Erica Ogg

(Credit: Dell) The formerly buttoned-up, conservative Dell is clearly still exploring its creative side. First, it started wearing a beret, next we can expect it to grow a beard, start wearing all black, and hit open-mic night at the local cafe twice a week at this rate. After its first ...

Microsoft's 120GB Zune gets by the FCC. (Credit: FCC) The FCC's Web site let us all in on a little Microsoft secret Monday: the company is working on a 120GB Zune. A report detailing a test performed by the government agency in mid-June shows a picture of ...

Intel talked up its supercharged processor at the Montevina unveiling last month, but now the first notebooks with it are making their way to the public. Some people have wondered if four processing cores inside a laptop is overkill, but Lenovo clearly doesn't think so. Lenovo's ThinkPad W700 ...

Watch out: it's an attack of the USB drives. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET Networks) If you have a short memory or didn't have time to catch up on Crave this week (editor's note: for shame!), no worries, we've got you covered. Here's a look back ...

A laptop bag made entirely of recycled plastic water bottles. (Credit: Uncommon Goods) Since your laptop is spewing hundreds of pounds of carbon dioxide emissions into our atmosphere every year, why not help make up for that by toting it around in a bag made of recycled materials? A mosquito ...

OK, seriously, why hasn't someone thought of this before? (Credit: Gearlog) A Hong Kong company says it's come up with a biodegradable USB drive. It's made out of fermented corn material, something called polylactide, which will actually break down in a way that doesn't harm whatever ...

This blog has been updated with the correct default kilowatt-per-hour rate. Sometimes it's the little things that count, especially when it comes to your carbon footprint. When it comes to PC usage, those little things include turning off your computer when you're not using it. Enter Verdiem, with ...

Shuttle's custom version of Foresight Linux on the new XP19 monitor. (Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET News) Attending LinuxWorld might be a first for us here at Crave. But I did want to head over to the expo, held at the Moscone Center here in San Francisco, to see ...

Heading back to school means two things: getting back on a regular sleep schedule, and going shopping. And consumer electronics retailers have always been particularly grateful during the season in between the Super Bowl and Black Friday for the spike in money spent at their stores during July and August ...

A month after saying it had figured out how to squeeze 400GB of data onto a single optical disc, Pioneer says it can do better than that. (Credit: Pioneer) On Tuesday the company said that it is "feasible" to produce a Blu-ray-compatible disc with 20 layers. At 25GB per layer, ...