Consumer Reports shares do's and don'ts of dealing with phone and laptop power cords, from when you can share chargers to how to keep your coworkers from swiping them.

Q: We cut the cord more than a decade ago, but still have kudzu-like cables running from the telephone pole to our house and then all over the side of our house. How do we safely remove these ...

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Are you ready to keep working “untethered” — with no power, network or phone wires physically leashing you to your environs? Although there’s a lot of doodad overlap, untethered isn’t ...

Rather than just stuffing chargers, adapters and cords into a bag, keep it all organized with a dedicated travel tech case. Here are 21 of our favorites.

This month, the first wireless-charging laptop hit the market. But making wireless power a standard consumer feature is a big technological — and psychological — challenge.

Starbucks Corp. customers will soon find it easier to energize their devices while they get a jolt of caffeine. The world’s largest coffee chain is teaming up with Duracell Powermat to let ...

SEATTLE — Phone charging cords - we’d all be lost without them. You can buy them just about anywhere. Some are cheap, some are expensive. So how do you know which ones will last? Consumer ...

Or you’ve accidentally let your phone’s battery dwindle to 10% right before heading out on a day-long excursion with no outlets in sight? Or maybe that charging cable is too long? Too short?

Phone charging cords—we’d all be lost without them. You can buy them just about anywhere. Some are cheap, some are expensive. So how do you know which ones will last? Consumer Reports recently ...