Sony is in talks with Apple and Microsoft on a mission to provide Blu-ray drives for computers and console games.....

According to the Financial TImes, Sony US president Stan Glasgow, confirmed talks with Apple and Microsoft. These talks would see Blu-ray deployed within the Xbox 360, while also seeing Macs with support for the standard appear.

A couple of years ago (it doesn't seem that long ago…) I waxed lyrical about the advantages of using a modded Xbox with XBMC as a living room media adapter.

Unfortunately technology moves on and my trusty Xbox just didn't have the horsepower to play back high definition content. The next gen consoles can do it but they still aren't as flexible as I'd like (although kudos to Microsoft for finally enabling DivX playback on the 360).

So what do to? The Mac Mini stepped in to fill the gap nicely; the new core duo models are fairly powerful, it's tiny and it's almost silent running. It's also surprisingly good value for money - I can't build a PC that ticks all those boxes for the price of a mini.

It seems like the developers of the original XBMC software had the same thought and they've been porting the media player software to OSX.....

When we ordered a Time Capsule, we chose the 500 GB model, since this was sufficient and also less expensive than the 1 TB. However we had in mind that as the price of large disks came down, we would one day change the disk for a larger one...

However, we had a disagreeable surprise once the power was connected to the device and the disk had spun up. The Time Capsule started to vibrate...The device was to be installed in a calm area so we decided to change the disk to see if this would improve the situation.

...In order to unseat Blackberry as the number one wireless player in the US, Apple needed to have an enterprise story. What's more, Apple has realized that the days when people carried two phones are over.

With support for the enterprise (one device for both home and business use), together with its utility as a music player, camera, and web browser, the iphone is well positioned now to be that 'one phone'.

No matter how cool the exchange support and the enterprise play is, that news is dwarfed by the other, much more important announcement - the iPhone SDK...

....For the last decade Apple has been wowing the crowds and investors with its flawless and lightning quick execution. Every new Apple announcement, we keep thinking that they won't top it. But every time, Jobs and his crew pulls another trick out of the hat. Clearly, Apple is a well-oiled machine that has perfected the art of execution....

We are running our new "early 2008" 15" MacBook Pro 2.6GHz "Penryn" through our complete test suite. We hope to compare it to a variety of MacBook Pro models but for now here is a taste of how it compares to at least one other MacBook Pro.

We are planning a fuller shootout using more apps and more models, but wanted to present this "appetizer" showing some significant gains to be had with the newest model of MacBook Pro.

It's become the longest tease in the brief history of downloadable music: When will the Beatles finally make their catalog available at Apple's iTunes Store?

The latest wrinkle in the rumor mill: British newspaper the Daily Mail reported over the weekend that Paul McCartney has approved the release of Beatles music on iTunes and cited "industry insiders" as saying that Beatles downloads will be available "by the end of the year."

The new MacBook Pro models Apple released last week might be classified as speed bumps, implying that the pro laptops' new enhancements constitute a minor, albeit noteworthy update.

However, these new MacBook Pros, a pair of 15-inch models and a 17-inch model, represent a fairly significant upgrade - both in terms of technology and performance - over their predecessors, which were released eight months ago. Debuting Intel's 45-nanometre Penryn processor (a new generation of speedier chips that top the 65-nanometre Merom chips powering the earlier models), the new 2.5GHz MacBook Pros achieved the best scores of any laptop in our Speedmark 5 benchmark tests.

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