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A couple of days ago, Anand Chandrasekher, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility Group, said, in essence, that Netbooks--one of the fastest-growing tech markets in the world right now--are for kids. Which is to say the mini-laptops are not for adults. We, of course, politely disagree.

But now we must wonder: what tech is for grown-ups? What are we expected to use if not Netbooks without drawing snickers from Intel? If we missed anything, please let us know in the TalkBack section below.

A large number--if not the majority--of the phones we saw at this year's CTIA trade show in Vegas featured some sort of QWERTY keyboard instead of (or in addition to) the traditional T9 numeric keypad most phones have had for years. The HTC Snap and Samsung Impression pictured are just two examples of QWERTY phones.

We think QWERTY might replace T9 entirely within just a few years. As T9 fades into memory and QWERTY becomes the default, a few things might happen. What do you expect to see?

As always, if we missed anything, be sure to let us … Read more

This week at GDC 09, we learned about OnLive, a new "cloud"-based on-demand video game and entertainment service. It promises high-quality streaming of first-run major publisher games to many Macs and PCs, and it could threaten the traditional console model for gamers that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have built their game businesses around.

The companies have definitely taken notice, but what are they saying behind closed doors? Which of these responses would you most like to hear from the gaming behemoths?

Jeff, Wilson, and Justin recover from their hangovers with ace reporter Caroline McCarthy. We chat about Wilson's drunken debauchery and Caroline's bacon tattoo.

Some days on The 404, there isn't much news to report, so we do something we like to call "milking," and boy are we good at it! It's not for lacking of trying. We spend as much as 10 minutes every day looking for stuff on the Interwebs to riff on, and while we could talk about hackers taking apart Safari in seconds, it's really not that funny. And it's not 404-esque material. See how much text I've written, and really I haven't said anything!

In actual stories today, Caroline McCarthy tells us that there are bacon tattoos at SXSW. We think someone spammed our poll. President Obama makes a terrible, terrible 404-style joke about bowling and the Special Olympics. (We wish he would come on our show.) Google gives you an "Undo Send" feature in Gmail. We think it would be more effective if it had a five-hour, post-hangover undo-send feature. And we're really, really tired of Jason Seigel & Co. movies like "I Love You, Man." But it does bring up fond memories of Jennifer Love Hewitt in that teen classic "Can't Hardly Wait."

The idea of a "Star Trek"-themed line of fragrances is entertaining, but will people actually wear the stuff? And if so, where would they wear it for maximum effect?

In a blog entry that went up earlier Friday, fellow Crave writer Eric Franklin suggests it'd be great for guys looking to find that special someone at a "Star Trek" convention. But those (sadly) don't happen every weekend. And they're not really the best place to find lovin'.

Ladies of the Internet, please tell a single nerd like me where I could find … Read more

This week Apple quietly released a new, redesigned version of the iPod Shuffle, and for the most part, we don't like it.

The previous version was great. It was small, usable, and cheap. Apple retained the small and cheap aspects but made, well, a nub. We're not even sure where you're supposed to put the thing, and we know we'd lose it the first day out. So the question is: why did Apple do the Shuffle that way?

The halls of Crave were a-bustle this week, with Demo 09, the Photo Marketing Association trade show, Sony line show, and CeBit all going on at once. And that's not even counting Apple's hardware refresh or Friday's premiere of the "Watchmen" movie (an event that has a few of our geekiest Cravers on the verge of apoplexy).

We understand if you're a tad dizzy from trying to take in all the posts that filled our pages, but once you've regained your balance, let us know: which happening most appealed to your geek sensibilities … Read more

For some reason, the last week or so brought a little more weird than usual to Crave--and we loved it! We figure the best way to end a wacky week like this would be to see which of the oddities you, the readers, liked best.

Will it be a bastardization of two childhood obsessions? A novel way to keep women's undergarments in good shape? A human-mechano marine hybrid? You decide.

At the ginormous 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, this week, dozens of new devices and wireless services made their debut, many of which are already garnering a ton of buzz.

Though many of the hot new handsets won't be available for a while, it's never too early to make a wish list. And while you're waiting around for the phone of your dreams to appear, let us know which of the most-discussed stories from the Mobile World Congress got your bell ringing. If we've neglected to give one of your top picks as … Read more