In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) discuss chat about current news and events:

• Craig is at TravelZoo and headed to the FocusRight conference in December
• John will attend the September meeting of the New York Social Media Club
• Opinion: The New York Times will print only on Sundays, be digital all other days - for a fee
• Let’s make an eReader. All the cool kids are doing it.
• THE mass market eReader needs to be $99 or less
• We belabor the issue of the iPhone battery life. Again.
• Craig just finished listening to The Accidental Billionares, the book about Facebook - “Highly Entertaining.”
  Apple announced new products: iTunes 9, iPhone OS 3.1, a revised iPod nano with video capture, a revised iPod Touch and…the iLiver!
• Outlook for Mac is coming
• John thinks all iPod hardware needs wifi. It would be a boon for media sharing worldwide.
• iTunes 9 brings the social! Facebook and Twitter integration.
• Apple offers five times the entertainment titles than the combined number of titles for Sony and Nintendo portable game machines,
• Got kids? Got an iPhone or iPod Touch? Get Trace. Free in the App Store.
• Chia-Lin believes that Android needs 4 million handsets in the market before it reaches a tipping point.
• Craig: “Apple’s true [iPhone] competitor has yet to be revealed.”
• “The Treo is the 8-track of handsets.”
• Android is the open source equivalent of Windows Mobile in the sense that it shares similar challenges.
• Craig digs the DigiDay conferences.
• Is Apple the new Big Brother?
• Motorola announced the Android-based Cliq with the MotoBlur interface
• Palm released the Pixi, a cheaper, candybar qwerty without a slider.
• “AT&T is the Dick Cheney of telecom.”

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