Russell Brand has been arrested for criminal damage after police in the US issued a warrant for him.

Apple shares touched $600 (£380) apiece yesterday, a mere five weeks after they first topped $500, and analysts predicted the iPhone maker would soon become the most valuable company of all time.

Apple shares touched $600 (£380) apiece yesterday, a mere five weeks after they first topped $500, and analysts predicted the iPhone maker will soon become the most valuable company of all time.

Last night, for the third year running, Apple made an announcement from San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center to launch its new iPad, the latest in an in-between category of gizmo: a tablet computer with an inviting touchscreen interface and virtual onscreen keyboard. Apple relayed the event live around the world, including to a venue in London, in King's Cross.

Apple will spell out how well it has coped with a fresh assault from Amazon this week as the technology giant updates Wall Street with quarterly sales figures. Analysts are eager to see how iPad sales held up over Christmas in the face of competition from Amazon's cheaper Kindle Fire device. Apple is expected to say tomorrow night that demand from China helped it to sell more than 30 million iPhones in the quarter, a sharp rise from 17 million in the previous three months.

Apple will spell out how well it has coped with a fresh assault from Amazon this week as the technology giant updates Wall Street with quarterly sales figures.

US Outlook: Target must be hoping for Beijing-style mob scenes when it opensmini-Apple stores inside its superstores soon, though maybe not quite the brawls and egg-throwing that marred the iPhone 4S launch in China yesterday.

I have a memory of a comedy sketch in which the impressionists Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona were playing Sven Goran Eriksson (who was then England manager) and his girlfriend Nancy Dell’Olio.

Online retailing giant Amazon saw its shares slide as much as 3 per cent yesterday despite claiming to have sold a record one million Kindlee-reader devices a week around the world during December.

This is the last of these daily musings before Christmas, so it is an appropriate moment to ask what – if anything – we have learnt from 2011.

There's always a question, with drama-documentary, as to which is the crutch and which the invalid.

It was one of the Sunday papers that got it. Not the serialisation rights to Walter Isaacson's exemplary biography of Steve Jobs (though it got that, too), but the epitome of the coarse-grained, dullard response to the story of Jobs's life. The puff on its front page read: "ACID TRIPS. WEIRD DIETS. THE DEMENTED GENIUS OF STEVE JOBS."

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