Over the last week/week and a half we’ve seen various reports of new iPad owners complaining that WiFi reception was less than stellar. It’s bad enough that Apple has instructed their retail stores to simply replace them when a customer comes in with an affected model. And now new reports are cropping up saying the 4G LTE on cellular models is also causing grief. A thread in the Apple Support Forums details an issue with the new iPad where the device fails to...

Let’s be real here for a minute. 99% of you out there reading this site (and similar ones) more often than not (read: pretty much all the time) update your Android phones the second an official release becomes available or long before official releases ever hit the web. More mainstream Android users such as your mother, father, sister, older friend may not, however. This is where your love of tech comes in and can be put to good use informing/helping other Android...

We’re generally ok with the saying “something is better than nothing“. In the case of wireless signals/WiFi, a poor signal is just about as useless as no signal, however. In-flight WiFi used to be a small, rarely used and overpriced part of air travel. Thankfully times have changed. But while prices have dropped considerably, speeds are still rather poor. With that said, if you fly Virgin America, your literal cloud browsing will soon be up to 4x...

You may currently have issues hitting the remote corners of hour house with measly 802.11-based WiFi, but things will improve for the better once 802.22 networks and devices start popping up. The new 802.22 specification was just published meaning manufacturers can finally start building devices for “public WiFi”. This new WRANs (wireless regional area networks) standard will run over the 54 MHz-698 MHz frequencies previously inhabited by good ‘ol...

Spend a lot of time on your phone do ya? Fancy a lot of mobile data? Too bad cellular carriers care more about raping your wallet than actually providing a reasonably priced service. Our only savin grace is WiFi — and even that’s not always free these days. With that said, one Duke University student has discovered a way to make all our lives better with a new technology called “SleepWell”. Essentially what SleepWell does is staggers the data...