Flip iPhone: Unwired View discovered a recent Apple patent filing for an iPhone clamshell phone. The application describes a "dual sided trackpad." The cover would be usable as a trackpad with the iPhone open or closed. If this is iPhone 2.0, expect Star Trek Tricorder skins of the OS almost immediately.
Airport Express, now with 100% more n: Apple has updated its Aport Express base station to harness the power of 802.11n. Stream those iTunes faster and from further away.
Windows Mobile to get Flash: Microsoft has signed an agreement to include Flash on its Windows Mobile platform.
BBC iPlayer fixed, then hacked: A developer in the UK has already hacked the BBC iPlayer software to work on Macs and Linux machines. The game is now afoot.
iPhone game news: Gameloft is promising 15 iPhone games in 2008. We're guessing that means they didn't receive a developer rejection letter from Apple.
SDK for suckers: Developer Zac Bowling has some issues with the iPhone SDK. He calls the developer program's restrictions a joke. He might have gotten one of those rejection letters.
Taxing iTunes: The California budget crisis has Assemblyman Charles Calderon, (D-Whittier) pushing legislation to tax iTunes downloads.
Links:
[1] http://www.unwiredview.com/2008/03/17/iphone-20-iphone-30-or-iphone-nano-a-clamshellflip-phone/
[2] http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
[3] http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/17/apple-and-microsofts-flash-dance/?source=yahoo_quote
[4] http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/16069/bbc_iplayer_fixed_hacked_again
[5] http://www.slashphone.com/64/9498.html
[6] http://www.maclife.com/article/iphone_sdk_elite
[7] http://zbowling.com/blog/2008/03/14/iphone-developer-program-is-a-joke/
[8] http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1999326.php
[9] http://www.maclife.com/article/flash_not_iphone_friendly_a_brief_history_of_jobs_and_women_snubbed_by_genius
[10] http://www.maclife.com/article/adobe_miffed_at_iphone_lack_of_flash_apple_cuts_flash_chip_orders_and_happy_ninth_birthday_mac_life_forums