Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple Black Friday deals revealed (down under)  —  Apple’s Black Friday sales have begun - in Australia - there the company’s range of discount deals have just this minute gone live on the Apple Store online.  —  There’s special deals across the company’s product range …

Mac Pro / AppleInsider:
Apple MacBook Pro prices slashed by up to $300, iMacs by $180  —  One Apple authorized reseller upped the ante overnight in the ongoing Black Friday Mac price war, slashing Mac notebook prices by up to $300 and iMac prices by up to $180.  —  Macs  —  Responding to steep discounts […]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997?  —  Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we’re thankful for on this day each year.  And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs.  I’m thankful that he returned to Apple […]

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes ‘Legal’  —  Mininova’s decision to delete all infringing torrents from its index marks the end of an era that started five years ago.  —  In December 2004, the demise of the mighty Suprnova left a meteor crater in the fledgling BitTorrent landscape.

Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley’s blog:
Ikee worm author gets job at iPhone app firm  —  The author of the world’s first iPhone worm must be feeling pretty chirpy today, because he’s managed to get himself a job as an iPhone application developer.  —  21-year-old Australian Ashley Towns, revealed that he was going to join […]

Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Microsoft ‘worked with Apple’ for Silverlight on iPhone, says Goldfarb  —  It was an impressive demonstration, once they got it working: H.264 video streaming wirelessly (and slowly, at least during the caching sequence) using Microsoft’s Silverlight video streaming, to an Apple iPhone.