Nearly everything at the Consumer Electronics Show is a little computer that wants to connect to other computers.

Nearly everything at the Consumer Electronics Show is a little computer that wants to connect to other computers.

You might think of high-tech gadgetry as something that drains your bank account — but it can save you money, too. A lot of it.

Nearly everything at the International Consumer Electronics Show is a little computer that wants to seek out and connect to other computerized devices, no matter who makes them.

The dominant provider of the digital pipes that run the Internet is making a big play in digital entertainment.

Consumers are choosing inexpensive and simple products over competing gadgets bristling with more features.

Sony blamed the rapid deterioration in the global economic outlook and the strength of the Japanese currency for the cuts.

Mr. Ruby was a mathematician turned entrepreneur who co-founded a business in a dorm room and built it into Tech Hifi, a popular electronics retailer.

The contributors to The New York Times’s Gadgetwise blog have banded together to offer consumers this preholiday shopping briefing.

Retailers are creating alternatives to infuriating “clamshell” packages and cruelly complex twist ties.