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Apple has reportedly begun shipping iPhone 3GS units with a new bootrom, which might help combat hacks enabling installation of unauthorized software. However, iPhone hackers say Apple's new firmware only causes a temporary inconvenience for jailbroken devices, and the handset is still hackable.

Okay, at first the idea of using your iPhone while biking makes about as much sense as gabbing away on your phone while behind an auto's steering wheel.

Marc Fleury (of JBoss fame) and Mark Spencer (of Digium fame) have a significant side project: turning us all into couch potatoes, but doing it with open source.

The iPhone has some wonderful strengths as a gaming machine, along with some very serious flaws. The lack of a physical controller means that developers are forced to use tilt and touch controls for their games, which has lead to some interesting control solutions. That means it can be tough to create a straightforward port of existing titles. Konami is forgoing the usual clone titles and tower defense games for its first jump onto Apple's "gaming platform," bringing both Dance Dance Revolution and Silent Hill titles to the iPhone. This is a much riskier strategy than creating more casual-friendly puzzle or word games;

What's this? An iPhone running on the Linux operating system? It was only a matter of time.