I'm all wrapped up today in the Women Who Tech telesummit and, importantly, impending afterparty, but I have an itch I need to scratch. Jane emailed me early today full of excitement over the fact that she'll be able to go online on an upcoming JetBlue flight to San Diego. But she wrote back later heartbroken because it turns out the airline's BetaBlue service can only be used to connect to Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, or Blackberry mail servers. And while that's far more than nothing, it's effectively nothing for her because she's an iPhone/Gmail/MSN messenger gal.

And so the itch is that I can't for the life of me figure out if the case is that (a) there's some real nuts-and-bolts technical reason why it makes sense for JetBlue to limit their service like this or rather it's (b) they're acting out of whatever short-term economic benefit they might get from going all proprietary with their wireless. If you have an answer to that question, certainly do let me know.