iPhone App Store Tops 2,000,000,000 Downloads

Apple’s iTunes App Store has hit yet another milestone: two billion apps downloaded since the Store hung out its digital shingle on July 11, 2008.
The news came in an Apple announcement which also noted that the store’s customers now include over 50 million iPhone and iPod touch owners worldwide – in 77 countries, to be [...]

iTunes U – Pushing the Envelope of Education

In April 2009 Stanford University announced that its iPhone Application Programming course had broken the 1 million download mark from the Apple iTunes site. And it did it in record time – less than seven weeks.
The course is nothing more than a series of classroom videos being taught by a team of Apple engineers. But [...]

Apple about to acquire Lala. Are iTunes music streams coming?

Apple is in the final stages of cutting a deal to acquire streaming music site Lala.com, according to a report by CNET’s Greg Sandoval. There are few details about the reported acquisition but sources told Sandoval that the terms have already been hammered out and the only thing left to do is sign a final [...]