Digg’s Kevin Rose is again peddling his Apple rumours, this time in regards to the upcoming 3.0 preview scheduled for this Tuesday. He was dead on last time around—can he do it again?
Pocketgamer.biz, who we’ve never worked with before, says Apple may be working on a section of the App Store for more expensive (read: $20 and up) apps.
Reuters is also confirming the rumours from the Commercial Times about Apple ordering 10-inch touchscreens for third quarter.
There is no Apple Home Server that will beam your everything to any device yet, but AppleInsider says that the soon-to-be-finished iTunes Replay service will stream purchased iTunes videos anywhere, like Netflix.
Citing “three independent sources close to Apple,” one who has “actually held the device,” TechCrunch says Apple is planning to release a giant iPod touch device with a seven- or nine-inch screen next fall.
A true “next generation” Nintendo console, tentatively referred to as the Wii HD, will hit the market in 2011, according to the folks at What They Play. The site claimed that Nintendo is currently showing early presentations of Wii 2.0 to the game development community, and that Miyamoto’s new device will be based on completely new hardware and will contain HD visuals, digitally distributed content and expanded storage.
What is the Apple Brick? It’s a rumour that started over at 9 to 5 Mac. A trusted source told the site that the (also rumoured) October 14th Apple Event would be “all about the Brick.” The fun sort of spiralled from there, with plenty of guesses of just what the Brick could be…
Oddly enough, there have been two separate accounts of a 4GB version of the new nano showing up on store shelves in the Netherlands. There was no mention of a 4GB nano at Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event, so these legit-looking images have us puzzled. The sources claim that this rogue nano comes in all 9 colours and is priced at the equivalent of $210—as you can see in the following product link. UPDATE: Apple has confirmed the existence of a 4GB Nano. [Product Page and One More Thing and Yahya Gallery] galleryPost('4gipodnano4gb', 8, '');
Weeeeird. According to The Inquirer, Google is set to acquire video game company Valve at any moment now. It might seem like an odd match at first, search engines not having much to do with The Orange Box, but Google may be interested not in Valve’s games but in Valve’s game distribution platform, Steam. Steam is the most veteran digital download service on the block, and acquiring the tech could further enable Google to take over the world/galaxy. Also, rumour has it that Valve has developed a rich stockpile of badass digital weaponry, like laser machine guns and WMDs and stuff. [theinquirer]
Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet has a pretty interesting rumour on a Zune Marketplace-like service in development code named “Zune Video X”. It’s supposed to take what Microsoft’s learned from their Xbox 360 Live Marketplace endeavor (menus, selling movies, renting movies, organisation, etc) and port it into a Zune ecosystem. The point? “A single hub where Zune users could buy and download music, videos, TV shows and more entertainment content.”
