Apple has ditched the CD in the iTunes logo, upgraded its iPod range and revamped Apple TV, as we learned last night. Chief executive Steve Jobs also upped Apple's social media game with Ping - a music recommendation and sharing feature that has been added to the latest version of iTunes, iTunes 10. Pictured: Steve Jobs' Ping profile (he's big on Yo-Yo Ma).


Sony is rolling out revamped versions of its three e-readers, and selling its Pocket Edition at a higher price, in a bid to compete against the cheaper Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook.
Sony hopes to challenge Apple's share of the digital music market by launching Qriocity, a video and music streaming service, before the end of this year.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a slew of announcements at a press conference in California Wednesday, unveiling upgrades for Apple TV, Apple's iPod line, iTunes, and more.
Apple Inc. is hosting a music-themed event Wednesday that is likely to yield updated iPods, though the company will not confirm any details. 
Not content with dominating search, email, maps and online video, this week
Google announced that, for its American customers at least, it will also be
attempting to usurp the telephone.

Despite Steve Jobs' recent claim that the iBookstore has taken 22 percent of the US e-book market, some authors still report significantly higher sales volume on the Kindle.
For more than a year now, scammers have been racking up unauthorized
charges on iTunes accounts, leaving Apple's customers to clean up the
mess.
In an interview, an LG vice president announced that its
Optimus-branded LG tablet will best the iPad by allowing content
creation.
Google has acquired Like.com, which offers a visual search engine for
retail products, a deal aimed at boosting Google's shopping search
capabilities and services like its Products engine.
Facebook has acquired Hot Potato in a move that could help further its move into location-based services. Hot Potato announced the deal on its blog Friday but did not reveal the purchase price. 
Intel's acquisition of security company McAfee could help the chip
maker make a splash in the handheld and embedded markets, in which the
company has struggled to establish a presence, according to analysts.
Google is
Facebook users carrying their smart phones will soon be able to "check
in" to real-world locations such as bars, parks and live concerts as
the social network makes its first foray into the location services
craze.
Why are iPads selling as fast as Apple's Chinese subcontractors can
crank them out? In part, it's because the iPad has a suddenly-hot
product category pretty much to itself. 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. Now almost all the big names-and
lots of little ones-are furiously playing catch up.
Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer was launched 15 years ago.
While it has had its ups and downs over the years -- version 6 was
plagued by countless security issues, which made it one of the most
hated browsers around -- it's still the most popular browser in the
world, with the last couple of versions improving dramatically on their
troubled predecessor.
Threats by the governments of India, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi
Arabia to shut down BlackBerry's corporate e-mail services reflect
unease about a technology that the U.S. government also took a while to
accept.
A manager at Apple Inc. has been indicted by a federal grand jury in an
alleged kickback scheme involving suppliers of iPhone and iPod
accessories. 




