Barely an Apple lyric was spared as news agencies and publications around the world raced to announce the news that Apple Inc., the company that invented iTunes has settled its 25-year-old off and on dispute with Apple Corps., the folks who brought you the Beatles.Here are just a few of the headlines gracing the Web sites and print media pages around the world:E1 Online “Apple, Beatles Come Together” Sydney Morning Herald “Apple and Beatles give peace a chance”Cincinnati Post “End of a long and winding road”Chicago Sun-Times “pple vs. Apple: We can work it out” The deal itself will give Apple Inc. control of the Apple brand which in turn will license the name back to the record company.The agreement replaced the 1991 agreement in which then Apple Computer was given the right to use the name Apple as long as it did not encroach on things related to music. Obviously all that changed when Apple introeduced iTunes. Under the new agreement Apple Inc. owns “all of the trademarks related to ‘Apple’ and will license certain of those trademarks back to Apple Corp for their continued use.” Posted on the Apple site, Steve Jobs was quoted as saying, “we love the Beatles and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trademarks.”On behalf of Apple Corps, Neil Aspinall, manager of Apple Corps, said, “the years ahead are going to be very exicitng times for us.”Is there a hint there that Apple Corps, will finally license to Apple for distribution over iTunes the Beatle songbook? With two billion downloads so far iTunes looks like a pretty good distributor to me. According to the NY Times, Apple Corps, needs to confer with EMI, owners of the song book before that happens.Now, with the Apple versus Apple dispute out of the way we have only one more trademark battle left, the iPho9ne versus iPhone dispute between Apple and Cisco. Technology Industry