Kevin Rose had posted a video and talked on TWiT about upcoming iPods and iTunes. Today, he has posted more information about iTunes 8 that he got from a source. The post titled "What’s new in iTunes 8" has following information:
iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don’t already have.
With iTunes 8, browse your artists an albums visually with new Grid view; download your favorite TV show in HD quality from iTunes Store; sync your media with iPod nano (4th generation), iPod classic (2nd generation) a iPod touch (2nd generation); and enjoy a stunning new music visualizer.
The above iTunes 8 information feels like the marketing material Apple normally creates for its new products. We will see iTunes 8 and the new iPods in their full glory on September 9th at Apple’s Let’s Rock event. We will be doing live coverage of the event at live.techztalk.com

At Citigroup’s 15th Annual Global Technology Conference, Apple chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, fielded the future product questions in Apple Style, without giving any detail. Few points that he did talk about were related to MobileMe, iPhone expansion and Apple’s plan to offer new products a reasonable margin.
Oppenheimer said that the company’s management regrets not delaying the MobileMe launch. He also said that iPhone expansion in various markets is going according to Apple’s plan and Apple wants to introduce the iPhone into China as soon as possible.
The most important statement of the conference was “We plan to keep offering products at a reasonable margin, but not so high to benefit our competitors.” He further added that Apple is planning to introduce new products at reduced margins to keep it competitors under pressure. Apple presently has 80 percent market share for consumer notebooks priced above $1,000.
Peter didn’t say anything about new products that Apple is working on but promised, “we’re going to rock” at next week’s Apple event. The understatement of the night was “We expect to sell more iPhones in September quarter than in any prior quarter.” Many analysts have estimated that Apple will sell more that twice the number of iPhones in September quarter than in any previous quarter.
One statement that we liked most was when asked about iPhones lack of voice-activated dialing; he said, “That’s the beauty of our software model. We have a team of people who are working on new innovations; can make them come out for current and new customers. Wouldn’t rule anything out….” One of the two features we think iPhone should get as soon as possible is voice-activated control.
[Via 9to5mac]

Shure today announced SE102MPA sound isolating mobile headset with microphone. The new headset gives owners of iPhone, Nokia N95 and other cellphones with 3.5mm headphone jack the ability to listen to music at good quality while still having a quick toggle and mic to answer a phone call.
The headset is designed for music plus mobile use and features balanced MicroSpeaker that delivers optimized audio for rich listening experience. Shure uses the E2C earphone design with its iPhone music adapter mic. Shure has priced the new SE102MPA headset at $119, bringing its baseline price for its headphone with mic adapter price down. The company has also launched the SE110MPA Sound Isolating Stereo Mobile Headset that has SE110 earphones with music adapter mic and it’s priced for $154.99. Shure will launch SE210MPA, SE310MPA, SE420MPA and SE530MPA very soon.

Kevin Rose had blogged last week that Apple will hold a special event on September 9th. As Kevin had posted, Apple has sent out invites to a Special Event “Let’s Rock” taking place on September 9th at 10 am in San Francisco. The invite features an iPod like album art screen along with date, time, city and five star rating. The design of the invite is a clear indication that the event will be an iPod only affair. Apple will hold the event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. As always, with all things Apple, we won’t exactly know what Apple has up its sleeve for the event, till Steve comes on stage.
In other news that is related to the upcoming Apple event, Music Week is reporting that Snow Patrol will become the first artists to deliver an interactive album application. The application that will be released along with the band’s new album “A Hundred Million Suns” will be downloadable and will enable fans to access a raft of extra content including artwork, behind-the-scenes images and lyrics via the device. It is very likely that Steve will showcase the new features at the Let’s Rock event.
Note: We will cover the event live on live.techztalk.com

Plantronics the company known for their Bluetooth headsets today announced the new GameCom 777 surround sound gaming headphones with Dolby headphone technology. The new headphones will allow users to play PC games, listen to music and watch movies in virtual 5.1 surround sound effects. The GameCom 777 features Dolby Headphone and Dolby Pro Logic II technologies in a plug-and-play USB sound card that digitally processes sound for immersive audio.
Along with Dolby surround sound the headphones also features a unique ‘hide-away’ boom designed to tuck into the headband and turn the headset into pair of high quality headphones. It also has telescoping noise-canceling microphone that provides more accurate positioning for voice clarity.
Besides GameCom 777, Plantronics also introduced GameCom 367 and GameCom377 headphones. All the features on these two headphones match that of GameCom 777, except they don’t have Dolby Surround Sound support.  The GameCom 777 is priced $99.99, GameCom 377 is priced for $49.99 and GameCom 367 is priced $39.99, all three headphones are available now.