We have to admit it, our jobs are pretty cool. We get to test all the latest gear, usually before everyone else gets their hands on it. We break in the newest products -- phones, tablets, cars, shoes, earphones -- for a week or so, pressing all the buttons and getting it dirty.

Every new device you buy seems to come with its own charging brick and cable — which is good, until you have a drawer full of them in your office, or wind up having to pack a dozen of the things before you so much as go to the library with your laptop. Thankfully, most of them are interchangeable and even if they’re not, it’s easy to trade a handful of cables for a single charger ...

Sony slashed the price on its Android tablet by $100, as tablets continue to seek a lower price-demand equilibrium.

Unveiled at Intel’s CES 2012 keynote, the Dell XPS 13 is skinny, pretty and designed to make PC laptops sexy

Any effort to identify a given year's most influential business travel executives always will contain an element of futility. True influence, after all, may not reveal itself immediately or in particularly dazzling fashion.

# power Every new device you buy seems to come with its own charging brick and cable—which is good, until you have a drawer full of them in your office, or wind up having to pack a dozen charging cables, bricks, and wall adapters before you so much as go to the library with your laptop. Thankfully, most of them are interchangeable, and even if they're not, it's easy to trade a handful of cables ...

Toshiba claims it has the thinnest 10-inch class tablet and it will make an appearance at CES.

A Windows patch today fixes eight bugs, including Internet encryption weakness and a critical Windows Media Player hole.

We have to admit it, our jobs are pretty cool. We get to test all the latest gear, usually before everyone else gets their hands on it. We break in the newest products—phones, tablets, cars, shoes, earphones—for a week or so, pressing all the buttons and getting it dirty. Then we write up our impressions to help you decide whether it's something you should consider buying...

Welcome to our massive “best-of” wrap-up for CES 2012, complete with everything from smartphones to PCs and headphones and back, topped off with our own “most used gear” section for the curious. What you’ll find is that though there were more exhibitors, attendees, and media attention payed to the show than ever before, the overall [...]