Alaska Airlines is the latest carrier to launch in-flight Wi-Fi, offering passengers on a specially equipped Boeing 737 a service that uses satellites instead of cellular towers to connect the plane to the Internet.

Buried in U.S. President Barack Obama’s budget blueprint for 2009 is a new-but-undefined spectrum license user fee that would increase from US$50 million in 2009 to $550 million four years later.

Research In Motion on Friday confirmed that NTT DoCoMo has halted sales of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone in Japan due to overheating, but said that the battery wasn’t the source of the problem.

Attorneys are trying to get the class-action status of a suit against Microsoft’s Windows Capable program reinstated by narrowing the number of plaintiffs who can participate in it.

Europe’s largest IT fair, Cebit, will see its lowest number of exhibitors in a decade as companies slash marketing expenditures due to the global recession.