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Cops Can Track You Down Using Your Cell Phone Signal. Um, Is That Legal?

Cops Can Track You Down Using Your Cell Phone Signal. Um, Is That Legal?
Should police be able to get your cell phone records without a warrant to put you, for example, at the scene of a bank robbery? That’s the question at the center of a motion filed in May by the defendant in a federal prosecution of a 2008 bank robbery in Berlin, Conn.

iPhone Bars ‘Totally Wrong’: Apple ‘Stunned’ To Find Phone Shows Too Many Bars Of Signal Strength

iPhone Bars ‘Totally Wrong’: Apple ‘Stunned’ To Find Phone Shows Too Many Bars Of Signal Strength
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If Wi-Fi signal is MIA, go back to the installer

If Wi-Fi signal is MIA, go back to the installer
Q  Several months ago we purchased a laptop computer and an 802.11n Wi-Fi router (which has typical speeds of 130 to 150 million bits per second), and had them set up by Best Buy’s Geek Squad. Although the laptop “finds” the Wi-Fi signal easily, it often cuts out. Our other devices (an iPod Touch and the Nintendo DSi and Wii videogame machines) only “find” the Wi-Fi signal if we unplug the …

What cell phone is best at pulling in a signal?

I noticed that different cell phones access signals better or worse than others. My new Verizon LG phone does not pull up a signal as good as my old phone Audiovox. Since I am always ready to Verizon, I can choose what I want to dump.