Ten-Hut: Searchers for Waldo have taken a break from their seemingly never-ending search for the wily adventurer to inquire after the reported existence of the free beta version of Apple’s Boot Camp that had previously been seen at Apple.com. Instead there was a mysterious warning that the trial program itself will self-destruct when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard hits the streets in a few days. Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys have not been reached for comment.

iPhone Top Seller? You Don’t Say: Strategy Analytics is pimping some stats that proclaim that the iPhone is AT&T’s top-selling phone and the fourth best in America. Is there a place where we can sign our names on the “I Told You So” registry? Because we’d like to. Speaking of which, could we enter Dell on the “How’s THAT Taste?” registry while we’re at it?

Dell trying to figure out how that tastes: Remember when Michael Dell opined that Steve Jobs should shut Apple down and give all their shareholders their money back? Yeah, yeah, that was right around the time that Dell’s market value was about $4 billion and Apple’s was, what was it? About $700 mil? Oh, what a difference a day makes: Apple’s valuation is now $150 billion. Dell’s? Less than half that. Niceeee….

Unprotected tracks: …And all of this on top of Apple lowering the price of all of its DRM-free songs selling through the iTunes store. This means that reportedly Apple offers more unprotected tracks than any other online outlet. Probably not a bad thing in total.

And a shadow over an otherwise silver lining: The iPod touch? Not doing so well. Well, you can’t win them all. You may win 150 billion of them but, yeah, you probably won’t win them all.