Briefly: Apple TV startup; Apple.com's 20th

In brief: One user has posted screenshots of the Apple TV's startup screen (shown at right), revealing a wall of videos suspended in space with a cinematic sequence that appears to depict the movies converging into the Apple TV. The Cupertino-based company has promised to ship the device some time this month.... Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Apple.com domain name registration, which was first acquired on February 19th of 1987. Apple.com is listed as one of the 100 oldest registered .com domains, followed by names such as Cisco.com and Lockheed.com.... Palm president and CEO Ed Colligan has again verbally slammed Apple's iPhone, saying the device looks like a "highly developed media player" that by "coincidence" includes a mobile phone. The executive goes on to say that the device could prove interesting for people that need to have both music and films on one iPod alongside the occasional phone call, but that the device will be challenging to use for businessmen and other types of users.... One avid Mac user and blogger has posted instructions on installing as well as booting Mac OS X on a flash drive, covering the various steps required to make the drive serve as a boot volume.

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