Apple has just sold it's 500,000,000th song through the iTunes Music Store. If you had bought the 500,000,000th song, you would have won some very nice gifts. But you didn't. So you probably don't care about this too much.

You can however take solace in the fact that this shows that Apple's iTunes Music Store and the iPod are here to stay, and you can just ignore all the claims about the latest "iPod killer" to come off the line.