Yahoo! News has assembled a pro lineup to scour the floors of the Consumer Electronics Show and kick off the debate on the merits of new products being unveiled in Las Vegas.
Here's our team:
Annette Cardwell
Favorite toy: Dell XPS gaming notebook
Annette Cardwell has been hooked on gadgets since she got her Atari 2600 in 1979. After getting her journalism degree from Boston University, she officially started writing about tech with the Boston Herald. She moved on to cover the gaming world for Incite Video Gaming magazine, and then tech in the working world for Ziff Davis’ Smart Business magazine. Before joining Yahoo!, she headed up special editorial packages for CNET. Annette lives in San Francisco with her husband.
Dory Devlin
Can't-live-without gadget: Samsung a670 cell phone
Dory Devlin is a journalist with more than 20 years' experience. As a newspaper business columnist for The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, she wrote about small business, work-family balance, workplace and career issues. As a freelance writer, Dory's work has appeared in Fortune Magazine, Fortune Small Business, and on The Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com. Dory's kids, ages 12, 10 and 8, are thrilled she is helping Yahoo! cover CES. Dory turned around one day to find her babies almost teenagers and her home technologically stuck in the 1990s. She's on the lookout for cool new technologies for the home, and electronics and gadgets that will help make busy family life more fun -- and run more smoothly.
Steve Enders
Fave gizmo: 17-inch Apple PowerBook
Steve Enders is a producer for Yahoo! News who cut his teeth on technology journalism during the dot-com boom and bust in the San Francisco Bay area. He has served as web editor, producer, and reporter for TechTV, as editor of a now-defunct tech magazine, and as a reporter and editor of various newspapers in and around San Jose, Calif. A Silicon Valley native, Steve enjoys holding his new son, surfing, and editing wine reviews for WilderonWine.com. He holds a degree in journalism from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Roger Hibbert
Current gadget: HP Photosmart M517 digital camera
During the dot-com boom and the dark years that followed, Roger Hibbert cataloged and critiqued every sort of tech hardware to see the light of day as an editor at CNET.com. Most recently, he cut the cables and concentrated on notebooks, cell phones, and other portable devices at Mobile magazine. To this very day he gets pulled aside at airport security so the TSA employees can check out goodies in his gadget bag.
Gina Hughes
Favorite "gadget": 2005 Acura RL equipped with Bluetooth, GPS, XM Radio and OnStar
Gina Hughes is the chief editor and founder of TechieDiva.com, a digital magazine bringing thousands of avid readers daily coverage of personal technology. She discovered her passion for technology in Okinawa, Japan, where she spent two years serving in the Marines. Her love for technology motivated her to explore a career in web design, and in the process she developed a background in online marketing, product research and graphic design. As a technology editor for SBC's Project DU, Gina brings tech lovers a weekly roundup of the most talked-about products in the industry. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area, where she is a full-time web designer and writes about the digital technology that affects the way we live.
Christopher Null
Favorite gadget:
TiVo
Christopher Null is a 15-year technology journalism veteran, having turned in stints at PC Computing, LAN Times, New Architect, and Mobile PC magazine, where he was the founding editor in chief. He has also worked in the software and semiconductor industry and holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Null also founded the popular movie review website filmcritic.com in 1995, which he still runs today.
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Readers are invited to join the debate on whether each product featured here is the "right stuff" or "a lot of fluff." We will be moderating discussions and removing inappropriate or off-topic comments.
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