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OpenOfficeMouse has frankly preposterous 18 buttons, joystick

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:17:02 +0000

With 18 buttons, 63 profiles and an analogue joystick, the OpenOfficeMouse by WarMouse is set to be the most customisable peripheral ever. And the most insane, by some distance

EMI Abbey Road Live: Instant gig recording

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:17:01 +0000

The major label has announced a new service that will sell recordings of gigs, mixed and mastered at the gig itself, and sold to fans as they make their way to the car park

Sony BDP-S760 Blu-ray player: Super bit-mapping reality enhancer

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:40:02 +0000

Sony's new top-of-the-range Blu-ray player, the BDP-S760, is jammed full of exciting new features such as Wi-Fi Internet access and multi-channel headphone mode

Nokia Booklet 3G hits US: Hands-on verdict

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:35:02 +0000

Nokia's Booklet 3G netbook has arrived in the US and our chocolate-voiced NYC colleague Dan Ackerman has one in

Lady GaGa Monster Heartbeats: They're plastic but they still have fun

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:13:02 +0000

Lady GaGa has lent her considerable artistic weight to the Monster Heartbeats. Guess how much they cost. No, go on, guess. Oh, you

The 6 worst video game samples in rap music

rory.reid@cnet.co.uk (Rory Reid) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

The Notorious B.I.G once said "Mo' money, mo' problems." He forgot to mention less money leads to mo' misguided samples of video game sounds. Here are the most botched attempts ever

Google Voice heading for Europe?

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:48:02 +0000

Google Voice may be on its way to Europe. Google has revealed international deals have already been signed for the 'one phone number for life' service

Twitter retweets rolled out to beta tweeters

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:46:02 +0000

Twitter has begun rolling out new-look retweets, with a counter, to selected users. Not before time, we say

OMG it's OLED: Android Web tablets for devs

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:22:02 +0000

A range of sexy-looking Android tablet development platforms give us a glimpse of what's to come -- OLED screens and multi-touch, just to name a few

Crumbs! Large Hadron Collider suffers snack-related bird mishap

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:58:01 +0000

A bird has bombed a bit of baguette into the Large Hadron Collider, causing the giant particle accelerator to overheat. If a marmoset drops in some Marmite, we've got ourselves breakfast

Asus Designo MS236: Fancy ring monitor

rory.reid@cnet.co.uk (Rory Reid) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:23:02 +0000

Remember the ring series of monitors from LG? Yeah? Good, because Asus, of Eee PC fame, has pounced on the concept to create its own circular-standed monitors, the Designo MS series

Beatles on a stick: Crave alternative headline competition results!

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:57:02 +0000

The news that every Beatles album will be sold on a USB stick launched a thousand puns. It's our first Crave alternative headline competition!

T.27: World's most efficient electric car?

rory.reid@cnet.co.uk (Rory Reid) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:44:02 +0000

Gordon Murray -- the man responsible for such supercars as the McLaren F1 -- has teamed up with Zytek to help develop the world's most fuel-efficient electric vehicle

Phone love: When an iPhone meets a Hero

ian.morris@cnet.co.uk (Ian Morris) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000

He was wildly successful. She was from the wrong side of the tracks. But their passion would not be held back by firmware updates, nor Bluetooth incompatibility. This was true phone love

Top 10 geek recipes

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000

When they're not redefining the fabric of modern society, many of the world's most famous nerds take time out to snarf a burger. Let's get cooking!

Top ten gaming blogs

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

The best gaming blogs offer sparky analysis and pointed reviews, while some simply serve up epic belly laughs. Here are the ten best we've found

Digg is dead: Twitter killed it and Google helped bury the corpse

ian.morris@cnet.co.uk (Ian Morris) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:00:00 +0000

We've checked its pulse, and the link-sharing site is dead. Here's how the rise of social networking -- and Google's ceaseless evolution -- stuck the knife in and twisted

Ordnance Survey and GeoVation map the future with mashup competition

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:52:01 +0000

Ordnance Survey is backing GeoVation, a competition to win cash for ideas that make the map of the future

What does Google Suggest suggest about the state of humanity?

nate.lanxon@cnet.co.uk (Nate Lanxon) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:12:02 +0000

People ask Google some exceptionally worrying questions. We poked through the things it suggests you might be asking and offered some answers to the hard of thinking

The 10 dumbest Firefox add-ons ever

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Firefox's enormous popularity has led to thousands of extensions to change the way it works. Some protect you from the crassness of the Web, while many more are just plain stupid

LG GD510 Pop: Solar-powered tiny touchscreen phone

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:34:02 +0000

The LG GD510 Pop looks to be a teeny-tiny pop star, with a touchscreen, a 3-megapixel camera, an optional solar-charging back and a pay as you go price

Best iPhone Apps of 2009: CNET UK's Home Screen Awards

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Here are the 16 applications that should make up the discerning iPhone owner's home screen. Lovingly cradling your iPhone for the first time? These are the apps you need

Olympus E-P2: How's the view? Electronic, expensive

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Olympus has announced the E-P2, the second retro-styled Micro Four Thirds camera in the Pen range

HTC HD2 first impressions: The Windows Mobile phone we've been waiting for?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:34:02 +0000

The HTC HD2 has done what we thought was impossible -- gotten us all hot and bothered about a Windows Mobile phone. Here are our first hands-on impressions

Why won't they die? The tech we won't forget

nate.lanxon@cnet.co.uk (Nate Lanxon) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:32:02 +0000

If you were born, it's highly likely you'll die. Sorry about that. For consumer tech though, it's not quite so cut and dried. We explore the technology that just refuses to be killed off

EMI baffles us: Offers Beatles MP3s... on memory sticks

nate.lanxon@cnet.co.uk (Nate Lanxon) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:27:02 +0000

EMI and Apple Corps have released a �200 USB memory stick in the shape of an apple, with all The Beatles' albums in MP3. We're so unimpressed we felt compelled to complain

MSN Music relaunches with free streaming

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:02 +0000

MSN Music has relaunched its download store, and introduced into private beta a free streaming service

Is it okay to call someone boring on Twitter?

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:46:01 +0000

A spat between Stephen Fry and some guy on Twitter has us thinking about the nature of celebrity, and how Twitter breaks down the walls of fame

Interview: Zero Punctuation's Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw reveals all

nate.lanxon@cnet.co.uk (Nate Lanxon) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:18:02 +0000

Zero Punctuation is a wonder, truly one of the greatest online video shows of the age. Its creator -- Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw -- sits down to take us behind the scenes of its creation

ViewSonic VMP30: Mini media player

rory.reid@cnet.co.uk (Rory Reid) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:54:02 +0000

Download movies off the interweb (legal ones, of course) then watch them on your big-screen TV with this tiny media player from ViewSonic

Plug versus Plug

ian.morris@cnet.co.uk (Ian Morris) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000

We take a 100 per cent objective look at the plugs of the world, scientifically judging their attributes to decide which will come second to the mighty British plug. Oh, did we give it away?

IT execs: 'UK will never create a tech giant'

nick.hide@cnet.co.uk (Nick Hide) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:34:02 +0000

Leading British IT executives believe the UK doesn't have the skills, economic environment or governmental help to make a global giant like Google or Microsoft

Moon lands on Blu-ray this November

ian.morris@cnet.co.uk (Ian Morris) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:35:02 +0000

One of our films of the year -- and one of the most stylish sci-fi films of the last decade -- Moon is soon out on Blu-ray and we're vibrating with excitement

Interview: The man who makes killer robots for the US military

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

For decades, the US military has been building an army of the smartest and deadliest robots on the planet. We were invited to its San Diego labs to witness the future of robotic warfare

Every BBC iPlayer device tested

nate.lanxon@cnet.co.uk (Nate Lanxon) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:13:01 +0000

The BBC's iPlayer is compatible with so many portable devices now it's almost funny. So here's your ultimate reference resource: we've tested and judged every single one of them

USB 3 vs USB 2: Buffalo HD-HXU3 hard drive speed tested

rory.reid@cnet.co.uk (Rory Reid) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:39:02 +0000

Today, Crave has the very first external hard drive in the UK that uses the SuperSpeed USB 3 standard. SuperSpeed USB 3, people! Pull up a chair and let's take a butchers'

Firefox 3.6 beta tested in-depth

nate.lanxon@cnet.co.uk (Nate Lanxon) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:23:01 +0000

The next major revision of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser is version 3.6. Mozilla promises speed boosts and many new features. We've been testing the beta for a few days

Orange Wednesdays for iPhone: Two-for-fun

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:42:02 +0000

Two-for-one cinema tickets on Wednesdays from Orange? Sweet. Future Orange iPhone owners can find and exploit this little treat with the Orange Wednesdays app

Secret Cinema goes Alien: In Shoreditch, no-one can hear you tweet

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:49:02 +0000

This Halloween, Crave boarded the Nostromo for a screening of Alien in a deserted warehouse, courtesy of the excellent night out that is Secret Cinema

freesat iPlayer beta service imminent

ian.morris@cnet.co.uk (Ian Morris) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:37:02 +0000

It's not much of a secret that iPlayer was going to turn up on freesat at some point. The good news is, we now know there will be a beta program run at the end of November

Mint Tank MP3 player: Tracks for your tracks

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:21:02 +0000

The Mint Track Music Tank looks like Action Man's iPod, following you around with your music and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake

Locatorz app finds you on an OS map

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:06:02 +0000

Locatorz installs on Nokias and BlackBerries and pin-points your location on an Ordinance Survey map, allowing companies to keep track of their employees and grandmas

Interview: The Space Station's IT guys

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000

When computers on board the Space Station go down, the astronauts do the same as us -- they call IT. We spoke to the charming chaps at NASA's ISS helpdesk

Sky+ HD party: Hangover, Harry and Hanks in hi-def

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:54:02 +0000

Sky+ HD is offering customers a free film and an M&S voucher to start the high-definition party in December

The iPhone is the worst phone in the world

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

The iPhone gets more press than a Brangelina sex video, and acts like it's the only smart phone on the planet... so why is it so rubbish at doing what it says on the tin?

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 hands-on photos: Hello, Rachel

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:00 +0000

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 -- formerly known as Rachel -- has brought Android to the table, with a dash of special user interface sauce to spice things up

Spotify's Daniel Ek to headline SXSW: Spotify coming to America?

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:57:02 +0000

Spotify's Daniel Ek will be interviewed in a keynote presentation at conference/festival South by Southwest 2010. Is the streaming service crossing the Atlantic?

England mi-football: Music on the ball

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:10:01 +0000

If you're football crazy/football mad, the mi-football iPod speaker dock is for you

Win a CNET UK Editors' Choice swag bag worth �1,200!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:37:02 +0000

We're offering the chance for one lucky chap or chapette to win the cream of the consumer-tech crop: five gadgets that have won the coveted CNET UK Editors' Choice award

NSA to store yottabytes in Utah data centre

richard.trenholm@cnet.co.uk (Rich Trenholm) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:26:02 +0000

US surveillance spooks at the National Security Agency are working on a data centre in the Utah desert that could potentially hold yottabytes of data. What-a-byte? We're glad you asked