Smartphones to receive phone signals from space under Ofcom proposals - The regulator is proposing allowing opening up the mobile spectrum for phone signals via satellites.

While cases made of metal can provide heavy-duty protection for your phone, since they're conductive, they can disrupt signal reception, resulting in weaker cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth connections.

I was installing mandrake 8.0 from the ISO that I downloaded. I made a boot disk like it said and ran the install. Everything was going along great. It started installing stuff (copying files I ...

Professor Edmund Spencer, right, describes the antenna that will receive signals from the University of South Alabama's JagSat-1 as graduate student Salman Kabir troubleshoots a signal amplifier.

The best signal one can receive is -30 dBm, whereas -90 dBm is considered so slow that it is unusable. For Windows, viewing your signal strength is a bit more complex but still relatively easy to do.

Rescue services from the Egyptian armed forces reported receiving a distress signal at 04:26 am local time (0226 GMT) from the EgyptAir plane that went missing overnight, an official from the ...