Many airlines offer in-flight wi-fi and though you might not choose flights based on download speeds, it helps to know what to expect from each carrier. With your help, we conducted our first Mile-High Wi-Fi Test. Delta Airlines won. The Idea We’ve tested 3G data speeds in the past…

Travel website Kayak has a hidden easter egg reference to ABC’s TV drama Lost . Search Kayak for flights from Sydney’s SYD airport to Los Angeles’s LAX and you’ll see that Oceanic Flight 815 — the very one that crashed on the mysterious island in the first episode of Lost …

Amazon just announced that the Kindle will have its own app store, with partners ranging from publishers like Zagat to, believe it or not, game makers like EA. E-ink gaming? What? Says Amazon’s vice president for Kindle: We knew from the earliest days of the Kindle that invention was …

Last night in Brooklyn’s consummate hipster ‘hood of Williamsburg, CNN.com announced partnerships with two rather odd (yet entirely awesome) bedfellows: Vice’s VBS.TV and Sub Pop Records. This media marriage will result in two new web-exclusive video series, “VBS.TV on CNN.com” and “Indie Asia: On …

As we begin 2010, there are over 100,000 iPhone apps available for download — an overwhelming array of choices, but plenty of gems if you know where to look. To help you out, we’ve compiled all of Mashable’s iPhone app reviews in a definitive list to kick off the year…

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: routeRANK Quick Pitch: routeRANK finds the most ecologically …

Earlier in the week, we broke the news that Foursquare had turned on the ability to automatically share check-ins, mayorships and unlocked badges with Facebook . At the time, the functionality only worked for mobile web users or BlackBerry and Android devices, but that’s no longer the case. Now iPhone users who…

The holiday season is upon us and along with the food, festivities and fun comes the joys of traveling. Whether near or far, traveling with kids brings its own set of challenges. Regardless of whether you are embarking by plane, train, or automobile, anything longer than an hour or so…

Holiday season air travel just got a little less crappy—freebie access starts today, and runs through to January 15. Read on for the full list of airports, and info on free Wi-Fi promos from Yahoo and Microsoft, too. You may also remember that Google already said it would foot the bill …

Could you find your way home across 3000 miles armed with only Qik, Twitter, Skype and $50? That’s the experiment CBS News weather anchor David Price has just embarked on . CBS apparently put Dave up to the challenge, dropping him off yesterday on the Santa Monica Pier with the goal …