The "last thing" announced by Apple's Marketing VP, Phil Schiller during MacWorld Expo 2009 opening keynote was that iTunes will now offer 8 million songs without DRMs and will end-up removing all the DRMs of its music library by the end of this quarter.

Apple has released a new version of the MacBook Pro 17 inch which features Apple's new manufacturing process called Unibody and resulting to a very soli, lightweight enclosure and a purified design without screws.

During today's MacWorld Expo 2009 opening keynote, Phil Schiller announced the release of iLife and iWork 09 with the latter coming in an online version as well.

The successor of Apple's Mighty Mouse could actually bring much more mightiness if reports we obtained from our sources are to be believed.

In order to respond to revived rumours regarding his health, Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs published a statement today so as to clarify his health status with the Apple community as well as Apple investors.

This week, Palm could finally respond to the competition in the smartphone area it once used to lead.

UPDATEx2 : CNET reports that Apple has finalized negotiations with the major regarding the removal of DRMs on the iTunes Music store. However, pricing will now be variable as majors have always been asking.

UPDATE : PCPerspective - which has never published any insider information on Apple so far - claims Apple will release a 28 inch iMac tomorrow.

Though the hype is not really here for this year's MacWorld Expo, a few rumours on what we should expect to be announced during the opening keynote started being spread over the Internet during the last few days.

UPDATE: MSNBC's Jim Godman says his sources confirm major spending cuts at Microsoft but not a massive layoff plan as rumors suggest.

For the first time of its history Microsoft could announce that it's cutting as much as 17% of its workforce or about 15 000 employees.