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is Intel as sick of cable TV as I am does Amazon want to make its own TV shows is google made making a tablet and it's coming soon what about a Windows 8 tablet oh and Android phones may finally be getting Instagram praise be all that plus our patented yays or neighs coming up on rumor has it it's Tuesday March 13 2012 and you are watching a rumor has it I'm Emily Dreyfuss and you're like my mic isn't on and I'm Korean baby and you're tuned into the Internet's hottest tech game show gambling show bow bow back and we're each week we round up the Internet's and the world's hottest tech rumors and then we bet on them and then on the end at the end of the month the person who loses has to be humiliated and that is today in the immolation day copyright trademark Alvin as well 2011 everything just in case of me wants to steal that idea to cult Pope but bleep bleep what's the official not be said yeah her name's Colton cult classic era parka yeah um gasps yeah we were trying not to say it let's take a look at the board yes it's I'm currently winning but today that is humiliation Jerri will be taken down a notch because I'm going to have to pay for losing last month right so at the end of this month if all goes as emily plans it i'm gonna lose big yeah and I am gonna seriously force you to embarrass yourself in a way that you have not even experienced because as you guys are about to see right now in the video that may or may not blow your minds I actually really really embarrass myself in public yeah like up until now like humiliation day has been kind of humiliated aim pretty tame exactly and it's been humiliating but it's also been do you like fine like we can handle it were not like over-the-top blushing crazy like you know I were the banana costume you devil sticked which wasn't even embarrassing yes i love devil stickin so mostly were just doing it for the humor but the other day was actually embarrassing like Emily was actually embarrassed we're just wanted to do even-steven residenza I was embarrassed like in the background like pretending like we did like we weren't a partner like we don't know her that we're not with her yeah so this one is a good one and should we watch it yeah let's do it ready all right here's humiliation day Oh you Oh Oh unbelievable mg oh my god so that was actually right after the announcement and what was so hilarious about it was the people who gathered in that crowd around the tent we're like oh my god that's the first girl in line for the ipad look at her that she's setting it up and they're like narrating the entire experience and saying this one guy goes oh excuse me so it's happening tomorrow you're here in time like you're gonna spend the night and the woman with him goes no it's not coming out to the 16th she's gonna be here for a week what are you gonna eat a banana tuna they were seriously sad and scared for her even the Apple employees were leg gathered around the windows like looking and they're like and we thought they were gonna kick us out totally and then it then we realized that this is just a regular occurrence at the downtown San Francisco apple store like everybody ends up for Eli crushing so fast to make to put that tent up by myself which was difficult and embarrassing on his own because I thought that the Apple employees were gonna come out and be like get off our lawn like you're on our property but instead they're like oh no it's happening early this year and like through our product person is here right and for a product that's like not even knew it's just like enough decoration of it so anyway for people who are listening and not watching Emily set up a tent in front of the apple store and pretended to be first in line and everybody took pictures of her and then I had to sit in that tent while they had left me and took video and then people are asking me in the chat room did I find the pictures they took of me and I actually didn't that day though I haven't really googled around that much but I looked on Twitter and I looked on google to see if anyone had put those pictures up yeah like first dummy and yeah why would be I was kind of confused that they didn't put them up because like why did they take them if they weren't going to put them on social media what is that for their own personal I know which is what they're probably taking pictures of your address on the on the backpack I know I mean what it's not her it's not my current real address but that is my real backpack so that was one time my address sorry people who currently live there gonna get me like not know anyway Bravo Emily that was very so embarrassing so well you were so gracious like there were hundreds of people watching it felt like even up in the building you see and there's like a whole construction site who stopped and we're washing yeah yeah it was I mean everybody not like at all think about the fact that we were gonna draw a crowd I mean I I knew that it was gonna be difficult to set up the tent and do that with all those people walking around but I didn't realize p for could stop and point and talk to me once I was like if you're still here in a couple days I'll bring you food right and late the minute we set up the tent she's like okay peace we're out of here my god someone saying did I promote the show I really should have but I wanted people to think it was real well I'd when then I went into the apple store cuz the guy was like what is she doing and I'm like oh rumor has it blah blah rumor has it and then he was like okay whatever like is she leaving what is happening so anyway good job thank you goddess loser it was haul it was really funny that was pretty good eating the Apple was the funniest yeah that really clinched it so deep inside you I'll put that on my on my youtube page later um we can have it forever and ever and I can just watch it over and over again but so now guys I really need your help so that I can outdo this humiliation day for Kareem this month if she loses if I lose again go easy on me I know we'll just have you double stick again like a mystery because that was easy what were you alright so she begins yes let's get to our first rumor alright so this one is interesting so back in episode 19 which was februari seventh we debuted our very first copyrighted yay or nay section and in that segment we asked now it's a google tablet that will challenge chap challenge that will challenge the kindle fire so google is google going to come out with its own tablet and for the record Emily voted yes and I voted no which is why I'm a big loser probably because I don't know how to vote on anything um which is why I've lost three times bro so anyway just the other day our good friend Carl who is one of our viewers Hagar from our first episode wrote to us and said one of my friends knows a person very high up in the Google Ashkelon they went to college together and that source recommended that my friend wait to get a google tablet when it ships before June no other details on specs or which version of the operating system but presumably ICS this person is high enough at Google that they could have easily just given my friend a tablet but I guess that's just not the kind of relationship they have hmmmm so very interesting right so we've already reported on this rumor and then our friend Carl kind of helped us along with this you know this rumor is still happening cuz I was over a month ago when we talked about it according to our other good friends didja time oh yes our favorite friends IDing industry sources which means there are not ranked Google is getting together with ASUS issues and will unveil a 7-inch co-branded tablet pc as early as May hmm with the model targeting amazon's kindle fire and it'll be priced at between one hundred ninety nine dollars and $249 according to the report google was eyeing some other people to help them out with this because they're not going to build the hardware for it they were HTC and acer the usual suspects in when it comes to tablet and but finally landed on a sous because apparently it was the moat that company was the most willing to cooperate with Google which basically means that they were willing to do things Google's way because everybody else like had their own input and Google was like no thanks like we want literally 20 to build it in our fat in your factory yeah exactly and we want to be in charge of everything so this rumor has been around as I said for several months and people even speculated that the new tablet would be called the Google Play but because of people because of URL filings like they were violent for the domain name although we saw last week that's actually the rebranded name of the android market so oh yeah play ended up being something else but so this rumor has been around um cnet even reported on it last month and the Google branded tablet will have a parent Lee a 1280 by 800 pixel resolution 7 7 inch display and according to Richard shim an analyst at DisplaySearch production is slated for April which drives with may release so this is it's just kind of an odd rumor because they're already or Brazilian Android tablets that are Google tablets so for for a while we were confused about what would make this different and then we're thinking oh the way that it's different is that Google will actually be manufacturing it but then now it's muddled with the fact that asus would be right manufacturing and if like the the google nexus like that phone i think HTC made that phone though and so but they were you know had tight control they were yeah it was a google branded thing rather than simply an HTC branded something running running android exactly so if google is in charge of everything then google it has you know the capability is or the rights to change whatever they want on it and then it's yeah their thing but they haven't actually manufacturing wonder if this rumor indicates that google kind of blames the manufacturers for the failure of their android tablets and they're like if we were just doing it ourselves it would be better i know everything will be different no well maybe I mean part of that I think the not I don't want to say cuz Android is doing well obviously it's a big competitor for ipad whatever but there's so many of them and so it kind of like you know makes its so fragmented and it saturates the market yeah like okay so what's the difference between buying a motorola android device or a HTC android device or like the walgreens tower at the what yeah exactly the one that you can buy at walgreens it's like a boo I wish I could remember the name of it I forget but yeah and and so what's different so then you know if Google is doing it themselves and they'll have like a heavy hand oh yeah and this will be the flagship Android tablet which is what has been needed yeah exactly that's exactly right yeah so and you know other than that everything they all kind of look the same so it looks at the like the bet that I place back in episode 19 will help me continue my strategy of placing the worst bets ever know your people wait 200 years old because the last two months you bet really smartly oh you want too much you want to want to feel like I didn't I feel like I didn't win it's just that los you ensure think of it the opposite way I think that I just played like clean beds lever I was like that go against my Orleans when you were losing I was like this wasn't me who won it's just Kareem has has failed in this month but I think that I failed these months and you one will say I made some of the dumbest bets in the history of tech bedding I know I mean the next the next couple that we'll get to in a few in a few minutes is probably the worst one that I ever I know there is a bet that is going to come back and haunt me and the second half of the show oh god okay but before we get to that let's get to the next rumor which is reported by The Wall Street Journal and it's a rather odd and strange rumor because it involves Intel maybe building a television subscription service whoa hey whoa why would a chip maker want to do that how do why would they think they could so the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the pc chip maker is developing a new web-based TV service to compete with cable satellite and telco TV services and it would be delivered via and Intel designed set-top box that would offer a virtual cable service people familiar with the effort drink that ignorance anonymous set the service would bundle TV channels together much like cable does so my first thing that I want to say is boo why would you do that first of all Intel you're not anywhere involved in in thank you now anywhere involved in this type of content delivery before so it's like a whole new world for them that they're going to be completely like fish out of water when entering and the only way to really compete with all of these other people offering the same services is to do it all a cart that's what the people want that's why amazon and itunes have been taking a little bit of the market share away and coaxing people to give up their cable and to become cable cutters like me but it's not a perfect system and what we need the cable colors of the world we need a like portable all a cart delivery for our favorite content and Intel if you're not gonna do it that way why do it at all like you're literally late to the game you don't know how you don't know if I'll a 25 years yeah like no one has explained it to you you like they're already like established people trying to do it the only way to make it work is to change the rules if you're not going to do that literally give up right now take it from the three of us in this podcast room you're destined for failure if you bundle everything together however i want to say we have all more things about the rumor which is that this is not entirely unprecedented for intel to be interested in TV services because back in 2008 they actually displayed partnering with yahoo to do web connected tvs at the time they were just we thought demonstrating that to show that their chips should go into televisions as televisions get smarter um but maybe it's just that TV is close to their heart could be golly Bob Jesus um and now just want water tellest yak that is I really want to get involved in the okay I was trying to do Elvis i think i was working um but now so maybe they just really want to be in the TV industry the thing is it's everyone wants in Apple wants in with apple TV Google wants in with google TV because it we pay a lot of money for it and as much as people are on their computers and on their smartphones people watch TV and it is a big humongous industry with advertisers in Hollywood and everything behind it people want to piece the pie and it's it's a changing market so there's a lot of room to innovate one unfortunate thing for Intel and with this rumor that they point out that Maggie Riordan pointed out when she did some analysis of this rumor I said if they're really going to do a set-top box like Roku or like Apple TV so late in the game where they don't have any content deals with the distributors yet some one major caveat might happen and that is that broadband providers have been talking about throttling high data use customers so that their internet speed goes down if they stream a ton of video I want to say that that is the most infuriating thing I've ever heard and as someone whose dreams ninety-eight percent of my content except when I'm watching The Voice on Mondays because there's nothing else to watch and i watch that with my bunny ears yo um I would be the person who would be throttled completely I download and stream everything and just if that happens get comcast are there are other broadband providers but i'm not i'm talking to you comcast in san francisco if you do that i am going to use this podcast I'm going to be evangelists to get the other cable cutters of the world into the street we are going to march to your offices on potrero street and 16th in san fran districts where you drop off the box well they are going to be the ones who will hear my yelling this is don't take away our freedom we will will we occupy the airwaves if I broadband you do that okay we're just gonna all of us are just gonna download everything yes download blow up their system yeah we'll do a DDoS attack on our gonna blow up the tube why our own our own computers I mean another side is that my internet yesterday slowed down considerably and I had to go to my boyfriend's office and say pardon me my darling have you downloaded so much content that we may have reached our limit for the month and he was like oh potentially and he's like it's not that big of a deal right because it's the end of the month I was like it's the 11th right like I need my internet so badly so this would be upsetting but it would be very strange until did this okay and I have one more little just for the lulz funny haha rumor if we have time before the break we do um okay so just for the haha's anthony amazon executive leaked that he is the head of the secret future original program amazon by updating his linkedin profile what did he literally wrote that he is the vice president of original television at amazon unfortunately at the moment guys this is where the LOL it comes in amazon doesn't have any original content yeah yeah and as far as we know that's what they do hello I guess it is a vote on this I think we did I think we were I think we did I hope we didn't only vote that Disney was something too sometimes we don't vote stupidly but um yeah so the note I wrote here was lol because sorry I know that dumb not were supposed to say those things out loud but I did it anyways this guy is a former executive from 20th Century Fox I would sure we could play that music cuz that's my favorite music um and so it makes sense that he would be brought on to Amazon as the head of original programming and after fortune magazine noticed this on linkedin where apparently they were just trolling and asked him for comment he changed it but i have to point something out he didn't do the greatest job of changing it because he changed it to vice president of production at amazon studios which doesn't exist the steam which also sounds like vice president of original programming on because amazon doesn't have Amazon Studios yeah yeah so I gather he was just so excited he had to get ya I don't you it totally it's true um but so i think that means we're gonna be able to watch a show and we should probably take that's next week on which b-list actor is going to be starring in it and i have a couple of suggestions and what are they well probably any ex member of The Sopranos because one of those guys Van Sant is on the hulu one or the netflix original i think it's the netflix original show um but yeah let's take bets who do you want to bring back from the 1990s glory all right guys let's take a quick break and you will watch a very funny animal video or an ad um and then we'll see you a second you you welcome back you're watching rumor has it on Tuesday what's the date March thirteenth yes BAM and let's get back into our rumors we have one last very annoying and amazing and wonderful rumor for you before we get to our this rumor might be the tipping point of why i win this money yeah it might literally be the death of me on this podcast or my rejoicing who knows um so I'll just get to it Instagram is probably coming to Android very very soon I'm excited for all your android fans cuz i love Instagram yeah wait you're excited on our behalf you don't have an Android I don't have I have an iphone that's so true you do you have Instagram hell yeah why aren't we following each other I don't know it well I'm gonna see this is like this is the thing there's this club of people who are an Instagram and I'm not part of it because of my little as you know droid incredible with the broken bits it doesn't have its not capable of running Instagram and I made a bet this is why I'm so ambivalent about this rumor do why it's like one side of my heart is pumping with joy and the other is not pumping at all because it's so angry um because I bet that this was going that Instagram was going to come to Windows Phone 7 before it came to Android was fun thinking I don't we had this whole show where we talked about Windows Phone and I was like up and dreamland like maybe I get a windows phone I mean I've only played with it one minute at Jessica dole courts desk but it was like pretty and green I liked and maybe i'll invest they'll get it for my next phone and then like riding that cloud ivan a bet that it was gonna the windows own like this is hardly even a rumor really because i feel like we really talked about that and we're like and I was like I'm gonna say no and you were like what like we were so into that room I think we got remarried convinced ourselves that was coming windows on and I mean there was one good reason I think our logic was in some ways sound because Android is so fragmented and right and we relay go along and we were like all the new nokia phones that are running windows have placed cameras and Instagram ones for cameras like and now Lumia is delayed and so we had like such good solid basis for you voting yes and me but I was just like I'm gonna do the counter vote that we blow and I didn't know you're lucky us it was a lot but so this rumor is semi hardly a rumor it's basically a semantic question of what the word soon means because Kevin Systrom and mike krieger cofounders of Instagram told the crowd at South by Southwest this weekend that the instagram app is coming to android really soon and that's the fact that the basil ovens from Instagram the horse's mouth yes that an American idiom that many people so it is that what you Americans so the question really hinges on what is their definition of soon soon could be tomorrow soon as sometimes in Raymond soon probably means before Windows probably does mean next yeah because their exact quote was I don't think it took us that long we just had priorities since term said had we tried to be both on Android and iPhone at the same time it would have been tough to innovate in the way that we have now what he didn't mention there at all window so apparently that their priority is certainly not focused on window I know and it probably maybe never is coming to windows and maybe they're waiting for windows 8 to come to phone Zoe vaise near so since i voted against myself and I wanted on my phone I want to be part of your club but i also want to win if I win I lose and if you lose I mean yeah I don't know it might be worth it and with the win-lose and yeah it might be worth it to lose the bedding just so you have it on your phone absolutely I would much rather win life than the podcast I think the podcast is life this life wow this is really having a crisis of authenticity so I don't know what I don't know you mean so let us give on to yay or nay yay or nay trademark copyrighted all rights reserved 2012 would you like to read them sure and I will be the stenographer stenographer the scribe um CNN to acquire Mashable I say may I say yay because CNN is desperate and they have been trying to like rule Twitter since before Twitter was even a thing that I cared about and like when you watch their news instead of reporting they just say so and so Jane 92 72 on Twitter so they feel this way about the fact that everyone says obama is a muslim what Mashable does well exactly and magic like literally does rule Twitter like they write anything and it's trending yeah and I just don't know how they do it and I bet CNN is like we will pay you whatever it was that we were paying Wolf Blitzer and by you so next by you not to be confused with on the bayou we're gonna eat ourselves some shellfish oh yeah I you roast not that's not for thanks darlin first of all bio by arrows can make clean no no that's in Massachusetts they're gonna have clamp they know they have you have a Croft crawfish daddy but less costly okay um okay um paypal to launch mobile payments dongle yeah like a square thing yeah I say yeah I say yay to absolutely the inverse of square it's like you're the one who would have it oh well maybe it's not maybe it would be for sellers when I was first hearing about I thought they were saying that you and I would have our own dongle attached to our pain but that doesn't make it easy for sellers yeah to have it and then you can pay with your paypal yeah will the ipad come to sprint yay yay it has to whoo mark my words yeah is dan hesse going to be booted from sprint as CEO I say yay I also say yay oh no sorry nokia to launch Windows 8 tablet later this year I say yay I also say yay because obviously that makes so much sense that they would do that I mean it totally makes sense i wrote a whole thing about it we kind of we don't have to talk about it for very long but it makes it makes a lot of sense and the only words of wisdom i have for nokia is to be careful be careful how you release this thing because everybody is like well the kindle fire did it they're competing they're competing with the ipad they're doing all this stuff listen the kindle fire was a very special case it was about the price it was about the time of year that it came out it was what it included in it if Nokia releases this Windows 8 tablet which I'm sure they will they really need to make it something special and they need to make it different and that's the only way it's going to compete in such a saturated market that's all I'm going to say about it I think you're right and I think that they could they have the potential to I mean did you see how Seth Rosenblatt was so excited about the prototype one that he had running Windows 8 yeah I mean Windows 8 is like optimized for touching and moving and you know combining with your computer combining with your phone like it makes sense but Nokia really and it makes sense for nokia to want to get into the tablet market because that's the only way they're gonna be able to compete in the smartphone market you know like it all it all comes together but it all comes together together maybe but they just really they need to be careful mmm they need to tread light yes I think that probably everyone is always telling nokia that like be careful don't mess up claw I'm honest I exactly yeah we want you to succeed like you used I mean they used to be at the top like everybody had a nokia phone they used to be at the top of the yeah you know smartphone or regular phone or whatever although cell phone that's back when they were just called cell phone I know back before yeah they weren't even called feature phones yet so I'm rooting for you nokia i really want you to succeed but i will have you made rather some ecard oh no that was for code a code on okay so that was our yay or nay section and copyright in 2012 shall we now move on to the betting round now fan out now we should do a harmony now I can't get out much tone-deaf all right do you want to continue is Intel building a subscription TV service um I say no I'm gonna say yes because they're dumb oh no but i don't know i actually think intel is a great company and i love their chips but it seems like they might do this as well then it's about it you have their chips oh yeah it's especially cool ran delicious um will Google tablet be seven inches yes yes yeah uh-huh okay and um will the Google tablet come out in may I say yes all I can do is my little old lady English voice to know but that's everybody's favorite no that's they like the old lady down by the creek we'll go partner with AC unit normal tablet you never flirted on the main right now boy you got right into that crazy boy okay well Google tablet come out in Maine no you say no okay it was like tomorrow I know my birthdays in May happy birthday oh very brave oh dear you will you will partner with aces for this magical tablet yes I don't know what was that was leaked and mix of all of them yeah that was my nose Doubtfire is from Scotland that was the uber voice um uh yes okay sorry fell I apologize to the world um is nokia going to launch a Windows 8 tablet later this year oh whoops we already ate or nay that delete blam keep going is Instagram coming to an android phone near you yes then you have to say no I don't think I have to say no we've done this before where we've bet on opposite things I remember that one time I've bet that xbox was going to come out in 2014 let's clarify what very soon means looks this is okay it is very day so how about is Instagram coming to Android like this month that next no but that's not the rumor the remains very snider no I don't know what serious let's say in two months okay coming to Android 60 days from today today's by May so by May I'm gonna say yes to I'm gonna say yes to okido then if it does then you got a point for that and then you didn't get a point for the windows things then it's a wash any yeah okay well I've mitigated my loss that's way to do it hedging people that is the way to live your life based on if it doesn't come out if it let's say comes out before May thirteenth do we both not get a point you mean after her yeah yeah you both lose a point I think I'm the referee yes so should be zahramay 13th or sooner yeah but if it's after may thirteen than we do yes okay cool that make sense great all righty tighty whities sorry um that was embarrassing and so now we have two voicemails we want to play yeah yeah okay this first one is just a caller who just loves to show Oh share his love oh thank you has a girl this is not burn from other than you know just calling it to tell you go but I love the show i watch it every week I love the shaky old lady voice see everybody I fail do it today every time I'm here great show don't worry about those YouTube comments about y'all cackling he's all a tackle cuz you actually are hecklers and just embrace it thank you so much for thank you that was so sweet and the next color is just a butt-dial I thought we were just playing but doc it's fun but dials rumor has it that second Agee has us on on what speed dial I mean really thanks for this call it's pretty remarkable all this injection yeah we should definitely like put some music to it it's like a little beat all right that was that thanks thank you okay thank you calling but yeah um and thank you guys who are watching and listening for spending a moment of your week with rumor has it call us at 1 800 750 cnet preferably with your mouth not your butt for any comments tips on rumors that you've heard in the locker room yeah Thank You Carl for that awesome to that was fabulous um or complaints not enough old lady voice not enough firmer not enough ipad or much so too much the old lady voice yeah exactly are you sick of it um or email us at rumor has it at cnet.com and have a wonderful week see you next thanks for joining us thanks well clean that up in post-production