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$500M more for Facebook?

10 month ago

nelson : $500M more for Facebook? - Rumours of hedge fund investment, but seems pretty thinly sourced so far; Fake Steve Jobs is the other source

Tags : facebook hedgefund investment rumour

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Google Phone rumours

12 month ago

nelson : Google Phone rumours - Columnist claims to have talked to people who've seen it

Tags : cell google phone rumour technology

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Blast from the past: In 2001 Macrumors users were not impressed by the recently announced iPod. I...

34 month ago

plasticbag : Blast from the past: In 2001 Macrumors users were not impressed by the recently announced iPod. It took them a couple of weeks to work out why it was cool. It took me about a month - when I bought my first 5Gb iPod for £350... - "I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player?"

43folders : Apple's New Thing - Mac Forums [thread from iPod announcement, 10/2001] - "Great just what the world needs, another freaking MP3 player." [via: Digg]

Tags : apple history hype ipod rumour eatingcrow via:digg

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Apple may build video cams into future Macs

35 month ago

plasticbag : Apple may build video cams into future Macs - "A recently published Apple patent application reveals that the company last year toyed with the idea of integrating a tiny video camera into the latch of a future laptop design, presumably with intentions of leveraging its iChat audio-video conferencing

Tags : apple camera design ichat ichatAV laptop patent rumour video videoconferencing

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"A vampire is on the loose in Birmingham. And an inept one, if reports are to be believed. Which ...

44 month ago

plasticbag : "A vampire is on the loose in Birmingham. And an inept one, if reports are to be believed. Which they aren't." - Despite the complete lack of evidence, no rise in bite-related injuries and the like, there is apparently a vampire stalking the streets of Birmingham

Tags : birmingham bite blood death fable myth news psychology rumour urbanmyths vampire

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On the iPod micro?

44 month ago

plasticbag : On the iPod micro? - Apparently, "Life is Random". The iPod in question can apparently take around 240 songs (1 Gb), has no screen and can only be played on random...

Tags : apple cupertino ipod ipodmicro ipodmini mac moscone photographs rumor rumors rumour rumours speculation

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Daring Fireball on the rumours surrounding upcoming Apple Products

44 month ago

plasticbag : Daring Fireball on the rumours surrounding upcoming Apple Products - "It?s not hard to imagine that first-day reaction to the Mini would have been better had rumors not set the false expectation that they were going to sell for $100-150..."

Tags : apple daringfireball expo hardware imac ipod ipodmini lawsuit osx rumor rumour software thinksecret

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Six Apart to buy LiveJournal

44 month ago

Jason Shellen : Six Apart to buy LiveJournal - Let me be the first to ask the question, will it be TypeJournal or LivePad? #

Erik Benson : Six Apart is going to buy Live Journal? - Live Journal is awesome. I think this is a great move for Six Apart, and I'm pretty sure they'll only do good things for the service.

Andy Baio : Six Apart to buy Livejournal!? - holy crap! [via]  [via]

jkottke : Six Apart to purchase Live Journal? - Ok, that's weird.

François Nonnenmacher : Six Apart to buy Live Journal - Blogging Empire

plasticbag : The Rumour Mill says that Six Apart is going to buy Live Journal - "I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad, and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount. The deal is a mix of stock and cash..."

deusx : Om Malik on Broadband » Six Apart to buy Live Journal - "I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart ... is about to acquire Live Journal." Whoa. I can't decide if this is significant or a minor cough

Jeremy Zawodny : Six Apart to buy Live Journal - Six Apart to buy Live Journal: I didn't see that coming

Tags : + acquisition blog blogger blogs livejournal movabletype rumour sixapart textpad weblog weblogger weblogs metablogging links

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Expo rumours continue - competition for Office? Garageband 2? Screenless super-cheap iMacs?

44 month ago

plasticbag : Expo rumours continue - competition for Office? Garageband 2? Screenless super-cheap iMacs? - "Apple will launch its new iWork '05 productivity suite at Macworld Expo, Think Secret has learned. The software, code-named Sugar (as alluded to in our previous Expo report), will include Keynote 2 as well as a new application, Pages."

Tags : apple application expo garageband iwork keynote osx pages rumor rumour rumours software thinksecret

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