC, that were announced a couple of years ago and then became vaporware that only had occasional rumors bringing it back to life. According to a Crave article it appears that the FlipStart is actually going...; Tags: Gadgets, Microsoft, Rumors, Ultra portable PC; Blog posts 2007-03-06
Rumors of the T-Mobile AMEO 8GB Windows Mobile Phone Edition emerge: While you are waiting for the Apple iPhone HTC looks like it will be bringing another 8MB Phone Edition device to the market. I posted some information on rumors of the HTC Athena back in December and now Pocketinfo.nl has further information on the device Babelfish translation that looks to...; Tags: Windows Mobile, Rumors, High Tech Computer Corp., T-Mobile Ameo; Blog posts 2007-01-23
Is this the HTC 2007 Windows Mobile lineup?: HTC High Tech Computer manufacturers most of the Windows Mobile devices out there and also started selling their own label devices a few months ago. The T-Mobile Dash that I use regularly is an HTC device. I was reading my RSS feeds and saw that PDA 24/7 posted an HTC...; Tags: Microsoft, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Rumors, High Tech Computer Corp.; Blog posts 2006-12-29

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Samsung INNOV8 S60 mobile device with 8 megapixel camera revealed: The Nokia N96 was revealed back in January and should be hitting the streets in the next couple of months. I guess I haven't been following the S60 rumors closely enough lately and was a bit caught off guard by the post that Ricky made regarding the Samsung i8510INNOV8 S60...; Tags: Mobile, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Mobile Device, Camera, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Speculation over possible Skype backdoor: There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...; Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Google + Digg = ?: There's a persistent rumor that crops up every few months about social news site Digg being acquired by ____ insert company here. The latest, citing "multiple sources inside and outside Google", says that Google will buy Digg for $200M. This is similar to a rumor in March that Digg was...; Tags: Google Inc., Digg, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Apple: Perception is Reality: Apple: Perception is RealityRE: Apple: Perception is RealityAbsolutely, Apple's response will do nothing to allay investors fears and in many cases will accelerate the rumour mill.Apple need to come out a flatly confirm or deny Steve's current health and produce, at the very least, a barebones succession plan to restore...; Tags: Warren Buffet, Apple Inc., Perception IS reality; Discussion threads 2008-07-23
Video: Jobs health and other Apple chatter: What started as a blog conversation weeks ago about the state of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health has turned into a groundswell of stories. Apple says Jobs' health is a private matter, but it's gone quite public with stories in the New York Times, BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal. ...; Tags: Steve Jobs, Health Care, Apple Inc., Video, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Please tell me an actual Apple netbook is on the way: I've said it several times before: I want a netbook. An Asus Eee would be great, the HP MiniNote is a bit pricey but looks very slick, Dell's proposed netbook is still vaporware but worthy of excitement, and I'm still waiting for US OEMs to pick up on the...; Tags: Apple Inc., Productivity, Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Kaspersky's Malaysian site hacked by Turkish hacker: According to Zone-h.org, Kaspersky's Malaysian site has been defaced by a Turkish hacker during the weekend, through a SQL injection, leaving the following message - "hacked by m0sted And Amen Kaspersky Shop Hax0red No War Turkish Hacker Thanx to Terrorist Crew all team members". "The official Malaysian Kaspersky Antivirus's...; Tags: Web, Malware, Web Site, Site, Hacker, Kaspersky, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-21
News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft: Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales; Blog posts 2008-07-21