If it is true that the enemy of your enemy is your friend, then Apple and Facebook ought to be friends. Their common enemy, of course, is Google. But Apple's entry into social networking with the iTunes music social network Ping on Wednesday, has made them frenemies (or friend-enemies). And like with all frenemies, issues need to be worked out.

After the event yesterday we got some hands-on time with the new iPods. We'll be sharing our thoughts on the new devices, and the other announcements, later today. In the meantime, here are our hands-on shots of all the new iPods.

According to Patently Apple, our favorite Cupertino computer company is considering a new audio input port configuration for the iPod, iPhone and iPad.

We knew it had to be coming soon. Apple is set to hold a special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco next Wednesday, September 1. If the time of year doesn't give it away, perhaps the image on the invitation sent out to some bloggers will.

Apple has filed a patent for technology designed to detect unauthorised users of iPhones, lock the device down and even notify the user of its location if stolen.

The new iPad ad, entitled iPad is Delicious, gives a big role to one of our new favourite iPad apps, Flipboard, as well as throwing Twitter some love. But after Flipboard floundered at launch under a wave of new sign-ups, will it be able to cope with the seal of approval from Apple?

Cupertino design house Apple is set to release a second iPad to an eagerly waiting world, according to reports emanating from Ole Taipei.The device will have a seven inch screen and will be built by Taiwanese ODM Compal. There's no news about how much the second iFad will cost but it was always on the cards that Apple would roll another one out towards year end.

Asian companies negotiating contracts with Apple allegedly paid more than $1m in kickbacks to an Apple manager in exchange for confidential information about what Cupertino would be buying.

The German online shop Gutschein-codes.de, conducted a survey of 3,000 people happy to answer questions about a device that doesn't exist and wax lyrical about what they would like to see on it. And to think that people say business slows down in the summer.

The iPhone 4 has only been out a few months, but already there is speculation about the next incarnation which some believe will hit the shelves as soon as December. If that was not enough to get fanboys salivating all over their shiny touchscreens, some details about the next iPad have been revealed, set for release in the first quarter of 2011.

The peddler of broken dreams, Apple, is to bow to the will of the Land of the Rising Sun and post warnings on its website that its iPods might catch fire.

Apple maintains that complaints about the iPhone 4's antenna design and reception were overblown, but an exec got the axe nonetheless.

Yet another employee at Foxconn has committed suicide. The company, which supplies components to Apple for a string of its top end gadgets, has been at the centre of international concern about working practices following a spate of deaths.

Word is the new iPod line will land next month, with a tweaked iPod nano and iPod touch. So far, so bland, right? Well, there's also talk about a tiny touchscreen replacement for the iPod shuffle and a 3-inch take on the touch. The latter sounds interesting, but surely the former flies in the face of the shuffle's pared down skills.

A pic of what looks like an iPod touch 4G (or 4, if it follows Apple's iPhone branding pattern) has been leaked by a case manufacturer.

Apple has removed the videos of competitor phones from a web page which aimed to show that all phones suffer from grip-related reception problems.

If the Magic Mouse isn't doing it for you, Apple is introducing the industrial strength Magic Trackpad. Apple says: “The Magic Trackpad brings the intuitive Multi-Touch gestures of Mac notebook trackpads to the desktop.”

Apple's iPad can shut down if it gets too hot, and Jacob Baltazar, Claudia Keller, and John Browning are as mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore. Those unhappy iPadders have filed suit against Apple — and they're asking the court to elevate their claim to class-action status.

It might be high summer but Apple's iPad is already tipped to be this Christmas's best-selling gadget, the UK's largest electrical retailer said.

The giveaway to appease iPhone 4 antenna woes is no cheap undertaking, but cheaper than a recall.