Hasta La Gadget!

Convergence! For those us aren’t ready to throw away our CDs and DVDs, iLuv’s got the i1155. The multimedia player doubles as both a CD/DVD player and a dock for your iPod.

The cover of the player flips open so you can display your iPod upright. The i1155 has a 8.5-inch display for playing DVDs or video of your 5th gen iPod. No word yet on iPod touch or iPhone support.

The CEO of cell-phone company PCD, Philip Christopher, has a tendency to say outrageous things; he famously compared his company to the Viet Cong two years ago at a press conference.

This year, he threw out the tidbit that 30% of all iPhones end up returned. “It’s not because the phone is defective, it’s because people find it complicated,” he explained, saying that 25% of all phones end up returned because people find them too complicated. Needless to say, AT&T had no comment on Christopher’s statement.

Christopher also said 10% of all phones end up coming back to stores with water damage. “You’d be surprised how many people drop their phones in the toilet. We get all kinds of people dropping their phones in the toilet,” he said.

So we’re in San Francisco for Macworld Expo 2009, as witnesses to Apple’s last hurrah at the venerable expo. Born of the time when people disseminated info face to face at Mac User groups (MUGs), this could be the last Macworld Expo in the US. While we hope that’s not the case, without the major presence of Apple and Adobe it will be tough for IDG to keep producing this show (the same thing happened to COMDEX, PC Expo, and Ziff Davis’ Digital Life shows). Bookmark this page for the keynote, LIVE on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9am PST (10AM MT, 11AM CT, 12PM ET).

So stay tuned true believers, we’re going to give you the usual play by play courtesy of Joel Santo Domingo, Desktop Analyst at PCMag.com and Jamie Lendino, blogger and editor for PCMag Digital networks. Joel has covered Macs since the late 1990s Apple renaissance, and you may know Jamie from smartdevicecentral.com, so both the (rumored) new Macs and iPhones will be covered. We’ll try to interject our usual opinionated color commentary in the liveblog stream, so stay tuned and keep hitting F5!

New comments will appear at the top of the post, to reduce unneeded scrolling, then we’ll do a post-keynote analysis after Phil Schiller gets off the stage. Look for hands-on reports once we figure out what’s really being announced at the show.

[Joel and Jamie are in the audience already; transmissions about to start! Check after the jump for the live blog.]

Give credit to Kevin Rose: the Web 2.0 kids all love him (especially the ones who used him to launch themselves into the spotlight). His site, Digg is still worth a visit now and then. He also lured our former editor-in-chief Jim Louderback over to his video startup, Revision3, so you know he has charisma. Rose seems like a pleasant guy, although I still admittedly can’t fathom why people adore Diggnation, which seems to be recycling the same BS any techie does over lunch every day.

So I don’t want to knock the guy. But I’m here tapping away on a slow news day, and stop by Gawker.com, which noticed the tweet above. And it depressed me.

Psystar continued the holiday cheer last week with an amended filing that accused Apple of improperly handling its copyrights.

Apple “is prohibited from bringing action against Psystar for the alleged infringement of one or more of [Apple’s] copyrights for failure to register said copyrights with the Copyright Office,” according to a Dec. 16 document.

Psystar also accused Apple of misusing its copyrights by only allowing the Apple OS to be installed on Apple machines.

Apple “has attempted to (and continues to) leverage the rights granted under any valid copyright to areas outside the exclusive rights granted by the Copyright Act [by] forcing purchases of Apple-Labeled computer hardware systems,” according to Psystar. “Apple has thus engaged in certain anticompetitive behavior [by failing] to abide by the fair use and first sale doctrines.”