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Wireless Booting of MacBook Airs
So cool. The MacBook Air is the first Mac to support wireless network booting (aka netboot). The feature works in tandem with the Remote Disc feature (another so cool item) that has to be installed on the Mac or PC that has the bootable optical disc such as the Leopard DVD. How it works: Insert your Leopard DVD in the optical drive of a Mac or PC, open the MacBook Air and it will wirelessly look for the boot disk, finds it and boots the MacBook Air just as though you booted from the same Leopard disk in a standalone Mac or PC with an optical drive.

At present other Macs do not have this capability but Apple intends on pushing an EFI update to your own Mac that will add this function to Intel-based systems.

Leopard Update v105.2 - Should Be Big
Those who have received the new Leopard update for testing are reporting the next Mac OS X update will be the largest update Apple has ever released. At MacWorld a new build was handed out to developers (Oc16) that added support for Remote Disks (for MacBook Air, see above) and using networked volumes as Time Machine devices and addresses issues with AirPort, firewalls, Dashboard widgets Finder, the Dock, iCal, iChat, Mail and Safari. In total over 100 items are tweaked and the size of the update is expected to hover around 400 megs. No date for release so far.

NBC Wants Back In With Apple iTunes
NBC has had second thoughts about pulling out of iTunes and is now negotiating with Apple for a return to iTunes.

AT&T Offers Business Plans for iPhone
As reported here recently, AT&T has launched business plans for the iPhone today. $45/mo gives you 200SMS, Unlimited Data, Visual Voicemail. More plans from $55 and $65 as well as Data Global Add-Ons. Tell your boss you want an iPhone today! If you already have an iPhone then tell your boss you want to use it as your business phone and have the company kick in part of the monthly fee.