The official American Airlines app has received a rather nifty update on Google Play, bringing along with it a much needed completely redesigned user interface, the automatic assigning of seats and a multitude of bug fixes and stability improvements.

LG has today announced that its new G Pad 8.3 tablet is coming the U.K. and Ireland before Christmas. The device will be available for around £260 ($414), which makes it just £60 more expensive than Google’s new 16GB Nexus 7. That’s not bad when you consider the G Pad 8.3 has a bigger display, a bigger battery, and a faster processor.

Just a week or so ago, we quoted a Square Enix producer saying that there were a lot of fans in the offices who wanted to see a Final Fantasy VII port happen. But don’t hold your breath, as millions of fans appear to have done, promting Square Enix to set the record straight: it’s years away from happening, if ever.

Twitter has today introduced the ability for users to receive direct messages from people they choose not to follow. Until now, users had to be following each other to communicate privately, but the new option lets you receive DMs from anyone who follows you.

U.S. Cellular is the latest operator to jump on the data-sharing bandwagon, with the introduction of its new “Byte-Sized Shared Data Plans.”

Like AT&T and Verizon, the plans are available to purchase for both standard and business accounts, entitling all registered customers access to one large pool of data, which is divided amongst users on the same account.