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Original: COO Tim Cook could be leaving Apple for the vacated CEO slot at HP, according to scuttlebutt that's going around.
原版謠言：據傳言，蘋果公司首蓆運營官（COO）Tim Cook 說他會離開蘋果去HP擔任CEO以填補該職位的空缺。
With luck the reporters would follow up on the scuttlebutt without mentioning its source, assuring themselves that they had got the story through their “contacts”.
如果幸運的話，記者會跟進這一線索但不會提到消息來源，讓自己相信是通過他們自己的“線人”獲得線索的。
Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up, no major PC manufacturer seemed to think that consumers wanted a general-purpose, touchscreen-only computing device.
在蘋果著手研制平板設備而賣得火熱之前，似乎沒有一家主要的個人電腦生産商覺得用戶會需要功能有限、衹有觸摸屏的電腦設備。

They don't know too much about actually what's going on other than scuttlebutt and what they've heard.
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The scuttlebutt is that Sinofsky is going to show a preview of Windows 8.
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Magee also recommends the proverbial water cooler as a productive place to gather gossip and scuttlebutt.
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