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it's Wednesday September second 2010 I'm Jeff Bakalar and it's time to get loaded Apple updated its line of ipod music players in a pretty significant way the ipod shuffle thankfully got its buttons back the ipod nano by far received the biggest change dropping the iconic click wheel for a tiny three centimeter by three centimeter multi-touch display the ipod touch now comes with the high-resolution retina display from the iphone for a front facing camera for facetime calls and HD recording on the rear the ipod classic remains unchanged from last year's model at 160 gigabytes the new ipods are available for pre-order now and shipped next week Steve Jobs also announced new updates to iOS starting next week iOS 4.1 will fix the proximity sensor issues but also allows for HDR photography that means the iphone 4 will now take three images in rapid succession at various exposures to pull in detail from highlights and shadows iOS 4.1 also brings along game center which is Apple's gaming social network along with iTunes ping which is Apple's new social network for music sharing and discovery that functionality is also built into itunes 10 the company also previewed iOS 4.2 which will be released in November for the iPad bringing multitasking folders and finally wireless printing to the iPad Apple's one last thing moment was a drastically different Apple TV previously apple TV allowed users to store movies and music in the devices hard drive but the new hardware does away with all of that instead now it's a streaming centric device which can play movies TV shows and music streamed over your home network can also stream netflix titles in addition you can now rent movies for 499 or TV shows for just 99 cents the new Apple TV will retail for only ninety-nine dollars in some non-apple news Microsoft has released windows phone 7 20 ems so that they can complete their enhancements and customizations to the new mobile operating system in time for the holidays however there's no specific dates on when these models will be released the FCC has unfortunately struck another blow to net neutrality by delaying action on new rules that would subject wireless networks to the same net neutrality rules as wired connections now this is all after Verizon and Google struck together a framework that most advocates of net neutrality viewed as a significant blow to the movement and finally sony has released three new models of its eerie ders with enhanced touched based e-ink pearl technology the new models will cost 180 230 and three hundred dollars respectively but wireless connectivity is reserved to only the high-end model it's kind of a bummer considering the lowest and kindle and nook still have Wi-Fi and there are only $149 those your headlines for today I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com and you've just been loaded