Type of Article: MacNews Web Site

Will 3G come to the iPod touch?

One thing no one has talked about is the advent of 3G on the iPad without a voice plan and what that might mean for the iPod touch. Will it get that, too?

I don’t know. Since it’s the iPad’s “little brother” that would make sense. It was something that many folks wanted (and the pundits commented on) when the iPod touch came out. In other words, we all really wanted an iPhone sans the cell phone.

Along the same lines, there are rumors that the next iPhone (the 4G) will have a faster connection. So perhaps we’ll see an iPad 4G and an iPod touch 4G in the not-too-distant future.

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Mac software updates for Feb. 9

Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com) has released PDF Checkpoint 1.2, an update of the PDF workflow automation solution. The new version lets users preserve transparency when exporting PDF to TIFF and PNG.

Yazsoft (http://www.yazsoft.com) has released Speed Download 5.2.11, the latest version of its Mac OS X download manager that combines four products: a download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity. The upgrade offers new Growl integration and squishes some bugs.

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iPhone/iPod apps for Feb. 9

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Esse Quam Videri Music Group has introduced iGovernment 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The US$1.99 app features over 50 feeds of news, photos, blogs, and videos from departments and offices across all three branches of the USFederal Government into one package.

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