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The Wall Street Journal reports on the SEC's and the US Attorney's criminal and civil probes in options backdating at Apple Computer. It seems there are falsified documents involved, and that a number of key players in the matter have mysteriously left the company over the last several months. My sympathy is always with the "corporate crooks" in matters like this -- innocent until persecuted guilty, as far as I'm concerned. But I hate it when political influence is involved. Al Gore is on Apple's board, and he was one of a two-man committee that exonerated Apple CEO Steve Jobs of any wrong-doing. Gore is only on Apple's board as thanks for leading the charge in the Microsoft antitrust prosectution when Gore was vice president. And now here's another pay-off. Here's Steve Jobs demo-ing the iPhone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas:

10:23am - "I can double-tap and it'll zoom in -- I can make this text bigger if I want to, and there it is. Isn't this cool? There is the New York Times. Unbelievable. You can look at multiple web pages as well, I just push this button in the corner, shrinks it down, and I can add a new page. Let's go to Amazon. I like looking at what DVDs are selling -- I like especially when Disney DVDs are on top."

10:24am - Page is loading, albeit a bit slowly. "And here we are, and there's a section over here, and these are the top sellers. Oh look, Al's "An Inconvenient Truth" is number one. Now I can go back to the NYT if I want, I can get rid of these by just hitting the X." Looks a bit like the UIQ browser, but much more slick.

Russell Roberts at Cafe Hayek muses,

When he just happened to check out DVD's and just happened to find Al's DVD (love that first name basis!), I thought he was pandering to the environmentalist in all of us to show how he's a good guy. But no. It's was a little thank you to Al. I wonder if Gore was happy to see his DVD touted or whether he cringed.

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