Gadgetory

it's wednesday october twenty seventh I'm Natali del Conte and it's time to get loaded Barnes & Noble announced the color screen nook on Tuesday it's made for reading books periodicals and children's literature as we discussed on Monday it has a 7-inch color touchscreen and eight gigs of onboard memory to store all of your reading material there's also a social component allowing you to share books over Twitter and Facebook it costs $249 for the Wi-Fi model and starts shipping november nineteenth t-mobile customers will soon be able to use their phones to deliver the internet to other devices a new tethering option will cost fifteen dollars per month starting November third smartphone users with HSPA or hspa+ will be able to get up to five gigs of data per month to send to their laptop or other connected device and you won't be getting any one a white iphone 4 for Christmas this year that's because they have been delayed until next spring which is about the time we'll be reporting on rumors for iphone 5 what you can get this Christmas is an engraved iPad though Apple is offering free laser engraving with the purchase of any ipad this also might make the iPad theft-proof because really who's going to steal an iPad that says I love you pookie and myspace got a makeover today the site is going back to its roots as a music and entertainment portal hoping to get and keep more members aged 35 and under in addition to the focus on music and entertainment the site has curbed members ability to customize their pages quite so obnoxiously and yahoo mail also got an update the company claims the new web version of the mail client a speedier and less spammy it also integrates Twitter and Facebook feeds directly into the client limewire is in trouble with the law the file-sharing site was slapped with a federal injunction on Tuesday that ordered the site to disable certain parts of the service this is a result of a battle with the recording industry association of america that obviously has a problem with people sharing music on the site this injunction orders limewire to shut down search download upload file trading and distribution so basically everything we use it for the limewire music store will still be available though and finally if you are said about the death of the cassette tape Sony Walkman dry your tears it turns out Sony is stopping production only in Japan a Sony spokesperson told pc magazine that the vintage device will still remain in production in the US for the time being they said that there is a consistent but small demand for it so it will remain on sale for 2999 those are your headlines for today I will see tomorrow I'm Natali del Conte for cnet.com and you've just been loaded