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Some lucky travellers flying on select Alaska Airlines flights will have a little added convenience in WiFi web capabilities, even while the plane is in motion! Alaska Air is undergoing a sixty day trial where they will provide free WiFi to their west coast customers between the cities of Seattle and San Jose. After which, they will presumably decide whether or not to further implement the service. While pricing is not yet known, I think its safe to assume that there will be an added charge for WiFi using customers if the service is to go widespread on Alaska flights.

Personally, I believe that in flight WiFi (especially on long flights), would surely help to alleviate the boredom of air travel, and I would certainly lean to an airline that provides such. Heck, I might even be willing to pay a premium - especially during lengthy overseas travel.

With the vast number of mobile phone stores, both offline and online, how can you be certain which store is best for your mobile needs? A first-rate online store that I highly recommend is Mobiles.co.uk. This website was the original online mobile phone retailer in the United Kingdom, established back in 1995. The store is now considered UK’s leading web-only retailer, which allows it to keep its costs low and offer a large quantity of products. The company was acquired by Carphone Warehouse in 2007, a move that has provided it with an enhanced purchasing power, unmatched inventory levels and exclusive phone devices.

Mobiles.co.uk provides a broad array of product choices, networks and tariffs. The phones are searchable on the site using either the ‘Phone Finder’ feature or the search field to locate such handsets as the LG Cookie and many others. Alternatively, shoppers can select from various categories, as ‘Phone by Type’ to find the trendy Touchscreen Phones, as well as additional categories, including: ’Best Offers’, ‘Top Selling Phones’, Pay As You Go’, and others.

Interestingly, there is a current promotion offering a free gift with the purchase of certain phones and subscription plans. The gifts include high quality electronics, for example: laptops, iPods, Microsoft Xbox 360s and others. Notably, only Mobiles.co.uk delivers the free gift in the same package as the new mobile handset, without delay.

Besides providing great product value, Mobiles.co.uk offers fast delivery, with the majority of orders placed before 5pm on weekdays being delivered the very next day before 1pm. The great products offered on the site are matched with great customer service and satisfaction as shown on the ‘Customer Feedback’ page. You can also read the website’s blog to learn more about mobile news, applications, recommendations and much more. It is also great to see that Mobiles.co.uk is supporting various charities, including a recycling project for old handsets through Oxfam. Overall, this is a great website that has everything necessary for buying a mobile phone.

According to an interview conducted by a Finnish News Channel, with Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia, who is arguably the famous and most prominent cellphone manufacturer world wide, is considering a foray into the laptop market. This is a move that many have rumored would happen for some time now — in fact, suggestions of this occurring can be found from dates as early as late 2008, but never had it been confirmed by a Nokia spokesperson.

It seems that every PC maker wants to get into the cellphone business, so it comes as little surprise to see a big name phone maker aiming to cross business lines as well. Especially as the lines between computers and phones are become closer and closer. In fact, the third largest PC manufacturer, Acer, released its first line of cellphones just last week.

It will be very interesting to see what a Nokia PC would be capable of, and whether they will aim to produce a high end, or mid grade PC models.

Google recently stated that it would utilize its software knowledge to help consumers track their home energy utilization and by doing so lower demand and the global warming emissions that result from electricity production. The move is part of Google’s attempts to infuse hundreds of millions of dollars into renewable energy, electricity-grid upgrades and other steps that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Google has already invested in various newcomer solar, wind and geothermal companies, as well as two “smart grid” companies. Smart grid describes a more efficient and less expensive process of moving electricity along long-distance transmission lines to local power lines and consumers in homes and businesses.

On its blog, Google stated it is developing a smart grid application named Google PowerMeter, which will display home energy use virtually in real time on a user’s computer. The company referenced studies showing that access to home energy data typically saves between five to fifteen percent on monthly electricity bills. The application currently is not available to the public. The company desires to develop partnerships with utility companies so it can offer PowerMeter to consumers in the coming months. Google’s investments in smart grid companies include Germantown, Maryland-based Current Group and Redwood City, California-based Silver Spring Networks.

Online gaming enthusiasts have been provided with the opportunity to become the “Hero of the Hudson”, although some have called the video game as offensive. US Airways pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s heroic water landing into the Hudson River was able to save all of the passengers and crew and was heralded as “the miracle on the Hudson”.

Now a team of developers has created an online video game that allows users to attempt their own version of the landing. The game is situated on the approach to the Hudso Rivern, beside Manhattan’s West Side in New York, where the plane landed in icy cold waters. Players have to keep the plane leveled at the correct altitude and bring it to a stable landing on the water. Failing could indicate placing the lives of virtual passengers at risk, as the jet crashes and sinks into the river with an ominous bubbling sound.

The down economy is creating opportunities for cyber-crooks. Security experts and law-enforcement officials who track Internet crime say scams have increased in the past 6 months, as crooks take advantage of economic fear and anxiety to focus on both consumers and businesses. Thieves are emailing phony messages and putting up fake websites appearing to be banks, mortgage-service providers or even government institutions such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Mobile phones and Internet-based phone services have also been used to locate unsuspecting victims. The whole purpose is to obtain money or steal personal information for.

Cyber-attacks on many banks have doubled in the past 6 months throughout the world, including the U.K., Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Though most are stopped by computer-security protection,, such as spam filters and fraud-detection systems, there are still millions of unsuspecting victims.

A congressman wants to make the clicking sound that is made from cell phone cameras, compulsory, and he’s introduced a bill to make certain every mobile phone camera is audible.Representative Peter King, R-N.Y., put forward the “Camera Phone Predator Alert Act.” The reason is that Congress finds that children and adolescents have been exploited by photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a camera phone. King’s brief bill makes no reference to the far more common phenomenon of “upskirt” photos of women wearing skirts.

Numerous states and municipalities have passed laws against taking upskirt pictures, but many of them have been struck down by courts on the reasoning that people shouldn’t expect privacy protections for things they do in public. However, laws regarding pictures taken in changing rooms have been maintained since a right to privacy is expected in such places. It’s not clear how King’s bill would change the legal requirements regarding public privacy, but it’s not the first time legislators have demanded the carry-over of an old mechanical sound onto a new electronic device. The Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2008, brought forward by Representative Edolphus  Towns, D-N.Y., mandated that electric and hybrid gasoline-electric cars would create an artificial engine noise so that blind and other visually impaired people could hear them. King’s bill has no co-sponsors and little chance of passing. Towns’ bill, which had 80 co-sponsors, got stuck in committee in the previous Congress and would have to be re-introduced in the new session.

Japanese scientists in Tokyo recently unveiled a robotic mall cop, a 2-foot-high security guard on wheels that can monitor criminals running unrestrained on commercial property and even disable them with a ‘Spider-Man’ like web. The robot is named the T-34, perhaps after the legendary Soviet tank of World War II. The blue machine on wheels weighs approximately twenty five pounds and has a top speed of about six mph.

The robot is essentially designed for business use, not for the home, and the target for purchasing these units are security firms that wish to save on human guards. However, the home version of these robots is also being developed. The T-34 contains internal cameras, heat sensors and microphones, and can be maneuvered by a remote controller using a mobile phone.

NASA wishes now for the public to decide where in the universe it will next point its powerful Hubble Space Telescope. The space agency is wishing for Internet users to go to the Hubble website and vote for 1 of a 6 astronomical objects for the celebrated telescope to examine for the first time. The options include 4 distant galaxies (two of which are colliding), 2 planetary nebulas and 1 star-forming dust cloud.

Voting will end March 1. After voting is examined, Hubble’s powerful camera will snap a high-resolution image revealing new details about the object that gets the most votes. The picture will be released in early April during the International Year of Astronomy’s “100 Hours of Astronomy.” Each voter will be entered into a random draw to receive one of 100 copies of the Hubble photograph made of the winning celestial body. Voting can be made here.

Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion have big plans for the BlackBerry Storm, which they took about 2 years developing their answer to Apple iPhone. But although having a marketing campaign that cost more than $100 million, the smart phone has had a start. Several early buyers have sounded off about technical bugs with RIM’s first touch screen BlackBerry, although others admit that most new gadgets have problems that need to be made right.

People acquainted with the issue say Verizon Wireless, the main U.S. carrier for the device, sold about 500,000 units in the first month after the Storm’s November 21 launch. That is a good start, though well off the pace of AT&T Inc.’s sale of 2.4 million iPhone 3G devices in that phone’s first full quarter on the market.The Storm owners complaints have ranged from everything relating to clunky software for typing on the touch screen to the device’s slower performance with basic tasks like dialing-by-voice or taking pictures.