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One more thing ... what will it be this time around? Apple's so-called iPad 3 is said to be announced in the first week of March and the rumor mill thinks it has pretty much nailed what the device will entail. A higher resolution screen, faster processor, better battery and a quality camera all packed in the same 9.7-inch form factor running iOS 5. Is it a technological marvel of the mobile revolution or just another ho-hum iteration from Apple?

If you are a device specification geek, the lusty deets from the iPad 3 are likely to excite you more Megan Fox announcing she is coming back for Transformers 9: The Rise and Fall of Prime set in the year 0001 A.D. during the height of the Roman Empire. If not, well, you might be out of luck with the iPad 3. It is hard to get pumped up for a device that, in reality, will be a nominal upgrade over the already great iPad 2. That is why I am waiting for the "one more thing" from the iPad 3. Are the iPad 3 rumors underwhelming? That is the topic of this week's ReadWriteMobile poll.

From a technological perspective, near field communications (NFC) is one of the most powerful and prominent innovations to come about in the last several years. But from a functional, real world standpoint, NFC is a technology without a clear-cut purpose. What problems does it actually solve? When it comes payments, how much different is a tap with your smartphone than a swipe of your debit card? What about the ability to open doors or share content with your friends? There are solutions already available on mobile devices for many of these "problems." So, what is the real future for NFC?

Analysis by the social network analytics company Orgnet.com shows how rumors fueled a run on Swedish-owned banks in Latvia over the weekend.

Banking officials are calling it the world's first ever social media-fueled run on banks, and officials say that the misinformation campaign may have been a deliberate attempt to destabilize Latvia amidst the ongoing European debt crisis.

For East Coast fans of Radiohead, the news could hardly have been more exciting. The band, multiple news outlets confirmed, would be playing a surprise show in downtown Manhattan on Friday afternoon. The show would coincide with the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests that had been organized online and with which the band would likely be sympathetic.

Once a few prominent blogs began reporting on it, the news spread like wildfire across Twitter and Facebook, where eager fans posted updates about the show and began making plans to attend.

This week, we've had a trio of unofficial, but intriguing mobile rumors: the iPad 3 is coming this fall, Android apps will run on BlackBerry tablets and Apple is building a "smaller, cheaper" iPhone. Two of three have been credited to multiple "sources," making them rumors for now. The iPad 3 rumor, however, was just a guess by someone with a good track record on Apple's moves, but was later confirmed by a single source.

So which of these three rumors do you believe and why? Or maybe you believe them all? Or perhaps none? Speak up by voting in today's ReadWriteMobile poll!

Google and Samsung may be announcing a "Nexus Two" smartphone at the mysterious press conference being held on November 8th in New York City. The conference will feature the launch of a "new Android device," which is now suspected to be the next Google experience phone, meaning a phone featuring the latest hardware and most current version of the Google mobile operating system Android. In this case, it's expected to be the first phone running "Gingerbread," the code name for Android 2.3.

Now, a new report is claiming that this won't be just any new Samsung Android phone, but the "Nexus Two," a follow-up to Googe's former flagship phone, the Nexus One.

Today, a number of rumors about a potential partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft surfaced once again. Almost a year ago, after months of back and forth between Microsoft and Yahoo, we thought any deal between the two companies was finally off the table, but rumors about potential deals continued to bubble up regularly in the last few months. Now, some news outlets are reporting that the two companies may be close to signing a partnership agreement that would allow them to collaborate on search technology and advertising. Bloomberg's Dina Bass, citing anonymous sources, reports that a deal could be finalized within the next two weeks.

At this point, most signs point toward Google releasing its rumored GDrive in the near future. In many ways, this mythical GDrive is simply the missing puzzle piece in Google's online strategy. While Google offers a number of online services with a storage component, it still doesn't offer a unified storage solution that brings Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, and Google Docs together.