News Roundup for December the 8th

We’ll begin today by squashing one of those crazy rumours which has been flying around recently. It’s okay, everybody. We can all rest easy at night now. President-Elect Obama does not use a Zune. He does not own a Zune. He has never owned a Zune. He has never even met a Zune, apart from that one time, and even then he didn’t inhale. (Of course, most of this hinges on your definition of ‘used’ and ‘Zune’.)

Now on to tomorrow’s scandal, and it turns out that the New Aluminium MacBooks don’t play nicely with non-Apple 3rd Party RAM upgrades. Problems with the relatively new DDR3 standard? Or a sinister plot by the Boys from Cupertino to lock buyers into Apple’s hideously overpriced after-market upgrades? We’ll let Rob Enderle decide.

The exploration of the iPhone’s secret TV-out capabilities continues, as the video below demonstrates. The Redknapp family have been notified, and are siting by, ready to have their hilarious game-playing antics broadcast to the nation.

And finally, the Apple Store empire has now reached Germany, with crowds turning out to mark the opening of the Munich shop. Read about it in the original at das Mak Tek Neus here. Or watch this video. It’s entirely up to you.