Earlier this week Apple announced that it had shipped over 1.5 BILLION iPhone / iPod Touch applications in a year: “The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”You can be forgiven if you missed the announcement, but to help you avoid such embarrassment in future, I’m going to overview some cool News apps that I use on my iTouch.

Apple today announced that the iTunes App Store has served over 1.5 billion app downloads worldwide. This comes less than 3 months since the Apple announced the 1 billionth download in April. The App Store continues to show amazing growth and has seen over 100,000 developers sign up for the iPhone developer program. While there are many discussed problems with the app store from a developer prospective, it has really taken off with consumers.

The iTunes App store has officially hit the 1.5 billion download mark according to Apple. The App store which recently celebrated it’s first birthday on Friday currently offers over 65,000 apps in 77 countries. The App store has dominated over it’s new competition from RIM, Android, and Nokia (OVI), due to the 40 million iPhones and Touch’s sold so far.  Apple CEO Steve Jobs said “The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality, with 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.” Apple calculates the rate of Apps sold to be somewhere around 50 apps per second which is just astonishing.

NEWS: App Store downloads hit 1.5 billion – infolaptop.net 07/14/2009 Apple reveals first year stats Tying in nicely with the App Store’s first anniversary, Apple has announced that it has seen sales of more than 1.5 billion applications. “The largest applications store in the world”, Apple says the iTunes-based store is also “growing at an incredible pace” with more than 65,000 apps available and more than 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer Program.

Apple has just announced that 1.5 billion application downloads have taken place in the first year after the App store’s launch. These downloads spread out over 65000 apps, which leaves us with about 23000 downloads per application. The full release goes as follows: Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world.

Apple ( AAPL : 142.27 -0.05% ) is scheduled to report their fiscal third quarter 2009 results after the market closes on Tuesday, July 21. Based on our analysis, we at EarningsPreviews.com are expecting AAPL to report better than expected results that exceed Wall Street’s consensus expectations.   Analyst Expectations We are forecasting revenues of $8.27 billion and EPS of $1.25. This would represent a 11% increase in revenues from last year’s $7.46 billion in the same period.

Free Press reporter Steve Neavling is covering President Barack Obama ’s appearance this afternoon at Macomb Community College in Warren. Obama was scheduled to speak at 3:45 p.m. 3:45 p.m. | Obama vows to improve the economy . “When entire communities are losing thousands of jobs, that is a heavy burden. My job is to get the economy back on its feet. And it’s a job I gladly accept.” 3:43 p.m. | Obama said Macomb Community College offers people out of work “a chance for a better future for themselves and their families,” noting Michigan’s 10% unemployment rate .

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, just back from a medical leave of absence, wasted no time trumpeting the success of the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch . The store has had 1.5 billion downloads since its launch a year ago. Jobs’ announcement may be an attempt by Apple to put a lid on recent questions about the App Store’s success and revenue. Apple hasn’t revealed if it is making huge profits on the store or if the money spent to maintain the venture is more than the revenue from purchased apps.

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CHICAGO (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived the fortunes of a decades-old Illinois law requiring teenage girls to notify their parents before getting abortions. The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday reversed a lower court’s ruling that had barred enforcement of the measure. The lower court found that a provision of the law giving teens the option of getting court approval instead of parental consent was not workable. But the appellate court disagreed.