Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal's guru of tech, is a giant among gadget columnists. He's also one of the chosen few who receives review units of Apple products ahead of their launch. So when he says something about an Apple product, we tend to listen. Which is why, when Walt let slip at at an executive summit held by Beet.tv that we would be seeing a 3G iPhone "in 60 days," it made headlines. That would place the announcement squarely within WWDC Stevenote territory and also would seem to back up AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega's comments at CTIA [1]. Too bad, then, that Mossy quickly redacted his statement, telling the Silicon Alley Insider, "If I knew when this date was, why would I announce it in the middle of a sentence at the Finnish embassy, rather than report it in the Wall Street Journal?" Did Apple put pressure on Mossberg to take back his comment? Or does he really not know? Regardless of which is true, a June iPhone announcement still seems like a no-brainer.

For more on Mossy's slip-of-the-tongue:
- see this article [2] in the Silicon Alley Insider