Wednesday, July 9, 2003

iChat AV poses threat to phone companies. Alex Salkever posits With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? in his latest Byte of the Apple column for BusinessWeek Online. Salkever doesn't think that iChat AV will replace the phone specifically, but talks in broad strokes about voice and video teleconferencing over the Internet in general. [MacCentral] 2:58:32 PM

.Mac users get Bookmarks service, new Backup, more. Apple's .Mac subscription service has introduced .Mac Bookmarks, which lets you take your Safari bookmarks with you when you travel. Apple has also updated its Backup application that can be used with a .Mac account. To use .Mac Bookmarks, you'll need Safari 1.0 and the iSync utility (version 1.1). With the combination, you can keep your bookmarks in sync so they stay up to date while you're on the road. .Mac Bookmarks provides a surfer window via which your bookmarks open on any Internet-connected computer. You can use it on your home or work Mac, but according to Apple, you can also use it at such places as an Internet cafe. Change your bookmarks, and they'll be synchronized across multiple Macs and on the Web. [MacCentral] 2:57:51 PM

Riding High on Antigravity Craft. The fantastic floating device called a lifter has no moving parts, no onboard fuel and no shortage of wide-eyed admirers. Even inside NASA. By Clive Thompson from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 2:57:01 PM

New Memory That Doesn't Forget. The next generation of RAM, due next year, will be magnetoresistive, which in plain terms means data will stay put even with the power off. For users, that means slow starts could be history. By Elliot Borin. [Wired News] 2:56:44 PM

G5 is Scientific Computing editor's choice [The Macintosh News Network] 2:56:16 PM

Macworld Feature: Put Weblogs to Work [MacCentral] 2:56:00 PM

The African press on Bush's visit. From Kenya: "Bush's singular achievement has been to make America resented in Africa." [Salon.com] 1:09:42 AM