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hey I'm Emily Dreyfuss and I'm Kareem levy welcome to rumor has it the show where we round up the week's hottest tech rumor and then we vote on which sounds legit and what seems like total bum but the best part is that you guys can vote too so don't go anywhere our first rumor is from Pacific Crest analyst andy hargreaves who predicts that apple will introduce a seven point eight five inch iPad Mini in October he suggests that Apple would kill the three hundred ninety nine dollar ipad 2 and could introduce a 16 gig ipad mini for a similar price this is the rumor that will just not die even after Steve Jobs said I'm an earnings call that in order for them to make a 7-inch tablet they would have to ship it with sand paper so that people could disgustingly file down their fingertips so they could use the little nibs to touch the screen place are tiny even then people keep saying that Apple's gonna do this it's like a zombie room work kill it already boy what about the iphone that's like four inches and people don't need to use their pinkies to use that maybe Steve Jobs forgot that they invented the iphone i guess though either way though i'm actually with Steve Jobs on this one despite the success of the kindle fire and the new release of google's nexus 7 I don't think Apple can be forced to do something that they don't want to do and I don't think that lower cost is their style also it's antithetical to their one size fits all ethos here's why I say yay first of all remember that there's all different kinds of iPods out there there's the shuffle there's the Nano there's the touch there's the SH much there's whatever the other thing is one word competition Apple loves to watch other people make stuff and then blows them out of the water with its supposed superior product here's the perfect opportunity to do that what do you guys think ipad mini in the fall if you're watching on seen it cast your vote now with the thumbs up thumbs down right over there next to emily's head in the interactive player you've got 30 seconds to vote right now we're going to go to the street to see if the people of San Francisco can shed some light on this rumor but then in a few minutes come back and see if your vote matches up with the cnet Council of experts seven inches yeah like my seven inches Paul I don't think so no that's not really yes I do no i don't i'm not sure but i think it would be kind of stupid it's kind of an awkward size I'd be excited if it was I think about getting it um I would say it's true probably yeah I think that they're probably not going to focus on that is the next thing I think they're working on something really cool around TVs right now so that's what I'm looking for so it looks like the opinions on the street are pretty mixed let's go back inside and hear some more rumors our second rumor might be the feathering capitalism's cap our beloved and hated addiction Facebook may be thinking of rolling out a want button according to developer Tom waddington who posted on his personal blog that he found a want button buried in Facebook's JavaScript SDK the data collected using this want button would be huge for advertisers and super annoying for us people would basically be making universal wish lists and companies could better target their ads which would be so creepy I don't need facebook ads to be any creepier than they already are if Facebook does this then all the pretence that the site is about connecting with your friends will be gone and it will finally be revealed for what it actually is a money-making scheme I want to see pictures of my friends hanging out with their family I don't want to see their shopping list absolutely get out of my face facebook where's the dislike button our third and final rumor is from wmpoweruser which found a photo of a new windows 8 keyboard design which they claim is from a leaked microsoft research presentation the keyboard actually looks really awesome and it's designed for one thumb typing which is really cool if we also assume from the looks of it that will have predictive text right this type of keyboard is similar to what was used on the blackberry pearl which was a cluster of qwerty keys and i super love the blackberry pearl remember the blackberry pearl absolutely not of course not it was amazing so basically this is for somebody who wants to text with one hand and keep this hand for you for some other activity like cooking or brushing your teeth or changing the channel on the TV yeah that okay so let's get back to our first rumour the cnet Council is composed of five Cena experts who cast their votes anonymously opinions org estimates expressed by the cnet Council are not an endorsement by cnet or CBS interactive obviously because these are rumors folks so we asked the cnet council is the ipad mini coming out in October and the cnet verdict is unanimous no particular oh seriously all five of our anonymous experts say that there is absolutely no chance of an ipad mini coming out pessimists I mean I'm actually super happy that they agreed with me oh but I'm really surprised that none of them think ones coming out a lot of consumers really want this but I guess our experts are used to Apple telling us what to want and not listening to what we actually want probably our comment of the week comes from our friend Andrew Hoover who tweeted I'm digging the new rumor show but I miss distracting Kareem Levy and Emily Dreyfuss during the show well Andrew we're actually going to throw you a bone and all the fans are our podcast and do a throwback old-school wager so if the next time the iPads are updated there's no smaller mini then I get to humiliate Kareem and if there is a mini than I get to humiliate Emily which will be really easy okay everybody that is our show please share your rumors with us at rumor has it at cnet com or call us at 1 800 750 scenic and tune in next week for more tech rumors you