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hey I'm Kareem leave me and I'm Emily Dreyfuss and welcome to rumor has it the show where we round up the week's biggest tech rumor and then we vote on what sounds legit and what seems like it'll never ever happen we're not the only ones passing judgment you can vote along on all the rumors to watch out for the polls in the interactive player that shows up right here next to my head if you're watching on cnet first up is a rumor that's been swirling around for years last week a job posting on microsoft's site hinted that the next Xbox some are calling it the 720 is going to be released within 18 months although Microsoft fought back with a statement saying that it's always looking for talented people to innovate now and in the future this drives with the 56 page document that leaked back in June that mentioned a two hundred ninety nine dollar xbox for the 2013 holiday season in other xbox related news twitter users super Daei posted what is claimed to be an image of a connect to an action why does it look like a psychedelic sign warning people at a rave that if they have a headache they should drink water okay I looked at the picture and it looks like some guys like doing this belly pat like everything I don't know I didn't get anything from that picture well according to super Daei the leaked image was captured from microsoft's 2 rango development kit the code name of next xbox and the verge reports that microsoft confirmed it people are concluding from these images that the kinect is going to have greater range and sensitivity i don't know how they got greater range and sensitivity from picture of colors and people doing this but why are you guys to take a look at it what new features do you think it will be revealing post your best guess in the comments section our next rumor grand daddy of the tech world IBM is in talks to seed struggling rim at least its enterprise services unit according to a report by Bloomberg doesn't sound exciting right but analysts say the enterprise unit which operates the servers that store blackberry data is rims crown jewel turns out use our data may not be that flashy but to rim it's basically like Scrooge McDuck's vault of gold so what's Ivy I'm going to do with this business at work well basically it would be great for them because they could control a super popular fast and secure email system that's favored by large corporations but i don't think that IBM is at all interested in buying all of rim which would be fine with rim CEO thorsten heins who's hoping that the company can keep the lights on long enough to debut the new blackberry 10 OS and turn the company around let's not hold our breath on that one our next rumor is about Apple Apple told us the big innovations in iOS 6 back at a fancy event in June but there's plenty of the company couldn't tell us because it reveals secrets about the iphone 5 the iOS 6 rumor that I'm most intrigued by it comes from nine to five Mac it suggests that if the iphone 5 is actually taller then the home screen will store five rows of apps instead of four which would be amazing for my OCD another highlight is that you won't have to put in a password when you get free app so that'll save eight seconds in our lives a precious seconds and then you can prank your friends by downloading really embarrassing free apps onto their phones when they're not looking right like the fart app I don't know what that is but I want it remember how kind of exciting the microsoft surface tablet announcement was it was in a secret location in LA it start a magic case of many colors and the surfaces high res screen and it can run word oh there was just one thing Steve Ballmer left out the price no one knows how much the windows 8 tablets going to cost you rumors have pegged it as high as a thousand bucks but the latest has it on par with amazon's kindle fire for the low low price of 199 holy tablet wars right but here's the rub though this rumor comes from an anonymous tip to engadget and it makes very little sense Amazon's tablet is so cheap because it's subsidized Microsoft doesn't have that luxury it isn't trying to get you to buy more books or cat toys it wants you to buy the surface tablet and Windows 8 apps cost money but it won't make enough dough for Microsoft to take hundreds of dollars in a loss on every tablet remember the surface is way more feature-rich than the kindle fire it's in the same league as the ipad and it'll have a price to reflect that that's why i don't buy this but i will buy the surface if it costs 199 see what I did there I see what you did there see I'm going to bet on unicorns and rainbows and say that Microsoft will be smart and will undercut Apple on price it's really the only way it can hope to succeed right let us know what you guys think by voting in the poll right now we're going to go ask the people of San Francisco what they think do you think there's a chance that they'll charge only 199 for their tablet oh if they want to be like super competitive and just running you know let's Telus it off the Goethe I can see that one honey nah yeah I think so why not lower than the ipad know there's a lot of devices being sold at a loss 599 we can change yeah I probably somewhere more than four or five hundred dollar range well there's going to be two surface tablets as we all know are some of us the is going to be the one that competes with the iPad which i think is the lower model there's also the one that competes with the upper end computer if i had to guess it's at the lower one will be around i'd say probably a price point competitive with an ipad maybe seven or eight hundred dollars be my guests and for the higher one i could see maybe a little above a thousand but not too much so the new rumors that are swirling is that it's gonna cost 199 do you think that's a no that's interesting i haven't heard about that i would say it's possible especially given microsoft's recent decision to price windows 8 at forty dollars so they're going to shake some stuff up i guess so it seems like the people on the street are super interested in the microsoft surface tablet but they have absolutely no idea what it's gonna cost so let's go upstairs and see what the cnet Council of experts has to say the cnet Council is composed of five editors who cast their votes anonymously their opinions are not an endorsement by Cena or CBS interactive obviously because these are rumors folks and the cnet verdict is no just like I said for editors 21 said that they don't think that the surface tablet will be priced at 199 I think all of you are wrong I think all of us are just realistic but our comment of the week this week comes from a swan who writes about the ipad mini interesting that nobody is talking about how popular this will be with kids the little hands are used to the iphone and ipod touch and ipad and ipad mini would be icing on the cake for five and seven year olds spoiled spoiled five and seven-year holtz very lucky and quiet children whose parents don't have to do with them that's our show everybody please share your rumors that rumor has it at cnet com or call us at 1 800 750 cnet and tweet to us tune in next week for more tech and thanks to this week's sponsor eBay