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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by thrillist is Microsoft gearing up to try to buy yahoo again is Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 device going to be called the Sabre and what in the world are blackberry and Porsche doing in dubai next week if they've got blackberry Devcon America's going on in San Francisco right now well now it's over but this week I don't get it I can't keep up with these things that's what they're called rumors that's why we round them up its technol buffalos rumor roundup hello and what has happened welcome to the roundup my name is Noah Kravitz and this is revision threes rumor roundup with TechnoBuffalo this week's episode for today the week ending Friday October 21st 2011 I've been into doing the hand signals this week's episode is brought to you by our friends at Thrillist Yahoo's been up for sale for as long as I can remember and Microsoft's been linked to them for as long as I can remember was it was back several years ago that a very publicized rumor started kicking around about Microsoft making a bid for Yahoo and the bid failed in an all when it was a disaster and Yahoo's stock price tanked and I don't know that was that was sort of not quite the beginning but that definitely was a watershed moment and Yahoo's spiral which has been spiraling since then well if you believe the reports this week Microsoft may be gearing up to make another bid to buy out yahoo elba this time they're not going to be doing it alone reports have you have microsoft lync to silver lake partners a private equity firm that already has a big stake in alibaba the company that owns forty percent of Yahoo reports have microsoft lync to silver lake partners working with another one of the equity firms investors to try to put together a proposal to buy yahoo once and for all the proposal being discussed would have microsoft putting up several billion dollars of their own money with the rest of the funding coming through silver lakes various partners but apparently this is one of up to nine deals currently being discussed put together talked about in smokey back rooms with sniffers of brandy and big cigars or however it is big executives make deals these days I like to think of that image though right at all everything you forget Silicon Valley everything happens in the back room of a restaurant in New Jersey somebody clearly misses the sopranos speaking of Microsoft their new best friend and the mobile hardware business nokia is gearing up to launch the first batch of Windows Phone 7 or Windows Phone 7.5 mango devices at nokia world next week in London our very own emily price will be making the trip across the pond to bring you all of the new those all the new devices everything else from nokia world next week on the scene so tune in to TechnoBuffalo for all of that and one of the devices that as being talked about right now is something that's named saber at least codenamed saber according to reports on the good old internet but these reports actually had some photos and that kind of thing there's a device being called saber that might be unveiled alongside of the nokia sea ray which is now being referred to as the 800 sea ray if you'll recall is the device that right after nokia unveiled the absolutely gorgeous totally dead on arrival me go power 2 n 9 in a low press conference after that milke did one of these things were they like oh what's in my jacket oh what's this oh it looks like an N 9 but it runs Windows Phone I wonder what it is more let's put it away and that I you know sparked all kinds of talk about like oh so this is the deal they were already building the n9 they couldn't stop so at least they're going to shoehorn Windows Phone into it because migos dead which now it's officially dead it's not called Tizen but that's another story anyway ah looks like we're going to see the sea ray or 800 or whatever it is unveiled and then also we may see this new device being referred to as sabre sabre said to be running a single-core 1.4 gigahertz CPU pack in 1 gig of ram with a 3.5 inch WVGA display and a 5 megapixel rear camera sounds like a mid-range phone to me and the alleged pricing running somewhere between four and five hundred dollars off contract would in fact back up the spec sheet to say yeah this is the this is the mid-range offering will give you the big guns with see ray will give you a saber for something that'll rattle your wallet a little bit less get it savor it rattles it now anyway whatever's coming out of London next week from nokia windows so on all that stuff like I said Emily will be there check out TechnoBuffalo for the latest and hands-on with all of the new devices I for one I'm psyched to see these because Nokia they still make gorgeous hardware and they have said it's pretty much fat at this point that their windows phone devices are going to have a little something extra it's not just going to be the standard Windows Phone install that you're seeing on devices from companies like HTC and Samsung who differentiate you know with their name brand and their own hardware design but instead Nokia apparently is going to be able to add something extra to the Windows Phone pie and a lot of talk about even more social networking integration on Nokia's phones and you see on the standard Windows Phone devices from other companies so very interested to see what what this will all look like and again I think Nokia makes gorgeous hardware and their cameras are always top-notch so I'm excited to see them sort of rebirth with a modern operating system so fingers crossed saber SI ray 800 whatever it is let's hope it's good when it comes out next week you know how you have that one friend who's always hooking you up with the cool new bands before anybody else has even heard of them well thrillist is like that but for cool new stuff to do and places to go want to know about a star wars burlesque show a beer garden that screens 80s flicks or a cool new 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to call the QNX ified if you will the qnexa fide version of the blackberry operating system for smartphones they talked about it didn't actually show anything so everybody was sort of left you know sort of scratching their heads like well okay you showed us a logo but what's it going to look like it there's no no hardware and I don't know REM needed a home run here and instead we sort of got a wild pitch what's going on well apparently they are going to launch some new hardware but they're doing it next week in Dubai with Porsche invites have gone out to be a part of something truly exclusive and do my air quotes to be a part of something truly exclusive at an event on thursday october 27th in dubai and the companies are expected to unveil the blackberry night 9980 which is a blackberry device you know it's the candy bar form factor with a screen and a keyboard underneath it so the same general form factors the bold and the curve and that kind of thing but a radically different design done up in silver metal very angular it is very different probably going to be a limited run exclusive kind of thing started like the vert to die guess that kind of stuff whatever it is they're launching it in dubai next Thursday you know I don't know it makes you wonder what what rims strategy is it it sounds like you know stopgap until they can get those bbx UNIX powered phones you know up and running and ready to show off and they feel like they need to launch something we just are really interesting and sort of sort of head-scratching to me that they've really underwhelmed people at dev com with a lack of announcements and now they're launching this thing and due by next week who knows though i don't know maybe maybe that's the way to do it all right there you go it's the rumor roundup again next week emily is going to be in London stay tuned for all that if somebody buys yahoo will let you know as soon as possible and whatever comes out of Dubai will report on that to all on 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