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Sprint Nextel Corp announced that Palm’s much anticipate Pre smartphone will launch on its 3G network Saturday June 6th for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate.

Palm states that the Pre will be able to run multiple apps at the same time, which is something the iPhone can’t do.

Some of the Pre’s features include:

• 3.1 Inch touchscreen supplemented
• Physical slide-out keyboard
• 8GB Internal storage
• GPS
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• 3-Megapixel camera

It will be the debut of Palm’s new webOS platform based on standard open web technologies such as CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript.

Reuters is reporting that McAfee and Symantec are working on software for the iPhone.

McAfee is developing security software for the iPhone and Mac computer, DeWalt said, in addition to technology it supplies to protect Apple computers against viruses. 

Symantec, the No. 1 software security maker, is looking at developing a backup service that would protect data on the iPhone and allow users to use the device to access information stored on their PCs or on the Web, said Symantec Senior Vice President Rowan Trollope.

I just wonder how long until we start hearing about anti-virus software for the iPhone.

 

Stanford University announced on Monday said its Free iPhone Application Programming course has been downloaded more than  1 million times since it was uploaded to iTunes U. 

Free videos of Stanford’s wildly popular course on creating applications for the iPhone and iPod touch have now been downloaded a remarkable million times from Stanford’s site on iTunes U in the iTunes Store.

“This is the fastest any course on iTunes U has reached one million downloads,” said Jason Ediger, Apple’s director of iTunes U and Mobile Learning. “iTunes U has proven to be a very effective and popular way to share this course with anyone interested in creating iPhone apps.”

And all of the million downloads have come in just seven weeks, since the course began on April 1. 

Reaching 1 million downloads only took 7 weeks, and that is the fastest that any iTunes U course has reach that milestone. 

The course has Apple engineers teaching the course, CS193P, to Stanford students in a small auditorium in Stanford’s Quad. The rest of the world, me included, downloaded the course from iTunes. You can also download PDF of the stills they show durning the lecture. You can also download the source code, syllabus, and course overview from the CS193P course website.

If YouTube doesn’t have enough content for you and your iPhone try Blip.tv. Blip.tv is a new website that offers video for us iPhone users in the world. You can post your videos on Blip.tv and broadcast them to the world. They support a wide range of wide range of video formats. Some of the format are Flash 8, DivX and 3gp. But not all shows work on the iPhone, but it a break from the norm if you are tired of watching YouTube videos. It even has some of my favorite episodes of Project Lore, Diggnation, and Epic FU.

Apple has issued a press release announcing that the keynote address for its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference will be held on June 8th at 10 AM Pacific Time. The keynote will be given by Phil Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. Now that WWDC is almost here it is time for a round up of rumors. Rumors are coming quicker each day. So here are a few that are out there.

1. Multiple Colors for the iPhones. I like this one, I really like the mat black iPhone.

2. 32GB iPhone. Best Buy’s inventory system has 3 listings for model Charlie. Could it be for 8GB, 16GB and 32GB iPhones?
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