Can’t get a decent cell signal in your living room? I know the feeling. That’s why more and more carriers are offering femtocells: compact, antenna-equipped boxes that use your home broadband network to boost cell reception. Clever idea—although you’ll pay extra for the privilege, of course.
Sprint has had its own femtocell device—the Airave—on sale for more than a year now, while Verizon Wireless announced its own femtocell service this week. That leaves AT&T, which is rumored to have a femtocell product in the works, and T-Mobile, which offers something a …

Helio may have been gobbled up by Virgin Mobile last summer, but the brand name lives on, as evinced by the new—if only modestly revamped—Ocean 2 QWERTY slider. Is the latest Ocean worth the $70 premium over the already robust original? Set to go on sale next Thursday (Feb. 12) for $149 with a two-year contract (post-paid, not pre-paid as with Virgin Mobile’s other handsets), the Ocean 2 has been whispered about for months—indeed, the first fuzzy photos appeared on the Web last May, while a series of leaked images …

Unless you’re a digital artist or professional photographer, you probably don’t give color accuracy much consideration. But if you’ve ever wondered why little Johnny looks a bit green when you’re flipping through digital photos on your laptop, maybe you should. While the color accuracy of your LCD remains a topic largely of interest to the pros, digital photo expert Rob Galbraith found that even inexpensive laptops can have great color… and some of the sacred cows of the business may not be as sophisticated as you’d think.
Galbraith took four laptops …

It’s every pet owner’s worst nightmare: your dog runs away from home. Some pups are chronic escape artists, and the anxiety and fear for owners is extreme. But with the Global Pet Finder, or GPF, you’ll always know Rover’s location.
The Global Pet Finder is a GPS dog collar that your pooch wears at all times. It has a unique ID that constantly monitors your dog’s whereabouts. You log into the Global Petfinder website and a map pops up showing where your dog is currently located.
The Global Pet Finder can also …