Apple broadcast a new iPod touch advertisement during American Idol last night. The new advertisement features a table full of iPod touches showing off various features including Photos, Cover Flow, Weather, Notes, Web Browsing, Mail and Video playback.
Brendan Benson is the latest artist to benefit from exposure in an Apple television commercial with their song, What I'm Looking For (iTunes link). Compete reports that almost 1 million searches for iPod commercials and their songs were conducted from August 2007 to January 2008. Though briefly, Apple actually shows the artist name and song being played in this commercial on one of the iPod Touch's screens.
Apple today released a new Pride Edition Sport Loop for the Apple Watch. The band features a rainbow design with 11 colors of woven nylon yarns.
The new Pride Edition Sport Loop is available to order now on Apple.com and in the Apple Store app in 40mm, 42mm, and 46mm sizes, and it will be available at Apple Store locations starting later this week. In the U.S., the band costs $49.
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Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, Meta will potentially be able to see the contents of all messages between users on the social media platform.
Encrypting messages has been an optional feature in Instagram since 2023, but in March of this year the social media platform quietly updated a help page to say ...
iOS 26.5 includes three new features for iPhones, according to Apple's release notes for the update, which is expected to be released next week.
As discovered during beta testing, iOS 26.5 enables end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging between iOS and Android devices. Apple says this security upgrade is limited to supported carriers around the world and will continue to roll out....
