The first free U.S. inflight email and instant messaging service will launch next Tuesday aboard a JetBlue flight leaving Kennedy Airport in New York. JetBlue Airways is working with Yahoo and Research In Motion on the "BetaBlue" flight that will also carry passengers to San Francisco, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A JetBlue spokeswoman would only say that the carrier will release information on the "innovative onboard product" on Tuesday. Spokesmen for Yahoo and RIM could not be reached immediately for comment.

IBM is asking the U.S. government to ban imports of some computers made by Taiwan’s Asustek Computer, alleging that the products infringe three IBM patents. IBM said on Thursday that it filed a complaint against Asustek and its North American subsidiary, Asus Computer International, with the U.S. International Trade Commission.

It said the patent infringement occurs in Asustek’s own-brand computers as well as in products the Taiwan contract manufacturer makes for other brands. IBM did not name the other brands. Asustek’s customers include large computer companies such as Apple and Dell.

IBM is introducing support for Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell scripting language in its WebSphere MQ technology. PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language designed to improve IT professionals’ productivity. It features an administration-focused scripting language, more than 130 standard command-line tools, as well as syntax and utilities to help users more easily control system administration and accelerate automation.

For those of you who can’t get enough of our own David Gewirtz on the air, you’re in luck with a morning broadcast on the Boston-area airwaves of WBNW 1120 am and Southern coastal Massachusetts down through Cape Cod on WPLM 1390 am. David will be joining Lou Michaels on the Daily Bear Show at about 11:15 am this morning (Monday).

For those of you outside the Boston area with a hankering for David and the Daily Bear (and discussions ranging from email safety to national security), you can tune in online. Just tap on the Listen Live button. It looks like they stream Windows Media, so you Mac readers might be out of luck.

This has been a very exciting week for us here at ZATZ. After many long months of work, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz’ book Where Have All The Emails Gone? is now available.

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Linux kernel developer Ted Ts’o will be joining the Linux Foundation for two years as a fellow and chief platform strategist. There, Ts’o plans on extending the LSB (Linux Standard Base) to create programs that will work on multiple Linux distributions. This way, ISVs can support different distributions, such as Red Hat and Ubuntu, at the same time.

The past several years have brought with them a number of disasters. Sadly, we don’t think of it until it happens to us and it’s too late–where am I storing my important life documents and are they safe?

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Your Online Safe Deposit Box is accessible from anywhere in the world, and if you want, share your password with your loved ones and perhaps your lawyer to make things simpler in your absence. The encrypted safe deposit boxes have military-grade security, so they are safe and secure–far more secure than storing highly sensitive material on your home computer or laptop.

This year’s Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas was action-packed: Gartner revealed its data center trends forecast, IBM’s OpenSolaris Unix mainframe capabilities were demoed, Windows Server 2008 was discussed and more. SearchDataCenter.com was there to cover the latest news and data center trends, all of which have been included in this report on Gartnter’s Data Center Conference 2007.

IBM announced that it will acquire 10-year-old Arsenal Digital Solutions USA, a privately held online storage services and data protection company, matching moves by EMC and other storage players to add online storage services.

Based in Cary, N.C., Arsenal Digital and all 100 employees will become part of IBM Global Technology Services, based in nearby Raleigh, N.C. IBM Global Technology services, at $32 billion in annual revenue, is IBM’s largest business unit. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

When Chris Boyd, senior director of malware research at FaceTime Security Labs, stumbled upon a collection of stolen credit cards in a Warez forum, he saw something he didn’t expect–a photo. But not only that, the poster also listed his or her supposed location underneath his or her forum avatar.

It was a first for Boyd, who said there were about 150 separate pieces of data in the collection. The poster’s location was given as Greece, though most of the credit card information seemed to come from the United States. U.S. law enforcement agencies have been contacted, Boyd said.