The last reported holdout to Apple's cloud music venture, Universal Music, has apparently signed on the dotted line. CNet also reports that the company's music locker may only support music purchased from iTunes at launch, which I guess means I'm going to be streaming The Beatles on repeat for a while.

(Fortune)

We've also seen plenty of those pop-up ads offering free iPads, but if Apple has its way, they'll soon go the way of those old "punch the monkey" banners. Cupertino's reportedly trying to enforce a ban on giveaways using the iPad or iPhone, as well as limiting iPod touch giveaways to a of 250 units. There are a few other rules, too, such as not prominently using the word "free" in conjunction with an Apple product, such as in a headline or an ad, or creating promotional materials using the Myriad Set font. So get ready for a lot of ads for 250 free iPod touches written entirely in Comic Sans.

(Bloomberg Businessweek)

Was new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop ticked off that some of his employees were using iPhones? No, he was annoyed that of them weren't using iPhones. "I'd rather people have the intellectual curiosity to understand what we're up against," Elop said. At least Elop, a former Microsofter, didn't follow his old boss Steve Ballmer's practice of having traitorous employees locked in a room with .