So what is Apple going to announce? MacBook Pros with gesture keypad and Penryn, iPhone SDK? Will Steve Jobs blow our minds like he hasn’t done for some time?

9to5Mac has received rumors that Apple will release round 2 of the MacWorld 2008 Announcements a month after MacWorld, give or take.

Whoops! Those brave souls who have been holding their breath for the iPhone development Community’s 1.1.3 jailbreak may be in for some sobering realization. Ever heard of iPhone SDK (software development kit)? If you still haven’t jailbroken or bricked your iPhones and iPod Touches, know that iPhone Dev team’s jailbreak for firmware 1.1.3 disables Nikita in the OS, which is crucial in supporting future third-party applications. In the words of iPhone developer Jonathan Zdziarski:

“It looks like Nate’s [Nate True, one of the 1.1.3 jailbreak developers] update causes Nikita to break (Nikita is the  component on the iPhone/iTouch responsible for installing signed  software, such as the iPod App Pack and likely SDK apps in the  future),” adding “We believe this is because the soft-update method that was  released doesn’t update the kernel cache, so users are likely still  booting into the 111 or 112 kernel, which is lacking the necessary DRM  components to verify/decrypt packages with Nikita.” Read more.

On a more positive note, Deutsche Telekom is selling 40 iPhones at hour in Germany, totaling 70,000 units for 11 weeks.  Source.