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Microsoft wants you to buy a Surface Pro 3 instead of an Apple MacBook Air, and it's putting its own spin on a favorite holiday song to convince you. Dubbed "Surface Pro 3 - Winter Wonderland," a video spot released on Sunday touts what Microsoft considers to be the tablet's most competitive features in a takeoff on the holiday classic "Winter Wonderland." The song definitely won't win a Grammy for best performance and may strike a lot of people as cheesy, so be forewarned before you watch the spot.

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OS X Yosemite introduced Safari 8 and a flatter, more streamlined design. Jason Cipriani offered four tips for Safari 8 last month, and I have a quick fifth tip for you. As part of its embrace of sleek simplicity, Safari 8 does not by default show the full Web address for Web pages in its address bar. Instead, is shows only the domain name. If this lack of information bothers you or disrupts your workflow, there is an easy fix. you watch the spot.

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These devices typically trick phones into sharing its location data and revealing the phone's identity. CNNMoney has independently confirmed that at least one federal agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has used this technology on planes since 2010, according to government documents. The planes carry a box that serves as a dummy cell phone site. That device mimics actual towers, duping nearby cell phones into connecting to it instead of a real phone company tower.

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This news was first reported by the Financial Times. Facebook (FB, Tech30) declined to comment. The company is currently testing Facebook at Work, and the pilot phase is expected to continue for at least a few more months before it will be released to the public. The trick will be to keep that service within the Facebook website -- but separate enough that users feel comfortable their personal life won't spill over into their corporate one.

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For example, the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy (NISLAPP) report, “Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution,” details the health consequences of microwave radiation exposure from cellphones, neighborhood antennas, wireless networks, wireless routers, portable phones, and other devices. In the late summer, another report, “Cell phones and Brain Tumors,” was released by a collaborative of EMF experts.

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