Palm said, “Tit,” and now Apple’s answered with a cursory “tat.” The ongoing war between the two companies over iTunes syncing rumbles on with neither side apparently willing the concede let alone play nicely with the other.

The newest model of the iPhone 3GS includes a change in the phone’s bootrom designed to keep hackers from using the usual entry points to unlock the popular Apple mobile device.

The usual passel of patches and bug fixes, as well as Apple’s latest volley in the now largely pointless serve and return contest between the company and jailbreakers — whatever. Here’s a quick thumbnail glance at what’s new and hopefully been fixed this time around.

When WebOS 1.2 arrived without an iTunes 9 sync fix or work around, pretty much everyone assumed Palm had given up their quixotic effort to restore syncing with Apple’s industry leading jukebox software. And, honestly, who could blame them. Well, what a difference a point update can make.

One step forward and one step back seems to be Cupertino’s approach with the iPhone and app developer support. As allegations of collusion with AT&T against Google and Google Voice gain credibility, Apple has taken another step to make getting on the App Store a little easier.

Apple’s pay-to-play online services suite offers unmatched services and, of course, the company’s creamy smooth “it just works” design and user aesthetic. Increasingly, MobileMe is the cloud-based glue that holds together the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone maker’s wide-ranging products and services.

Whether or not the chip inside Apple’s just announced 32 and 64 gigabyte iPod touches is compatible is perhaps a moot point as there’s more to building technology into a product than just soldering the appropriate piece of silicon onto the circuit board.

This dot-fix is 90 percent about making your iPhone or iPod touch play nicely with the changes with iTunes and the iTunes Store. Therein, the feature that makes me grin deviantly is the ability to manage apps on my Mac, which is simply sweet given the big Swedish hands I inherited (didn’t get the ears, though).

That nasty, nasty exploit that Charlie Miller pimped for all its worth demonstrated at this week’s Black Hat conference yesterday in, where else, Lost Wages (Las Vegas), Nevada, has been patched, and that’s pretty fast turnaround for Apple. Still, it’s well nigh impossible to see any of these players in a positive light.

Apple has filed information with the U.S. Copyright Office which lays out grave consequences for the cell phone networks due to jailbroken and unlocked iPhones, including cell tower damage.