TechByter Worldwide 2014.01.05: Did You Score a New Video Camera from Santa? The (Second) Year of the Tablet; The Internet is Still Too Slow; and Short Circuits.

If Santa brought you a new camera, maybe you're looking for a way to improve your videos. Coming off a strong year for sales, tablet computers are expected to sell well again this year. So far, by biggest surprise is how useful small tablets are. The United States continues to fall further behind the rest of the world when it comes to Internet speeds, but we continue to pay far more for slower service. In Short Circuits: 2,000,000 websites went offline on New Years Eve, a German news magazine says the NSA plants bugs and malware, Netflix is testing a lower-priced streaming plan, and New York City has a clever way to let residents know where snow plows are.