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Mophie has launched the Juice pack air for for the iPod touchcomes with 32Gb and 64GB.The iPod touch version of the Juice Pack Air is a combined battery extender and protective case in one.The juice pack air is basically a rechargeable external battery+case combo with a soft-touch, non-slip rubberized finish. It extends the battery life of iPod touch at the same time offers full protection of a hard-shell case.Mophie’s new battery case comes with a USB cable that enables you to simultaneously charge and sync your iPod touch to iTunes without having to remove it from the juice pack air. It offers up to additional 30 hours of audio playback or 7 hours of video playback.

The Mophie juice pack air is priced at $79.95.

Samsung introduces E61 proreader with a Kindle-like physical keyboard.E61 looks quite good, is smaller and thinner than the Kindle, but the size of the screen itself, 6 inches. Reports of Amsterdam is not clear whether the single screen or some other kind of e-Ink ePaper. The 6-inch screen has a resolution of 600 x 800 pixels.

It has 2GB of onboard memory which is expandable through a microSD slot. It has Wi-Fi, but the combination of cells than the Kindle. PDF file format support, plain text, epub, and people. The keyboard can be used for research, such as the Kindle, but for some functions to make notes.

According to the number crunchers at NPD Group, the trend that came to a head last year when Apple beat out Wal-Mart for the title of largest Stateside music retailer is continuing apace. That's right -- one in four songs sold in America is sold on iTunes, while Wal-Mart (including CD sales through retail stores, sales through their website, and Wal-Mart Music Downloads) holds the number two position at 14 percent. And number three, if you're morbidly curious, is Best Buy. In addition, 69% of all digital music sold in the US comes from the iTunes store, with Amazon ranking second at 8 percent. When talking formats, the CD remains the most popular at 65 percent, but as some dude named Russ Crupnick (NPD's vice president of entertainment industry analysis) notes, "with digital music sales growing at 15 to 20 percent, and CDs falling by an equal proportion, digital music sales will nearly equal CD sales by the end of 2010." Which can only be a good thing, if it means that we'll never have to step into a Wal-Mart again. Sales of ringtones and sales to consumers under 13 were not tabulated, which means the data may incorrectly skew away from purchases of The Wiggles' Go Bananas! and that Crazy Frog song.

Another company producing yet more products that take advantage of Windows 7's much-vaunted touch cappabilities? Amazing but true, at least according to DigiTimes, which is reporting that Acer is set to launch no less than three "touch-enabled products" loaded with Windows 7. That word apparently comes straight from a product manager in the company's mobile computer department, who also went on to say that touch-enabled netbooks might see "good market acceptance" if they're marketed as cheaper alternatives to tablet PCs, although it's not clear if the products in question are actually touch-enabled netbooks. In other touch-related news, Acer is also reportedly looking at using in-cell touch panel technology when it becomes widely available, which should be cheaper to produce than conventional touch panels that don't have all the necessary touch components built right in at the LCD panel level.