It seems as thought Stephane Richard (CEO of France Telecom) has been stiring rumours that Apple will officially release their iPhone 5 on October 15th.
In discussions with a small group of French reports, Stéphane mentioned:
“If we believe what we have been told, the iPhone 5 will be released on 15 October”
Im sure that the iPhone 5 will have a different launch date in different regions, so dont rely on this. However, it seems like there are a lot of rumours now about the same date, October 15th.
Our friends over at Shuttur have just launched their site into Alpha testing mode. Shuttur is a social image service. Shuttur shows you the best images voted and controlled completely by the community.
Additionally, they have a no registration option in which you can just host images.
Anyways, they are looking for VIP Alpha testers. If you want to get into the Alpha testing drop us an email at: info (at) crenk.com
A lot of people thought that Windows 8 would have a black screen of death, but after making it available for release yesterday it turns out to not be the case. In reality they have a very nice blue screen of death.
Microsoft has just launched the developer preview for Windows 8.
This of course makes the news extremely important for developers and startups looking at this space, including those working with Windows Phone and Nokia.
The Paraswift is a base jumping robot that might save your life one day. The robot can climb walls and then jump off by itself. The robot can carry a camera that shoots video on the way down, which is probably why Disney has a stake in the project.
Gamestop seem to be a company jumping all over the place at the moment. Gamestop has noticed that no one seems to be buying games from your basic game shops, thus they are trying to find other revenue streams. Last week it was leaked that they are working on a Steam competitor and now it has been announced they are working on their own Android gaming tablet! Really.. a Gamestop gaming tablet! No one is going buy that surely.
It seems like HTC are now shopping around for their own mobile operating system. HTC has made a huge amount of money from Android based smartphones, but they feel that this is just simply not enough. After all, Google’s free operating system is getting expensive.
“We have given it thought and we have discussed it internally, but we will not do it on impulse,” Wang said in an interview with the Economic Observer of China, noting that HTC’s Sense UI would allow the company to offer distinctive products using any operating system. HP’s webOS is an obvious candidate, and although Wang did not refer to the platform specifically, the report notes that HTC and Samsung have both been in talks with HP. ”We can use any OS we want. We are able to make things different from our rivals on the second or third layer of a platform,” Wang said. “Our strength lies in understanding an OS, but it does not mean that we have to produce an OS.”
It has been reported that Apple will start selling their iPhone 5 on either October 7 or October 15. It is set to be available to pre-order on the 29th of September.
There have been a lot of rumours around the iPhone 5, but this seems to be pretty solid!
Angry Birds is probably the worlds most popular online social game. I still cant believe how many people play this game on a daily basis. Anyways, here is a quick infographic that outlines how addictive it really is.
Apple has tried to acquire Dropbox for around $800 million, but it was rejected!
Dropbox is a web based file hosting service which keeps all of the files in perfect sync across numerous operating systems and devices. Dropbox has already received around $7.2 million in funding and is expected to have $100 million in revenues in 2011.
It seems a shock that Dropbox investors didnt jump at that price, but Im guessing they are holding out for over a billion dollar valuation.
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