Samsung’s newest members of its flagship Galaxy phone family are now on sale. The S7 and S7 Edge aren’t gigantic leaps over the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, but they pack enough features to make them worthy of the name. You’ll find a better camera and a massively bigger battery and such non-iPhone features as …

We came, we saw, we mobiled. The biggest wireless tech show of the year is wrapping up today in sunny Barcelona. And it’s been a week of gadgets of all stripes, splashy product launches complete with special guests and football fields (either kind of football applies), and established and upstart companies vying for attention. Throw in a transit strike, thousands …

As I write this, a large CNET team, from San Francisco to Singapore, is packing their bags, charging their camera batteries and checking their passports for one one of the biggest tech trade shows of the year: Mobile World Congress. The wireless industry has arrived in Barcelona every February since 2007 (and before that in Cannes, France) for its premier …

Barcelona’s Fira Gran Via convention center hosts Mobile World Congress. Stephen Shankland/CNET Just when you’ve finished your laundry from CES and put away your suitcase, the technology trade show calendar beckons again. But instead of Las Vegas, this time the destination is Barcelona and the show is Mobile World Congress. Running from February 22 to 25, Mobile World Congress is …

Much of modern life is now spent online and in the cloud. We share our vacations on Facebook, we text and email instead of making a call, and we order things on Amazon instead of going to a store. Whether you do just one or all of these things, you’re giving a lot of information about yourself and what you …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Taxi lines are miles long, traffic is terrible, and the Las Vegas Convention Center is bursting at the seams with 170,000 people from all over the world. Toss in an avalanche of gadgets …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. It’s only the first official day of CES, but it already feels like the show has been going for a week. That’s because the biggest news day of CES, also known as Press …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. CES veterans know the busiest period of the show is the day before it actually opens. Press Day, as it’s called, is filled with back-to-back press conferences (naturally) that take place not at …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Though most Consumer Electronic Show attendees are still arriving in Las Vegas and the city’s Convention Center remains a construction zone, CES Unveiled kicked off tonight to show us a taste of what …

Last week’s news that Yahoo will hollow itself out leaves me with mixed feelings. Part of me knows it’s for the best, but part of me is a bit sad. I don’t blame you for laughing at that, but hear me out. You could call me one of Yahoo’s best users. Despite the company’s turmoil over the last decade and …