Maintaining a healthy, successful and mutually beneficial relationship with your WiFi connection can be a lot of work. In fact, it can feel a whole lot like your love life. My years of dating and battling my WiFi have taught me all about mixed signals, interference from third parties, the coveted honeymoon phase and eventually (or hopefully) that relationship pinnacle of a monogamous, working Read more

OK, I promised you a full recap about my event-filled Saturday — the flight, the WiFi test drive, and the YouTube Live Event — and here it is! Testing out Virgin America's first WiFi enabled plane with Gogo Inflight Internet among other tech enthusiasts was a rush in itself, but heading to the first official YouTube Live event here in San Francisco was icing on the cake to a spectacular day. Read more

You know you love taking self portraits and pics of you and your friends, so you'll probably love the new 16MP Samsung DV300F 2View camera that features a forward-facing 1.5-inch LCD viewfinder for picture-perfect shots. Coming stocked with WiFi connectivity, this feature allows you to share images with Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, and YouTube and connect wirelessly to your home PC to transfer pics Read more

We've gotten giddy over Libratone's sleek speakers before, but since the goods were only available in the UK, we could only dream of a Scandinavian-influenced home stereo experience. Design geeks will be happy to hear Libratone has officially brought its minimalist look to the US with the launch of the wireless Live and Lounge speakers. They use Apple AirPlay technology to stream music from their Read more

It's a well known fact that when you head home for the holidays, the tech-savvy among us act as our parents personal IT service, setting up WiFi and explaining the ins and outs of social media accounts like Twitter. Do your parents tweet? Since so many news outlets, brands, entertainers, and others are using the service to add value to their products and content, in-the-know Twitter followers can Read more

During today's Apple "Let's Talk iPhone" event at the company's Cupertino headquarters, Phil Shiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, announced some exciting updates for the iPod Nano and iPod touch. The latest iPod Nano offers compact design, multitouch display, volume buttons, integrated clip, internal pedometer, and FM radio. As of today, Apple is currently Read more

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the new Kindle earlier today at a press conference in NYC, and it will be available for purchase starting today. The new Kindle will be stocked with WiFi connectivity and will come in two flavors: with special offers for $79 and without special offers for $109. The new Kindle is smaller than previous generations — 30 percent smaller and 18 percent lighter — Read more

In desperate need of a vacation? If you're the adventurous type who just so happens to love the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you can journey north, my friends, and stay in the Hobbit House of Montana — complete with a miniature Shire and a replica of Bilbo Baggins's home. Guests can rent out the well-appointed Hobbit House at $245 per night. Built into the side of a knoll, the Hobbit House is Read more

Attention eBookworms! Barnes & Noble has announced a new Nook model: The Simple Touch Reader. It's a no fuss or color reader with some key advancements — it is lighter and thinner than the previous model and has a battery that can read for up to two months on a single charge if you leave WiFi off, according to a press release. The 6-inch eReader is now available for preorder for $139, and Read more

At today's I/O keynote, Google announced two new Chromebooks coming from Samsung and Acer on June 15. These new laptops were born from last year's CR-48 beta edition, and have now evolved into consumer-ready machines with some nice cloud features. Both Chromebooks boot in eight seconds, have built-in WiFi and are 3G-ready (from Verizon), feature automatic updates, and secure log-ins for multiple Read more