Now that the iPad is available for pre-order, consumers are wondering whether or not the device is worth picking up. Admittedly, it's a tough decision. There are several products available right now that could easily match the iPad on value. Even Apple's own slate of products are arguably more worthwhile purchases.

If you're a systems engineer who wonders whether you've chosen the right profession, I bring you good news. For a survey has declared that systems engineer is the best job in America.

Despite all the money companies spend on research and development, they still manage to trundle out some absolute junk. There are thousands of bad products out there, but here's the ten worst that we've encountered in all of our years of reviewing products.

The world is one step closer to holding the Apple iPad in its shaking hands: consumers can pre-order iPads on the Apple Website starting, March 12, at 5:30 a.m. PST.

When Steve Jobs badmouthed Adobe Flash to The Wall Street Journal, he said it was buggy, littered with security holes, and a "CPU hog." It's hard to argue with the first two, but a new study claims the Apple cult leader was wrong about the hog bit.

170 Chinese punters have filed a complaint through their lawyers for the government to recall faulty HP laptops.

Is the email program dead? Did the whole world just migrate away from Hotmail over to Facebook when we weren't looking? Does anyone else care?

The launch of Apple's iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting over 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally.

A report from market research company IDC predicts that there will be a drastic slow down for netbooks during 2010.

After several years of fading influence, Sony may yet again be stepping up to the plate with new devices and a drive to regain the upper hand.

Sony Corp. is reportedly working on a portable device that will work as an e-reader, netbook, and game machine.

Google has backed HTC, its smartphone manufacturer, after the Taiwanese company was sued for patent infringement by Apple. The move sets the stage for a major battle between Apple and Google, formerly close partners, in the smartphone market.

To mark Apple's latest legal wrangling, we've served you the cases that have warranted calling in the lawyers to clear up rather messy proceedings.

What if your skin could serve as an interactive surface? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft have produced Skinput, an experimental device that turns the body's largest organ into a touch screen.

At the Geneva Motor Show, we got a chance to gaze, wide-eyed and bewildered, at the 918 Spyder. According to Porsche's design team, this concept vehicle was created not because it wanted the car to be greener, or spew fewer emissions, but because it thought throwing in a set of batteries and some electric motors would give them more power.

Sony's PlayStation Network is on the fritz. Microsoft's Xbox Live network has had its problems. And there was that one Wii system software update that was turning consoles into pretty looking paperweights. It's times like this, as we dissect failures in digital entertainment technology, when we have to ask the question: Is it too soon to blame digital rights management?

That seems to be one of the rationals provided by the NPD Group, referring to yet another survey about the behaviors and downloading habits of the P2P community. CNet reported that according to the NPD Group, the number of people sharing music is down - but interestingly enough - so are the number of people buying digital music.

The Bloom Energy Bloom Box got a lot of coverage ahead of the Clean Tech forum. Blue chip companies such as eBay and Google, amongst others, were announced as customers. Exciting stuff, but what does the Bloom Box actually do?

Electronics giants LG, Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and Hitachi, along with several of their subsidiaries, have been accused of price fixing in the US optical disc drive space.

Solar panels nowadays are flat, but folding them in origami-like ways could help dramatically boost the amount of power they could generate, scientists say.