Blackboard, who created the software to help students and professors keep in touch with coursework and assignments, designed a mobile app for the same purpose which debuted yesterday.

A Blackboard developer states, ”The iPhone App lets a student see what’s new since they last synced.”

“It’s an efficiency tool designed to help students manage their time.”

Blackboard hopes to expand the application in the future once they can see how many iPhone users will be downloading the new app.

The App store will hit around 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iTouch Thursday, but the trend is slowing due to delays in approval of applications by Apple as well as complaints from developers.

According to Apple 2.0, developers are receiving delayed payments from Apple as well as delays in the apps themselves, which adds to the gradual slowing of new apps to the iTunes store.

I guess we’ll just have to wait on yet another emoticon app.

Now with just the tap of a touch screen, iPhone and iTouch users can access and search 200 travel sites for flight rates and availability. 

The app is now up for grabs at the iTunes store and is absolutely free.

For $6 you can download the new Grateful Dead Photomosaic App for your iPhone or iTouch and experience the 450 photographs Blakesberg took of the infmous band.

Users can tap on the images and zoom in while also reading the photographer’s notes on when the picture was taken and where.

The Indiana health network has launched a new app for the Apple iPhone and iTouch that will allow patients to manage their prescribed medications as well as their medical information.

The myCommunity Pillbox app is being unveiled this week in Carlsbad, California at the 2nd Annual Leadership Summit on Consumer Connectivity.  myCommunity Pillbox is a free download from the iTunes app store.