iTunes U is a new free educational podcast section in the iTunes Store. Eddy Cue took the stage at the Education Media Event in New York yesterday to announce that over 1,000 universities are currently using iTunes U, with the program content having seen over 700 million downloads to date. “The all-new iTunes U app lets teachers create and manage courses including essential components such as lectures, assignments, books, quizzes and syllabuses and offer them to millions of iOS users around the world“. » Apple Launches iTunes U, Retools The Learning Experience

This is just a quick note to let you know that Apple posted the full Education Media Event video on Apples website. Watch the full stream here or get it on iTunes.

John from allthingsd posted something interesting about the upcoming Apple Event. According to his sources “the demonstration — currently scheduled for Tuesday October 4 — will be held at Apples campus in Cupertino, California. Why? Thats not entirely clear. Perhaps the release date was too much of a moving target to risk booking a large space like Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), which has hosted a number of big product unveils in the past.” » October iPhone Media Event to Be Held At Apples Headquarters

Yesterday Amazon announced an invitation-only special event to be held in New York city on September 28, a Wednesday. No details beyond that, but it is most likely that they will announce the low-cost Amazon tablet. It is a 7-inch tablet which will cost around $250 running Android. I doubt this will be real iPad compitition, but who knows… maybe they come with a big surprice. » Amazon Media Event Set For September 28th, Tablet Announcement Expected

The Japanese website kodawarisan, posted the date of the 2011 Media Event from Apple on their website. According to their source the Media Event will take place on September 7th Western Time, which is September 8th in Japan. Last 3 Media Event also took place in September, so it sounds logical that it will be the same for this year. They also are known as a trusted website and in 2009, they did correctly pinpoint the launch date the launch of a new Mac mini. » Apple Will Have Media Event On September 7th, 2011?

Apple is holding a media event on October 20^th, which they call “Back To The Mac”. Looking at the logo above “with the lion behind the Apple” they probably going to talk about OS X. If we take a look at the title of the event it looks like they maybe will show us a new Mac? Maybe the new MacBook Air? Well we will all find out on October 20^th.

What!?!… You missed the keynote? Don’t worry, apple already published a video stream of 87 minutes on the Apple website for everybody who missed the live stream. In the keynote Steve talked about iTunes 10 and its new feature called Ping, three new iPods including the iPod Touch, the iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle, he also talked about the new Apple TV and released some statistics/numbers. If you don’t have the time or don’t want to watch it right now you can also download the iPod Media Event in the iTunes Store for free, which has a file size of 726MB.