Starbucks has released in app for the iPhone, so now besides getting free wi-fi from AT&T hotspots, you can now buy your coffee and songs from Apple iTunes at the same time.

Now available in the App Store, myStarbucks, and Starbucks Card Mobile let users find their nearest Starbucks and manage their Starbucks Card. If you live near one of 16 stores in the Seattle or San Francisco Bay Area, you can even pay for your purchases with the Starbucks Card Mobile app via barcode.

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The latest iPhone firmware update is here and available for download. If you need any convincing before you snap it up, the update includes a Google Street View application and the ability to download Podcasts straight to the iPhone.

On the Street View front, all the bells and whistles are here. The public transit and walking directions are all in place.

Additionally, there were some bug fixes, Safari enhancements and the ability to toggle auto-text correction. The Podcast downloads have been reported to work flawlessly, as well. Get ye to the iTunes store and make your iPhone a little bit better.

Here are some post-update photos to get you excited, as if you needed anything more:

Microsoft’s Zune Pass subscription just got better. For $15 per month, you have access to all the songs in the Zune Marketplace but now you also get to keep 10 songs as well. That means for the price of a CD, you get to "rent" all the songs you want per month PLUS keep 10 of your favorite songs. Sounds like a bargain to me.

Why pay 99 cents per song in iTunes when you can have access to a plethora of songs for $15 bucks a month? I really think they have iTunes beat.

I personally hate iTunes, but have already vested so much money in buying seasons of Lost which I can’t watch on the go anymore because I got rid of the iPhone for the Blackberry Bold. I may be switching to Zune Marketplace today.

Rumors have been swirling around the Internet that Sony is going to be joining EMI to bring DRM-free music to Apple’s iTunes Plus service. The service is a higher-MP3-quality DRM-free option that exists within the Apple iTunes store. Thus far EMI is the only major label involved with the service, so the addition of Sony would be a major incentive for other labels to jump onboard. Still, this is currently just a rumor so stay tuned.

Thecus Technology has reworked their their N3200 and announced their N3200 Pro. The brand new NAS will now feature an AMD Geode CPU. The device has features aplenty, including three SATA drive bays for up to 3TB of storage, optional Raid 5 striping and an LCD display. The unit will also offer photo, iTunes and DLNA-compatible server options as well as browser-based management. The N3200 Pro will also offer a service called the "Web Surveillance Server," which will allow uses to take regularly scheduled photographs just by plugging in a USB webcam.

The company has yet to release any pricing or availability but the previous N3200 model costs $339.