Ok, that headline was completely unfair because this post is about WiFi access on Virgin America flights that is being provided by Google. Got your attention though didn’t it? For a moment maybe you thought that Google had really taken this ‘providing service to everyone and type of person on the planet’ to a disturbing level. Maybe you just think I’m an idiot for using the headline. Honestly, it doesn’t matter much in the end does it?

Now for the news. On Google’s blog they have announced how they are providing this service on every Virgin America flight for the holiday season.

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Google is determined to make sure it doesn’t miss out on the “Year of the Mobile.” Like the rest of us, the search engine doesn’t know when that year will actually start, but if it has anything to do with it, 2009 might just be the top candidate.

As of today, publishers can now drop smart phone optimized AdSense ads inside their mobile content.

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Back in February, Google premiered Google Sync, which coordinated participating phones (all those with the SyncML standar) with Google Calendar, Contacts and Gmail.

However, in the first iteration of the product, the Gmail sync left a little to be desired. Rather than popping up with new messages, you had to manually check your email from your mobile. (The horror! The horror!) But that stone age interface has finally passed—Google has unveiled push Gmail for Google Sync now.

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I’m borrowing a colleague’s tiny little Verizon wireless cell modem gizmo, the MiFi 2200, and I’m totally impressed with it, except for one huge thing: what the heck do the lights mean?

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Augmented Reality is a technology that has been around that you only see in the movies.  The applications is about layering onto a live view from a camera.  In other words where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time. In this case a camera phone, similar to what you see on a HUD (heads up display).

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The Orchard has entered into a marketing and licensing partnership with Chinese mobile infrastructure and services provider, ZTEMT.  Utilizing The Orchard’s top one hundred thousand songs, ZTEMT will program an English language genre section of China Telecom’s newly updated iMusic.  According to The Orchard, this deal makes them the first international digital music distributor to introduce such a large selection of western music to China’s 388 million net and mobile users.

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I’m sick of tapping into wifi signals where I can find them and being stuck without any Internet access when there isn’t one, or when it’s password protected. So I sprung for a Verizon Mifi2200 device that they tell me will met me connect from my MacBook Pro to the Internet anywhere, any time. But how do I get it all set up on my Mac?

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According to Bango, over 20% of people visiting web sites to purchase content using their mobile phones are now connecting via WiFi. This presents a major challenge to both content providers and operators as these mobile visitors are unrecognized by the networks, making it difficult to sell and market mobile services to them and significantly impacting mobile content revenues. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, mobile phones have become inevitable in one’s life. We’ve seen it grow from a mere luxury to now a necessity. The transformation in the lifestyle of we, the people is a major reason for this change. What started with a several bucks for incoming call has moved on to a plethora of plans which have free outgoing calls today.

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The two primary Twitter applications for the desktop – TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop – released new versions in the past 24 hours.

Both are the latest salvoes in a battle where one winner could gain supremacy as the app on the desktop for keeping in touch with what’s happening on Twitter (and, if you wish, Facebook as well).

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