iPod Touch

A leading UK online execution-only broker TD Waterhouse announced the launch of a special app for iPhone and iPod touch.

Customers can download the TD Trading App for free and use it to pace equity investment trades on 15 international markets in nine different currencies. When in their account users can instantly access their portfolio summaries, obtain live quotes and create a specific Watch List to monitor potential opportunities in real time.

According to the new finding of an agency that helps manage paid search advertising most Apple iOS devices including iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches fail to count paid-search conversions (i.e., clicks) because cookie-tracking is turned off.

It is known that all Apple mobile devices use the Safari as the default browser and so do Apple laptops and desktop PCs. It is also known that Safari blocks third-party cookies by default from considerations of privacy. But it is very bad for advertisers.

Microsoft stops making its Zune digital media player while it will still continue offering music and video using the same software online via its Xbox game console and Windows mobile phones. While according to many experts Zune is much superior to the iPod Touch it came too late to the market and failed to rival Apple’s player.

"We have nothing to announce about another Zune device," a Microsoft spokesman said in an emailed response to questions about the Zune. Bloomberg earlier reported that the company had decided to stop producing them.

Japanese Kanteidan Blog reported that Apple is palnning to release its next generation iPod touch with glass-free screens that can display 3D images.

Earlier in December 2010 Apple registered a patent for 3D projection technology that does not require the use of 3D glasses.

At the core of the technology is that every pixel is projected onto the reflecting surface with corrugated texture which redirects different images to the left and right eyes of spectators producing thus a 3D effect. Maybe this will be used for iPod touch.

Rumors of a tiny, Apple’s sixth-generation square-shaped iPod Nano are getting more urgent. 

If the rumors appear to be the truth, Apple's next iPod Nano will have a 1.2-by-1.2-inch screen, a 30-pin dock connector like the ones found on larger iOS devices, and little room for anything else.

On Wednesday this week Apple is holding an event where attendants will see once again how the company’s profits are getting more dependent on different devices other than PC. The Cupertino will show its new iPod Touch with a camera for video chatting and a revamped Apple TV set-top box that will reportedly resemble an iPhone 4.

While it was recently found that jailbreaking of Apple products to allow users to run third-party unsigned code on their devices by unlocking the operating system does not violate copyright laws defined by the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, new Apple patent application filed earlier this year may put an end to such practices.

On the surface the patent primarily protects users from theft, but the ‘secondary’ aim is to stamp out jailbreaking, despite the practice now legal under "fair use" in the US.

In many cases it is poverty that drives the progress and innovations. Now consumers in China can turn their Apple iPod Touch into an iPhone by means of a new gadget called the Apple Peel 520 and created by a Chinese company.

“Reliable sources” cited by a website Unbeatable report that the new iPod touch that is to come in September will include a 5-megapixel camera, a front facing webcam for FaceTime video calls over Wi-Fi along with gyroscope and accelerometer for improved gaming.

As it is usually the case that iPhone leads the innovations and iPod follows them many observers believe that the next generation touch will have some of the iPhone 4 latest features.

On Tuesday in line with its schedule Apple launched the download gate for its latest iOS 4. Users reported some problems with downloads and installation as well as backups of their iPhones.

Users on Apple's iPhone support forum reported total upgrade times which includes downloading the update, backing up their iPhones and restoring them with the new operating, that ranged from 20 minutes to over an hour. The iOS 4 update weighed in at almost 580MB.

Meantime a number of iPhone owners faced problems in the backup stage.

From now, Apple can gladden its customers with the news that MobileMe Mail at me.com is now out of beta and available to all members.

New MobileMe Mail is featured with widescreen and compact views and rules to keep user’s email organized.