Move over iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 rumors, here comes the iPad 3! What, you thought the grapevine was closed with Apple’s iPhone 4S hitting shelves today? Not when it sounds like Apple’s newest slate is right around the corner…if we buy Susquehanna Financial analyst Jeff Fidacaro’s claims, anyway.
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Now that we’ve got this iPhone-not-5 business out of the way, eyeballs are back on Amazon’s Kindle Fire over a leaked sales report. Here’s the report’s short version: People are preordering the thing like mad.
Take with a pinch or two of sodium—the report comes from a tech blog dubbed Cult of Android, after all—but word is would-be
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Media, meet blame game, a game in which excitable tech bloggers pronounced Apple’s iPhone event the iPhone 5’s official coming out party, only to discover the iPhone 5 doesn’t exist, or that it’s been replaced by—gasp!—a 4S impostor.
Let’s get one thing straight. There’s never been an iPhone 5. Apple never mentioned it, never …
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sprint, the nation’s third largest wireless carrier, has agreed “to purchase at least 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years—a commitment of $20 billion at current rates—whether or not it could find people to buy them.” That’s according to oft-quoted “people familiar with the matter,” …
“Welcome to iCloud! Here’s your iCloud account ID and that’s all you’ll need to get your iOS device, Mac, or PC up and running. Just follow these instructions and you’re in business!”
I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist of an email someone—first name “Sam,” last name redacted—received on Friday, you could say prematurely. That’s …
Could Amazon be lining up to grab Palm away from Hewlett Packard? VentureBeat claims it’s heard as much from “a well-placed source” (well, aren’t they all?). Amazon’s said to be in “serious negotiations” to snatch Palm from HP, and that HP’s more than ready to divest itself of the once-prominent smartphone manufacturer turned webOS …
Today’s installment in the ongoing iPhone 5 release date guestimation saga: It’s beginning to look a lot like mid-October. Apple Insider is reporting that Apple has been “quietly denying” employee vacation requests for two periods in the middle of October, suggesting that it might be expecting a lot of demand from customers around that …
If you’ve been wondering who’s going to replace Carol Bartz as CEO of Yahoo after she was fired by phone at the beginning of the month, the answer may be “no one.”
In fact, following on from rumors that Yahoo was “open to selling itself to the right bidder,” now there are rumors that the company may be broken down and sold off in …
This whole Netflix-Qwikster split had a fair number of people wondering if Reed Hastings had lost his mind. Hastings is no dummy, though, so there’s got to be some sort of method to the perceived madness.
Industry analyst Michael Pachter wrote in a note to clients the very same thing; that there’s “a method to their madness,” reports …
Today at 1pm Eastern, Facebook will be making a big announcement at its “f8” developer conference. We’ll be covering the event and will relay the official news after all the dust has settled.
However, it appears that Facebook’s own creative director, Ji Lee, may have ruined one of the surprises already. Lee supposedly sent the …
Well, now we have an answer to the question “How will Apple do without Steve Jobs?” Apparently, very well indeed.
While the rest of the market declined yesterday, Apple shares hit an all-time high, reaching $413.23 before falling to $411.63 by the end of trading—itself a record closing price. In fact, yesterday saw the company …
Another day, another fresh stack of iPhone 5 rumors. We’ve parsed through all the hearsay to bring you the crème de la crème in wild-eyed Apple speculation. Let’s take a look.
Spotted in the wild: the iPhone 4S?
Let’s see. The iPhone 4 16GB Black? Check. The iPhone 4 32GB White? Check. The iPhone 4s whit…—WHOA WHOA …