Off the news wires today:

Beatles May Go Online As Apple, EMI Come Together:

Apple Inc. and music label EMI Group Plc plan to announce "an exciting new digital offering," EMI said Sunday, a move that could involve putting the Beatles music catalog online.

EMI said it plans to hold a news conference Monday at its London headquarters where EMI Chief Executive Eric Nicoli will be joined by Apple Chief Executive and co-founder Steve Jobs, the company said in an e-mail to reporters.

Currently, no Beatles songs can be downloaded via online music services. EMI has been the distributor for the Beatles since the early 1960s.

If that's really what they're announcing, I'm willing to bet that the Beatles set yet another music record, becoming the group with the most music downloads in a single day. And you'll forgive the geek side of me, but it will also be an acid test of ITMS' network infrastructure, as we see whether or not the servers can handle a huge spike in requests on a single day.

Of course, we're still not sure that's what is happening:

A live Webcast of the event, which will feature "a special live performance," will be available at http://www.emigroup.com beginning at 1 p.m. local time in London (8 a.m. EDT).

That would be a very, very special live performance, eh?