Happy St. Patrick's Day (one day early)! Today's Apple World Today News Update Podcast includes a pot of gold with leprechauns dancing around it, as well as some important and informative news bits:

• Apple World Today has launched the new Team AWT Community Forum, an online discussion group for Team AWT members
• Are you a developer in Paris? If so, look in your email inbox for an invitation to an Apple event next Friday
• That Steve Jobs job application from 1973? It sold at auction for $174,000
• Apple's R&D expenditures this year are going to be HUGE