Softbank shoots down rumors of iPhone, Apple partnership

I agree with Jacob--Mossberg never identified Softbank, that comes from a different source.

Um, when and where did Walt Mossberg cite Softbank as the company helping Apple?

He said they're working on a phone.

Separately, a Japanese new source said that Softbank and Apple are working on a phone.

Softbank is now denying they released this information.
They are not denying the deal.

Babelfish translates it thusly:

"Placing on the news media of portion of 2006 May 13 date, there was this corporation and reporting regarding the American apple computer, but these are the guess article by the news media. The agency it decides the contents which are reported, as this corporation and departure it is not something which is displayed."

Which is surprisingly lucid for machine translated text. The way I read it they're saying is, in essence, that is it not the company's policy to comment on rumors.

Actually, that's not really what Softbank said. All they said was that they denied releasing the information.

MacRumors will eff you up, yo.