With the advent of smartphones, iPods have been long forgotten. So I challenged myself to use my old iPod touch for a week to see what would happen.

There is a fairly widespread problem where iPods lose access to all data stored on its internal hard drive - though the storage space still appears to be occupied. Joe Paolino's case is typical: ...

In the beginning (OK, in 2001), there was the original 5GB iPod—and we were lucky to have it. But in the past four years, Apple has made things a bit more complicated, adding several new members to ...