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• The iPod and the "product transition"

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Apple, Arstechnica, Benreitzes, Forbes, Imac, Ipod, Product Update, Producttransition, Productupdate, Refresh, Speculation, Thinksecret, Ultraportable, Update

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, Apple Financial, iMac, iPhonePerhaps the most interesting and mysterious two words heard yesterday during Apple's big conference call were "product transition." The biggest surprise of the call was that Apple was setting its profit guidance much lower than expected, and the two big causes they gave for

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• Google Talk VoIP phone in development... again?

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Google, Google Talk, Googletalk, Rumor, Skype, Speculation, Voip, Wifi, Wifi Phone, Wifiphone

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wireless One can't help but wonder if the recent decisions regarding the FCC's 700MHz frequency auction aren't having an effect on Google's desire to bring a WiFi phone to market as quickly as possible. What better way to use the new "open" frequency than to put Google Talk on a device and get it into the hands of

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• DigiTimes: Taiwan component suppliers NOT seeing a reduction in iPhone orders from Apple

  Published: August 2, 2007, 4:55 am

  Tags: Apple, Digitimes, Iphone, Rumor, Speculation

  Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable VideoIt's looking more and more likely that Apple investors were taken for a ride on Tuesday after some idle "chatter" (supposedly heard) between Goldman Sachs traders sent the stock down almost $10 or 7% -- their biggest drop in more than two years. Specifically, Apple had supposedly cut iPhone

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• Google doesn't deny GPhone rumors, has prototype ready?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: Google, Google Phone, Googlephone, Gphone, Partnering, Partnership, Prototype, Rumor, Rumors, Speculation

  Filed under: Cellphones We all know that when rumors start to heat up, well, it just means there's more to speculate about. Nevertheless, new reports from both the BBC and The Wall Street Journal do a fine job of getting our hopes up, as it's noted that Google refused to outrightly deny handset rumors; rather, it simply reiterated that its users

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• Why Was GTA IV Delayed?

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:15 am

  Tags: Rockstar, Apparently, Been Delayed, Delay Announcement, Disappointed, Earlier This Week, Exact Reason, Force Microsoft, Going To Happen, Gta Iv, Hdd, Launch, Mmos, Rockstar, Seamless Experience, Specifics, Speculation, Times Limited

  reason for delay is mostly speculation. Some journalists have speculated that GTA IV was delayed to force Microsoft to give in when it comes to some of Rockstar’s demands. I really don’t know myself, so I’m not going to put out a definitive opinion on the situation. I can say that I am highly disappointed that the October

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• Facts+speculation: Amazon Invests in Demand-Based Pricing Digital Music Store

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:33 am

  Tags: Amazon, Amiestreet, Amiestreet Com, Digital Music, Facts Speculation, Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Mp3, Portable Media, Social Networking

  Amazon recently dumped an undisclosed amount of cash into AmieStreet.com, a start-up digital music store that throws in an element of social networking: track prices rise with their popularity. A song's price starts at nada, but as more people download it, the price tag balloons until it hits a 98 cent ceiling. The cool twist in the model is that

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• Barclays Bank Takeover of ABN AMRO In Jeopardy

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:48 am

  Tags: Mortgage News, Mortgage Video, Abn Amro, Barclays Bank, Mortgage News, Jeopardy, Takeover, Amro, Barclays, Withdraw, Speculation, Moving, Shares

  Amro are moving lower on speculation Barclays may withdraw its takeover bid ABN AMRO, Barclays Bank, mortgage news, Mortgage Video ---Related Articles at Consumer Mortgage Reports:ABN Amro Board Officially Withdraws Support For Barclay's OfferBarclays Bank Takes On Asian InvestorsABN AMRO Is About GlobalizationBarclays Raises ABN Amro Bid on

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• Rumors of hard drive production shortages bubble to the surface

  Published: August 13, 2007, 11:32 pm

  Tags: Hard Drives, Harddrives, Hitachi, Production Shortage, Productionshortage, Rumor, Speculation

  Filed under: Storage The tech-world rumor mill tends to ceaselessly turn, and this week is no different as its attention gets focused on hard drives, or more specifically -- hard drive production. According to ETNews, a Korean tech blog, increased demand for PMPs and GPS navigators, as well as recent earthquakes in Japan, have led to a price hike

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• Will Xbox 360 Core become Xbox 360 Arcade on August 24th?

  Published: August 20, 2007, 6:59 pm

  Tags: Arcade, Core, Discontinued Sku, Discontinuedsku, Elite, Microsoft, New Sku, Newsku, Premium, Price Cut, Pricecut, Rumors, Sku, Speculation, Xbox 360, Xbox360

  Filed under: Gaming It appears the Xbox 360 rumor mill is hard-partying once again, this time over the fairly sketchy information that in addition to the European price cut we mentioned earlier, the game system may be receiving a "changing of the guard" on the SKU front, with the dismissal of the Core system, and the inclusion of a new "Arcade"

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• Apple's 3rd generation iPod Nano revealed in "spy shots"?

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:10 am

  Tags: 3g Nano, 3gnano, Apple, Ipod, Ipod Nano, Ipodnano, Nano, Rumor, Speculation, Spy Pics, Spy Shots, Spypics, Spyshots

  Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoSure, we know that the photo up over there just looks like someone took a regular iPod, squashed it down, duplicated it, colorized it, and then pasted the copies in a playful circle. But what -- just what -- if you're actually looking at the 3G Nano? According to 9to5Mac (and at this point only according

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• Google's mobile phone in two weeks? Not likely

  Published: August 23, 2007, 9:39 pm

  Tags: Airtel, Bharti Airtel, Bhartiairtel, Google, Google Phone, Googlephone, Gphone, Rumor, Speculation, Vodafone, Vodafone Essar, Vodafoneessar

  comment on market rumour or speculation. However, Google is committed to providing users with access to the world's information, and mobile becomes more important to those efforts every day." So, while you can never, truly rule out a sudden showing of the Gphone, definitely don't go banking on it either.[Thanks, Binil] Read Permalink

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• Notes And Queries: Do Straight Swingers DO Crystal Meth?

  Published: August 24, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Baseless Speculation, Crystal Meth, Eliot Spitzer, Notes Queries, Politics, Roger Stone

  A political journalist who will remain nameless poses a query about the political consultant who allegedly left that mean message for Governor Spitzer's dad: The question everyone is asking is what...

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• What would the iCar be like?

  Published: August 29, 2007, 9:26 pm

  Tags: Apple, Concept, Design, Icar, Rumor, Speculation, Volkswagen

  Filed under: Transportation Continuing the trend of wild Cupertino-related rumors, while simultaneously bringing to mind an old joke about Microsoft and GM, a German magazine is claiming that Apple and Volkswagen have entered into discussions over a concept vehicle to be dubbed -- you guessed it -- the iCar. If you believe what they say, the two

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• Sony Rolly: slowed down and blowed up

  Published: August 31, 2007, 5:41 pm

  Tags: Rolly, Sony, Speculation

  Filed under: Portable Audio Ok inspectors Engadget, here's Sony's Rolly back for an encore. We went frame-by-frame through our higher quality copy of the video to try and understand our little friend just a wee bit better. From what we can tell, this thing really moves. At first we thought maybe, just maybe we were looking at some slick animation

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• Sony: Rolly is an audio player (and more)

  Published: September 4, 2007, 5:10 am

  Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Rolly, Shake Control, Shakecontrol, Sony, Speculation

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Portable Audio Sony's official Rolly blog has confirmed what we already thought: Rolly is in fact a digital audio player without a display. They also claim that it has only one button which controls the "play / stop" of audio and is "basically the only button you use." Although this picture shows what appears to be a

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