Crave: The gadget blog- Category: Gadget news

This week in Crave: The Black Saturday edition

Leslie Katz — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:00:00 PST

Too busy plotting your Black Friday strategy to keep up with Crave this week? Well, put away those shoulder pads, shopping champ. Here are some of gadget goings-on you missed.

T-Mobile holiday gift: Aggressive unlimited prepaid plans

Matt Hickey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:28:00 PST

As it gears up for the holiday rush, T-Mobile gets aggressive with new prepaid pricing, T-Mobile Complete.

Nook sold out for the holidays

David Carnoy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:36:00 PST

Barnes & Noble has announced on its Web site that its much-anticipated e-book reader, the Nook, is sold out through 2009. Is that good news for Amazon?

Friday Poll: How will you spend Black Friday?

Matt Hickey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:16:00 PST

Some people live for the Super Bowl of gadget buying, others can't imagine facing the maddening crowds. How do you plan to spend the day after Thanksgiving? Vote in our poll.

HDMI products to get meaningful labels

Dong Ngo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:00 PST

HDMI Licensing releases guidelines that enforce meaningful labeling to different versions of HDMI cables.

Home Server Power Pack 3: It's all about Windows 7

Dong Ngo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:00 PST

Microsoft to release Power Pack 3 upgrade to Windows Home Server on November 24 to better support Windows 7-based devices.

Originally posted at Windows 7 Insider

Livescribe pen gets an app store

Ina Fried — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

The first add-on programs are now ready for the digital pen as its store enters beta. The current offering is a mixed bag ranging from video poker to a Bar Mitzvah translator.

Originally posted at Beyond Binary

Synology launches Time Machine-enabled NAS

Dong Ngo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:26:00 PST

Synology adds support for Apple's Time Machine to its newest DS410j NAS server.

iPhone online GPS navigators: MapQuest vs. Gokivo

Dong Ngo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:39:00 PST

We look at the performance and features of the MapQuest Navigator and Gokivo Navigator applications for GPS iPhones.

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

Carriers to sell majority of mobile devices by '13

Lance Whitney — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:56:00 PST

With more carriers offering Netbooks, In-Stat forecasts that over 60 percent of Internet-enabled mobile devices will be sold directly by carriers by 2013.