RUMORS
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Nanography – New iPod Nano To Have A Camera
9to5Mac are reporting that a set of leaked images, by Japanese blog Apple.pro point to a prototype iPod Nano with a camera in the back and accompanying aperture on the clip. The aperture looks like it is fitting for a camera lens, apparently Apple.pro believe a 1.3 megapixel camera is on the cards for the iPod Nano. They’ve been pretty accurate in the past with rumors, so fingers crossed we might be seeing this soon. Check out the images below…
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Here’s The New Samsung Galaxy S II HD E120s – (Shhhhhhhhh)
Mobicity wasted no time in announcing the latest little beauty from Samsung, the Samsung Galaxy S II HD. It’s an updated version of the hugely popular Galaxy S II. According to the Mobicity Australian sister site, the device features a huge 4.65-inch Super AMOLED HD capacitive display running at 1280 x 720 resolution. The Galaxy S II HD runs Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread) and has a powerful 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 1850 mAh battery. The Samsung Galaxy S II HD comes with an 8-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and Full HD video. Since publishing this article we went back to Mobicity UK but it appears the original image has…
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Soul Calibur Heading To The Apple App Store This Week
Cast your mind back to 1998, that’s when Soul Calibur originally launched in arcades. Since then it made use of the Sega Dreamcast and Microsoft Xbox 360 and will be heading to PS3 in February. On January 19th though, it’s due out on iOS according to the announcement from Namco Bandai today. "The iOS port of the classic arcade and Dreamcast fighting game features all 19 fighters and a mode list that includes arcade battle, time attack, survival, extra survival, practice and museum modes. Of these, time attack, survival and extra survival are compatible with Game Center’s Leader Boards". We have no news on the pricing yet, but check back…
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New Apple Invitation For January 19, 2011
Apple has sent out invites today for a press event to be held in New York City next Thursday, January 19, 2011. There have been and still are many rumors circulating as to what Apple will be announcing. The most likely one though is that this event will concentrate on iBooks with education majoring. Steve Jobs was determined to ‘shake up’ the textbook market and perhaps this event will mark the start of that… We’ll be covering this event, so check back for that.
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Apple After Rights To Stream English Premier League Football
Well, it looks like Sky have got some serious competition on their hands. The Daily Mail are reporting this morning that Apple ‘are showing interest in joining the billion pound battle for the next set of live Premier League TV rights when the tender goes out before the end of the season’. Apple see the Premier League as a crucial platform to help establish their Apple TV in the UK and of course boost their iPad sales as the iTunes subscription service is already in place. The Daily Mail reports that Sky paid £1.6 billion for their current packages and we all know that Apple have plenty of cash to…
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An Autographed 4th Gen iPod Shuffle, Signed By Steve Jobs, For Sale On Ebay
Well even the biggest Appleophile is going to have to be deeply serious to purchase this iPod Shuffle. Currently now on at $10,300.00 with 5 days still to go before bidding ends. You’re going to want to know the story behind this one, here it is: The owner of the Shuffle was invited to attend an Apple event, in conjunction with the ‘innovators of tomorrow’ program, when he decided to pluck up courage and ask Steve Jobs for his signature. Apparently, he said, “I hear you’re not really one to give autographs, but I just gotta ask…. will you sign my iPod? It’s fine if you don’t want to. I’m…
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Ouch – RIM Has $1.7 Million Of PlayBooks Stolen
Oh RIM come on – you don’t need this! Somehow, whilst a truck driver was catching a break last Thursday, his truck full of 22 pallets of BlackBerry PlayBooks – that’s around 5,000 units was stolen. Not only that, there was no tracking device on the vehicle so the theives just went on their merry way. This loss has been valued at $1.7 million, add this to the $485 million loss recently took a hit on with its poorly selling PlayBooks and the latest delay to their BlackBerry 10 phones and things are not looking good. Their share price has dropped 71% from the beginning of 2011. I guess things…
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Explosion At Apple Supplier Plant
Reuters are reporting this morning that an Apple supplier plant, Pegatron Corp, suffered an explosion at the subsidiary’s plant in Shanghai this weekend. Sixty-one people are said to have been injured with twenty three needing hospital treatment. This latest incident of course, this throws the spotlight back onto safety concerns that have plagued factories in China. Fire Not The Cause Apparently the fire was not the cause of this explosion but details of the actual cause have also not yet emerged. The plant itself is apparently set up to produce iPad 2 back panels although rumors are emerging that perhaps this is more likely to be the iPad…
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Rumor – Barbarian – The Death Sword – New App – Delayed
Despite a release date announced for December 12th, new "Barbarian – The Death Sword" (final name) videogame is not available yet and will be be one week behind schedule. The new release date has now been set to December 22th, few days before Christmas, just in time to decapitate Santa Claus (or not). 😉 Keep checking back and we’ll let you know when this app is available. Features – Cross-platforms Multiplayers mode has been added. For example, iPhone players can fight iPad or PC players. Moreover, gamers can choose one of the 9 fighters availables. – A new Rage gauge has been added and allows more powerfull movements to…
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Snapheal For Mac – Reportedly Appearing In The Mac App Store Tomorrow
The new Snapheal for Mac is coming to Mac App Store tomorrow, December 14, 2011. This is a new generation of image editors for Mac OS by developers MacPhun. Imaging and editing tasks are said to be simple without requiring specialist image editing skills. We’ll let you know when this app is live but for the moment, check out the video below. This app will be priced at $19.99/£12.99 but will be offered with a 50% launch discount. Snapheal Features Include Erase unwanted objects, delete skin imperfections and text Fix images with clone&stamp tool Adjust saturation, gamma, exposure, color temperature, etc Reduce noise and sharpen images Control shadows and…
