The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple reported that he spoke with a few of his well-connected sources, and is flatly drying that Apple will hold any sort of event this month. As he put it on his official blog, “This is not going to happen, according to my sources. Apple will not hold an event in February, unusual or otherwise. That’s it.”

A report from the Japanese blog Macotakara claims Apple may be making the final preparations to unveil the iPad 3 in February. The site has a pretty spotty record regarding some of Apple’s product plans, but is citing sources from Asian supply chains stating that the iPad 3 will go on sale in early March.

Apple’s January 19th education event isn’t really giving us a lot to talk about, so let’s take a look some iPad rumors, shall we? A high definition screen is kind of a given, but there are now reports that it will also come with LTE support (before the iPhone gets it!) and a quad-core processor. Production is rumored to hit high gear in February for a release this March.

Appletell recently reported on a rumor concerning Apple purchasing Anobit, a maker of flash controllers. While Israeli media reported the purchase for as much as $500 million on December 20th, Apple declined to comment at the time. In an email to Reuters, Apple confirmed they did, in fact, purchase Anobit without verifying the purchase price.

The New York Times is reporting that Apple is secretly working in a prototype device that can be worn as a wrist-strap watch. According to sources within the company, the “… new curved-glass iPod that would wrap around the wrist,” will have the built-in functionality of Siri, allowing users to control the device with their voice. The inspiration seems to come from third-party accessories that make wrist watches of the iPod nano.

Apple uses solid-state drives (SSD)—which consist of flash memory—in the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch/nano/shuffle and MacBook Air, as well being build-to-order options in the Mac Mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro. It would make sense that Apple would want to have the best SSD technology for low price and stability, which is why it’s rumored Apple is interested in purchasing Anobit, a maker of flash controllers.

Apple iTV, what it could do, and whether it’s going to become a reality has been on the minds of many after Steve Jobs’ biography came out. In it, Jobs revealed, “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.”

Rumors of the iPad 3 have started to pick up steam, including talk that Apple has already begun testing and manufacturing a new retina display for iPads. Richard Shim, an analyst at DisplaySearch, claims Apple has started developing its own 2048×1536 resolution version of the Retina Display for the next generation of the iPad 3. The analyst noted that companies such as Samsung, Sharp and LGD are at work manufacturing them.

As we get closer to 2012, Apple product rumors are starting to come in. iLounge is first out of the rumor-mill gate with comments from their “most reliable source” about Apple’s 2012 product line. If true, the iPad, iPhone and MacBook Pro are going to get significant redesigns from current models. But there are plenty of reasons why I feel we should take the report from iLounge with a grain of salt.

There have been many rumors lately about the Macbook Pro getting a slight increase in processor speed before the end of the year. First it was sometime in October, and now they’re saying it won’t happen until November. Most of the rumors are based on the current limited supply of MacBook Pros, but there are several reasons why this could be happening, not all of which are under Apple’s control.