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Stanford iPhone Dev Class Hits 1 Million Downloads
Cult of Mac — One million potential iPhone developers downloaded Stanford’s ...

Stanford iPhone class hit 1 million downloads
Macworld — Posted on by Cyrus Farivar , Macworld.com You've been able to download classes from many universities via iTunes U for years. Heck, my alma mater,  UC Berkeley , offered up a bunch of courses in 2006. But, the fastest course from any university to hit the 1 million download mark, according to a recent piece in the San Francisco Chronicle , is Stanford University's  iPhone Application Programming CS193P class —and the class just started in April. As its name implies, the course teaches students and anyone watching at home how to program for the iPhone. The class sometimes has guest-lecturers, including  Josh Shaffer from Apple, ...

News: Mix: Skyhook, Stanford, iPhone robbery, Kindle update
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — Skyhook Wireless, provider of the iPhone and iPod touch’s Wi-Fi-based location services, has released a report in which it claims that location-aware apps on BlackBerry’s App World service cost roughly four times as much, on average, as those offered on the App Store or Android Marketplace. The study found that the average price of a location-aware app in BlackBerry App World is $13.60, compared with $3.60 in the App Store and $0.84 in the Android Marketplace. In addition, the App Store had the highest number of location-aware apps—over 2,300—and the highest percentage of paid for location-aware apps, at over 75%. By comparison, 67% of BlackBerry location-aware apps are ...