Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote presentation from the company’s annual September iPod event just ended in San Francisco. The rumor mill got it pretty much spot-on this time around, with almost every announcement having been predicted beforehand by the blogs. Some highlights from the show:

In my column today, I wrote about Apple's new ultra-mobile notebook, the MacBook Air. This svelte little machine retails for $1799 from Apple's online and retail stores, but if you live on the hill, there's a better option.

Bill Gates, the famous founder of Microsoft, gave his last keynote address to the International Consumer Electronics Show last night in Las Vegas. Gates has now delivered 12 addresses in his many years at the helm of the software behemoth, so the event was marked by a great deal of reminiscing and retrospection.

Although the video montages were quite entertaining (perhaps even Oscar-worthy, considering the current strike-induced lack of quality programming) and while the event did give some fitting closure to Gates’ lengthy career, the real meat and potatoes of the Microsoft keynote were presented by Robbie Bach, the company's president of entertainment and devices.