New iPod Nano!
It's a teenie little iPod. Almost too wee.
(photo from iLounge). It's a shame you can't sync using firewire.

Straight off the iLounge site:
"iTunes phone: Motorola ROKR E1
iTunes client inside
Made by motorola
ROKR is name
Quad band gsm
Camera
Stereo speakers and headset
100 song capacity
Instant 1 button access to iTunes
You can use autofill
Interrupts play for songs
shuffle right on your phone
Fewer songs
No clickwheel
Cingular exclusive carrier
51m customers of cingular
Phone lets you shoot video
Cingular to launch 3 tv commercials tomorrow

iTunes 5

* Available today
* Refined look
* Smaller
* LCD at top now has artist and song
* Folders of playlists
* Search bar
* Duplicates top of spotlight
* All music audiobooks podcasts videos etc
* All artists albums songs
* Microsoft outlook syncing
* For contacts and calendars on pc
* Smart shuffle
* Shuffle realy is random
* Make it less random if you want
* Now in playback preferences
* New parental tag too
* Smart shuffle is more likely random less likely
* Album reviews
* 1000 reviews already in there"

Also Madonna's back catalogue is available. Jobs also spoke to Madge using iChat.

Bugger the iLounge feed. No one can type quicker than the bods at MacWorld. Macworld: News: Apple Special Event Live Update

Get your up-to-the-munute Apple Special Event newsfeed at iLounge.

$50 iBooks cause riot. Shock. Horror.
This is hilarious. A woman pissed herself so she wouldn't lose her place in the queue when a school sold off their unwanted iBooks when they downgraded to Dells. When the doors were opened, all hell broke loose. One man battered other bargain hunters with a deckchair and some nutter tried to drive through the crowd in a truck. It beats our own Ikea riot hands-down.Check the CNN report.

iTunes takes 80% of the UK (legal) download market. Soon the world will be Jobs'.
Check out top selling tracks around the world here.
iTunes new Music Tuesday on hold for today's "big push".
1000 pop promos in your pocket? (Why else would they start selling music videos on iTunes?)
1000 tunes on your phone? (Well, more like 250)
1000 tunes on your shuffle? (If there is, I'm getting one).
Stay tuned.

Whatever happens on the 7th, it will involve the unveiling of the long awaited Motorola iTunes phone. The phone company has arranged an after-event party with a live band at Webster Hall in New York. Don't believe me? Pop over to AppleInsider.
Flash-based iPod minis with colour screens are also rumoured to appear.

New iPod ALERT!
It looks like the next generation (make it so) iPods will be with us soon. Apple have sent out invites to the San Fran media with the title "1000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again!" Could this mean that they're bring out a new bigger, better iPod? or the Motorola iPhone? or could we be in for their interpretation of a vPod to match the PSP? (but without the games). We'll have to wait and see. Read more at AppleInsider.

Got a PowerBook or Mac mini? Got a slow Superdrive?
Then sign this petition!

A Mighty Mouse. At Last!! Left & right buttons (hidden), squeezy side buttons (programmable) and a nubbin (a 360 degree wheel). About fuckin' time too!