Best Buy announced today that it would be selling the Apple iPhone, starting on September 7th.
It will be the first US chain, outside of Apple & AT&T, to carry the iPhone.
The deal is significant for several reasons:

The iPhone will be available in 1,000 new locations;
It helps prepare Apple for carrier independence;
It has the potential to [...]

Singapore Airlines (SIA) claims that it’s the first airline to offer passengers the ability to connect their iPods to an in-flight entertainment (IFE) system.
The first flight to allow passengers iPod integration with the Panasonic Avionics IFE system was operated out of Singapore earlier this month. The Airbus A340-500 is operating to Newark in the USA.
A [...]

According to report at StorageProPortal, a team of Scottish Nanotechnology scientists claim that they can cram up to 500 Terabyte worth of data onto one square inch - putting 100 millions songs on your iPod.
Unfortunately, the Glaswegian team’s research is “in the conceptual stages” - which means that these 500 Terabyte iPods probably won’t be [...]

Both Elisabeth (Podcasting News publisher) and I are Macheads and iPod freaks. We’re iPhone early adopters and have been advocating podcasting and new media platforms for music for years.
But, we’ve still got a vinyl music collection around, a couple of turntables and a little parallel universe of analog music that we still love.
So, country music [...]

There’s a fun post on the 10 Weirdest iPod Accessories over at PC Mag.
Our favorite is probably the Dreamgear i.sound Plasma, above. It’s a psychedelic plasma globe that has four integrated speakers, giving you a “custom-designed electro-magnetic lightshow dance to the beat of your music.”
Of course, if you really want to see weird iPod accessories, [...]

What do you do with a dead iPod?
Rhett and Link have some ideas for you.
via iJustine

It looks like the proposed tax on iPods to support musicians has finally been put to rest:
Last summer, music industry officials, retailers and consumers all debated the merits of the Copyright Board of Canada’s tentative decision to place a levy on iPod’s and other MP3 players ‚Äì a tariff that depending on the amount of [...]

CES: Wadia Digital will introduce what they claim is the world’s first all-digital iPod dock. According to Wadia, this means it can offer CD-quality from full-resolution file formats.
The iTransport (SRP: $349) turns your iPod into a high-end media server by providing a bit-perfect digital audio output to an audio/video system, bypassing the player’s internal D/A [...]

What’s better than free dj software for Mac and PC that works with your iPod?
Free dj software for Mac and PC that works with your iPod that doesn’t suck - which is what you get with Beatport Sync.
Native Instruments, which makes the leading DJ software Traktor, and Beatport, an online music service for DJs, have [...]

by James Lewin
The market for handheld devices such as Palms and Pocket PCs is tanking. The worldwide handheld device market posted its fifteenth consecutive quarter of decline in shipments. According to IDC, vendors shipped 728,894 handheld devices in 3Q07, 39.3% less from the same quarter a year ago.
“The handheld device market has been under constant [...]