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Apple's Vice President of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak said, "At just A$65, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever. The new 2GB model lets music lovers bring even more songs everywhere they go in the impossibly small iPod shuffle."
The iPod shuffle requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later and iTunes 7.4; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 2) or later and iTunes 7.4 or later.
Apple has released a new iPod Touch with double the memory of its predecessor at 32GB. The company has also dropped the price of its 16GB and 8GB Touch models, but remains tight-lipped about the possibility of an iPhone for the Australian market.
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The new 32GB iPod Touch was also launched today in the US, however it was accompanied by the launch of a new 16GB iPhone. There is still no word of when we can expect the iPhone in Australia.
Apple has expanded the range of colours the new iPod nano is available in to include a pink 8GB model. The company says the release comes in response to the many requests it has had for a pink version of its popular portable player.
"Customers are going to love the gorgeous new pink iPod nano," said Apple's vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak. "The pink iPod nano is perfect for people who want a great new colour this spring, or who are searching for a special Valentine's Day gift."
At an all singing all dancing event in San Francisco Apple has rolled out a new family of iPod products in an effort to out perform the likes of Sony and Samsung who are finally tuning into the portable music market with alternate products to the iPod.
Apple co-founder, CEO and man-who-can-do-no-wrong-for-the-moment Steve Jobs has introduced new versions of every product in the company's iPod music and video line, including a new iPhone-like touchscreen music and video player that has a full Internet browser and the capacity to download music.
Apple is set to roll out several new iPods in time for Xmas sales. Among them will be a full-screen video model and one nicknamed the "Fatboy Nano".
The new iPods will run a derivative of the Mac OS-based iPod software introduced as part of the iPhone in June, according to AppleInsider.
Wired's Gadget Lab blog is calling one model the "Fatboy Nano:" The Fatboy Nano will play video and come in matte black, silver, cranberry, light blue, and light green. We guess that there will be 4GB and 8GB models, but with the bulk discounts Apple must be getting on all that flash memory it's buying, a cheapish 16 gigger isn't out of the question.
The ubiquitous Apple iPod has infiltrated even the Australian Federal Government it seems, with the launch of a new iPod-conducted tour through the National Archives of Australia.
Visitors to the new Memory of a Nation exhibition at the National Archives of Australia will be able to pick up an iPod at the start of the tour and then tune in for an audio tour of the exhibit.
"A visitor can take an iPod, select the object they'd like to learn more about and then view the object as they listen to a detailed audio description. The tour can also be downloaded via the web," explains Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator George Brandis.
Apple have got their knickers in a twist over an iPod vibrator called the iGasm which is being sold via a chain of British sex stores called Ann Summers.
The name is not the real reason that Apple is getting all hot and bothered and threatening to sue the sex shop chain, it's mainly the posters they do not like.
The iGasm posters are very much like the ones used in advertising the iPod digital music player and Apple are not happy. The iGasm is basically a vibrator that hooks up to an iPod, MP3 player, laptop or CD player and then it will vibrate in sync with the beat. Sounds fun, but Apple has lost their sense of humour on this one.
Apple has launched a new special edition iPod nano, which comes in the colour red to support the Product Red campaign against HIV/AIDS.
Following the heels of companies like Motorola, which recently launched its own Product Red version of its popular Razr phone, Apple will give a portion of the purchase price of the red nano to the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.
iPod users are turning to classical music in droves with some analysts saying that the next big thing could be the return of quality two channel Hi Fi.
The iPod generation is becoming hooked on classical music with new figures in the UK revealing a huge surge in youngsters listening to radio station Classic FM.
Driven by the success of film scores for blockbuster movies like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and determined efforts to sex-up the classical music industry, a section of Britain's youth appears to be tuning in to Mozart.
iPods, it appears, can stuff up a heart beat if one is wearing a pacemaker, according to the experts.
iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart, according to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school student to a meeting of heart specialists on Thursday.
The study tested the effect of the portable music devices on 100 patients, whose mean age was 77, outfitted with pacemakers. Electrical interference was detected half of the time when the iPod was held just 2 inches from the patient's chest for 5 to 10 seconds.
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