You probably saw this one coming. Just as with the previous two models, Apple is planning to launch its next iPad, the iPad 3, at an even in early March. Read on for the full details. Read more
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Apple is the frame to buy US online video service Hulu, according to a report from Bloomberg. The claim from two anonymous sources is that Apple is currently engaged in negotiations described as “early talks that may lead to an offer for Hulu”. Talk of a bidding war for the service has been hotting up since it started shopping around for buyers after deciding not to go public with a $2bn share offering.
The deal to buy Hulu includes five years of programming from the US networks and two years of exclusive rights to shows from Disney (where Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder), News Corp and NBC Universal. With rumours of an iCloud video service in the works, Hulu could be a perfect fit for Apple which currently has $64bn in cash reserves.
There is a fairly big issue for us Brits though: the Hulu UK launch was scuppered by a deadlock in deal making with UK channels. Let’s hope if Apple does gobble up the site, it’ll also use its klout to bring it here too.
While we know that the iPhone 5 can’t really be described as delayed since it’s still an unreleased, unconfirmed product, the latest rumour to emerge from China is still worth taking a look at.
Chinese-language tech site Sohu.com claims problems with putting the A5 chip into a smaller package are behind this year’s longer wait for a new iPhone.
Though the suggestions should be treated with a significant pinch of salt, they once again raise the prospect of an iPhone 4S delivering a minor upgrade on the current model in September with the iPhone 5 not arriving until 2012. Read on for full details on this somewhat surprising new theory…
We’re at the stage in the iPhone 5 rumour cycle where the smallest of details are being debated. The latest focus for speculation if the iPhone 5 camera and whether it will arrive packing a dual-LED flash.
As is so often the case, the rumour is based on whispering among component makers in the Far East. While the iPhone 4 camera was a leap up from the iPhone 3GS, it’s still ripe for improvement and a dual flash for the iPhone 5 certainly definitely makes sense…
There’s been a lot of hoo-ha over rumours that Facebook is building a smartphone, as outed by TechCrunch earlier in the week. TechCrunch outed the rumour, which Facebook then vigorously denied. TechCrunch then tore apart the response from Facebook to the rumours that the social networking giant was building a phone, and then Zuckerberg came out and talked about it.
Talk has been circulating that Nokia are looking for a new CEO, with the WSJ at its root. Rumour has it that Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is on his way out, and Nokia are scouting around for a new CEO. Reasons given in the WSJ are that Nokia has “struggled to find traction for the company in the market for high-end smartphones”
Reports are circulating that Apple are releasing iOS4.0.1 today, on the eve of a highly anticipated and very official sounding press conference about the iPhone 4 in Cupertino California tomorrow. So how much weight is there to these rumours? And how would an iOS4.0.1 release fit with tomorrow’s conference?