[Technology] FCC eases restrictions on Internet use on flights

FCC eases restrictions on Internet use on flights
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/fcc-eases-restrictions-on-internet-use-on-flights/2012/12/28/873ec966-5125-11e2-839d-d54cc6e49b63_story.html
Federal officials inched closer to allowing the Internet aboard more flights, one of the last places generally off limits to the Web.

Facebook's Poke Is a Wild Successâ€"for Rival Snapchat
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Facebook-video-deleted-View-it-in-file-browser/articleshow/17797003.cms
Snapchat, which lets people send self-deleting photos, videos, and texts to friends, has been enjoying a steady surge in popularity.

Skeptical about exodus from Instagram
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Skeptical-about-exodus-from-Instagram-4153082.php
Seriously? A couple of weeks following the uproar over Instagram's privacy policies - which were largely pointless anyway - analytics outfit AppData reported to the New York Post that its data shows users are fleeing the service because of the proposed ...

What to Do With Your New Android
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/12/28/the-10-apps-to-download-on-your-new-android-phone/
So you got a shiny new Android for Christmas? Before showing it off to all your Apple-loving friends, the device should be fully optimized at the start.

iPad Mini in hot demand in China -- analyst
http://www.tapscape.com/china-ipad-mini-demand-called-insatiable/
Apple's iPad Mini is creating a frenzy among Chinese tablet buyers, according to Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White. Checks of retailers in China and Hong Kong show "an insatiable appetite" for the Mini, leading to a supply shortage, White said in an ...

Sony stops shipping the PlayStation 2 in Japan after nearly 13 years
http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/sony-ends-production-ps2-japan/
According to Japanese publication Famitsu, Sony has halted shipments of the PlayStation 2 in Japan this week, leaving local retailers with their final quantities of the iconic console.

Landlines Left Behind as American Households go Wireless
http://www.eweek.com/mobile/landlines-left-behind-as-american-households-go-wireless/
Approximately 34 percent of all adults, about 80 million adults, lived in households with only wireless telephones, according to a CDC report.

Drive On: Ford creates a 100 mpg Fusion
http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/12/25/fuel-economy-is-selling-point-for-growing-crop-of-wagons/
The automaker is announcing today that the plug-in hybrid version of the 2013 Ford Fusion will be certified by the Environmental Protection Agency as getting the electric equivalent of 108 miles a gallon in city driving, 92 MPGe in highway driving for a ...