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hey I'm cream levy and welcome to rumor has it the show that rounds up the week's biggest tech rumors and you can vote on what you think about the rumors too in the interactive player if you're watching on cnet this week the Nexus 5 is on its way Facebook is looking for some ad dollars and Nokia could try to tell some stories let's get started first with all the apple news lately I've hardly had a chance to talk about another big deal in the smartphone world the Nexus 5 and with a reveal coming soon the rumors and leaks are coming fast and furiously the latest comes in the form of a log file obtained by the site my siiii the log appears to confirm previous suspicions that the new pure Google phone will have wireless charging but it also includes a reference to miracast which is Android mirroring technology that allows you to wirelessly throw your android screen to a TV this is different from the chromecast which is limited in what it can do the log also confirms other previously reported specs like a 5-inch full-hd display a two point three gigahertz Snapdragon 800 CPU 2 gigs of ram and an 8 megapixel rear camera and a 1 point 2 megapixel front camera will hopefully hear more about the nexus 5 soon which some people are whispering will be announced sometime later this month next up the wall street journal is reporting that facebook will start providing new data to the four largest US television networks CBS FOX ABC and NBC in an attempt to attract more advertising dollars to its service just last month Nielsen revealed that there's a direct causation between Twitter usage and TV ratings so obviously Facebook thinks the same thing about its own site according to the report the data Facebook will share will revolve around actions that users take on the site including likes comments and shares related to a particular television episode data will be gathered from all posts including private ones but facebook said that data will be collected anonymously and shown an aggregate to protect users privacy um let's hope so this isn't the first time that Facebook has been dealing with user information and it never seems to end well for the social network and look if I'm taking the time to like a sister wives episode then I'm not embarrassed for facebook to use that information I'm embarrassed for myself use it Facebook use that info to your little hearts content and finally our favorite Twitter leaker evleaks recently tweeted a screen grab of a Windows app called storyteller which looks like a storytelling photo app the tweet mentions serious and bandit the alleged code names for Nokia's upcoming tablet and 6 inch smartphone implying that the app may be included on both of those devices based on the name and that image the app seems to be a way to organize your photos based on different themes and events thus creating a story nokia is really banking on photos it seems with its Lumia phones really packing in those megapixels a photo based story app seems like it's right up the company's alley I for one tell stories with pictures all the time like here's a story about my cat noodle sleeping and here's a story about my other cat chowder also sleeping here's a story about the ramen that I ate okay my stories would be really boring I guess anyway nokia world opens up october twenty seconds so hopefully we'll find out more about this then what do you guys think is there room for this when we already have instagram and facebook with this app make you want to switch to Windows Phone don't forget to vote and leave a comment that's our show everybody please share your rumors that rumor has it at cnet com or call us up 1 800 750 cnet and tweet us and tune in next week for more tech rumors you