1. The Crash

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LONDON (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones take to the stage later on Sunday after a five-year hiatus to celebrate the golden jubilee of one of the most successful and enduring bands in rock and roll history. Now in their mid-60s to early 70s, lead singer Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood and drummer Charlie Watts will perform five concerts - two at the O2 Arena in London on November 25 and 29 and three in the United States next month. ...

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Back in 2007, I thought the Apple’s iPod touch was a bigger deal than the , which launched just a few months earlier. I was wrong. The touch is still a great music device, but the iPhone transformed an industry. Mobile displays doubled in size, buttons melted into virtual keyboards and we all started using gestures that I’m pretty sure we instinctually knew since the dawn of man.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A computer-savvy thief won't be on the street for Apple Inc's next big product launch. Shaheed Bilal, 29, was sentenced to 4-1/2 to nine years behind bars for running a cybercrime ring that created counterfeit credit cards and then used them in Apple Inc stores across the country. The ring, which also included Bilal's brothers and girlfriend, purchased more than $1 million worth of iPads, iPhones and MacBooks over 2-1/2 years starting in 2008, and sold them to dealers in stolen goods in Brooklyn, New York. ...

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