Petitioners Collect Signatures For The Right To Use Electronic
Devices During Takeoff And Landing  Do you need to play Angry
Birds during takeoff? Is the next page in Game of Thrones just
begging you to read it right this very moment? If so, there’s a
new petition on petition on the White House’s website demanding
that customers be allowed to use their electronic devices, if
they’re on airplane mode, during takeoff and landing.  After
various new reports claim that there’s maybe really no harm in
having devices like smartphones, tablets and iPods on when
usually, flight attendants tell you to shut’em all down, a group
of citizens has posted a petition asking President Obama to give
them the right to keep those products on.  It reads:  allow
airline passengers to use electronic devices in “airplane mode”
during takeoff and landing Portable electronic devices like the
Amazon Kindle, the iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, and
Blackberry devices all have “airplane mode” built in to the
devices software that mi