This post takes a quick (light-hearted) look at the tech-friendly bounty to be offered by Virgin America Airlines.

According to news reports and the airline's website, Virgin America plans to offer a host of nifty features for the tech-savvy, iPod/iPhone/Zune/Blackberry/Laptop-toting traveler on its new coast-to-coast service.

Pete and our friends at Mashable.com have a great post on 80+ online storage sites today.

This week, Buzz Box watches Google Trends send Harry Potter out of the top 100 while Yahoo's Buzz Index still sees Hogwarts' bespectacled hero in its top 5, but down sharply from his dominant place last week.

Expanding search services to the small-to-medium size enterprise beyond their appliance offerings, Google rolls out their Custom Search Business Edition.

Buzz Box #1: Harry Potter, Earthquakes & NBA Refs
A snapshot of search trends (Yahoo vs. Google) as we head into the weekend.

Sony purchased video-sharing site Grouper last year and has changed the name to Crackle. But there's more going on than just the name change.

"How can we make our website more effective?" It's a question we hear routinely from our clients. We find it to be particularly relevant in the Web 2.0 -soon-to-be Web 3.0 - world where communicating clearly can often be obscured by the perceived necessity to generate social buzz and numbers at all costs (we love social buzz (!) but it's helpful to know why you want it).

According to its blog, Google has acquired Grand Central a web-based voicemail management application for an undisclosed figure.

Vertical search, as the name suggests, refers to search engines which focus on a specific industry or topic. Examples of vertical search engines include Kosmix, Healthline and Spock a "person" search engine which allows you to keyword-search your neighbor (the Spock website claims to have 100 million already indexed).

Spock is still in beta.

MOBIVOX -- a Skype-over-mobile services provider -- is offering $10 worth of free international calls tomorrow July 4th from midnight EDT to 11:59:59 PM EDT.