More Rumors: A Stock Split and A SlingBox Client for iPhone

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 11

It must be time for MacWorld because the rumors are at a fever pitch. TheFlyOnTheWall mentioned some “chatter” about a 2-for-1 stock split. I’m inclined to dismiss it because I think the bias at Apple at the moment is against splitting for the time being. I could however be wrong. It just seems to me that if a split was in the wind it would have happened already.

The second seems not only plausible, but likely. A site called Electricpig.TV is gossiping about a conversation someone claims to have had with an “extremely senior source” at Sling Media” now a unit of Echostar. The word is that a SlingBox client for the iPhone and iPod touch is on the way. In both cases it makes sense, there’s a Sling client for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry. But here’s the bit that gets my attention even more than that: Sling is said to have been an early recipient of the iPhone Software Development Kit. We reported exclusively in October that an iPhone SDK was coming, a day before Steve Jobs confirmed it himself and pegged the date as February of 2008. If it’s true that Sling has an early seed of the iPhone SDK, that means there’s more companies out there who have one. I wonder who they are.

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