Last week’s stupidity by a professional blogger, as well as CNN, was matched only by the gullibility of traders who acted on the rumor.

The iPhone app kill switch makes sense. It is an innovative approach to protecting a platform in this age of criminal conspiracies to steal your personal information.

Will it ever happen? Will Apple one day stop issuing keys to unlock the FairPlay-protected music you purchased from the iTunes Store — iike Yahoo just did with music purchased from Yahoo Music, and Microsoft intends to do in three years with MSN Music?

A report from Greenpeace claimed the iPhone contains many toxic materials. Buried in the details are tests that indicate there may be some toxic materials in Apple’s earbud cables, but certainly not enough to cause any alarm.

The new iTunes Plus portion of the online iTunes Store is now available, offering higher-priced, higher-quality, DRM-free songs and albums you can play on any device and copy endlessly. And as of one day after it was announced, boomers rule.

Yahoo is set to unveil the Web’s largest legally licensed database of accurate lyrics. While you can find lyrics on other Web sites, many of those sites are technically breaking copyright law and may also be inaccurate.

Beatles music was a turning point in the history of pop music, and its power will once again prove to be a turning point in the history of online music. Baby boomers are excited by the Beatles coming out online, and that’s why record labels should also be excited — baby boomers are the folks more likely to buy music, compared to the younger generations that are used to downloading free music.

Turn your cell phone off in Bronx, Brooklyn’s iPods out of sight / Crazy taxi cab in Harlem, iPod Zombies are in fright / Peds love iPods they’re so proud, but the volume is too loud! / Car 54 where are you? (With apologies, based on the theme from the “Car 54 Where Are You?” TV show, 1961-63)