No location services on iPod 4g even w/ WiFi

My iPod touch 4g, brand new, cannot determine location even when located to our home's WiFi. I checked in settings to make sure location services is activated, which it is. The applications that are requesting to determine location are all approved for pulling location.
Any ideas?

I agree with all of the comments, and frustration, regarding having NO GPS with the wi-fi ONLY iPad2. I did what I thought was a good deal of research on the iPad2 before I purchased it. Compared it with competitors, waited for key functions to be added from the original iPad, and factored in what storage size as well as where and how I planned to use it. NOWHERE did I EVER see that no location services are found in the iPad2, and that every app, function or website that uses GPS/Location Services will not operate.
What a TREMENDOUS let down!
Google Maps, Google Earth, searching for movies, restaurants, site-seeing, and just about everything else you'd want a mobile computer for WON'T WORK. In order to use those BASIC functions, you MUST get a 3G version, with its associated data plan.
I am annoyed that in all of the advertisements and even independent articles/reviews, this was not mentioned with any clarity.
This situation is in DESPERATE need of a fix or work-around that does NOT include buying a new iPad.
A good start would be a new update that allows you to at least specify an address or zip code to set as your home station and all location services use that point to establish a current (or beginning) location for apps.

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