Options, Bugs, Phones - Time For Macworld

The Macworld Conference & Expo starts next week in San Francisco, but the parade of Mac fandom led off by Steve Jobs' keynote will have negative news about stock option shenanigans, earnings restatements, and a daily diet of Apple bugs offsetting the positive Mac vibe. An $84 million restatement of earnings due to improper option granting practices may not faze the diehard Apple fans who will descend on San Francisco for next week's said Mac OS X Leopard, the iTV, and a full video iPod are among the possible shiny candidates for a Macworld debut. Software bugs, federal thugs, and those telephone rings...which will be among Jobs' favorite things? Macworld starts January 8th. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.