By Graham K. Rogers

With the iTunes App Store about to hit the 50 billion app download milestone, as well as the $10,000 iTunes App Store Gift Card, Apple is also giving away a $500 Gift Card to each of the next 50 people to download an app.

More information on this, is available on the iTunes 50 billion page

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand where he is also Assistant Dean. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs.