10 raised to the power 9. One sixth of the worlds population. A fresh billionarie. Apple’s app store for the iPhone and iPod download figures. So which is the odd one out? We won’t jerk up the suspense much longer. If you have a reasonable IQ you would have guessed the answer.

Well with all due respect to your IQ, you wouldn’t have guessed that one unless you are an iPod/iPhone fanatic. The answer is: NONE. Reason – all the four sentences at the beginning of this post are connected to the number all multimillionaires aspire to – One Billion.
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Now babies are going to be born with an addiction – the iPod addiction. Can’t say if this is a good thing or not, depends on what you are going to play to the babies when they are in their wombs perhaps. Suggestion: No hard rock!.

Yes now you can play music to a baby who is still in the womb. This can be done through your favorite gadget – the iPod. For music loving mothers, specially, a baby iPod has been launched.
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The iPod Shuffle which was recently released has had an update which fixes some minor issues. Although the bugs that were fixed were not elaborated on, Apple said some minor ones were fixed through a 17 mb download pack which also contains several corrected pronounciations for artist names.
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Low power802.11n will be supported by next gen iPod and iPhone. iPhone 3.0 firmware will have support for a new chip which enables low power 802.11nn. There is a component upgrade – the existing Broadcom chip that supplies WiFi and Bluetooth on existing models jumps from BCM4325 to BCM4329. There is support for 802.11n features which includes the ability to find and join 5GHz networks.

Currently iPod Touch and iPhone models only support 2.4Ghz 802.11b/g or 5 Ghz 802.11a networks. In the latest generation of AirPort base stations Dual-band networds are supported. This means that both fast as well as slow devices can connect with independent 5Ghz and 2.4 Ghz signals simulaneously.
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