eWEEK Newsbreak Nov 11th 2010

Google has paired up with 3 airlines: Delta, Virgin Atlantic and Air Tran to offer free in-flight Wi-Fi during the holidays. The deal will last from Nov.20th- Jan 2nd! Now—for those of you flying those airlines and wishing to connect-- simply search for the Gogo Inflight network and connect your device. We’re all spending more and more time online these days—and now today there's a new web browser that will allow you to spend all of that time in just one spot. Its called RockMelt. Rock Melt will live in the cloud like Google, allowing anytime anywhere access---and it’s a first of its kind browser where users will have to log-in. The new browser is in beta version, but they are allowing users to sign up for a test run, by visiting www.rockmelt.com; Google is giving every single one of their 23,000 employees a 10% raise, starting January 1st. And not only that, every Googler is also getting a $1,000 cash holiday bonus, and Google is paying the taxes on it, so they keep the whole amount. This is a big move by the software giant to retain its talented employees and keep them from going to work for the competition, such as Facebook; We first told you about the RIM tablet, named the Playbook a month ago sited its rumored release to be this Nov. As it turns out, a RIM rep has confirmed that the tablet computer will not be released until early 2011.