The friendly skies are about to get a little bit friendlier for BlackBerry and messaging fanatics, according to Top Tech News. JetBlue, a discount airline, announced that next week it will test free limited Internet service on a single round-trip flight from New York to San Francisco

Blackfilm is reporting that singer Beyonce Knowles has been cast in the role of acclaimed R&B singer Etta James, for the upcoming music bio film, CADILLAC RECORDS. The story follows the rise and fall of Chess Records, the 1950’s rhythm & blues label which fostered the careers of R&B legends such as Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry.

Alltel’s emphasizing the cool, fashion-friendly, stylish side of the three phones it’s officially announcing today. First up, the LG Scoop is a dead ringer for the Rumor found on Sprint, featuring a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard for the text maniacs among us; it’ll be available in black, blue, and orange.

...Customers traveling on this aircraft can use their Wi-Fi® enabled smartphones, BlackBerries and laptops* to virtually connect to home and work via Yahoo!® Mail, Yahoo! ® Messenger and BlackBerry email and BlackBerry® Messenger services**. Additional features can be expected in the near future on BetaBlue.

Special thanks to my editors for posting this. I've filed it in-flight via e-mail.I'm typing this somewhere over Louisville, Ky. (or so the "live map" on my seat monitor tells me), on board JetBlue flight 641, a "BetaBlue" New York-to-San Francisco plane equipped with Yahoo and BlackBerry