United Airlines will be offering iPod connectivity to their in-flight entertainment systems. You can now use your iPod nano to watch on the 15.4" screen. Nice!

As Sung Park would say, "Holy Poop." John Doerr, legendary VC, took the stage to announce $100 million in fund to develop apps on the iPhone platform. That's a big deal. The iPhone will transform the mobile experience in the next 12 months much more than it has since it was introduced.

Quoted: John Doerr took the stage today at Apple's announcement of its iPhone software developer kit and announced a $100 million fund to invest ...

Speculation on where Amazon might take the Kindle platform development next... MUSIC! A device with wireless subscription access to all music would be great!

Quoted: 1. Make its MP3 store global. 2. Make a WWAN-equipped MP3 player hooked into the music store, a la Kindle. 3. Profit. Profit like God-damned crazy.

Can it really be that the iPod's glory days are already behind it? Probably... It just goes to show how quick hardware advantages are monetized and evaporated.

Google has launched an iPhone skinned version of their apps. Looks quite nice.

Quoted: We heard a rumor that Google was going to launch a new interface for users accessing the site via an iPhone in the ...

A collection of funny things Apple WILL NOT engrave for you on your ipod.

Office 2008 for Mac will have iPhone sync capabilities built in. I am looking forward to when Apple actually announces their licensing of the Microsoft AppleSync protocol (mentioned at the bottom of this story post).

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Getting shows off your tivo and onto a mac or ipod. The Tivo series 3 was not approved with tivotogo which exists on the series 2. Major bummer that we have to resort to the command line to get this all done now.

Update: just found that tivo series 3 is getting tivotogo in November. I'll stop my whining until I see what sort of DRM it comes with!

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I was enthusiastic about all the hacked improvements to an iPhone but it appears as if Apple is not going to allow them. This pushes any potential purchase for myself further out. Boooo Apple!