Privacy Maven

As reported widely today, Apple founder, Steve Jobs, unveiled details of the new iPod Touch:

Jobs revealed a new iPod model that looks exactly like the iPhone, but without the ear speaker slit. It’s the same size as the iPhone, but 8mm thinner, according to Jobs, who said, “We think it’s one of the Seven Wonders of the World.”

The iPod Touch sports a 3.5-inch widescreen display, and along its bottom run music, video and photo icons. “Just like the iPhone, this is the best way to share photos on a portable device ever,” said Jobs proudly.

The iPod Touch’s button-driven interface also showed icons for a calculator, contacts, clock, calendar and settings icons. What’s more, the new device has Wi-Fi — the iPod Touch is the first iPod to feature wireless networking capabilities, with support for 802.11 b and g networks.

In recent months, less widely known or reported are the problems with iPhone’s security.

The iPhone lacks encryption, robust central management capabilities and the ability to integrate with localized infrastructure making it an unlikely choice for most businesses, according to analysts at Midvale, Utah-based research firm, the Burton Group.

The iPhone was released in June and since then security researchers have been clamoring to crack the smartphone’s security features. Since then, flaws were discovered in the Safari browser, used by the iPhone. In July, a team of security pros at Baltimore-based Independent Security Evaluators discovered simple ways of taking complete control of the Apple iPhone. Other security experts said that iPhone popularity could increase mobile phone attacks.