speculation

Everybody's talking about a portable device Microsoft is developing, code-named "Argo". Lets take a look:

A report from an Australian publication citing a source at Acer Australia claimed up to 60 percent of the Windows Vista code needed to be rewritten, and Xbox engineers were being moved over to help with the programming.

Google was as good as gold in 2005, but any cracks that appear in the Googleplex facade could send hedge funds fleeing for safer pastures and pressure shares of GOOG downward.

It all starts with a rumour. Someone said something to someone else and that someone told another person and before you can say, "cheese-doodle", a wrong-story rumour grows out of control as speculation spreads it far and wide.

Yesterday, the New York Post ran a story about Microsoft getting in on some AOL action. They reported Time-Warner was currently in advanced talks with the software leviathan over becoming equal partners in the entity known as AOL. Naturally, in the search world media, speculation flew fast and furious.