Additionally on offer from MLB.com at Bat 2009 is live audio broadcasts with no blackout restrictions, real time video highlights, gameday functionality and a continuously updated scoreboard. Users have the choice of viewing the whole post season on MLB.com at Bat for $9.99 a one time fee. This is possible from Apple’s App Store. Also available is a free lite version.

Meanwhile the Tapstick iPod Shuffle case has been announced by Scosche. It is available in black and white colors. This polycarbonate case fits around the front and sides of the shuffle. The volume and playback controls on this are the same as Apple’s included headphones.

After plugging into the iPod Shuffle headphone/control jack, you have a Tapstick Jack for connecting your headphones. Also provided is a 3 foot audio cable for connecting the shuffle to a car stereo or a home stereo system. Remember – you cannot use third party headphones which don’t provide a controller.

Beginning the first week of July, the Tapstick will be available for $30.

Wes Moss hosts the Zune Pass ad. The trivia is amazing. Could you imagine, for example that a 120 GB iPod full of music would cost $30,000!!! yes that is the amount it would take to buy that much music from iTunes. $15 per month of rent could be a much better deal – the Zune deal. There is a bit of cloaking in these claims, a lot actually.

Microsoft is not making it clear that they want you to buy the Zune. You could easily buy an iPod and use the Zune Pass for music is what is coming across to some. The issue is Zune Pass does not work on an iPod.

Interestingly the Zune pass lets you own 10 songs a month. This would cost 250 years to fill the player with owned music.

In the future they may be used to guide bomb disposal robots and to receive drone air craft aerial footage, and the military is working on this. Soldiers can now upload photos of detained suspects if the US Marine Corps succeed at their new program.

These would then go into a biometric database. The software could match faces. The British Military is envious of this but currently does not plan to follow suit. According to an expert, the iPod may be all the personnel need. The army men are familiar with iPods as well.

With bulk orders the Pentagon can get these machines relatively safely. So the iPod you use is the one used by U.S. military. Deja vous to the Hummer craze.

In the space of five months, the web market share of the iPod Touch has tripled. It has shot past even the iPhone. The share of Windows in the market has dropped to the lowest point even as Mac stands firm.

In November, the use of the iPod Touch stood at just 0.05 percent among the myriad websites which were being tracked by Net Applications. In less than half a year the use stands at 0.15 percent. Although this amount is still small, it represents a significant increase over the previous volume in percentage terms.

iPhone share also grew substantially within that time. For a long period of time Apple has the largest share of all mobile operating systems. Java ME is second. On the computer Apple hasn’t had explosive growth. Windows has fallen steeply meanwhile.

This data isn’t entirely accurate and is swayed by usage patterns.

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.
Yes, the download figures of the Apple App store has touched a billion. Surprised? Well the people at Apple were happy but not so surprised. They have been waiting for this milestone for two weeks, patiently counting down to it.

They celebrated in style when the event happened. In fact the lucky customer who did the job of the billionth download will get a good amount of Apple stuff for himself. Apple did have much to brag about and this is what it did.

Who downloaded the billionth app is Connor Mulcahey. $10,000 in iTunes credit, a 17 inch Macbook Pro, 32 GB iPOd Touch and an Apple Time Capsule awaits the lucky Adam who is going to be happy he took a bite off this apple. Yumm…

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.
This way pregnant mothers can play soothing music to their babies. How this will affect the babies musical tastes is a matter for debate but Geof Ramsay has come out with a contoured belt that will hold an MP3 player close to the womb to play to the baby. The vibrations are sent to the foetus through special speakers.

In the back of the belt are three tiny mechanisms which give the mother to be a relaxing massage. Since centuries it has been believed that music helps a childs mental and emotional development. This creation is a result of that thought. Classical music is perhaps the best kind of music to play to unborn babies.

So if you are an expectant mother get one of these, if you know an expectant mother gift her one. It could be the most valuable gift the unborn child gets in its life, ever.

Meanwhile the older generation iPod Shuffle users might have problems with Apple iTunes 8.1. Users will find that although the updated iTunes works, they might face problems with it. The major issues faced concern file management. When the device was connected to the computer, it was unplayable according to some users.

So the Shuffle is facing more than it’s share of issues this past few days. Wonder if Apple is able to shuffle them out.

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.
Previous AirPort base station hardware does not allow this. Nor is this possible in an ad-hoc WiFi network from a notebook. Additional network speed and reception range is likely with the new 802.11n specification. Space Time Block coding sends the same data across multiple antennas. SGI increases the data rate. Block Ack increases efficiency. RIFS reduces interframe spacing.

With the new componenet, WiFi throughput and flexibility is to be thoroughly sped up. AT&T and other UMTS providers are also upgrading their 3G networks to take advantage of parallel improvements in mobile 3G speed capacity.

Most popular advanced telephones are part of Skype’s plans for expansion. Skype has more than 400 million users. According to Skype CEO Scott Durchslag, the application will succeed on the iPhone, most probably. The feature rich offer from Skype will appeal to new as well as existing customers.
Many customers request for the Skype to be available on the iPhone. With a huge pent up demand, there may be a huge usage of Skype’s new iPhone service. The launch is scheduled to be in Las Vegas. Whether Skype will offer video with the iPhone is still under consideration.

There is a high bar on quality. If Skype bridges the cellphone and laptop cameras there might be a video telephony revolution.