NEWS ANALYSIS — Apple’s tablet PC may win an award for most-commented-upon vaporware of 2009. Rumors of the device, which a handful of analysts feel will make its debut sometime in 2010, have been fueled over the past week by comments from New York Times’ Executive Editor Bill Keller. Although Apple remains tight-lipped on the tablets existence, the company could be finding it more difficult to keep secrets than even a few years ago.
– The game of quot;Guess the Features of the Apple Tablet PC quot; has kept
analysts and media rampantly speculating over the past few months, despite
Apples refusal to either confirm or deny the development of a touch-screen device.
The rumor mills refusal to stop churning likely indicates two th…
Microsoft Refuses Comment on Project Pink Phone Rumors
Microsoft has refused to comment on renewed rumors over the weekend that it is planning to release two new Microsoft-branded smartphones early in 2010. Scuttlebutt of a Microsoft smartphone, labeled Project Pink, has been drifting around the blogosphere for months, with the newest rumors suggesting that Microsoft will create two devices, code-named Turtle and Pure, that include a slider form factor.
– Microsoft
has refused to comment on rumors that it plans to roll out two branded
smartphones early in 2010, a move that would put it even more directly in
competition with Apple, Palm and Research In Motions BlackBerry in the mobile
space.
While Microsoft has already been battling other IT gia…