The storage disk will also be used in future generations of digital audio devices for portable MP3 players.

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America says it has now tightened the rules on downloading material onto portable storage media, to make such a breach impossible in future.

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More broadly, Apple's move to put a shrunk-down version of its operating system, OS X, on the iPhone and the iPod Touch tells us that Apple sees portable, Web-friendly gizmos as a big part of its future.

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