Singapore Airlines on Friday announced a deal with a subsidiary of Boeing that will give the airline’s passengers broadband connectivity starting next year. The in-flight Internet service will initially be introduced for flights in the Singapore-London corridor, starting sometime in the first quarter, the airline said. The service will be extended to other flights later.

BASE, Belgium’s third mobile operator, and Research In Motion (RIM) announced the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution is available to BASE’s corporate customers in Belgium. BlackBerry is a wireless communications solution designed to help customers enhance their productivity and efficiency by being able to manage email, information and communications whenever and wherever they want. BlackBerry operates in Belgium on BASE’s GSM/GPRS network.

Researchers have developed an environmentally friendly cell phone cover that’s tossed into compost piles rather than trash bins. The casings will ease strain on landfills now bulging from more than 100 million handsets discarded each year.

Crazysoft, makers of Crazy Athletics, is now offering their full line of software for rent. You receive full access to the game, just like the full version and can play 50 new games on the rental. After five rentals of the same title, it will become the full version.

palmOne announced their VersaMail 2.7 wireless email software is now available for Treo 600 smartphones. The availability of VersaMail 2.7 on the Treo 600 provides users with access to IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), an industry-standard protocol for accessing email from a server.

Research In Motion and CSL introduced the BlackBerry 7290 Wireless Handheld and BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.0 for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino in Hong Kong. BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.0 will enable the delivery of Chinese character sets for text based applications such as email, text messages and PIM (Personal Information Management) to corporate customers for the first time.

StarHub and Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to bring the BlackBerry wireless solution to Indonesia for the first time. With integrated hardware, software and service, BlackBerry provides push-based, always-on, wireless access to a range of applications including email, phone, corporate data, Internet, text messaging and PIM.

Kinoma introduced Kinoma Player 3 EX with support for industry standard file formats and advanced compression technologies. Palm Powered smartphones and mobile device users can use Kinoma Player 3 EX to enjoy high quality video, CD quality audio and high-resolution photographs, all from a single memory card. Kinoma Player 3 EX features MPEG-4 video compression, the same high quality video technology found in the latest digital video camera from Sanyo/Fisher and select mobile phones. MPEG-4 video compression allows more than seven hours of high quality video to be stored on a single memory card.

St. Augustine Airport, AERO SPORT, INC. the airport’s fixed base operator, announced that it has installed state-of-the-art networking equipment to provide wireless connectivity to pilots, flight crews and passengers for their personal and commercial use. During the next few months, the St. Augustine/St. Johns County Airport is going to experience an influx of clientele due to the upcoming Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville and a reliable, high-performance wireless network will be a necessity.

Tapwave, the US manufacturer of the world’s first Palm Powered multimedia handheld, has confirmed details of its agreement with Eidos to bring the most famous video game icon Lara Croft to the Zodiac platform. Tomb Raider Zodiac (working title) is due to be published by Tapwave in spring of 2005.