Don’t think you’re paying nearly enough to enjoy the glorious pleasures of airline travel these days? Well, many U.S. airlines are offering you the opportunity to pay even more — if you want to connect to the web in-flight.

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Tags: airline, airplane, GoGo, inflight, Row 44, service, Wi-Fi, WiFi

Anybody out there who travels for work or pleasure should check out the Government Accountability Office’s latest report on those pesky airline fees we’re all being charged these days — it could help save travel money.

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Tags: airlines, fees, GAO, Government Accountability Office, table

Your company’s road warriors now have a simple, cheap solution to taking credit card payments in the field using just their mobile phone or PDA. The catch: The service is being offered by AT&T.

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Tags: Apriva, AprivaPay, AprivaPay Professional, AT&T, credit card, mobile phone, payment

It’s a safe bet that few states want their broadband users to win in this category, but the place in the United States with the most porn subscribers per web user is (drum roll please):

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Tags: adult dating, popularity, porn, sex, Utah, Websites

Well, it’s finally here — Apple’s iPad hit stores on Saturday and now that consumers have their hands on the much ballyhooed tablet computer, it’s time to see if they’ll use it for the reason they said they would: work.

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Tags: Apple, consumers, iPad, sales, stock price, use

While e-mail and online document exchange have undoubtedly hurt the U.S. Postal Service, the agency’s recent proposal to eliminate Saturday deliveries and raise rates has the potential to inflict a significant blow to a giant online business:

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Tags: movie rentals, Netflix, Post Office, rates, Saturday

Apple and AT&T delivered some big news in a very small voice this week — news that was somewhat overshadowed by all the hoopla over the iPad. The announcement: The partners will allow VOIP on Apple products that use 3G.

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Tags: 3G, allow, Apple, apps, AT&T, iPad, iphone, software developement kit, VOIP

How many morons drive an 18-wheeler down a busy highway and tap out a text message at the same time?  The answer: enough to prompt a federal ban on the practice.

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Tags: ban, driving, Federal, Ray LaHood, texting, U.S. Transportation Secretary

While he’s lost his lucrative jobs with AT&T and Accenture, Tiger Woods is hanging on to at least one endorsement deal:

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Tags: Accenture, AT&T, Brit Hume, Electronic Arts, game, golf, online, Tiger Woods, video

An executive order that bans texting while driving for federal workers was signed in October by President Obama and took effect today.

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Tags: ban, driving, executive order, obama, texting