Rumors Archive

Bloomberg Mentions New Apple TV Will Have Streaming Netflix

Posted on September 1, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg is now reporting that Apple is “preparing to announce a new set-top box that delivers TV to consumers” and that this set-top box “will include [streaming] movies from Netflix.” Bloomberg cites “three people with knowledge of the plans and continues: “The streaming service would...
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iPhone 4 Hardware Revision Rumored To Hit End of September – Fixes Antennagate

Posted on August 31, 2010 | No Comments
The director of Value Added Service of Telcel in Mexico, Marco Quatorze claims that Apple will be pushing an iPhone 4 hardware revision (a redesigned antenna) to fix the highly publicized antenna issue by the end of September. The iPhone 4′s antennagate controversy caused Apple...
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Exchange ActiveSync Updated For Hotmail – How To Set It Up For Your iDevice

Posted on August 31, 2010 | No Comments
Microsoft recently announced that Hotmail will start to support push email, calendar, and contacts with Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). Hotmail users will be able to sync their email, calendar, and contacts to their iPhone using Exchange ActiveSync. Any changes made on the iPhone will be reflected...
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Samsung Epic 4G Rooted Before Official Release

Posted on August 29, 2010 | No Comments
A pretty quick release, Sprint’s Epic 4G has already been rooted by the crew over at SDX Developers. You can basically root the phone that you most likely don’t even have yet. It’s a method that requires adb (Android Device Bridge) commands and thus desktop...
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China Unicom Rumored To Jailbreak iPhones And Give Free Cases

Posted on August 28, 2010 | No Comments
According to M.I.C Gadget, promotional posts (such as the ones seen above) read Support Service: Free SIM-trimming, jailbreak, installation of more than 10 hot apps.” The posters are not showing up in all of China Unicom’s stores but enough of them to be noticeable and stand...
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Possibility of Clearwire Pay-As-You-Go Service

Posted on August 28, 2010 | No Comments
Recent SEC filings all seem to indicate that the WiMAX provider Clearwire is planning a new pay-as-you-go cellular data service. The filings read that Clearwire “plans to serve a new pay-as-you-go customer segment.” Although it is not exactly clear as to what Clearwire has planned...
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iTunes To Get Social Media Exposure

Posted on August 28, 2010 | No Comments
If you are one of the people who have been waiting for Apple to launch a cloud based version of the iTunes store, you are probably going to have to wait a bit longer. A lot of speculation is going around that next week’s “Special...
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Exchange ActiveSync To Arrive For Hotmail On Monday

Posted on August 27, 2010 | No Comments
Microsoft’s free email service will be getting Exchange ActiveSync support beginning Monday, according to a report filed by CNET. The site quotes Microsoft’s director of product management for Windows Live, Dharmesh Mehta, as a source of the information. If you have a desktop client or...
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RIM Rumored To Be Working On External Antenna For BlackBerry Devices

Posted on August 27, 2010 | No Comments
You can be the judge of whether or not this falls into the whole “ironic” category but according to recent news, it looks like Research In Motion (RIM), the creators of the BlackBerry are currently testing devices with external antennas. An external antenna is one...
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Apple Rumored To Hold Media Event September 7th In San Francisco

Posted on August 25, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg recently updated their report, which was filed yesterday on Apple’s plans to launch a 99 cent TV-show rental service for their AppleTV product. The updated report states that “Apple plans to hold a San Francisco event September 7, two weeks ahead of the start...
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