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Crave Talk: Not checking out Google Checkout

Crave Relatively few people signed up to other payment systems such as Microsoft Passport or Yahoo Wallet. Equally, Yahoo Wallet didn't gain traction. You name it, Google's done it. Last week, it expanded into what must have been one of the few remaining...

Tags: google, stores, government, consumers

6 July 2006, 14:06

Flickr puts new features on the map

Crave Hard on the heels of the 2 billionth photo being posted to popular image-sharing site Flickr, the Yahoo-owned photomeister has confirmed that recently announced new geotagging features will be live this week.

Tags: flickr, places, tags, weather

19 November 2007, 10:42

Crave Podcast 71: Extra penis with your phone, sir?

Crave We discuss whether Nintendo's Brain Training discriminates against Northerners, how Nigerian scam artists are using dating Web sites to scam cash out of gullible ladies, and the prospect of a Yahoo-Google -- Yahoogle?

Tags: shannon doubleday, crave podcast, scam, installed

8 February 2008, 12:55

Slingbox makes its UK debut

Crave The video quality is comparable to mid-bandwidth video streams such as those from Yahoo's Launch music video service -- it's by no means perfect, but it's viewable, doesn't suffer from any 'buffering' lags and can be used in conjunction with set...

Tags: sling media, connected, watch, weekend

30 May 2006, 11:31

Crave Podcast 95: Steal music, get a letter

Crave In our special feature, the Year in Tech, we looked at 1995, which turned out to be quite a year for Internet companies, with both Yahoo and eBay starting up. This week on the Crave Podcast Episode 95, Ian Morris, Kate Macefield, Nate Lanxon and...

Tags: fans, crave, sony ericsson, podcast

25 July 2008, 15:37

Flickr reaches 3 billion photographs

Crave At the Yahoo site, many join groups of like-minded photographers, comment on each other's shots and share advice on forums. We've always been annoyed by the significance we humans attach to numeric milestones just because they happen to involve a...

Tags: shot, share, smith, flickr

4 November 2008, 9:33

Apple launches iPhone at Macworld

Crave Apple has partnered with Google and Yahoo to bring maps and email to the device, which is set for US release in June and European release towards the end of 2007. It will be remembered as the day that almost every Apple rumour on the Internet came...

Tags: apple, consumer, maps, windows vista

9 January 2007, 21:24

Logitech MX Revolution: Hot new wheels

Crave The mouse also has an instant-search button, where if you highlight some text and press the button, Google or Yahoo will gives you search results for that text. The lovely chaps at Logitech recently sent us their new MX Revolution cordless laser...

Tags: logitech, press, wheel, scroll

31 August 2006, 10:01

Samsung LE40A856: Size 14 features in a size 8 case

Crave Also included are Samsung's most recent revisions of WiseLink -- the photo, video and music playback system -- and InfoLive, which displays news, weather and stock market data, based on RSS feeds from Yahoo, so you can keep an eye on the global...

Tags: samsung, eye, depth, sockets

14 October 2008, 11:26

Google Android: Beyond the mobile phone

Crave Which is why Yahoo, Microsoft, and Nokia probably shouldn't be too complacent about the possibility of Android spreading beyond phones. But some Android partners say the software will use more broadly than just phones.

Tags: computing, embedded, river, operating system

23 September 2008, 9:59

Mock OS X: Five ways to make your PC more like a Mac

Crave Or is it called Yahoo! Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X are different ways of moving data round on a computer, so it's natural that they inspire the sort of ideological conflict not seen since Lenin chucked a stool at Adam Smith down at the Pedagogue...

26 November 2007, 8:52

Philips does Blu-ray, Ambilight and an MSN Messenger Phone

Crave Philips pulled off the most elaborate launch of CES so far, with a working Blu-Ray player, gorgeous new Ambilight TV technology and a rather spiffing new VOIP phone. Crave took time out after the event to be given a guided tour of the new...

Tags: philips, frame, ray, blu

5 January 2006, 18:57

Sony Bravia Internet Video Link: It's a box

Crave You can then stream videos from Sony's partners -- currently AOL, Yahoo and video-sharing site Grouper -- along with movie trailers from Sony Pictures Entertainment and music videos from Sony BMG Music.

Tags: sony, link, reader, connect

9 January 2007, 0:57

CNET UK Podcast 112: We know where the BNP lives

Crave In other news, Yahoo chairman Jerry Yang stepped down as head of the company, after his shareholders pelted him with rotten fruit (this may not have happened). It's episode 112 of CNET UK's beloved podcast and we've lined up a cracker.

21 November 2008, 9:42

Crave Talk: Sony's thumb toy can't quite connect

Crave For a start, it has other people's software on it -- Skype, Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk -- and the music player lets you drag and drop ordinary MP3 files and you can even share music over Wi-Fi. It would make a good pub quiz question: who, what...

Tags: sony, portable, fi, wi fi

21 August 2006, 10:17