death

Crave Talk: How to punish a boy spammer

Crave Horror fans will recognise this line from The Ring, a film in which a mysterious videotape brings death to all who watch it. What scourge can we deliver on our gadgeted-up youth to persuade them that spamming ex-employers with death threats is not...

Tags: sounds, ring, death, ex

24 August 2006, 12:24

Top ten terrible tech products

Crave While an MP3 player running on removable media sounds moderately useful, bear in mind it sounds about as pleasant as a baby seal being clubbed to death. The death blow for a gaming device is rubbish games.

20 November 2007, 14:50

HP unveils Maybach laptop

Crave Nothing is certain in this world but death, taxes and laptop makers initiating pointless co-branding deals with car manufacturers. Update: HP has confirmed it has no intention of releasing this laptop and that the following story is probably an...

Tags: hp, laptop, logo, confirmed

4 April 2007, 9:20

HD DVD is dead. Really, they've checked its pulse this time

Crave Although the format war is over and we can all buy into hi-def content with an easy mind, the death of a rival to Blu-ray should be mourned, for several reasons. You don't have to be a psychic to have seen this coming -- although it was rather...

Tags: toshiba, discs, switch, dvds

19 February 2008, 10:53

ReCharge4: Charge your iPod, phone and PSP anywhere

Crave Running out of battery power in the middle of nowhere is about as inevitable as death itself: it'll happen to us all at least once, or multiple times if you own a Wi-Fi phone or believe in reincarnation.

Tags: battery, model, wi fi, charge

23 October 2006, 11:28

Car Tech: Ford Focus 'Facelift' and the haunted sat-nav

Crave There are three certainties in this world: death, taxes and owning a Ford Focus hatchback. Britain's perennial bestseller has quietly been impressing critics since its 1998 debut, but even its staunchest supporters admit it's started to show its age.

25 March 2008, 16:33

Hands on: Asus Asteio D22 Media Center

Crave The hype behind Intel Viiv has died a horrible death (Joe Public still doesn't know what it is), but we're still seeing a regular stream of Media Center PCs. The latest to hit CNET.co.uk Towers is the highly affordable (£899) Asteio D22 from Asus.

Tags: asus, stream, media center, metal

4 December 2006, 10:39

Internet Explorer 7 vs Firefox 2: battle of the browsers

Crave It's time to put Internet Explorer 7 up against Firefox 2 in a bloody fight to the death. The gloves are off, the sexy round card girls have fled in terror, and the theme from Rocky is blaring in the background -- the Web browser war is truly about...

Tags: microsoft, mozilla, favorites, tab

25 October 2006, 13:34

CES 2007: Microsoft and the wrong trousers

Crave The Gates soft-shoe shuffle at CES kicks off the gadget show each year with the same forlorn regularity as a Windows blue screen of death. It's comforting to watch Bill climb up to the stage, but prepare yourselves, people: this can't go on for ever.

Tags: microsoft, connected, xbox, act

8 January 2007, 11:18

Crave Podcast 63: Open-source anti-virus on trial

Crave His three-week absence prompted many to believe he'd hired a canoe, staged his own death and cashed in on his CNET life assurance policy. Thank goodness for small mercies -- Rupert Goodwins has been found alive and well.

Tags: life, rupert goodwins, loss, hand

14 December 2007, 10:46

Satchels of pleasure: Advanced MP3 Players Soundbag

Crave It was these mysterious words that Scott of the Antarctic was heard to mumble minutes before his death in 1912. "Covet not the bag of thy neighbour, lest it be a SoundBag, in which case mince his face.

Tags: players, speaker, bag, scott

27 March 2006, 15:00

State of Play: PlayStation 3

Crave The Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii, the Sony PlayStation 3: a Christmas duel to the death was on the cards. It was supposed to be a classic all-in brawl, a three-way Royal Rumble between the biggest names in videogames.

Tags: sony, wi fi, hard drive, ray

8 November 2006, 15:17

Shared vision: YouTube

Crave Digital video is bandwidth-hungry -- few community sites have been keen to die the swift death that inevitably comes as an under-funded video site gains popularity. Photography junkies have lurked around community sites like Flickr for years, but...

Tags: community, youtube, sharing, video content

15 August 2005, 11:58

Crave TV: Space Bubble Episode 1

Crave This week we crash to Earth, landing in a graveyard to mourn the death of the floppy disk. Hey, geeks! Feast your optics on this. It's CNET.co.uk's new gadget show, set aboard a little Bubble Ship floating in space.

28 March 2007, 14:19

Brightening up our day: Elonex Lumina

Crave Will the Lumina be the beastie to change our haggard frowns and mutual death-threats to smiles and kisses? Could this be the Media Center that got it right? We usually end up volunteering to strangle each other after playing around with a Windows...

Tags: resolution, playing, lcd, inch

7 June 2005, 11:57