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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by shutterstock.com welcome back to another episode of rumor roundup the show we take all the tech rumors from the week and we round them up into one tasty tech morsel for you of this week we're going to talk about apple reportedly testing new TV designs Google now might be coming to Chrome the blackberry 10 series handset gets teased on video and there's a chance just a chance that Apple maps might suck a little bit less this is rumor roundup let's go and get started alright so let's start with the tech rumor that just won't die in it comes to Apple when there's smoke there's usually fire the last Apple rumor that persisted for years is the ipad mini and we all know how that one turned out so now we've got the Apple TV not the little black box that sits next your television an actual apple television set Apple is reportedly already working with Asian suppliers and a bit to test out several of its TV designs The Wall Street Journal gotta respect them reported on Wednesday Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said the TV interview that TV is an intense area of interest for Apple it's like my team quick impression but didn't delve much deeper into whether or not the company was actually building a set obviously one source hold the news outlet the TV is still in an early stage of testing and isn't even a formal project yet even though Apple has been building prototypes for years we think it's about to happen eventually at some point the late Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson suggested that he discovered a way to change the living room which immediately suggested an apple was indeed ready to build its own television set analyst and pundits and everybody suggested the device will feature Siri integration and I'll break the current mold is focused on set-top boxes and jiggly jiggly remotes The Wall Street Journal said Apple is working with sharp for the display technology and hone high for manufacturing Hoenn high currently builds Apple's iPhone an iPad product so it does make sense are we going to see an Apple TV no doubt they've got the set all ready to go but what good is a TV set if doesn't have the content to go on it so i think that's we've been holding up Apple the crazy thing about Apple TV though isn't just getting licensing deals in the US they want to sell it over certainly every other country you have to negotiate new licensing deals for new content with new cable providers or new content producers that's gonna be a very very tricky thing to think of others a crazy rumor to that Apple was gonna make some weird 3d technology but put that one to rest and I think we'll see an apple TV yes I say 2013 we will see an apple TV but at this point everybody's just guessing alright so let's go from apple to apples very bestest friend in the world google google now is allegedly coming to chrome i love google now i think it's one of the best voice assistants going debuted with jelly bean and come out on jellybean part two I know a google now is probably going to migrate to chrome newly discovered code suggest implementation on desktop seems like a pretty natural step for the excellent service it makes it more accessible to those who are currently using the system imagine just talking to your computer computer what's the weather and then it tells you the weather you can make a computer tell you jokes to dakotas recently discovered in the chromium project code site and hence that skeleton for google now notifications are being worked on for the popular browsers auditions to just talking and getting all kinds of stuff back to a google search of course Google now that you've access to all those cool cards telling you how long it takes you get home I your sports team just did and all kinds of other cool stuff so for weather traffic reports birthday lurdes etc your browser is going to keep you up-to-date with everything that's going on personally I would love to see automatic traffic reporting every evening before driving home even though I live like literally three miles away but everybody doesn't live that far away it's going to be a super awesome thing to have the search giant and the statement to cnet hinted act experimenting with new features in chrome but said it doesn't have anything to announce quite yet so building blocks are in place but they're not building on them quite yet the great addition and like Google now on the mobile handsets you to choose to use it or not use it it's nice to have more option any time you give the consumer choice we all win what do you think Google now on a browser excited not excited but what do you think I like to hear from you alright so we've gone from the big boys talked about Apple talked about Google what about the former king of the hill rim and Blackberry we've been hearing blackberry 10 for years now it's finally almost hear the end of January we should be finally seeing the first blackberry handset speed off the wait till then 310 l-series handset got a video tour out of where else Vietnam it seems to be where all of the leaks come from we saw the iphone 5 get leaked out of Vietnam and a lot of new device that are out the past few years have gotten leaks out of Vietnam and I gotta say it looks pretty good I'm pretty excited about blackberry 10 I'm willing to put aside any opinions i had about rim and the previous operating system and give them a fresh start based on the QNX platform it looks to be really robust multitasking is pretty awesome and it's kind of the spiritual successor ton of my favorite operating systems webos so I'm excited I hope that RINs got enough juice in the tank help developers flock to it hope we get a really nice a third or fourth option I want to come see mobile platforms let me take a mint thank our friends and sponsors at shutterstock.com so shutterstock comms need place to go we're looking for stock photos vectors illustrations and video clips even sign up for large 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tried to use Apple maps find the Brooklyn Bridge just get anywhere I know certainly Apple maps is improving day by day by day but it's not up to the standards and Apple usually puts further products it looks like though that might be changing their allegedly a thirty percent chance apples going to buy tomtom hon slob which is kind of an awesome maybe I'm expected to be like Han Solo but it's a slob that's funny name analysts with the rabobank said he believes there's going to be a thirty percent chance Apple place a bid on tomtom and thinks to buy could be a really good dia because tom tom has ability to make changes much faster than Apple does according to Hans Tom Tom needs a cash from apple an apple needs the know-how of tomtom slob said in a note obtained Bob Bloomberg it does make sense sort of on the outside we think about Apple invested so much time so much money they bought a mapping company already to make a google maps sort of what it is right now other part doesn't make financial sense for Apple to do that but tom tom is well respected abduct great mapping technology their gps is arguably second to none would be nice to have that built into apple maps from get the best of both worlds so that build versus bison are you better off building it yourself or buying it outwardly i think that we're going to see Apple sort of build with themselves third percent rumor I wouldn't put much stock in it there's a 30-percent rumor that we Ralph's gonna show up wearing a dress tomorrow at work you heard it thirty percent rumor that would put much stock in anything like that so thank you guys for watching another episode of rumor roundup hope you guys enjoyed be sure to check us out at TechnoBuffalo calm the new and improved technobuffalo calm for lace and greatest tech news i'm jon rettinger i'll see you next video