Weekly Rumour Mill: Can Apple can wipe your Iphone?, remote iTunes, Dark Knight on BD-Live
Daniel Long
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Aug 8, 2008 3:20 PM
We take each week's best rumours from around the world and list them here in the Weekly Rumour Mill.
21/07/08 – 27/07/08
Apple: Resistance is futile - we can destroy your IPhone apps remotely! (ok, so we made that bit up)
The Inquirer are reporting that an iPhone expert(aren't we all?), named Jonathan Zdziarsk has discovered an evil backdoor hidden in the new Apple iPhone firmware 2.0 update, which allow Apple to “delete any unsuitable or unauthorised applications”.
This will probably not come as surprising news to Apple disciples, as they are likely be remain unaffected, since Apple engineered a backdoor into many of their brains already, causing them to line up for stupidly long periods of time and spend huge amounts of money on overpriced kitschy T-shirts on eBay.
Dark Knight to go BD-Live?
The second highest grossing film of all time could grab another record soon; the first film to get a BD-live release, a format that allows film geeks to sit around a TV set and have a boring conversation (or argument) about the film they’re watching.
We're not sure what’s worse - a bunch of superhero nerds hankering about their Batman fetish, or those pesky kids who play their 50 Cent ringtones from the back of the cinema, whilst throwing popcorn and other assorted projectiles at the screen.
HP gets the touch
Just when you thought all the hype behind touchscreens would simmer down, another manufacturer has thrown their gloves into the ring. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, HP is pushing to have new touchscreen notebooks released within the next 18 months.
Remote iTunes streaming a reality?
Macrumours are reporting that “Apple are proposing that mobile device owners could instead access their entire collection (of ITunes) over Wi-Fi or cellular networks”. This would in effect, allow users to sync their iPhones or iPods with a lifetime supply of music without ever having to use cables.